FILM YOUR ISSUE - 2008: High School Drop-Out

[DesireeChicago]

In response to this video, yes you are right that many youths in the USA do take school for granted, by means of bitching and whining about going there and they do this by the time they hit 9th grade, so that they can be with the popular crowd, while the 3rd world children would do anything to go to school.

[Kiljan137]

I dropped out this February and I really don't think that dropping out of high school and kids washing cars in the street are related at all. Your education is your business, their education is theirs. We were born with all these "privileges", and I acknowledge that, but not all kids on the street go to school or want to go to school, and its the same for American highschoolers. We can't be grateful for things we don't want just because others don't have it.

[Titanium640]

Not everyone that goes through with high school or even college become successful.

To say that drop outs are terrible in life is a stereotypical reply.

If you were a drop-out, you can break from that misunderstanding by banking on an interests of yours and developing various skills not taught by schools. In some ways you become more intelligent than those at MIT or Yale. And I believe you would adapt more to this unfortunate earth if you lived it rather than read it.

[davidleamanmiller]

That is true in a very select few group of people. The reality is, most people need at least a high school diploma to land any kind of job,

[Titanium640]

Or a GED.

[TheOphron]

The values of this world are twisted. Most people fail to recognize that life itself is an educational experience.

[AccidentalZombie]

I live in South Carolina and I dropped out