student loans are a hit!

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Originally Posted by druidbob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Eh, I went to an elementary school in what was a crap school district, though I didn't know that at the time. I was actually in the "gifted" program all the way through 6th grade, but the we moved and when I started at my new school it turned out I was below what they considered 4th grade education, so I had to spend a year in remedial class to get caught up. Point is the quality of schools vary widely from state to state or even district to district, so your experience and that of a kid the next town over can be wildly different.

Fair enough. One would think that with some sort of district oversight schools wouldn’t be able to get too far outta line though, but I dunno

Just from talking to kids all day at work, the ones I see failing everything are never the dumb ones, crying about how they just don’t understand the material and no one will help them. Maybe it’s because I’m there as an outsider, but the school staff are often right there with me offering up all the ways they can help the struggling kid

The kids I personally see failing, as I’ve said before, are the ones that just don’t give a shit. They’ll tell me straight out because I’m coming from a non-judgemental counseling perspective “I don’t care about school”, “I don’t see the point”, “I hate school”, whatever.

The younger kids have even realized that you can actually outsmart the entire system by just becoming dead weight and stop going, even before you can drop out. If the parent can’t physically and safely drag you there, neither the cops nor the school staff will either. And even if the parent could get the kid to school, no non-behavioral school is going to want to grab the kid and drag them by the arms into campus to keep them from running off

Nope, a kid can stop going to school for quite a while, racking up legal charges for their parent, and the schools or police won’t help AT ALL . Eventually, if the parent is lucky, a judge might place the kid into a boarding behavioral school or RTC where they live there and thus can’t escape. If they’re lucky, otherwise they just fall through the cracks


But long story short, if a kid cares, they’ll get help and learn the material. If they don’t, they won’t