I was taking a spanish test in our library today, and a small class was doing some work at the two tables next to me. The class was, how can i explain it, not an Options class, but the program between mainstream school and the Options program. It was comprised of girls and guys ranging from Seniors to Freshman. So anyways, as I'm taking the test I overheard some of the things they were talking about:
A Senior was bragging to the younger girls sitting at his table how he wanted to move out when school was over with (but he also mentioned the school wasn't letting him graduate, aka he didn't have enough credits) but his parents said he couldn't care for himself. He talked to matter-of-factly and proudly that it made me depressed, thinking about how this kid has no idea what the outside world is like, and that he probably can't take care of himself on a level higher than plainly surviving. I don't want to seem all high-and-mighty, but it's completely true: he will be flipping burgers for the rest of his life.
Another girl (I'm guessing a freshman or sophmore) said that she was moving out RIGHT when she turned 16 (the legal age to move out). Why do they continually sell themselves short of what they could possibly become? Moving out at 16, and I'm guessing not finishing high school, is dooming yourself to a miserable life.
The teacher had to explain to a girl, sophmore or junior, what unintentional meant. I probably knew what unintentional meant in 5th grade. Kids these days do not understand the massive importance of a good education. I'm sure there are easy words that I don't know, but the fact that this same girl was laughing, talking, and goofing off the entire time they were supposed to be studying and doing their homework just sickens me, The teacher said multiple times, "You guys aren't even doing your homework like you said you would," and they lied and said they were.
I'm sure while you were reading this (if anybody even did) that you thought "Wow, what a cocky kid," but I didn't mean it to be like that at all. Occurances like this have really started to depress me lately, thinking that this is the future of the United States, wasting away the only free education they will ever recieve. You can't blame them, however, because I'm sure most of them have learning impairments. I'm sure their childhood and their parents also played a huge role in what they are today, because a lot of them probably grew up in poverty stricken homes and broken homes, and their parents probably weren't nearly as loving and giving as mine. I wish I could help them, just get right up in their face and say, "Do you realize the life you are choosing?? Do you realize that you could be so much more, live such a better life, if you would put only an hour or two into your schoolwork a day?? Do you realize that you are putting your future kids in a position to continue the cycle of poverty?"
/depressing rant
A Senior was bragging to the younger girls sitting at his table how he wanted to move out when school was over with (but he also mentioned the school wasn't letting him graduate, aka he didn't have enough credits) but his parents said he couldn't care for himself. He talked to matter-of-factly and proudly that it made me depressed, thinking about how this kid has no idea what the outside world is like, and that he probably can't take care of himself on a level higher than plainly surviving. I don't want to seem all high-and-mighty, but it's completely true: he will be flipping burgers for the rest of his life.
Another girl (I'm guessing a freshman or sophmore) said that she was moving out RIGHT when she turned 16 (the legal age to move out). Why do they continually sell themselves short of what they could possibly become? Moving out at 16, and I'm guessing not finishing high school, is dooming yourself to a miserable life.
The teacher had to explain to a girl, sophmore or junior, what unintentional meant. I probably knew what unintentional meant in 5th grade. Kids these days do not understand the massive importance of a good education. I'm sure there are easy words that I don't know, but the fact that this same girl was laughing, talking, and goofing off the entire time they were supposed to be studying and doing their homework just sickens me, The teacher said multiple times, "You guys aren't even doing your homework like you said you would," and they lied and said they were.
I'm sure while you were reading this (if anybody even did) that you thought "Wow, what a cocky kid," but I didn't mean it to be like that at all. Occurances like this have really started to depress me lately, thinking that this is the future of the United States, wasting away the only free education they will ever recieve. You can't blame them, however, because I'm sure most of them have learning impairments. I'm sure their childhood and their parents also played a huge role in what they are today, because a lot of them probably grew up in poverty stricken homes and broken homes, and their parents probably weren't nearly as loving and giving as mine. I wish I could help them, just get right up in their face and say, "Do you realize the life you are choosing?? Do you realize that you could be so much more, live such a better life, if you would put only an hour or two into your schoolwork a day?? Do you realize that you are putting your future kids in a position to continue the cycle of poverty?"
/depressing rant
Now I'm married with a 4 year old step daughter and a son on the way. I work with my father on our farm where we farm about 500 acres, sell horse hay, and run about 150 head of cattle. It keeps us super busy!!!
:dance: 
say it like it is 
You better watch yo' self B!
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