Parents Let 16 Year Old Drop Out of High School For Guitar Hero

[The 1 2 P]

After constant nagging, two parents decided to let their 16 year old son drop out of high school so that he could become a full time player at.....wait for it.......Guitar Hero:eek 2: Um.....ok, I'm just going to let you read the article: http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=206657

So far the dude has made a killing in merchandise from Chick-fil-A(thats as sarcastic as I'm going to be for this story) and on the strength of that he thinks he will provide a nice comfy living for himself playing the GH games. I think they need to put this on Attack of the Show in their very own special segment: EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[modest9797]

That is complete bullshit. I would never let my kid do that. School SHOULD BE the most important thing in a kid's life

[Famidrive-16]

f**k u mom im gonna be the snowboard kids champion of the nation

[exit]

To think I could have annoyed my parents to let me drop out and be the world champion of Maniac Mansion.

Think of all the money I would have not made and how little anyone would have cared.

[chrisbid]

it just shows how sad the economy is, when it is possible to make a better living being a guitar hero champ than it is to work for a living

[jcalder8]

1. Let the little shit fail and go back to school when he has learned his lesson
2. He is going to be home schooled

[otoko]

Where's this kid's demotivational poster?

[Push Upstairs]

Given how mediocre public schools are, he might actually come out ahead being home schooled.

[heybtbm]

it just shows how sad the economy is, when it is possible to make a better living being a guitar hero champ than it is to work for a living

You didn't read the article that closely. $25,000 / 8 years = $3125 per year. Which is (of course) jack squat. That's not even three months rent for me.

[Sudo]

The thread title is misleading. He's still being homeschooled, and his grades are better now than when he was actually attending regular school. I'm not defending his decision or anything, I just wanted to clear this up a bit.

[The 1 2 P]

The thread title is misleading.

It's really not. He's a 16 year old who's parents let him drop out of school so he could play Guitar Hero more(just like the title says). Yes he is being home schooled and does well with it(it'd be odd if he wasn't) but the title is the marquee attention graber. The rest of the context(such as his home schooling) is laid out in the article, which is why we provide links for people to read all the little details:wink 2:

[coreys429]

This guy is so not getting laid for a long time...its not something you impress girls with.

[Graham Mitchell]

In similar news, my fiancee's aunt has home schooled all her children. They are all pretty stupid as of this writing, and difficult to converse with. In fact, what we've observed is basically global impairment in their socialization abilities. The 16-year-old one now only does 2 hours of schoolwork a day and spends another 8 hours practicing his guitar, not dissimilar from the kid in this article. So maybe the two of them will stand in line together at the social security office in a couple years so they can collect their food stamps.

[Ponyone]

He's a touch smarter than a kid who thought it would be a good idea to drop out of highschool circa 1997 to tour the POG circuit and make a killing on the west coast full times.

Touch smarter.

[Famidrive-16]

The 16-year-old one now only does 2 hours of schoolwork a day and spends another 8 hours practicing his guitar, not dissimilar from the kid in this article. So maybe the two of them will stand in line together at the social security office in a couple years so they can collect their food stamps.

Except the kid playing the actual guitar could, you know, get more success out of it.

[Graham Mitchell]

Except the kid playing the actual guitar could, you know, get more success out of it.

I can see how one would think that but...trust me. This particular kid won't.

[zemmix]

Wasn't this a South Park episode once?

[Sergeant Sega]

Hah! Good luck earning minimum wage! Would you like fries with that?

Stupid ass kid... The parents should not've let him drop out of school to play f***ing Guitar Hero. This reminds me of the South Park episode, only this is not as funny.

[calthaer]

This is a free country. If people want to become peasants, we should let them do so. Sure, he'll be serving fries in five years to pay the bills. But that was his choice, and his parents'. Better to have someone that CHOSE to serve fries doing it than someone who went and got a college degree who's forced into doing it.

[lanemeyer]

If you're a parent and really, really, love your kid and never want him to leave home... well, this is a good plan to make that happen. Something tells me he'll be living in their basement for the next 20 years.

[MachineGex]

The thread title is misleading. He's still being homeschooled, and his grades are better now than when he was actually attending regular school. I'm not defending his decision or anything, I just wanted to clear this up a bit.

I have known a few kids who were home schooled...it was a big joke. When you can complete your entire week of school in 1-2 hours, I think you need to go back to school.

At least in regular school you learn to follow directions, get along with others, show up and go to class, learn and follow a schedule, etc. These are all things you need to learn no matter what job you get.

Not that home schooling can be fine, it is missing a few important leasons. No offense to anyone who is home-schooled.

[jb143]

Um...So...What's he do when the fad is over in a few years? The same thing as the kids who dropped out school to get on the Yo-Yo circuits?



I have known a few kids who were home schooled...it was a big joke. When you can complete your entire week of school in 1-2 hours, I think you need to go back to school.

At least in regular school you learn to follow directions, get along with others, show up and go to class, learn and follow a schedule, etc. These are all things you need to learn no matter what job you get.

Not that home schooling can be fine, it is missing a few important leasons. No offense to anyone who is home-schooled.

I know several people who were home schooled. One didn't turn out too well but the others were very social, got really good grades, excelled at college and now at life. Just as with regular school...it all depends onthe person and the situation.

[skaar]

Key point: North Carolina.

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[rbudrick]

Every home-schooled person I've ever met is a socially awkward obnoxious retard. And they are smug and elitist about it.

Home-schooling is for parents who want to shelter their child from humanity and prepare them for nothing in the real world except leeching off Mamma's tit for as long as humanly possible. Parents who do this have a God complex and/or have such twisted religious views that they don't want their kids getting any anti-fanatical ideas from normal people.

At least, that's I've seen 110% of the time. Of course, this Guitar Hero thing reeeeeally changes my views of this.:roll:

-Rob

[scooterb23]

While I'm not quite sure how this became a thread on home schooling...I guess I will mention that a good 75% of the approximately 1000 teenage volunteers I worked with at my science center over the past 8 years were home schooled. And I'd say a good 80% of them were extremely well-adjusted, friendly, smart, well-spoken, polite and generallycool to be around. Were there religious "issues" we had to deal with, only once...when a parent didn't want her kid working a dinosaur exhibit. One, out of 1000.

As for Guitar Hero kid...hey, he's doing what he loves. Isn't that what we're all shooting for in the long run?