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

[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.

[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.

-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?