[dakine]

"...but lack of motivation to work."

Hunger...a good motivating factor...

[JennysCool]

Standard What-If disclaimer: The preceding is pure fiction, and fiction is always more illuminating than fact.

Then why is it posted in News?

[vharlow]

Young people think work is a four letter word primarily because they have never been held accountable in their lifes for anything.

I've been thinking on this for a long time, and it is clear to me that our education system stinks because there's no accountability....and I don't mean on the part of the teachers. The bigger question is when are the kids going to be held accountable?

I believe that taking the word "compulsory" out of the equation, and making that free schooling a privilege, an opportunity that one must work to keep would help to solve this problem.

Indeed, it would also free up a lots of uninterested kids to do the work we now think we need illegals to do.

Thinking about that, and they would, might actually motivate lots of them to work at education, work at learning, work at achieving something. Because if they didn't, they would get the boot.

[mysterio]

Great, here come the posters whose favorite activity is bashing GenX. Ready for their weekly romp of self rightousness. Those damned kids and their rock n roll music.

[MD_Willington_1976]

"Andy Dandershaw, a self-described "free-thinker" still living with his parents at age 32"

Free-thinker?, more like FREE LOADER!

[nonsporting]

Andy Dandershaw, a self-described "free-thinker" still living with his parents at age 32, said he discovered his calling when Forest Gump said "Life is like a box of chocolates."

Time to dump this dodo out of the nest. See if he learned any survival skills in his 32 years of free-thinking.