Perhaps people shouldn’t be allowed to marry for the 2nd time before they are 25. Then again whose business is it how people live their lives? Right now I have a 17yr old who doesn’t see the point of attending high school Sr. year because it is such a waste of time. Part of me agrees so I am looking for alternatives just to be sure the kid has a diploma and can continue on to college if the ambition ever strikes. And I am reading they want to make it illegal for kids to stop going to school before age 18, even with parental consent. This seems like a form of incarceration to me, punish the student for not seeing the point of worn out, dated subjects. This is the last one in school and I am coming to the conclusion that schools have become an industry where they want to turn out all the same model with out consideration to the individual. Whose business is it if a kid drops out, if it is being done thoughtfully and not just as truancy? It seems when God is eliminated from everyday life, their are elites and narcissists who think it is their, hmmm, haha, “God/god given right” (<Capitalize or not capitalize?) to play god with other peoples’ lives. I believe that God wanted us to feed his sheep with the Word of God, not food. Once the Word of God is instilled in people then they can produce their own food, they can live sanely in an “evolving” world. (Evolving like land-line telephones to cellphones, that kind of evolving, not theoretical evolution such as amphibians to monkeys to humans. Hahahaha. Then again there are places in the world where I wonder if this isn’t true. Vicious lizards to humans. LOL.)
Have your 17 year old get his GED now. I’d tell him that as soon as he has that in hand, he can drop out of public school. I’ve been amazed by how many boys in this area have gone the GED route just to get out of school.
The classes are available thru any ‘adult ed’ program. Don’t torture him by making him stay in school. The GED will provide the equivalent when/if he wants more education. The community colleges offer trade classes as well as academic. At some point he may want to transition that way.
Let me talk about your son and his schooling.
A GED is not worth what it used to be.
What I have done with my children, esp my son is to collect credits and provide a transcript. Take him out of the school. Apply and homeschool him. Have him do the work and the courses that he is interested in, either at local college or other programming. Give him credit for the work.
For example, my son took two classes at the regional voc high school this year on heavy equipment, firefighter one and two through the fire departement and is in the midst of a tiling project that will earn him a credit. He built a brick sidewalk last summer that will also earn him credit.
Next year he is taking trucking courses, and the following year he will take a building course for adults at a local company all for credit. He will earn credits. He also will take graduation required courses such as English. Most of his other required credits are done.
A national homescooling program based locally will provide hime with an offical transcript. If I need a diploma they will issue one.
Give him the life he wants and get him out of prison
Freep mail me for further info
Let me talk about your son and his schooling.
A GED is not worth what it used to be.
What I have done with my children, esp my son is to collect credits and provide a transcript. Take him out of the school. Apply and homeschool him. Have him do the work and the courses that he is interested in, either at local college or other programming. Give him credit for the work.
For example, my son took two classes at the regional voc high school this year on heavy equipment, firefighter one and two through the fire departement and is in the midst of a tiling project that will earn him a credit. He built a brick sidewalk last summer that will also earn him credit.
Next year he is taking trucking courses, and the following year he will take a building course for adults at a local company all for credit. He will earn credits. He also will take graduation required courses such as English. Most of his other required credits are done.
A national homescooling program based locally will provide hime with an offical transcript. If I need a diploma they will issue one.
Give him the life he wants and get him out of prison
Freep mail me for further info