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.
Ed is right on track. Our youngest son, maybe the smartest one on the family got bored with high school and didn’t want to go to college. He wanted to drop out and to to work in the food industry.
We told him he could stay at home and get his GED and then anouther couple of years to get his feet on the ground. He completed his GED very quicly with honors and went to a culinary institute, when he turned 21. He worked as a chef in a few high end restaurants.
He returned to our area a few years ago for better weather and got started in the wine industry as a cellar rat. A premium winery hired him as a cellar master for new winery after one year being in the business. He is still the cellar master and now the assistant wine maker.
Today’s “entitled” wine grads don’t want to work in a hard working industry and want to be Robert Mondavi’s the day they report to work. Like most college grads today, they have zip work experience in the industry and want to start at the top without putting in their time to learn how to make a great wine. They argue, whine about the hard working conditions and are never satisfied.
His boss, a great 4th generation wine maker, has basically convinced their company that hiring non experienced wine degreed idiots is a waste of time and resources.
Like Ed noted, have your son get his GED and spend a couple of years working to find out what he wants to do. Then maybe do an internship to get experience where he wants to go.
Ed is right on track. Our youngest son, maybe the smartest one on the family got bored with highschool and didn’t want to go to college.
We told him he could stay at home and get his GED and a couple of years to get his feet on the ground. He completed his GED very quicly with honors and went to a culinary institute, when he turned 21. He worked as a chef in a few high end restaurants.
He returned to our area a few years ago for better weather and got started in the wine industry as a cellar rat. A premium winery hired him as a cellar master for new winery after one year being in the business. He is still a cellar master and the assistant wine maker.
His boss, a great 4th generation wine maker, has basically convinced their company that hiring non experienced wine degreed idiots is a waste of time and resources. The “entitled” wine grads don’t want to work in a hard working industry and want to be Robert Mondavi’s the day they report to work. Like most college grads today, they have zip work experience in the industry and want to start at the top without putting in their time to learn how to make a great wine.