7.2 billion people in our world.  7.2 billion.
Opportunities everywhere you look, for any person, any intellectual ability, and all education levels.
Opportunities to give this life meaning
Google ‘high paying jobs with a high school diploma’ and there are millions of results with lists, rankings, and opportunities for those only willing to go to school for 12 years.
So when there are public school opportunities across the country, I am shocked, and honestly dumbfounded, when I see students not take advantage of their education.
One student that walks out of the room in the middle of a lesson uninterrupted, because they are not willing to become that well-rounded student that makes you successful in our world.
Students who disrespect those who are actually want make your life easier, and they are only hurting themselves.
As much of that wayward student walking out of class doesn’t want it to be true, THE TEACHER DOESN’T WANT YOU TO FAIL.  Nobody in this school that knows what’s right for them would wish harm and shame on the future that has yet to be decided!f thing
And it is preposterous to me because there is a nice long list of high paying jobs for FOUR YEARS of high school.
If you have gone through 9 in the past, why is four years so much that you decide that it’s not worth it?
The person who goes through the four years, learned that not everyone is out to get them.  They learn to bandage up the cuts, get up when they fail down.  They become successful and nothing can faze them.
It’s not worth it to build up skills like work ethic, passion, and responsibility for that job you don’t need to go to college for?  Google can tell you a lot of things, a lot of that will make you feel good inside.  But what it doesn’t tell you that you won’t have the work ethic to maintain that job if you don’t do your homework in high school.
So these people crumple up all of their chances that allow them to be successful, come into school like they are walking into jail, where they sit in solitary confinement for seven hours, where they decide that they are WASTING THEIR TIME.
They don’t view our education system as an endless wave of opportunity, as a chance to give this young life meaning.  They don’t see a regular biology class in the middle of February as an opportunity to enjoy something.  As an opportunity to discover something that they love.  All it takes could be one sentence from that teacher that you absolutely despise to see the light coming from the lightbulb above your head.  But they instead choose to turn off the power and mentally ‘check out.’  They just don’t see it as another opportunity, they see it as a test grade and nothing more.
And I understand that there are the people who’s anchors weigh them down more than any teenagers anchors should.
But those people who’s anchors are, ‘the teacher hates me’ or ‘why do I need to know this’ are the types of anchors that can be lifted from the bottom of the ocean and begin to sail!
They learn it and forget about it because who needs to know the structure of a plant cell anyways?  Who needs to know the structure of British parliament.  YOU DO.  You do because maybe you know something they don’t!  So instead you sit in the back of class letting that world-changing thought slip away, and replace it with how much you hate school, teachers, students, and ‘the system’.
And that, I will never understand.