View Full Version : 16-year-old quits school to play Guitar Hero
Sirona
08-25-2008, 08:20 AM
hmmm........ I'm not entirely convinced this is bad parenting. When kids don't want to be in school, they fail. Forcing them won't do much but make them take more classes to fail.
Kids as a whole don't want to go to school.
As a parent, your making them go is a learning experience in and of itself.
Life is full of shit we don't want to do.
You do it because you have to.
Letting your kid drop out of school simply because "they don't like it" or "think it's a waste of time" is teaching them to be irresponsible and selfish.
NewMoon
08-25-2008, 08:22 AM
^^^I understand what you are saying in theory, but put into practice I believe otherwise.
CKXXX
08-25-2008, 08:28 AM
Yeah I feel old...we didnt have video games or computers when I was growing up(well..there was Atari, but I wasnt really into it). I was all excited when I went to college and got a WORD PROCESSOR to type out papers on(some of you might not even know what that IS!!!LOL)
Anyway...I think this is really bad parenting. He can work on his game for the next year or two while he's finishing school and THEN try to go pro.
My parents didnt always make the best decisions...I was offered a chance to skip 2 grades and graduate high school at 15 but they said no because they thought I'd have a hard time making friends. Turns out...all my friends were several years older then me anyway so I'd have been better off being challenged in class AND graduating with my friends. Oh well...
Budai
08-25-2008, 09:39 AM
On a more encouraging note, at least couch potatoes can STILL "Rock The Vote!"-- from the comfort and safety of their overstuffed furniture... ;D
Xbox users can register to vote from the couch
Microsoft and Rock The Vote today announced a partnership to allow Xbox 360 owners to register to vote via Xbox Live, which I'm sure sounds almost as fun to gamers as learning how to get girls drunk so they'll go to strip clubs in Grand Theft Auto IV. There's also going to be some polls and a chance for users to "voice their opinions," says the press release, which also handily points out that because it claims 12 million users, "if Xbox Live were a state, it would rank as the country’s seventh largest, giving it approximately 20 electoral votes."
Spin-off "Xbox users can register to vote from the couch" thread created @ 10:34AM
Sirona
08-25-2008, 12:56 PM
^^^I understand what you are saying in theory, but put into practice I believe otherwise.
Do you have teenagers? I have three.
I'll tell you right now if one dropped out of high school they'd be doing one of three things:
1. Getting a GED and getting a full time job.
2. Getting a GED and going to Community College
3. Getting GED and joining the military.
Fucking quitting school to play a game....Jesus wept.
I'll tell you right now that if you do what that potatoe head of a kids parents did you will 99% of the time end up with someone who goes through life acting like an irresponsible self centered shitheel.
That's half the problem with society now.
Hatshepsut
08-25-2008, 01:57 PM
Actually, it says that he's getting home tutors. That's better than dropping out for good, but I still think that he should have at least finished high school. Believe me, it doesn't take much to graduate high school.
lemiwinks31
08-25-2008, 03:12 PM
hmmm........ I'm not entirely convinced this is bad parenting. When kids don't want to be in school, they fail. Forcing them won't do much but make them take more classes to fail.
The bad parenting started long before this decision.
My kids would never even think of it as an option to stop going to school.....not only that, but they know that there is never an excuse not to finish homework or turn in an assignment on time.....or bring home lower grades than they are capable of getting. This has been stressed to them from the time they started school(even before). It IS important...not just learning the material, but learning responsibility, and countless other social lessons.
Believe me....this isnt the 1st time that these parents have sent the message to thier son that school really isnt that important.
The teachers were demanding things from him.....I'm sure he wasnt used to it....and didnt like it.(by the way, still blaming the parents for this)
NewMoon
08-25-2008, 06:50 PM
The bad parenting started long before this decision. It's possible but I don't think we know enough about the situation to say for sure either way.
My kids would never even think of it as an option to stop going to school.....not only that, but they know that there is never an excuse not to finish homework or turn in an assignment on time.....or bring home lower grades than they are capable of getting. This has been stressed to them from the time they started school(even before). It IS important...not just learning the material, but learning responsibility, and countless other social lessons. Great parents sometimes raise failure children. It's sad and it's not right, but it's reality. :-\
RebeccaSolidarity
08-25-2008, 07:08 PM
I met a gamer in a stripclub that started writing his own videogames and made millions. Now if only I could make millions blogging about my crazy life as a stripper in las vegas... but people would only be willing to pay for the video.
lol. :P
you never know. i mean, belle got a book deal, after all. and now that book deal is a television show slated for three seasons.
:O
Melvis
08-25-2008, 09:31 PM
^^^ You need college to be a tester never mind a programmer.
Actually, dead wrong on that one.
All you really need to be is 18 and be experienced enough in gaming to know how to find exploits, cheats... and have the willingness to play 40 hours a week (and don't get me started on the hours required for deadline testing).
Now, if we were talking white-box testing or standards testing... MAYBE... even then, any QA monkey who's tested long enough can get in w/out college.
(Only saying this as someone who QA'ed games for a good year and a half.)
Sirona
08-25-2008, 09:44 PM
Actually, dead wrong on that one.
All you really need to be is 18 and be experienced enough in gaming to know how to find exploits, cheats... and have the willingness to play 40 hours a week (and don't get me started on the hours required for deadline testing).
Now, if we were talking white-box testing or standards testing... MAYBE... even then, any QA monkey who's tested long enough can get in w/out college.
(Only saying this as someone who QA'ed games for a good year and a half.)
All three of the dudes that I know that test for Sony have had college. They were picked over the folks who didn't. *shrug*
lemiwinks31
08-26-2008, 10:08 AM
It's possible but I don't think we know enough about the situation to say for sure either way.
Great parents sometimes raise failure children. It's sad and it's not right, but it's reality. :-\
of course it happens....but (i believe)the vast majority of parents who stay involved in their kids lives, teach them responsibility...(ie. make them go to school and do thier best) help them if they need it, and most importantly, love them and let them know that they are loved......will raise socially healthy, happy children.
Not sure how we are defining failure children, but I think that 98% of the time, its due to failure parenting.
And we dont know the whole situation, but i think there is enough information come to the likely conclusion that this parent(s) are doing a horrible job with their son. I feel sorry for the kid.