tarynsullivan:

Has anyone ever noticed when you have alumni talk to students, it’s always the doctors or the computer technicians?  Those bringing in thousands of dollars a day?  Hell when I was in school, I remember they brought in this hippie guy and he sang this song about a turtle he had, then a song about the cranky old man that lived around Mt. St. Helens (my mom talks about that old guy, and he really was a cranky guy who loved that mountain).  There was an old man who told stories all the time in the schools, he was sort of a local icon.  Yet now you have to have tons of Bachelors Degrees or PHDs just to get through the front door of a school.  When the fuck did this change?

I understand wanting to teach kids success, but there are those who can’t grasp math or science.  I flunked science, my teacher did everything to help me pass her class.  Ever think of encouraging their artistic side?  Damn almighty we live in a DIY society where kids think duct tape prom dresses are new (it wasn’t new when we did it 20 years ago).  The Unipiper just landed in a Star Wars magazine for being unique, why tell kids “you have to go to college and be a doctor because we say so”?

Don’t be a doctor because you’re told to.  I wanted to be an archaeologist and my mother told me I couldn’t be one.  Jokes on her I rebelled and turned emo.  It’s you’re life, not theirs.