ChemistryAndPhysicsAreFun
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When the 13 year old teens in my neighborhood tell me they spend their day skating and playing video games instead of going to to school "because school sucks"
Oct 29, 2017 10:34 AM
ChemistryAndPhysicsAreFun
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excepttheoneswhoaredead
I had an hour++ commute to hs. My mom was a homemaker, but there was still nothing she could do to keep me from just going to central park
rhombusrightangle
Is it lacking the schools influence or is it anti-school influence. Is it substituting for education or bypassing education lot-O-?
IHateApostrophes
Well for starters, it's Sunday, so that' probably why they aren't in school.
Banditsalmon
School is cool so stay in school, you fool!
TonyMontanasBalls
Maybe they are forming a lynch mob to find the man speaking to their 13 year old kids
TheRealDrPepper
They're at work to pay for the skateboards and video games.
thatbeardedswede
Spending their day skating and playing video games.
JenAwesome
Is it a big city? If my son isn’t there for attendance the school calls me Immediately! Most the time he is home sick and I forgot to call 1
JenAwesome
To notify them that he’s sick! Then I get “talked to” about calling promptly when I know he won’t be in that day...
paganfears
But why aren't you at work?
GodOfSporks
Because work sucks.
Avadonut
On imgur, prolly
CheesyPoofsWithSomeFavaBeansAndANiceChianti
Today OP Learned: the concept of latchkey kids. You didn't think the kids were paying to keep the lights on did you?
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
Perhaps they are at work?
Decoyape11
Tell them about the struggles of your youth. Do it loudly though.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
At least skating is an outdoors activity. Exercise is good :-)
AdmJota
At work? For that matter, why weren't *you* at work?
DerpNerpem
All you gotta do is walk past the bus stop, parents go to work, go back home..simple really. Even easier with single mom
patryckoo
Where the fuck are your memories from this age?
IMainReinhardt
I had a kid destroy a 18k tv
nicepersonbadbreath
Skool duz suk thoe
Pr0xycast
That hurts to read
ChunkadunkSlunkthunk
ye I agre
ooteriot
At work
TheCuntPunter1985
I used to ditch and yes, my mom was at work. That’s probably why I failed every grade.
TippiGordon
Working, maybe?
Lucyloves
Probably work.
TheGreatAndPowerfulSage
The parents are at work to support the government and, if there is any left, their family.
MaximumCapacity
Majority of parents I see nowadays are these sort of people, that did the same thing and found it acceptable to continue, at least near me.
DudePlayinADudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude
You need to expand those you interact with or check your bias so that you don’t start making too many assumptions
QuackQuackAttack
At work. By 13 I was responsible for getting myself out the door. Did your mommy still take you?
lcranston1930
Chemistry and physics are not fun btw
RobertZimmermanWasRight
At work
IfMandyPatakinWasAHorse
you regularly talk to 13 year olds, do ya?
PhailRaptor
iseenipple, is this your alt?
Nhogan84
It's @Iseenipple reincarnated
ErikaLight
@ISeeNipple
3lr4y
How old r u
ShinySephiroth
GrootGear
Because every adult in the world is only allowed to talk to their own children. If only parents took full responsibility of their spawns.
RobertZimmermanWasRight
Like iseenipple
PudgyPinkiePie
SHUT THE FUCK UP. WE FUCKING GET IT.
DogShitTacoTuesday
BC2k2
Damnit, I was gonna make this comment.
ThemotherfuckingTeresaofdeathmetal
Yes, I’m a teacher so I talk to them a lot.
DarthSlappy
Shouldn't you be in school?
ThemotherfuckingTeresaofdeathmetal
Not on sundays, then I’m curing my hangover and wrestle down my stress and anxiety in a nice little box sprinkled with caffeine pills
CamelSpotter
That, or OP is a crotchety old person who just yells out "Aren't you supposed to be in school?" to every kid that passes by the window.
whosagoodboy92
maybe there are kids on ops lawn
Nineteenletterslong
or in OP's basement
thexian
I thought it was Dr Dre who was locked in there.
ThatSquirrelInTheCorner
for FUCKS SAKE. everywhere I go it's a got damn iseenipple reference
PudgyPinkiePie
It needs to fucking stip.
HowToDisappearCompleteIy
mrmattTmcmattman
Just saw youre username as I was listening to the radiohead song.
HowToDisappearCompleteIy
my favourite song :)
mrmattTmcmattman
Good choice lol
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
Either unaware, pushovers, or fools who fell for the fake cough.
InY0Face
Or at work? Don't most parents WORK during the day to feed and house the kids?
WhyAmIHereIShouldBeWorking
I always think "damn what if I was a pushover parent?", then I realise nah if they gave me lip I'd beat they ass like granny with a slipper
somemenjustwantowatchtheworldburn
technobass
When I was a teacher I was amazed at how many parents called their kids in sick because the kid didn't want to be at school.
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
When I was a child I mastered the fuck out out of the fake cough and croaky voice. Some of us do get pretty good at it. But my dad was dumb.
Kovahjin
My dad would make you go to school unless you were projectile vomiting. Sometimes even if you were.
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
Jesus fuck. Did you shit in his cereal or something?
Kovahjin
He only let us stay home if we had an a fever over a hundred degrees or if we were vomiting every time we turned around. If you only puked
ChancesAreIHateYou
I didn't like Mondays so I didn't go on Mondays.
Jastaxor
Hahaha even in college I usually missed mondays
PudgyPinkiePie
Wow fuck you. School is awesome.
IshitOnWindshields
I got stabbed in school and bullied by teachers. Nah
PassiveAgressiveOnion
Or dead
AbsoluteFuckingWaffle
Or that. Or just don't care. Or too drunk to even comprehend the situation. There's really thousands of possibilities.
jiltedlettuce
I like both of your usernames. You should reply to each other more often
PassiveAgressiveOnion
I think this is the first time someone recognised I have two accounts I feel honoured
TheGaryBuseyOf4nal
calenturian
Or - just possibly - they go to school every day and are lying to look cool.
IwentLookingForWhatTheBiggestIdiotHasToSayAndHereYouAre
i got a group of kids who do exactly this living next to me. the parents are the ones trying to be "cool"
FlatPlutoSociety
I skipped school to smoke weed MAYBE twice a year in HS, but to hear me talk at the time, you'd think I'd dropped out to get high full time.
harlekein
It's probably wise. By the time they are ready for the job market, robots are already doing everything.
tzahtman
Would kids do such a thing?! My whole world is falling apart.
primarian
Teenagers lie? Say it ain't so!
QUIBICUS
Your drug is a heartbreaker!!
Edgekrsher
Yeah right. Next you’ll tell me that people lie in the internet too.
ShinySephiroth
In, on, and around unfortunately
pragmatao
What about THROUGH?
TheRumpusGumpert
Dude, stop! I can't handle this many earth-shaking revelations!
ShinySephiroth
Flat earth shaking
Andromedator
Fuck! Stole my comment
KingOfTheAnarchists
SugarSmack
JARKB
Amanda gets around.
Keicars
Stats don't lie
NuggetNinja
Who's this Amanda?
calenturian
Amanda Huggenkiss.
moonshadowkati
A man, duh.
SugarSmack
Feeddabear
So their Canadian girlfriend isn't real?
DemiGuy
Inception: he is the Canadian girlfriend (internet girlfriend)
pragmatao
She goes to a different School.
fpierce1997
Given the exploding numbers of truancy cases and juvenile delinquency proceedings... Not likely they're lying to look cool.
Qualtagh
That doesn't make it unlikely that they're trying to look cool. It just makes the odds a bit more even.
SexyClaptrap
Oh yeah? You want to provide a source for that data?
fpierce1997
My job.
fpierce1997
If you knew my job you would think differently, but I'm not stopping you from self-education. ^_^
SexyClaptrap
Personal experience doesn’t mean that’s what’s happening on a broad scale though. I’d still like to see actual data.