Quote Originally Posted by tony
Wondering what you guys think about this.. I saw a thread here where a parent is going to take their sons car away and sell it because the kid is getting C's in school.

To me punishing a child for grades that are average is useless to me. Straight D's and F's is one thing but my take on it is, most schools do not teach you shit about life skills. I never learned about credit or personal finance in school, I didnt know about mortgages or federal taxes being taken out of my paycheck.. investing... none of it.

I'll preface this to say that school is very important, especially as it pertains to certain professions BUT not everyone cares to be a straight A student. Personally I learn more from experience than I do in a classroom. I barely graduated high school with a 1.9gpa and basically flunked out of college but I still consider myself to be pretty well off considering where I am in my life and I have never looked back.

So again I'm wondering what other people think, is school really that important or is it possible to be educated through life experience?
+1 grades are worthless. I know plenty of people that busted their asses in HS to get A's and I goofed off and got B's. well, ya know what? Most of the go to KSU with me .
as far as college is concerned; when you meet someone and they say they have a B.S. in whatever is your next question, so what were grades? did grades even come up in the conversation? I seriously doubt it.
F grades get C's and get out.