Grades vs Success

[quickdodge®]

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.

Think about it like this.....driving and having a car (especially as a child in school) is a privledge. Not a right. Even as adults, this a privledge. When someone doesn't take care of their responsibilites, you punish them (if you're a respectable parent). How do you punish someone? Take away their privledges. Grade school through high school aren't designed to teach you how to be successful in life in a sense. That's wht colleges are for. So you can go the school of your choice to learn on your specific career choice. Your grade/high schools are to teach you the basics. Your basic maths, sciences, and such. Take science for example. There are too many different fields of science you can go in. So you get your basic science knowledge out in HS and move on to your field in college. Of course, the better your grades, the better shot at college (or a good school) you get. Colleges don't want to waste their time on someone they think is just going to halfway try. That's why parents strive to have their children do their schoolwork and get the B's and A's.

The success rate is better with a college education, but you certainly don't need one to become successful. Look at Julio. In two weeks, I will be making an awesome salary that my college degree has nothing to do with. Later, QD.

[tony]

Think about it like this.....driving and having a car (especially as a child in school) is a privledge. Not a right. Even as adults, this a privledge. When someone doesn't take care of their responsibilites, you punish them (if you're a respectable parent). How do you punish someone? Take away their privledges. Grade school through high school aren't designed to teach you how to be successful in life in a sense. That's wht colleges are for. So you can go the school of your choice to learn on your specific career choice. Your grade/high schools are to teach you the basics. Your basic maths, sciences, and such. Take science for example. There are too many different fields of science you can go in. So you get your basic science knowledge out in HS and move on to your field in college. Of course, the better your grades, the better shot at college (or a good school) you get. Colleges don't want to waste their time on someone they think is just going to halfway try. That's why parents strive to have their children do their schoolwork and get the B's and A's.

The success rate is better with a college education, but you certainly don't need one to become successful. Look at Julio. In two weeks, I will be making an awesome salary that my college degree has nothing to do with. Later, QD.

But QD, dont you feel that coming out of high school you should be prepared for the world on some level even if you do not plan on going into college? I do not feel the public education system does a great job of accomplishing that.