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Advice to Starting High School

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I had a conversation with a relative who was entering high school the other week. It was interesting because he actually had a plan. A fairly solid one too. Granted he came from a put together family. His dad is a self made man (quite literally built a business from scratch coming out of the military and borderline poverty to make millions). So it isn't surprising to see a kid like that having a plan. But it makes me wonder. What advice would you give to kids going into high school? Specifically about their future and so on?

Personally? I would really encourage them to use their summer wisely. Get good grades of course. But I would really encourage them to find things they love now. Not just video games and parties and social media. In fact...I would encourage them to put down social media. So how about y'all?




The crowd is not the sum of its parts.

I am a republican who did not vote for Trump (Or Hillary).
 
Get through it, life gets better... and don't **** up your grades.

But they're in HS so they already know everything. :lol:
 
I had a conversation with a relative who was entering high school the other week. It was interesting because he actually had a plan. A fairly solid one too. Granted he came from a put together family. His dad is a self made man (quite literally built a business from scratch coming out of the military and borderline poverty to make millions). So it isn't surprising to see a kid like that having a plan. But it makes me wonder. What advice would you give to kids going into high school? Specifically about their future and so on?

Personally? I would really encourage them to use their summer wisely. Get good grades of course. But I would really encourage them to find things they love now. Not just video games and parties and social media. In fact...I would encourage them to put down social media. So how about y'all?

I graduated from high school about a year ago; heading off to college this Friday. My advice is don't do what I did, and **** around freshman and sophomore year.
 
I had a conversation with a relative who was entering high school the other week. It was interesting because he actually had a plan. A fairly solid one too. Granted he came from a put together family. His dad is a self made man (quite literally built a business from scratch coming out of the military and borderline poverty to make millions). So it isn't surprising to see a kid like that having a plan. But it makes me wonder. What advice would you give to kids going into high school? Specifically about their future and so on?

Personally? I would really encourage them to use their summer wisely. Get good grades of course. But I would really encourage them to find things they love now. Not just video games and parties and social media. In fact...I would encourage them to put down social media. So how about y'all?

I had a plan also back when I started High School ... I got assigned my accelerated classes early and graduated in 3 years and 3 Months with a good base to start at the college I wanted.
 
1. Think long and hard and often about what you want to do with your life. No decisions need to be made but if you can eliminate choices or narrow it down it helps you out alot.

2. Good grades.

3. Be careful on social media. Everything is public. The photo of you passed out drunk at a party could very easily cost you jobs down the road.
 
My advice is, once you're grown up, you're grown up for the rest of your life. So, don't be in a rush to grow up.
 
Get through it, life gets better... and don't **** up your grades.

But they're in HS so they already know everything. :lol:

Ot you can say, have fun, because real life if Forked-Up and you need to be better to survive.
 
His school might not be set up this way, but if he has a set number of credits to put towards electives, he should make a rough plan on which electives he plans on taking. Lots of electives have prerequesites, so if he hasn't taken the right classes, he could be blocked out of a class that he knew he wanted to take but didn't plan out and missed taking the prerequesites. Just an idea, it really helped me out when I was in HS.

It is also nice to have some goals for the year set up ahead of time. Goals for GPA, sports, clubs, etc. You have a much better time in HS when you have some direction.
 
I had a conversation with a relative who was entering high school the other week. It was interesting because he actually had a plan. A fairly solid one too. Granted he came from a put together family. His dad is a self made man (quite literally built a business from scratch coming out of the military and borderline poverty to make millions). So it isn't surprising to see a kid like that having a plan. But it makes me wonder. What advice would you give to kids going into high school? Specifically about their future and so on?

Personally? I would really encourage them to use their summer wisely. Get good grades of course. But I would really encourage them to find things they love now. Not just video games and parties and social media. In fact...I would encourage them to put down social media. So how about y'all?


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I had a conversation with a relative who was entering high school the other week. It was interesting because he actually had a plan. A fairly solid one too. Granted he came from a put together family. His dad is a self made man (quite literally built a business from scratch coming out of the military and borderline poverty to make millions). So it isn't surprising to see a kid like that having a plan. But it makes me wonder. What advice would you give to kids going into high school? Specifically about their future and so on?

Personally? I would really encourage them to use their summer wisely. Get good grades of course. But I would really encourage them to find things they love now. Not just video games and parties and social media. In fact...I would encourage them to put down social media. So how about y'all?

Get a part-time job in your second year. As age permits. You will learn more at that part-time job than you can ever imagine.

Get the absolute best grades you can muster working towards scholarships so you don't go into adulthood owing $30,000 in student loans.

Don't do drugs. Don't drive drunk. Date often. Join clubs. Explore your interests. Make time for your family.

Have fun!

And if I were Queen MaggieD, I would wave a magic wand and every high school would have a few classes in civic responsibility, credit card traps, the effects of hard drugs, driving drunk, and how to respond to cops if you get pulled over, and how to balance a checkbook.
 
Get a part-time job in your second year. As age permits. You will learn more at that part-time job than you can ever imagine.

Get the absolute best grades you can muster working towards scholarships so you don't go into adulthood owing $30,000 in student loans.

Don't do drugs. Don't drive drunk. Date often. Join clubs. Explore your interests. Make time for your family.

Have fun!

And if I were Queen MaggieD, I would wave a magic wand and every high school would have a few classes in civic responsibility, credit card traps, the effects of hard drugs, driving drunk, and how to respond to cops if you get pulled over, and how to balance a checkbook.

You're no fun ... :2razz:
 
And if I were Queen MaggieD, I would wave a magic wand and every high school would have a few classes in civic responsibility, credit card traps, the effects of hard drugs, driving drunk, and how to respond to cops if you get pulled over, and how to balance a checkbook.

They did that for us in Middle School. It was called "D.A.R.E." and it back-fried in every way, especially when people got a little older, did their own research, and found out they'd been lied to in many ways.



Maybe such programs might accomplish something if they brought in some actual addicts to talk about the hell that follows the enjoyment phase and present the straight-forward honest facts instead of over-exaggerating things to the point of propaganda. Ah well....
 
They did that for us in Middle School. It was called "D.A.R.E." and it back-fried in every way, especially when people got a little older, did their own research, and found out they'd been lied to in many ways.



Maybe such programs might accomplish something if they brought in some actual addicts to talk about the hell that follows the enjoyment phase and present the straight-forward honest facts instead of over-exaggerating things to the point of propaganda. Ah well....

When I was in college, we used to watch the film "Reefer Madness" just for giggles. It was the same sort of thing. Even well intended lies are still lies, and they have a way of back firing eventually.
 
My advice would be to get the grades you need to maintain opportunities, but don't invest much of your time/life in the high school world. Preserve your critical thinking and do your own personal projects outside of school as much as possible. Learn and grow in non-proscribed ways.

High school in many ways is a distraction from learning.
 
I graduated from high school about a year ago; heading off to college this Friday. My advice is don't do what I did, and **** around freshman and sophomore year.

and that is also great advice for freshmen entering college
*bet you saw what i did there*
 
Get a part-time job in your second year. As age permits. You will learn more at that part-time job than you can ever imagine.

Get the absolute best grades you can muster working towards scholarships so you don't go into adulthood owing $30,000 in student loans.

Don't do drugs. Don't drive drunk. Date often. Join clubs. Explore your interests. Make time for your family.

Have fun!

And if I were Queen MaggieD, I would wave a magic wand and every high school would have a few classes in civic responsibility, credit card traps, the effects of hard drugs, driving drunk, and how to respond to cops if you get pulled over, and how to balance a checkbook.

what's a check book?
 
I had a conversation with a relative who was entering high school the other week. It was interesting because he actually had a plan. A fairly solid one too. Granted he came from a put together family. His dad is a self made man (quite literally built a business from scratch coming out of the military and borderline poverty to make millions). So it isn't surprising to see a kid like that having a plan. But it makes me wonder. What advice would you give to kids going into high school? Specifically about their future and so on?

Personally? I would really encourage them to use their summer wisely. Get good grades of course. But I would really encourage them to find things they love now. Not just video games and parties and social media. In fact...I would encourage them to put down social media. So how about y'all?

Have fun; try new things; if it is illegal, don't get caught.
 
I would say kids should bear with high school and go to a trade school. Plenty of positions for HVAC, plumbing, and electrician.

here is where the german system excels
kids who are inclined to work with their hands would be able to attend a trade school/apprenticeship program and emerge from high school prepared to earn a decent living
 
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