2012-08-27, 01:37 PM
SaptaZapta Wrote:"Mom, let's move overseas so I don't have to cut my hair."
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
(The short hair requirement for graduating elementary school is at the national level, not a school whim).
Just because it's a national decision and not an individual school one doesn't make it any less ridiculous and authoritarian.
Besides, I have a Bachelor's degree and it hasn't done pomegranate for me even with a hell of a lot of effort on my part to find a job, whereas my cousin who dropped out in (sorry, right after now that I think of it) middle school now has 8 years of work experience, his own house, a nice car, and zero debt. His parents are very poor by the way, so that's not where he got the money; he made it all himself. Made stupid decisions along the way too, but arguably less stupid than actually staying all the way through school, if you look at where he is now.