Escaping High School
Incredibly narrow minded advice for the privileged.<p>&gt; Maybe you go to a school in a poor area, or with a lot of violence, or far too many students for the teachers to pay any individual attention to; or, relatedly, maybe you’re required to spend a lot of time caring for siblings or parents, working a low-skill job, or holding your family together or preserving your safety in some way.<p>Oh if only not being extremely privileged was so easy to undo. When you work a lot of jobs to keep your family together you don&#x27;t have time for alternative highschool guides. That&#x27;s why people talk about companies being founded in garages and not on the street in Chicago.<p>I&#x27;ve had students who never got a good night of sleep in their lives. Or students with abusive family.<p>People who don&#x27;t come from privileged backgrounds also cannot see themselves doing a lot of the careers related to this guide.<p>&gt; It might be easier to talk teachers into letting you off the busywork for their classes<p>It&#x27;s exactly the opposite. The idea that something is busywork and you tell a teacher you&#x27;re going to do something else instead is privilege. Those teachers they&#x27;re massively overworked and underpaid. They don&#x27;t have time for this nonsense.<p>&gt; Your charm advantage gets increased a little bit in this situation; if you reach out to an adult doing some sort of interesting work.<p>Seeing the author&#x27;s reaction to being contacted by a student who doesn&#x27;t talk they way they do, might have a tattoo, might dress very differently, would be interesting. No. Being poor and I&#x27;m bad conditions is not charming.