Graduating High School is Overrated

It’s early June so a lot of you are probably going to be graduating or be going to some graduation sometime soon. I recently went to one and decided that high school graduations are a waist of my damn time and are a waist of your time too. The last thing I need in my life is to go to another graduation and celebrate something that no one should have any problem accomplishing. High school is set up for you to get through it, it’s easy. I’m not going to celebrate a high school graduation like it’s a major step in life, it’s a small step for man but we celebrate them like it’s a large step for man kind. Here’s why I don’t think celebrating graduations are necessary. A high school diploma doesn’t get you shit these days. You aren’t getting a respectable, well paid job when all you have to show for your self is a GED. It’s not happening. A high school graduation should essentially be the beginning of your life, your first step towards adult hood is your high school graduation, you’re not even beginning life yet. Also, they’re boring. The speakers write terrible speeches, the band doesn’t have any seniors in it, so it sounds bad and your packed into a stadium of mindless people who cheer like a touchdown was scored when their son/daughter/niece/nephew/cousin/grandchild/friend’s name get called. It doesn’t make any damn sense. A high school shouldn’t even be an even unless the said high school senior isn’t going to graduate. That person has taken a gargantuan step backwards in this game we call life. Not only are you not going to further your education, but you don’t even have your Good Enough Degree (GED). Now you’re going to have to find a job delivering newspapers on your Huffy bicycle at 4 in the morning every day to help pay rent in your moms house or you’ll chase your dream of becoming a world renowned rapper, only to have your dreams crushed by some second rate record company’s A&R. Only then is a high school graduation worth celebrating. We need to set higher standards for our children. Taking youngsters to high graduations is just building them to think that passing high school is one of our society’s ultimate goals. Maybe that’s how things were in 1951, but it’s the 21st Century and high school doesn’t mean shit. It should just be a place to prepare you for higher education so you too can become a functioning member in society. I have to get out of here soon, but let me just add this: Dr. Seuss books are just another example of American laziness. He’s become a legendary figure as far as children’s literature is concerned, but he’s nothing but a lazy fraud. Instead of spending the time to come up with real words to rhyme with what he was trying to say in books like “One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish” he made up words to keep the book flowing. I was disgusted by the books my sister was reading to my nephew. He’s a lazy bum and is teaching children, when you can’t do something the right way, make it up. I give Seuss two thumbs down. He’s weak. Stay Hideous -PB (Word count to date: 1028)