Which is more important?
My happiness, or my education.
I'm sure you'd agree, my happiness.

By staying at school, my happiness isn't going anywhere, other than down hill.

Also, I feel really guilty, every day, in class, just sitting there, knowing that right then, a person could be taking their life, there is someone using drugs, someone self harming, and I'm just sitting there, unhappy, in class.

I want to help people, do something for the community, help homeless people, just something!

But there's one, MAJOR problem.
I can't leave school 'till I'm 16.

Fair enough, people need their education so they can achieve things in life, get a good job and be successful in that.

But my success goal is a lot different to theirs, I want to make a difference, and that doesn't involve being unhappy and having a high paying job!

Opinions? What to do? Haha

Also, please take me seriously, although I'm only fourteen.

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'Coz if you're not really there, then the stars don't even matter.

EDIT: you can do more of a difference if you stay in school so people will let you help more, because you have a higher degree

Post edited at 3:31 am on July 23, 2008 by shutter bugs

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join lw warm and fuzzy patrol today!

don't forget lots of options open up when your 15 like tafe and stuff..

TAFE is a really friendly environment the people are great it's nothing like high school

i left high school when i was 16 it was a big mistake ;/.

but I'm now at tafe doing my year 10 and i couldn't be happier!

you need your education you can't get no where without it and i mean NO WHERE.

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Your Happiness.

don't forget lots of options open up when your 15 like tafe and stuff..

TAFE is a really friendly environment the people are great it's nothing like high school

i left high school when i was 16 it was a big mistake ;/.

but I'm now at tafe doing my year 10 and i couldn't be happier!

you need your education you can't get no where without it and i mean NO WHERE.

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Yeah, I'd love to go to TAFE when I turn 15.
But, in Victoria, the legal leaving school age is 16.
TAFE courses start at 15, so that means I'd be doing TAFE and school? :S

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'Coz if you're not really there, then the stars don't even matter.

I'm 16.

tell your parents that you want to drop out of school tell them why and tell them that you want to go to tafe

they should support you!

there are alot of courses at tafe especially in youth work etc..

i think you should start looking at what options are available to you.

you need education even for youth work there are some great courses available +

Look at General Education For Adults - Certificate 2 ~ equivalent of year 10.

Post edited at 3:41 am on July 23, 2008 by Ryoichiro

Post edited at 3:41 am on July 23, 2008 by Lepperking

it can feel like purgatory, but its almost always your best chance for something happier later in life.

Post edited at 3:40 am on July 23, 2008 by Bitner

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To be honest, i would say school is far more beneficial than your happiness at this stage. I hate school at the moment, but i stay because i am partly forced too by my parents, and i wish to succeed in life. If people are doing those things, it is their own fault and their own problem, not yours. You are only fourteen, how can you be so sure what you want to do in life? I'm nearly 16 and i have no fucken idea where i am going to go or what i'm going to do in life. You will be poor and working on minimum wage if you leave school now.

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That's what I'm trying to say..
I don't care about the whole minimum wage shit.
I don't care if I'm poor.

Whatever!

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'Coz if you're not really there, then the stars don't even matter.

If you leave school at 14 your options for the future will be very limited and to get a job you probably will need to re-enter the education system at some point (perhaps through an adult learning scheme or similar).

Yes, you can make a difference with no qualifications. But WITH qualifications there will be a lot more opportunities to make a BIGGER difference.

To pass the time and to keep you going for the next two years, why not volunteer somewhere in your free time? That would give you the opportunity to make a (small) difference and give you experience for the future.

Good luck. =)

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Yes, we know who you are.

Greater than a poet's fame
A little grave that has no name.

At this point in your life your education is so much more important than your happiness. Plenty of kids your age went through school feeling pretty unhappy at times, but just think you only have to last another couple of years and it's all over. Just stick it out that little bit longer and you'll give yourself so much more opportunities in life.