WHEN asked what they want to be, children around my age give answers much different than what they gave when they were five.
When they were five, the most typical answers would revolve around princesses or pirates. Now, the answers are more doable, like a doctor or a reporter for a news paper.
I believe that kids only dislike school because they think they have so many better things to be doing.
Yet, in 20 years or so when you've settled down, when your child asks them for help on homework, don't you want to be able to answer the question correctly and not have to think back to that class where you were concentrating on the cute girl or hot guy in front of you? School shapes your mind so your future will be brighter.
As a Grade 8 student entering Sutherland for the first time, I am filled with nervous jitters and excitement at the thought of the upcoming years.
Reputations will need to be re-earned, the school map re-memorized. We will all have to work our way up the food chain or as I like to call it, the school chain, again.
Most kids will be grumbling about going back to school after two months of vacation, but if you don't go to school, you won't be able earn a high school degree which leads to no college diploma which takes you to a dead-end job.
School gives you the chance to succeed in the real world. Don't give up on it.
