"Child Labor--Looking for your suggestions"

I'm an American, and I see an upside to this story.

My father can fix a car, build a garage, paint, make a bicycle, all very well.

My mom can sew and cook and garden.

My crackhead neighbor graduated highschool, and her boyfriend got his GED with flying colors.

My husband went to AUB on a policeman's salary, and did very well throughout highschool.

If anything, the American system is broken. I wasted 12 years of my life staring at a ceiling, feeling out of place. I found it hard to make friends, I found the work to be too easy, and then later in High School in Advanced classes, way too hard.

A crappy college, Eastern Michigan University, immediately put me in extreme amounts of debt, and along with my peers, we pretty much all feel college was a waste of time and just extended our immaturity- we got to be children for 4-7 extra years.

I cannot paint, fix, sew, or cook.The only thing I can do well is know how I'm "feeling." I know when I am sad, happy, or angry. My parents cannot do this as well as I can. What an amazing skill.

The system is so broken in America. We are just raised to be consumers. We spend our lives in debt to bills. We don't know what is going on in the world around us, and now we just want to elect a Democrat so we can get handouts like Free Health Care and Social Security. Go ahead and higher taxes, I don't know how to save or spend, so I need someone else to make sure that I am taken care of.

You cannot say the same for the Lebanese. They do not like to be in debt. They pay off their villiage homes and apartments. They stay close to their families and take care of their siblings and parents. They do not expect handouts from the government.

They do not work on just feelings- they have skills and responsibilities.And don't forget that the most financially succesful people in the world did not stay in college or even finish High School. They learned in the real world.

We aren't always the Americans who Know Better. With rampant teenage pregnancy, STD's, medicated, drug-users, immediately in debt if their parents cannot afford to put them through college. Is that a succesful system?

Describing a system that is "way too hard" just describes how our system expects very little out of the student and will push through anybody. It just extends our childhood and acts as a babysitter so both parents can work to pay a mortage- and all the other stuff- so that we can be big whining babies forever.Why is school ment for everybody, anyways? Had I stayed home, I would have read, worked outside, learned to fix things, excersize more.