Episode 252: Dropout or Stay in School?
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🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 30 seconds. |
| 0:01.0 | One time for the underdong. |
| 0:04.0 | Ignition sequence star. |
| 0:07.0 | Let me see you put them up. |
| 0:09.0 | Reach the skies, touch the stars up above because it's one time for the underdog one time for the underdog |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Patrick Vadev you host the back team and today we're gonna talk about a topic |
| 0:20.7 | that I ended up writing a book about which is should you drop out or |
| 0:25.0 | should you stay in school and what things we could do in our current educational |
| 0:29.8 | system to improve it? I think one of the biggest challenges we have today is peer pressure and |
| 0:34.3 | I'll explain to you peer pressure. A lot of times we think college is what we have to do because |
| 0:39.0 | the kids have a peer pressure of my friends getting accepted to UC Berkeley or, you know, UT or |
| 0:44.8 | FSU and Jacksonville or NYU, so I got to go also because my friends going to college, |
| 0:49.6 | forget about that peer pressure. I'm completely okay with that peer pressure |
| 0:53.2 | because kids gotta compete |
| 0:54.6 | and they gotta learn about competition. |
| 0:55.9 | The peer pressure that I do have a problem with, |
| 0:58.4 | and I think no one is addressing, |
| 0:59.8 | is the peer pressure of parents having to keep up against other parents. |
| 1:05.8 | So it's almost like a brother saying, well my sister's kids went to such and such school, |
| 1:10.8 | I have to make sure my kids do this because my kids have to do better than my brother's kids or my sister kids or my best friend's kids and all this stuff and I don't care how much it's going to cost me to go into because they pay $200,000. Honey, we'll refinance and take out a mortgage to pay for our son's school because we have to say our son went to USC. |
| 1:28.0 | That family may be making $600,000 a year. |
| 1:31.3 | This family can't afford to do refinance because that's a retirement money |
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