When I was a kid growing up in a rural area, anyone who stayed after graduating high school was called a skid. They always worked the shit jobs like convenience store because the local forestry place was still employing their dads and grandads so they still had full employment. The skids always came from rougher families and, yeah, they were totally hopeless and didnt think they had a better future and no means of escaping.
came here to say exactly that. you live in a wasteland of pollution and heat, separated from any urban center by mountains and hours of driving, surrounded by angry chuds and exploited migrant laborers. what the hell do you expect these kids to get excited about? "getting out of bakersfield" only motivates kids who have the means to actually get away.
Has the teacher considered its because he teaches in fucking Bakersfield, where there's no hope of anything?
Is it the fact we live in the middle of nowhere, with a drug problem, and no options for students, or is it these damn cell phones?
When I was a kid growing up in a rural area, anyone who stayed after graduating high school was called a skid. They always worked the shit jobs like convenience store because the local forestry place was still employing their dads and grandads so they still had full employment. The skids always came from rougher families and, yeah, they were totally hopeless and didnt think they had a better future and no means of escaping.
We are all skids now. All power to the skids.
Gotta steer into the skid. :kelly:
Yeah been a while since I've gone down there but the place is depressing (not better up here in NorCal boonies)
"Could it be the neoliberal hellscape of this country? No its the minorities and gays"
came here to say exactly that. you live in a wasteland of pollution and heat, separated from any urban center by mountains and hours of driving, surrounded by angry chuds and exploited migrant laborers. what the hell do you expect these kids to get excited about? "getting out of bakersfield" only motivates kids who have the means to actually get away.