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Darragh

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I should point out that the article says the parents have hired home tutors, but I don't believe that excuses this. Surely school is enormously important in any child's social development, and removing them from it would severely stunt their ability to function socially? Maybe not so much if he left school to go working, but staying at home to play Guitar Hero?

Plus, it's not even like he's incredible at I dunno, Counter-Strike or Starcraft or something, where a world-class player can actually make some money, it's Guitar Hero. Do Guitar Hero tournaments really pay out any kind of significant prize money?

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Dandy_Sephy

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Seriously, has the world gone fucking insane? Social Services should take that boy away from those parents.

I'm under the impression the yanks can do whateverthefucktheylike with regards to school - at least after a certain age.

He will have completed all of his compulsary education...

Yank schools usually keep people till 18 don't they?. This isn't a british kid

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I left school when i was 16... If he wants to go and do that what is wrong? He will have completed all of his compulsary education...

You are assuming he's completed his education. He might just have walked and not sat any exams. Its not such a big deal if he did well on his GCSE's as he can always take a bit of time away from college. Theres no rush.

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He didn't seem interested in much of anything in high school (a Christian academy where his parents had enrolled him) and wheedled his way out of going by complaining that it was a waste of time.

Seems fair enough, if my parents enrolled me in a shit school I'd find any number of reasons to bitch about so they'd let me drop out.

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So what?

If Guitar Hero doesn't work he can always go work in Starbucks.

Funny though, a kid from New York I used to play on Live with was telling me he'd been signed up for this gamer tourney thing. He had to play in this clan and he was getting a few thousand dollars a month (he was fucking amazing at deathmatch games- whoever had the 2nd highest number of kills, he'd have 30 more) for playing Gears of War. He'd sign in when they called him, day or night, and pay him to play.

Gave me the URL and everything to check out, but I never bothered.

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It seems to be quite common for Christian parents in the States to home school their kids. Keeps them away from pernicious influences and sin and drugs and cussing and whatnot.

Obviously, letting the kid spend the rest of his free time playing GH could be seen as pure mentalism though.

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It sounds like the kid is being home-tutored because he had a rough time at school, and coincidentally, it gives him a lot of time to play Guitar Hero. So he's still being home-tutored like a few hundred thousand religious kids in America. No big deal.

Except that he's the kind of smug cunt who plays Through The Fire And Flames on Expert.

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to be fair, if wasn't going to succeeded in the education system, there probably wouldn't be much point keeping him in there, so he probably wouldn't lose much from dropping out. i hardly think missing two years of school would "severely stunt their ability to function socially?". its not like hes being cut of from the rest of the world.

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That was my reasoning when I left at 14. I didn't take any GCSEs.

This guy's done a little better, though. I only had Mortal Kombat 3 on rental.

Can kids just leave at that age? Was there any problem with police etc? I always thought you couldn't just walk until you were 16.

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