Why Are Teens Deciding Not to Participate in Life?
Refusing to go to high school or work isn’t okay— and we can’t put up with it anymore.
My friend Ally’s daughter was supposed to start her freshman year of high school last September but wouldn’t go.
You are reading that correctly.
She wouldn’t go.
It wasn’t like she had a conversation with her parents about wanting to start high school somewhere new, away from the kids she’d known and dreaded seeing for years, so they made an alternative plan.
No.
The morning she was supposed to start 9th grade last fall, Ally’s daughter just wouldn’t leave the house and go to school.
It took Ally until January to convince her fourteen-year-old to enroll in an online high school so she wouldn’t be so far behind she’d have to repeat her freshman year.
Around here schools have already started, so she will be enrolling late wherever she decides to go.
If and when she decides to go.
I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around how this is happening — and an even harder time accepting that it is happening to so many more teenagers (and their parents) than I ever would have imagined.
