School and Popular Culture: The Main Causes of non-successful teenagers!

Through out the era of generations of kids, the type of mentality and approach towards school and their education has really changed. Most children view their education at a very low standard and don't really care about it. That's how the rate of kids and teens skip their classes increase and their bad grades stay the exact way that they had it in the first place! Kids and teenagers don't understand that their education is the only thing that will help them in life after graduation! Its finally time that we should start focusing on our grades and stop making poor decisions that will cause kids to drop out of school! I know that as a student, going to a low class, poor, and inefficient high school its been a very big change for me. Ever since freshmen year, I learn a lot about myself and my decision making in plenty of insane scenarios. Especially, dealing with peer pressure from my classmates. There were times where I didn't know how to react or say to my classmates when they try to peer pressure me to smoke marijuana or skip class. The area that I live in is such a dangerous place to be involved in. Once you get involved with the wrong crowd BAM! Its too late. You end up being under the influence and people look at you like an uneducated poor decision making hooligan. In my high school career, I'm not going to lie, I made plenty of horrible decisions that I regret making to this day. But, it made me a stronger, mature person who learns from their experiences. So, as the future of our generation, we have to try our best to be the best successful people we can be. So, we can also teach our own kids how to be successful in life. To be honest, I am really tired of seeing students wasting their education and not taking it seriously! This proves to people that popular culture can play an effect into any teenagers life. It causes them to buy clothing or accessories they don't even like to wear! Just because a rapper says that smoking and skipping school is cool it isn't cool for you! The main reason why they tell you to do those kinds of dangerous and stupid things is that they're trying to not help you be successful as them! So, they decide to distract you with this irrelevant rap music. So, you can crumble down and be unsuccessful poor and a loser. While, those rappers out there are making millions of money manipulating teenagers to not achieve at their fullest potential. Look at it this way, what makes the world go around? Money. Money. The thing that helps people keep their jobs by letting teenagers (like me) to make poor decisions, end up in jail, and help the government make money. Because look at it this way, if there was no crime in the world today do you know how many jobs Lawyers, judges, etc. would lose? Plenty of people! The government is trying to trap us into a horrible plan of living a unsuccessful life and we finally have to wake up and notice it! We can change this cycle and start doing good, focus on our education and rise above those rappers and athletes and truly be a successful leader! Not just to change our generation, but change History in the United States! So, we can prove to the future generation of kids that we can make a change into the world.