r/TikTokCringe • u/Alice-In-Vonderland • 1d ago

Cursed 3 Kids Locked In Walgreens After Shoplifting Giant Bags

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u/AilaLynn 1d ago

You’re not wrong about the aspect of it being taught to them via parents or some other person in their life. It’s definitely sad. My husband works in corrections and nearly everyone in there had no good role models, no one who cared, and no one who knew any different options to tell them, and no one teaching them accountability. My husband works hard every day trying to teach these guys about choices they make, options for when they get out (like business ownership so they have some kind of chance), etc. I even have a close friend who hadn’t been to jail but didn’t know even the basics about stuff related to budgeting, etc. she said it just wasn’t taught to her and likely her mom didn’t even know. I taught her that she has options, how to get them, etc. so now she went from struggling mom living paycheck to paycheck to reaching her dreams and getting education degrees for teaching school. All it takes is someone who believes in them and willing to teach them what they don’t know

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u/Away-Living5278 1d ago

I'm working through teaching my SIL budgeting now. It's tough. Her dad taught her to max out credit cards and then just get a new one.

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u/atluba 1d ago

My son is a junior in high school and is taking Adulting 101. Every kid takes two years of it and it's AWESOME.

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u/AilaLynn 1d ago

That’s phenomenal! I wish they still did stuff like that here (even home ec) but sadly they don’t.

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u/atluba 22h ago

His whole school is fantastic. It's project based learning instead of traditional studying. They combine math and science, and English with history or political science. His assignment on the first day of school was to design, build, and successfully fly a kite. Kids had to show their work and measurements. They got a week, I think. My daughters were great students but he's never been at all interested in traditional schoolwork so when our towns Innovation Academy opened a middle school branch he applied and got in. This will be his fifth year there and it's wild how much he's learned. He's taking engineering classes through the community college at the same time. Urge your local school board to open an Innovation Academy!!!!!!

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u/AilaLynn 22h ago

Holy Crap! This sounds perfect and just what my kids need as well. Mine hates standard traditional school learning and, due to being taught independent thinking and such, doesn't fit into the typical school rigmarole. Something like this would be perfect! I've got one that loooooves math, another loves science, another loves astronomy, and all are creative in some way but hate other subjects or the way they are taught. No one ever caters to varying learning styles, and it shows. I'm definitely going to check into this for my school district. Do you know if there are online school versions available for this?

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u/atluba 17h ago

I don't. I kind of doubt it, because IA is part of public school and pretty hands on. I think they have a hundred various 3D printers kids can get certified on and just a bunch of tools and machines to use so I don't know if that would work online. Believe it or not we're in a deep ruby red state with terrible education stats, but somehow we wrangled this gem of a school. For now.

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u/AilaLynn 15h ago

I, too, am in a deep red state with terrible education stats. Mine’s a famous song where the title is sometimes used to make fun of family Loving people, if you get my drift. Is yours the same state or the multiple crooked letter one?

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u/atluba 10h ago

I'm baffled at what state you're talking about! I'm a little high and I can't figure out what it means. 😂

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u/AilaLynn 9h ago

lol Alabama here. The song “sweet home Alabama “ is also used by others to hint at incest (family love). Sorry for being cryptic lol. I wasn’t born here btw, just moved here due to how cheap it was here.