The November 2010 Awake (the atheist issue) has a YPA article that seems strange to me. It is about whether or not a kid should drop out of school. The way that it's written makes it seem that dropping out of school, (not college) is ok under some circumstances. Read the following excerpt:
"What are my motives for dropping out?
Beware of fooling yourself. (Jeremiah 17:9)
It’s a human tendency to give noble reasons
for selfish actions.—James 1:22.
Write here the honorable reasons you
might have for ending your school career prematurely.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Write here some selfish reasons for quitting.
What honorable reasons did you write
down? A couple of possibilities might be to
help support your family financially or to engage
in volunteer work. Selfish reasons might
be to avoid tests or to escape homework."
I wonder what kind of "volunteer work" might be considered honorable enough to drop out of school.
It's not enough that they discourage college, now they want kids to get as little K-12 education as possible. The whole article is bizarre to me, I'm surprised they would put that article in the public edition of the mag. I wonder what "worldly" people would think reading that article.