One of the hot blogg articles at the moment is about a 16 year old by the name of Blake Peebles. He’s moved to become a full time professional gamer and instead of attending regular high school he’s using private tutors.
Normally, I’d just consider this a “rich kids parents let him do whatever” type of story and ignore it. What caught my eye though was blogs like Wiifanboy (of whom I’m a big fan) trying to sensationalize it. Their by-line, where I first saw the story, was “Parents let child drop out of school to play Guitar Hero”. Which, as you read on and if you go to the original source of the article, turns out to be a b.s. statement.
Okay, so the kid isn’t going to regular school. The actual full length first source article that appeared in the newspaper discusses the kid’s problems with high school. It sounded like he was at risk for flunking out or dropping out anyway.
In fact, the article in the paper goes on to state that his grades have improved greatly and he’s doing fine on his education. I for one feel that if parents are wealthy enough to get private tutors for their kids and it works better than the normal education system-then go for it.
Good work Blake, keep /pretend-rocking and don’t forget to go get that college degree as well.
As for you wiifanboy… you’re one of my favorite bloggs-FOR SHAME!!! Cut out this crappy sensationalism and stick to what you do best, pumping out great Wii oriented posts from around the net.
The wiifanboy blog post can be found HERE
The actual newspaper article can be found HERE
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