Saw the CNN version first, by that lady that I never cared to remember her name... this VO is 10x better. Of course.

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Bring the issue to light is a good start.

Do they still have Vo Tech schools?

I remember taking
Wood shop
Metal shop
Auto shop
In regular school.

Never went to Vo tech but some kids did.

It's a Japanese company, and VO is by a Japanese person. You can hear a slight hint of an accent.

Honestly I hadn't realized it but I think you're right. I mean how could anyone who speaks english record that VO with a straight face?! The uncanny valley is a lot less deep on the voice side I guess.

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For those that didn't notice at the :08 mark a deer darts across the road. A longer version of this is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieTQvIdG-Vo

I thought the video made a good point, but rather different from the one I assumed it was going for before watching.

As I was finishing up my senior year of High School after 4 years of taking crap for being a nerd etc., a friend/acquaintance of mine was starting her freshman year. She got picked on also, probably worse than I had had it. She made it through 1 semester before dropping out. Then she got a part time job for a half-year, took night classes at the local community college, and got her GED.

At the time, I thought she was making a terrible decision by not sticking it out and trying to get through High School the usual way -- 4 years of hell. But then, the next year she ended up at the same University where I was, both as Uni-freshmen, and she handled the much more mature University environment just fine.

It ended up completely turning the tables for me, to the point that I thought that her path of dropping out -> GED -> Uni was actually objectively superior to my suffering through the more traditional path.

So, that's what I thought "don't stay in school" was going to refer to.


But the actual message is good as well. The best classes that I had in Middle and High School were more practical things. But oddly enough, the best examples of that for me were my math classes. I had the same teacher for Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calc, and Calculus (AP, so equivalent to Calc 1 at a University). He stressed the real-life applications of advanced mathematics by doing lots of word problems, and only teaching topics that he could point to concrete, real-world applications for. And by letting us use calculators for everything as long as we could explain WHY specific operations were needed to answer the questions.


...So, long-winded response boiled down:
I like the message. More practical stuff in school is better. And feel free to drop out -- especially if doing so is just a shortcut to further education at a University, Vo-Tech, or whatever.

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