Why wasn't Eminem good in school?

[Hopsinshadie]

Do you think he would ever want to go back to school? I read that he was only good at English. He seems too smart to fail 9th grade that many times. Doesn't this set a bad example?

[Sam.]

At 39? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you really care about his education qualification?

[RKOunion]

Do you think he would ever want to go back to school?

[Cupid Stunt]

He didn't want to go to school because he was bullied. Plus, his mom was a drug addict and they moved all the time.

[UofLCard]

Not everyone excels in academia.

[DƎRDYPK]

cause FUCK SCHOOL!

[EminemBase]

Because our educational systems do not favour and are not designed to compliment creative minds.

Our educational systems have evolved to cater to an industrialized society, and this was the basis on which they were created. This is why public schools in the West are generally like assembly lines.

Schools do not enhance or enlighten subjects, they drain them. Schools have to cater to a broad range of young minds and teach in the broadest way possible. The way teachers have evolved to present information now is mundane, repetitive and dull.

Learning shouldn't be mundane and dull, it should be exciting and engaging. But schools are dull due to the fact our governments want (or should I say, need) children to just cycle through this system as quickly as possible to get arbitrary 'qualifications' to get jobs, to pay taxes.

Schools are breeding grounds for conformity.

Creative people are not conformists and not doing well at school means fuck all. You may have been brought-up to believe school is something to be treasured but why do you think you have been? because schools are a fundamental step to churning truckloads more adolescents through the system into conformist adulthood, to pay taxes, to be 'yes men' of the norm.

The arts are considered the lowest / least important subjects in school. Teachers don't generally encourage creativity, schools tend to encourage 'practical' lines of work and thinking. This is because the government treat the population like gambling chips, or rather... they have evolved to do this (inadvertently). And, the lowest risk humans are those who say 'yes', those who pay taxes and those who enter lines of work (often involving maths or science) which compliment society.

Artistic thinkers are by definition risky as not many people achieve artistic excellence, it's not a 'practical' line of work and yet look around you: we're surrounded by artistic innovation, we spend our lives (all of us, politicians included... ironically) listening to music, quoting movies, watching television, adhering to fashion and taste etc.

We need new educational systems. Our current ones are stuck in the 50s. Our methods of teaching and the subjects we deem important or how we think of learning and life choices hasn't caught up to reality and our current society. We're still living like we're a society dominated by industry (steel, coal etc.) when in fact we are now entering (or have long been entering) a new stage; of technological innovation. We're now a technologically-driven society.

Schools suck the life out of subjects as apposed to breathing life in to them.

Almost all geniuses I know of, or all the people I admire are self-taught. Teaching yourself, self-discovery and an open-mind and, trail-blazing your way through life... this way of thinking leads to a more interesting and independent personality.

Eminem didn't do well in school because he's a left-field genius. School wasn't designed for Eminem. Or any true genius, hence why so many are drop-outs are habitual loners and self studiers.

[UofLCard]

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[Ka0t1c]

school is setup ass backwards and he prolly feels the same way i do about non important bullshit

[Relapse.]

Em base ur totally wrong. The real reason is because he did exactly what the song said...

[UofLCard]

school is setup ass backwards and he prolly feels the same way i do about non important bullshit

High school and down I can agree on with you. Once I finally took a campus tour of my college my freshman year of high school, I was like, "What am I doing here in high school?"

[Amaranthine]

He skipped school because he'd rather have been at home writing or in the city trying to promote himself.

[Amaranthine]

He skipped school because he'd rather have been at home writing or in the city trying to promote himself.

I thought he'd just go to a friend's house? I can't see him at 14 or 15 doing that, at least the promoting portion.

I think he said the promoting thing started around 16, because I know that's how he met Proof. They both were skipping school and Em approached him with a flyer for a talent show he was going to perform at.

But basically he just didn't go to school, period, and that's why he failed ninth grade three times and dropped out.

Also, at whoever wanted to know if he'd ever go back, he already went back and got his GED, I think in the early 2000s.

[Amaranthine]

I thought he met Proof when Proof walked by his house or something, saw Em dressed like shit and threw a pair of shoes at him to wear.

Em was born in October so he would have been 13 when he started high school lol Maybe by the third year, but even then he'd be barely 15/16.

Would you like me to look it up so we can figure this out?

[Amaranthine]

I thought he met Proof when Proof walked by his house or something, saw Em dressed like shit and threw a pair of shoes at him to wear.

Em was born in October so he would have been 13 when he started high school lol Maybe by the third year, but even then he'd be barely 15/16.

Would you like me to look it up so we can figure this out?

Nah, let it hang in mystery

inb4youalreadydid

LOL it's right there in the Yellow Brick Road lyrics:

That's about the time I first met Proof with Goofy Gary on the steps
At Osbourne handing out some flyers, he was doing some talent shows
At Centerline High, I had told him to stop by and check this out sometime
He looked at me like I'm out my mind shook his head like 'white boys don't know how to rhyme'
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first place
And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
We was on the same shit, that Big Daddy Kane shit with compound syllables sound combined
From that day we was down to ride somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the line


But the story you were thinking of is also true, that's the story that stuck in Em's mind about Proof, what he talked about at his funeral. "I'm tired of you wearing them dirty-ass shoes."