Ten rules kids won't learn in school

1. Life is not fair. Get used to it.

2. The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as your parents and your school does. This may come as a shock, but it is reality.

3. Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a company cell phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a designer label.

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.

5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it 'opportunity'.

6. It's not your parent's fault or your teacher's fault if you mess up. You're responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life" and "You're not my boss".

7. Before you were born, your parents weren't boring. They got that way paying your bills.

8. Life is not divided into semesters and you don't get sommers off...not even sprink break. You are expected to show up everyday for 8 hours and you don't get a new life every 40 weeks.

9. Smoking does not make you look cool. Watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20.

10. Your school may ber "outcome-based" but life isn't. In some schools, you're given as many times as you want to get the answer right. Standards are set low enough so everyone can meet them. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life--as you will find out.