A Des Moines, Iowa high school senior joins the show to discuss societal pressure for a promising student to have a career, college choice and major selected by the end of a year in which a person is still a teenager. The mystery of the absence of homework assignments in current public schools in the metro is explained, as PHATEROC learns how learning is now perceived and measured for current students like Briyahn and many other high schoolers, vs. his time.
A 16 yr old details the pros and cons of graduating early due to grade-skipping.The balance of an earlier exposure to drugs in common-day American high schools is weighed against the potential outcomes of either earlier development in responsible drug use OR a higher death toll of the young ,as seen in the opioid crises. Briyahn Warner joins the show.
PHATAL EXTRACTION: " YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR OWN REALITY....BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO WORK FOR THAT."
