Did Tyson Fury really drop out of school at age 10?

[1hourRun]

He dropped out in high school like most gypsies. It's all in his book.

The irony, can Tyson read his own lies?

[CasperUK]

I remember a girl called Bridie Fury - from a gypsy background - who was in my school. She was only there for a few weeks. She was really shy and didn't make many friends. I was the only one who ever really spoke to her. I remember she had a very thick Irish accent. Wonder if she was related to Tyson's family....

[CasperUK]

The irony, can Tyson read his own lies?

You don't need to go to school to learn how to read.

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The irony, can Tyson read his own lies?

You should pre-order buy his new book that's coming out. Fury saving lives, what a hero this man is.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Furious-Method-Transform-Your-Goals/dp/152912591X

I heard a rumour that Deontay is releasing some "how to twerk" videos in a collaboration with Justin Bieber? Can you confirm?

[VatoMulatto]

Most gypsies don't finish school. In this society their traditions and culture can be quite backwards in many ways.

[Citizen Koba]

It is compulsory nowadays for your children to go to school, parents can even be fined for frequent truency.

However, Fury grew up 30 to 20 years ago before those laws came in, and travellers never went to school at all back then and many still don't.... it's just not prosecuted as its not in the public interest to enforce it on people who live outside the system.

Fury might not be well-spoken or intellectual to highly-educated people, but he is certainly wise to the world and how it works, and seems to be pretty switched on to things, which can go a long way. Life experience and hard work can take you far.

Naw. It's perfectly legal to educate your kids at home, the law simply requires that they have an education.. There's considerable pressure on parents to enroll their kids in the school system and some very good reasons to do so in terms of socialisation and obtaining formal qualifications, but it ain't a requirement at all. Been looking into it at quite seriously due to the ever increasing commercialisation and focus on metrics in England. Got a few friends in teaching given up in disgust or moved abroad to teach.

https://www.gov.uk/home-education

[Marchegiano]

everyone's about to be some homeschooled drop outs then. I dunno how they're doing it in the UK but right now the US doesn't have public schools. They're doing online public schooling....homeschool but with a ***** you zoom sometimes.

[Citizen Koba]

everyone's about to be some homeschooled drop outs then. I dunno how they're doing it in the UK but right now the US doesn't have public schools. They're doing online public schooling....homeschool but with a ***** you zoom sometimes.

Yeah pretty much the same here. Took a few weeks for 'em to get the first homework out, just PDFs or Docxs at first via a pre-existing homework app, then over the last few weeks it's been via zoom or its Microsoft quivalent (teams). Limited though, I been having to come up with quasi educational stuff for Jr at least half the school day.

Got a friend whose daughter got a scholarship at the local (private) grammar school though and they managed to roll out a complete school schedule plus homework with video classes within the first two weeks of lockdown - just shows the difference. Took Jrs state school 3 months to even approximate it.

[PRINCEKOOL]

School is a great time for kids, YOU are away from your parents and learning not just academically 'But sometimes that playground can be rough, you learn things'.

I am not a proponent of home-schooling 'Kids need to learn amongst other kids'.

[Citizen Koba]

School is a great time for kids, YOU are away from your parents and learning not just academically 'But sometimes that playground can be rough, you learn things'.

I am not a proponent of home-schooling 'Kids need to learn amongst other kids'.

The socialisation argument is maybe the strongest argument there is to sending kids to school IMO even if you're capable of teaching 'em the academic stuff yourself. It's vital for 'em to learn how to operate within groups of their peers, make friendships, have their first flings with the opposite sex, so on. In some ways even more important than the academic stuff.

Could be there's a little less need for than in traveller society though, if enough of the kids are staying off school then you can still get the socialisation anyway, but it doesn't help to promote integration with broader society. Probably the opposite in fact, which is maybe how the traditionalists prefer it.