I don’t want to go to school! Drop me off at 7-11!
I hate to think what you’d learn, sitting in the parking lot of 7-11 all day.
Drop me off, there’s the exit!
Smoking cigarettes and shoplifting candy bars.
I want to learn to smoke cigarettes and shoplift candy bars, that sounds great!
Plenty of time for that, Sonny Jim.
I also want to learn to pick pockets.
That could be a very useful skill set. I would hesitate to discourage him entirely.
You also learn how to approach "cool" people over the age of 21 and get them to buy you beer.
That was my most useful skill.
Tell him that smoking is overrated, but the candy bars? Totally worth the jail time.