When I was in the 8th grade I had a friend who had two kids already. TBF he should have been a high school senior but he had been held back four times (this was before school districts had really grasped the concept of passing kids to get rid of them).
His favorite song was "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" by Pink Floyd which was very popular at the time and featured the lyric "We don't need no education". Even at the time I remember thinking "Tracy, you might in fact need an education". I think it's under-appreciated how much that one line from that one song had to do with the success of that album.