facemesser,
Thirteen is not too young to start developing an appreciation and understanding of the value of a good grasp of language. Both the spoken and written word are used every day by service members in the conduct of their jobs, and poor language skills can cause one to fail career development courses and result in a lack of advancement in rank over time compared to peers.
As you take the time to read the forums, especially in the Recruiting section, you will see multiple threads encouraging young men and women to stay in school, and to work at it too. Whether you decide to join the Reserves or the Regular force, either as an officer or as a soldier (or sailor or airman), good performance in school will help you when you take the Canadian Forces Aptitude Test (CFAT) and in preparing good learning skills for later training.
If you are thinking that the Army is a way to get away from school, you need to reconsider that very carefully. Every soldier will spend more time in class than on weapons ranges in his first year, and most years after that too, and you can as easily fail a military course because your written test results do not meet the standard as you can for poor weapon drills.
Take your time, and read through the areas of the forums that interest you, you’ll find that a lot of the things you may think to ask about have already been discussed in detail. Then, if you spend some time following current threads you’ll get an idea of the style and tone of the posting members, and then know better where you can fit in.
Take care
Mike