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I had to wake up at 6 am in order to arrive at 7:30, didn’t get out until 3 pm. It was basically a full time job with horrible hours and unpaid overtime.
Never. People who say that are just the people who made wrong decisions later life. Maybe, maybe, the fact that they had fun at school affects what decisions they make later.
And don’t get me wrong. I don’t think I mastered in life and most importantly I’m not happy that I didn’t have fun at school. I just remember it as the most stressful period of my life and I wouldn’t want to experience it ever again.
For most people, childhood tends to be a time before they had the full burden of adult responsibilities. They had chores to do around the house, but typically, they were not managing the house hold budget. Long term decisions were more about what classes to take next year or what type of major will I want to pursue. They were not thinking how the financial and lifestyle decisions they were making would affect them during the later parts of their lives.
Yeah I think I had ticked all the boxes you mention here about what childhood is not for most people
I think it’s safe to say that most Lemmy users probably had a shit time in high school lmao
Easily the worst part of my life.
I had an awesome high school experience. Same in university, but with bonus independence.
Why? I had no major issues in school. Made many friends, fell in love and had a broken heart, just regular stuff haha. Good times
Elementary and middle school were kind of shit too.
Wisdom comes with age.
Sounds like she peaked in school.
Nah, man. fuck school
I would not switch my current scenario for a scenario where I was back in school. Hard pass. Now is much better.
Same for me for college and highschool experience. School from 7am-3pm, and then work from 4pm-9pm and 10 hour shifts on Sat and Sunday, from age 14 until I graduated college.
Whenever I say I hated school, people always said it was my own fault for not getting more involved with more extracurricular activities. Those people weren’t trying to pay bills while making 4.25 an hour.
Yeah, I rather get paid for my time and not be dependant on my parents for everything.
That’s not what this is about at all. You’re missing the entire point.
The only thing being discussed is the amount of time you had to yourself with a school schedule, versus how little time you have to yourself on a work schedule. That’s it.
They’re not talking about literally being back in school. They’re not talking about bullying, homework, taking classes etc. They’re not talking about not having money or being dependent on your parents. They’re not talking about Mr Jones from Biology who wouldn’t stop shouting at kids.
Reading comprehension, however, is something that’s worth remembering from those days.
The only thing being discussed is the amount of time you had to yourself with a school schedule, versus how little time you have to yourself on a work schedule. That’s it.
I have so much more free time now than I did in school. This post is ignoring the existence of homework and extra curricular activities that your parents sign you up for.
But they are talking about seeing their friends every day? So only the good things about school then eh?
Yeah, there are some things missing from that list, like the homework and bullying. No thanks.
And the endless testing that sometimes, especially if it’s not gone well, feels like your whole future life depends on it. No thanks, I hated that, with work I can just quit if it becomes overwhelming and all-encompassing like that.
Also, the dumb arbitrary rules like that kid in TX that got kicked out because of his hair style, which from the pictures I’ve seen, is freaking awesome (or fire? or whatever the kids are saying these days).
And not having money. If I feel sad now I can go for a drive or ride to clear my mind. Also I have the presence of mind and maturity to introspect what is going on and how best to address it.
Also if I feel really sad I can always buy another motorbike.
For real, as an undiagnosed ADHD kid school was a hellscape of boredom, frustration, and bullying.
I actually personally prefer my current work life over school. WFH, no studying after hours, no exams, no pressure to pass/graduate. Just do my job and forget about it when I log off. Granted there is still stress from the job, but it’s more about meeting deadlines for something I know how to do. I do take training and certification exams from time to time (which I hate because it feels like school). YMMV depending on your job obviously.
This is partly why I am almost middle age and working seasonally. It’s more like 10 weeks off but I haven’t worked full time year round since 2009 and it is really nice. My time off is in the winter tho.
no weekends
9 to 3
Did OP go to like rich people fake school? Homework took up half your out-of-school time and I had to wake up before 6:30.
I suffered very badly because of the school times and the lack of sleep triggered manic episodes for me. Yes, getting up at 5:30 and trying to go to school on less than 3 hours every day wrecked my health and mental health.
9 to 3 would have been a God send.
Here in Romania, it’s 8-14 for primary and 8-16 for secondary. 8-15 or 9-16 is pretty standard for the UK. Those both include 1 hour lunch breaks.
There’s also been a push here in the EU to move to later start times for children’s mental health reasons, especially for teens. I don’t think it’s gotten a lot of traction though.
Googling around, looks like 9-15 is standard for Australia.
9 to 3:30 in India, and weekends only if an unexpected holiday was declared (for example, due to rain). But we had an hour or two of homework every day.
I went to public school, described my experience + I did sports on weekends.
The homework tho. It was the homework that hurt.
And the exams.
They really need to be lower stakes. Year-end exams just cover too much material for failure to be no big deal. Should be that failing a test requires a few days of review to catch up on the parts you didn’t know, and then you’re good.
Homework should be illegal.
Homework is really helpful didactically, but it should be coordinated throughout the entire school to avoid overlapping crunch time and limited to 30-40 hours per week of combined class time and homework time total depending on age.
The homework was the worst part. My school was 7 hours in class every day, which wouldn’t be bad, but I’d usually have at least an hour of homework a night, some nights it would be like 3 or 4 hours, and that doesn’t count weekend homework, which could be several hours. I’ve had whole weekends shot due to homework. I think I spent more time with high school than I do with work.
Gimme that homework now. I’ll absolutely crush those essays I used to have so much trouble with.
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Math homework was the worst for me because I’m practically math-illiterate. I was only required to take one math class for college and there was no homework. It was so wonderful.
The professor was a funny guy. He always told us not to study on the weekends because if we studied too much, our brains would explode and someone would have to clean it up.
I don’t get bullied now
school sucked though?
- 7:45am start time sucks ass. no one in their right mind likes being up that early. i was NEVER well rested, it made my anxiety and social anxiety even worse, making me even more alienated from my peers
- tons and tons of busywork and stress and deadlines while getting nothing in return for it. at least with a job you get paid
- when i started high school they installed these awful internet filters that didn’t let you access youtube, or ‘forums’, or ‘sports’, or anything potentially interesting, fun, or engaging. half the time it’d block legitimate lesson plans as well. (before anyone says ‘you should be paying attention in class’ in many classes and obv study hall we had free time to work on assignments)
I miss playing sports and fucking around. It’s hard to organize lacrosse with 6 people in your 30s with kids :(
You could always make friends with people who don’t have kids, and if you have kids, well IMO you don’t really get to complain that kids affect your independence and time.
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