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Abled and neurotypical take lol
i have autism and jefus sucking christ school has to be part of my childhood trauma, i remember in the early grades they forced us to be outside during breaks and i had 0 friends so that meant every single FUCKING day was just spent in abject misery.
i straight up spent many breaks just standing in a corner listening to the same few songs i had on my shitty phone, thinking back on it is god damn depressing and makes me feel like all the adults around me should be put in jail.
Ikr, also special education tends to be dehumanizing and have major issues with abuse
oh i didn’t get special education, i haven’t even gotten an actual diagnosis yet because our healthcare system is on its knees. That’s part of why i hate the education system because like… a kid spending all their time alone should be a pretty fucking obvious indication that they might need some help, but nope everyone just ignores that.
9-3 everyday, no weekends
Idk homework ate up most of my evenings during the week and usually at least an evening of my weekends. Add in working a part time job for the last two years of hs and I think I was busier then than I am now
I was an absolute screw up in school so I never did my homework or reports… barely made it by. So I had time, did a lot of things, and hung out with friends. I do agree with the job, started in like junior year hs and to this day never had more than 2 weeks off since and I’m 40 now… probably should have done my homework! Still the job I have could be way worse. Just wish it paid more…
I don’t know, I feel like a lot of kids are pushed to work way harder than they need to in school. I took at AP/IB classes, but I didn’t need too. It hasn’t helped me at all.
I think it has more to do with less responsibilities and the freedom children have.
Then we become just another cog in the machine.
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Children don’t have freedom. Most don’t get to transition.
Well, that is, if you had friends in school, and weren’t being bullied.
Also, no worries, but also no money.
I’m in college RN, taking three classes, and literally just last week i was working so much to keep up with all the classes homework I started from 9am to 10pm with no breaks (online) with only the 5 min eating break every so often. If it was a 9-5 I would have been done and have time to spare for other crap. Fuck this idolizing the past “9-5 is evil” bullshit.
Highschool was way tougher when it came to time management tbh. Even in college I was envious of normal 9-5 jobs. With those, holidays, weekends, and evenings you actually get to shut off. In school there was just constant assignments/stress.
True but learning is hard work.
And fuck, I hated homework.
Learning is great when it’s something you want to do. I went back 10 years after graduating to study something I was interested in and it was fucking awesome.
Fuck that. Give me 9-5 any day over going back to being stuck in an uncomfortable metal desk+chair contraption all day and then have to do hours of filler homework after. Hauling around books I may or may not ever even open in class. Pushing through rush hour traffic in the hallways between classes. Gym class? WTF no. Then take massive tests like our lives depend on it.
I’m cool, no thanks.
Dumb take.
I’m in my 30s and working an office job is way less stressful overall than school was. When I’m done with work, I can go home and stop thinking about it.
With school, you can never study “enough”, so its always creeping in the back of your subconscious. And good grades alone don’t cut it - you’ve also got to participate in extracurriculars and turn yourself into a trained monkey to write an “interesting enough” college essay. Oh and if you screw any of this up, your entire adult life could be ruined.
Diligent students have it way harder than office workers. Kids need our support and sympathy.
Your brain was also changing more than from when you were a baby to a toddler during that time. Never mind the rest.
I still have nightmares of getting to my locker in time and making it to class.
I still have nightmares where I’ve somehow just forgotten a big assignment or presentation, or sometimes that I even had a class in a given time slot.
making it back to my locker was stressful enough that I just gave up on it altogether and carried everything around all day
My combination lock was finicky and attached to the locker. Every day was stress.
I locked mine freshman year and never came back. no idea if it had anything in it.
I’m glad it’s not just me lol
>20 years on and doing my a-levels still crops up in nightmares
I’m so glad extracurriculars aren’t really a thing that anybody cares about in my country nor are college essays. School and being a teenager was stressful enough as it was.
Yeah, I liked school for hanging up with friends or relatives… But actually going back to school full nostalgia? No fucking way.
Hard disagree. School was a nightmare.
Nah, the hours were fewer but during those hours I had a lot less freedom to the point of having to ask just to go to the bathroom. Plus having to do homework and having strict deadlines (turns out missing deadlines in office work isn’t as big of a deal as it is in school). Now if we’re talking about university/college, then yeah, those years were great, provided you didn’t have to work many hours on the side. I had a part-time job, but things were light enough that those years were leisurely and lovely, certainly better than the grind now.
Pay could have been better
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The bus picked me up at 6:30 AM and I had extracurriculars, so I didn’t get home from the late bus until after 5:30 PM. I’d almost always have an hour or two of homework too, but usually I could get it done on the bus or during other classes. But not always.
Then there is the puberty and hormones, plus the depression from not being popular or good looking, which still affects me today.
