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Post by irong on Nov 24, 2005 2:23:40 GMT
"SCHOOLS R PRISONZ!!1 ITZ NOT FARE!!1 I WANT 2 BE STOOPID AND SIT ON COMPUTER ALLDAY INSTEAD!!!11"
There would be a lot of things we need to know that we would be clueless about without school. They are NOT brainwashing camps, they are NOT prisons, they are NOT wrong, and they are NOT unrequired. Come on people, think.
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Post by definitemaybe on Nov 24, 2005 2:37:17 GMT
...the only things i learn that ever helped me out were things i have already read in other books and stuff my friends tell me...but i guess school is a good thing in that its a place where you are forced to socialize and therefore have a reason to develop a personality...^_^
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Nov 24, 2005 3:13:34 GMT
Name one.
...Because, you know, other people don't exist outside of school! </sarcasm>
School made me anti-social. It wasn't until I had been out of it for awhile that I started to get along with other people. The personality I developed there was one that not only did I not like, but neither did anyone else.
Before I went to school I was actually a pretty well-adjusted kid.
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Post by Shwoo on Nov 24, 2005 3:38:30 GMT
History, geography, chemistry, biology... need I go on? We don't really need to know those, as interesting as they are. But we do need to know maths and how to read. Me too, but it messed me up because I got bullied a lot, not because I was being taught things. And one of my teachers I had for three years didn't like me. |
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Post by Numbuh 0xFF on Nov 24, 2005 3:58:36 GMT
It's true, school does tend to have a deleterious effect on one's personality. For instance, when I entered my Elementary school I was a child so peaceful that I believe that prior to eight years old I've never struck another living creature. After years of bullying where I was a victim mostly because I was simply incapable of violence I developed such an supressed rage that, on one occasion when the kids at my secondary school, tried to tease me (something I should have let slide) I picked up the 'teaser' and tossed him, and his desk clear across the classroom. Luckily, the affair ended there and then, and later I even became friends with my classmates, but I shudder to think of what might have happend. I'm not by any means athletic, but such is my size that it is conceivable I could have seriously hurt someone over a truly harmless bit of teasing.
However, I hasten to add that while school might have problems (and besides, my troubles were a result of apathic teachers not a fundamental flaw inherent in the concept of school) it is better than the alternative. Simply put, you need regular contact with people of your age in a structured enviroment (i.e. school) to become a fully functioning human being. Bullying seems to come as part and parcel of it all, c'est la vie.
Face it, fellow operatives, school is an undeniable fact of life, there's no point in chafing against it, instead try to chanell that displeasure into something constructive (I for instance owe my success in school to the fact that I loathed the system and sought to beat and subvert it at every turn).
P.S.
I note that my rank is no longer cadet, but is now "Field Operative"...does that mean I've gradueted from a Cadet Next Door to a Kid Next Door? ;D
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Post by dragonman on Nov 24, 2005 4:25:08 GMT
yeah, i was VERY peaceful until school, i had never said anything bad to my mom. It's true, it's not the teaching that changes u, it's everyone else. Now i actually have to hit ppl to keep myself from being
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Nov 24, 2005 7:53:38 GMT
Handling people in a "structured environment" doesn't really teach you anything.
Actually, it's oft been a subject of criticism that school environment has often proved LIMITING--people have graduated school, and then been totally lost on how to proceed in the real world. That's why a lot of people who graduate never really get anywhere.
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Post by Numbuh 1024 on Nov 24, 2005 9:06:04 GMT
Yes, I agree, school can make you antisocial. Especially if you're surrounded by idiots, and one idiot who bosses everyone, and three 13-year-olds whose favourite activity is looking at underwear. Or pulling down pants.
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Post by irong on Nov 24, 2005 15:26:47 GMT
Yes, I agree, school can make you antisocial. Especially if you're surrounded by idiots, and one idiot who bosses everyone, and three 13-year-olds whose favourite activity is looking at underwear. Or pulling down pants. Exactly. If you go to a bad school that has no control over bullies. The worst thing that happened to me was one 8th grader jokingly calling me a retard. And he got busted for it. |
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Post by Shwoo on Nov 25, 2005 3:42:17 GMT
Just because you didn't see it didn't mean it wasn't going on. I got bullied all the time, and I went to a fairly good school in regards to bully control.
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Post by ●•Sannish●• on Nov 25, 2005 20:25:52 GMT
How much do you stay in school? I stay 6 hours a day. No lunch. 6 hours or sometimes longer. With lunch. |
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Post by nubmuh891 on Nov 25, 2005 20:29:25 GMT
6 hours?here in belgium its 8 hours
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Post by numbuh1752 on Nov 25, 2005 20:42:10 GMT
I got bullied by a so-called friend nearly every day, she used to steal my stuff and pretend it was hers and then tell on me for saying it was mine when it WAS mine and also told off me for accusing her of stealing it. Also she made my friend gang up with her so they could both bully me and leave me out of stuff... it wasn't very nice and it made me very upset =( but now i'm not really friends with her anymore, she's a sad person but the good thing is she goes to a different school now so she dowsn't bully me anymore, but when i was at that school she was at after all her bullying and pretending to make up with me she eventually stopped and i got my other friend back that she used to gang up with.
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