Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:
Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:
don’t
The worst feeling is when you have to do all the work for a group and you’re perfectly confident you did it right and then you fucked it up
real talk, im fucking terrified of people who dont care if the teacher’s gonna be pissed at them. dude any teacher ever could kill me with One look of slight disapproval how do you Do that
Pro tip for recent high school graduates. Don’t go to school. Stay at home. Get a job. Open a savings account. Put away at least $400 per paycheck. Just do that for like a year or two.
It’s the sixth grade. Somehow, I had come across a catalogue for the store they bought all the school store crap from. You know, the smelly erasers and dumb keychains that they sell for like a buck apiece. So I somehow got this catalogue, and little old entrepreneur me was like “I should buy something from this and sell it at school for an absurdly high price to gain basically pure profit.” As sixth graders do. So I bought two huge tubs full of these keychains called Jellybears. This is what they look like.
So I bought a metric fuckton of these assholes for about 20 cents a piece. I start selling them at school for a buck fifty. Like I said, pure profit. 6th grade me was brilliant. I broke even in like eight seconds of me whippin these bad boys out at school. Saying these are were a hit is an understatement. They were like a home run triple, or some other sports metaphor. People are buying this shit at lunch time, between classes. Shit, one girl even admitted to selling the ones she bought off me around her neighborhood for like five bucks. I was happy to be the middleman, but I digress. The point is, not only did I gain entrepreneurial skills, I also made a pretty penny. However, a month into my brilliant business, I get a call down to the office.
I had never been called to the office before. I was such a goody two-shoes you wouldn’t believe. This was in a school that boasted like two fights per week. The ratio of cops and administrators to students was like 1:3. And there were 1700 people at this school. That’s a whole lot of authority figures for a whole lot of miscreants and ne’er-do-wells. And here I was, reading large pretentious books and wearing polo shirts, with a gigantic backpack and in an advanced math class. I was, and still am, a lame weeny. Just wanted to put that in perspective.
Anyway, I was called down to the office that day. Literally shaking in the huge chair they had for me, facing down the terrifying vice-principal, she pulled out a Jellybear.
It was the DIVA one, if I’m not mistaken. I was then given a good lecture about how I’m not allowed to sell things on campus without explicit permission, yadda yadda, the whole spiel. Except I felt there was something fishy about the whole thing. Maybe it was how she held the Jellybear in her hand, perhaps it was the way she confiscated the rest of them.
After asking around with the intense gossip network of middle school, I discovered the real reason the administration confiscated the Jellybears.
They had reason to suspect I was filling them with vodka.
They had reason to suspect that I, the tiny, stupid haired, braces-clad sixth grader who played a tuba bigger than she was was the head of a sophisticated alcohol distributing cartel in which I punctured and drained the goop from cute keychains, refilled them with straight vodka with a syringe, sealed them off with no trace, and sold them around school.
I’m not sure if I’m flattered that they assumed me capable of that sort of espionage, or insulted that they thought me dumb enough to sell middle schoolers straight vodka for A BUCK FIFTY.
really who did they think i was i was in advanced math for petes sake.
Homeschooling is for parents who want to brainwash their kids and teach them outdated false information
You can’t change my mind
Can you be home schooled with the curriculum similar to the one in usual schools?
As long as their tests are taken at school.
Fair enough
Like obvs sometimes in rare and specific cases children would be better off outside public school, but that’s very rare that I think that it’s necessary.
I think it would be a better change for academic schools to employ more teachers, notably ones with varied teaching styles so students aren’t being left behind in lessons that don’t match their learning styles, rather than just pulling kids out of school and teaching them yourself.
And less stigma over putting kids in less advanced courses. Learning should be by ability and current level of knowledge in that subject, not always by age. If someone needs to be put in a class for a grade below them then that’s better than shoving them into a class they can’t keep up with.
Honestly I know quite a few homeschooled kids and a lot of them are well adjusted and clearly have learned a lot and have opportunities they wouldn’t necessarily have but also I’ve seen homeschooled kids that clearly weren’t and I think it’s so hit or miss that more focus should probably be placed on making the options in school more diverse so they can reach more people. Because homeschooling is genuinely the best option for some people, but some people who’d benefit from something other than traditional school don’t have that.
And yeah, there should definitely be less stigma around people taking the classes they need to be in rather than putting them in classes they can’t put up with.
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