Tag: school

kyeabove:

nova-880:

inkedworld:

hey school, I want my soul back

me too

I dropped out of school years ago and it still hasn’t returned mine.

Have any of you seen that post that’s someone like.. 40 or something complaining that they still wake up with anxiety about school? It doesn’t. If school really seriously fucked with you, you’re going to have to find it yourself. School doesn’t actually really care (as a system anyway) about you in the slightest. You’re either a positive or a negative number for the school, overall. There’s nothing that can be done about it, schools have to have central authority somewhere and that’s too many students to actually care about them one on one. You can’t give every student an actually beneficial school experience with the current system. It’s impossible. School currently is more or less a test of whether you can fit enough into an arbitrary box to pass. I don’t really feel like it’s actually about learning.

But yeah, ultimately school’s not coming for you. You have to deal with any damage it caused you on your own.

scotchtapeofficial:

someoneintheshadow456:

candidlyautistic:

autasticanna:

Facts that adults don’t tell you about bullying

– Communication doesn’t work on bullies. Telling a bully they’re making you feel bad is the wrong way to go. They want to make you feel bad. That’s the point.

– being kind to a bully doesn’t always mean they’ll stop. Sometimes it means they’ll just use your kindness to manipulate you while still continuing to bully you.

– not every bully has a sympathetically tragic home life. Sometimes people are just mean. Sometimes people just get off on hurting others.

– on that note, a tough home life is a reason, not an excuse. You don’t have to put up with bullying because somebody’s life sucks, just like you don’t have to let someone mug you because they’re broke.

– in order to forgive someone, they have to apologize first. If your bully has not apologized to you, you do not owe them anything.

– getting bullied as a kid can still mess you up in adult life. Maybe kids grow out of being bullies, but the marks they left often don’t go away.

– there are ways to get people to stop bullying you, but they almost all involve being mean back.

– as long as parents keep raising shitty bullying kids, there will be bullies. No amount of assemblies and hand-drawn posters will fix the problem. It’s the parents’ fault.

– It’s not your responsibility to fix your bully or to stop the abuse they send your way, but some adults sure will act like it is.

– Many times (especially in the case of girls) your friends can be your bullies. This makes things even worse as these are people who know you and your intimate secrets and use them to their advantage. If your friends are bullies, don’t take crap from them. Get new friends. 

im gonna throw in that its never your fault, people will pick a target to gang up on because theyd rather it be you than them. even if you think “this must be because im weird”- everyone is weird, in different ways. anyone can be made a target. it’s not just you for some reason in particular, i promise.

tybalt-you-saucy-boi:

chlo-egg:

someone from the uk: im in sixth form

me: how many regenerations do you have left

Me, a Canadian: what the damn hell…

High school is freshman, sophomore, junior, senior.

Which is stupid because they’re ALSO still numbered by grade. And college has the same system. It’s stupid because it means you have to specify which you mean.

I don’t know anything about the UK but I thought they used years that were slightly off from being basically identical to grades.