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The simple fact that you are able to read this post should be evidence enough that school is a good thing. I have worked with people who cannot multiply single digit numbers without a calculator. Think of all the places in the world without school and whether or not you would rather be there.
My grandfather dropped out of school when he was 13 when the Second World War broke out to support his family. It was 20 years later, when he wanted to start his own business, when he realized how incredibly stupid he was (his words, not mine) and taught himself arithmetic so he would be able to withdraw money from a bank account and do his own taxes. It was 5 years later before he was educated enough to start. It was because of his interrupted education and the subsequent 20 year hiatus that he then had to work 7 days a week, 12 hours a day until he retired to earn enough money to ensure that his children would not be put in the same position.
His opinion on why WWII was allowed to start? The German population was not educated enough to realize the propaganda they were subjected to, and the rest of the was too uneducated to care.
I personally am in no small way grateful to the benefits and oppurtunities that my country's education system has provided me. I know I will never fear starvation nor homelessnes because of the society I was born into and the hard work and dedication it took those who built our society to include a state funded education system with it.
Nobody will ever realize what they have until they have lost it.
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In my point of view saying something that high school sucks may imply that you did not give the thought a little bit more of thinking. If you really weigh the benefits in the long run its really worth it.
I'll put my self as an example. I was born in a small country in Central America called El Salvador. Over there students go to school 6 days a week. Monday - Saturday. But the education is way much better then over here in my own point of view. Also the teachers aren't as leniant as the teachers over here. Over there if you fail one class you fail the whole year. Which if you really think about it imagine failing a class over here and each year you have to re-take the whole entire year again because you failed just one class. Now that would really suck.
If you think about it over here in Canada and the States if you fail one class lets say grade 10 math well you can either do summer school [ where I was born there is no summer school ] or you can just simply re-take the course once again. Over there it's either I drop out or I re-take the whole entire year again.
As well over here you dont pay for your schooling unless if you go to a private school. Yeah you might argue but I pay for my books. Wow like what $50-80. Over here you have the privelege to get a good free education where as in other countries many people would give anything to be in your shoes to just be able to read. For example my mother was not able to complete her education cause she had to take care of my older brother and I to make sure that we were safe during the civil war that was going on in my country. Which had already begun 4 years before I was born if I am correct. When do you ever think about something like that over here.
Now saying that high school sucks is making a statement without really giving it much thought. Without really taking into consideration a lot of things.
Education is one of the keys to your success in this world. Education can take you to many places where without it you would not be able to get. Even today in some places you cant even obtain a job without having your G.E.D. Education over here is basically a free gift handed to you when your young and it's your choice if you want to take it or leave it. Read my quote at the bottom and maybe you might learn something.
But that of course is my opinion.
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School is what ever you make of it..
Some people are good at school and others, like myself arn't good at school.
School can be bad or good, it's how much effort that you put into it that will decide how well you go or how bad you go..
creative
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True Creative school can be much harder for others but I think that this should not stop them from learning.
To get a little off the topic here. I have met some blind people who amaze me at times even though they cannot see they still keep on pushing to become better. Actually if you ever get the change to talk to a blind person you will actually begin to appreciate things more. I always did wonder how do they read braille so well ? I tried it onced and closed my eyes an man did I find it hard. At first all I felt were little lumps and making some sense out of it was even harder. But once I saw the person to whom I was speaking to do it I was so intrigued as to how his hands moved over his book which such fluicidy [<-- is that even a word ? ] and he was able to perfectly read it all to me. It was a pretty cool thing to see.
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What are talking about school is cool you mad fecker.
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heh... oh to be at 'school' again..... I admit high school was a bit sucky, college and university were totally bloody amazing though - it feels like I had more disposable cash then than I do now but that is probably because I got by on very little cash during college and Uni.
Honestly work is the suckiest of all things - frequently you have to do something for someone and be nice to them (office politics), even though you think they are a complete tosser. Similarly you have to meet deadlines wether you want to or not (sometimes it means working REALLY late) and the consequences of not achieveing those deadlines can be a lot more severe than in school. For instance take this as a worst case scenario... repeatedly fail to meet deadlines> lose job > no money coming in > lose house cos you can't repay the mortgage > go back to live with mom and dad and suffer all their scorn cos you've lost your job > lose girlfriend cos you have fallen on hard times and she's fed up with you etc etc (never happened to me personally but I know folks who have been in this situation - not good at all)
take it from me ... I know it's not always a bed of roses but at the end of the day schools not that bad - and you can at least look forward to college and uni and week long parties etc :D enjoy it whilst you still can
Z
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wow.. some pretty thoughtful comments made in this thread..
hats off to Striek and Agent_Steal especially..
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im still on my conclusion that school sucks i have not been to college yet so i cant say it will always suck and according to many of you people you guys say it will be amazing. if college is anything like the hell i have been going through then it'll be a waste but it does pay off eventually.
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I haven't been to high school or to college, I'm in my last year of middle school right now. And, in my many :D years of school experience, I can tell you that school is the single worst use of my time. English, history, art, music, gym, and "home and careers" (aka homos and queers) take up half my day, and the rest is just my teachers reteaching the same crap that they have been teaching us since the second grade. It would be different if we were actually taught something there, but school is no longer a place of learning. Everything from our lessons to the lunch menus have been created by idiotic bureaucrats who enjoy wasting our communities' tax dollars and watching the students being taught nothing in return. Instead of actually teaching us, they just lower standards again and again and give the superintendant a huge pay raise, the day the new budget was rejected! And they continue to make life hell for the students, by creating all sorts of ridoculous regulations. I have to sign my name three times at last count to go take a piss! As for the "advantages" of going to school, we have a computer lab with several machines, but they're all running M$ Windows 98 on like a kb of memory! Guess how many times you need to sign to get at one of those, just to spend a half hour pressing the "any" key at the BSOD? However, college must be better, can only go up from here. :rolleyes:
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Originally posted here by TheRepublican
I have to sign my name three times at last count to go take a piss! As for the "advantages" of going to school, we have a computer lab with several machines, but they're all running M$ Windows 98 on like a kb of memory! Guess how many times you need to sign to get at one of those, just to spend a half hour pressing the "any" key at the BSOD? However, college must be better, can only go up from here. :rolleyes:
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That's pretty funny, I guess it has gone downhill since I went through middle school. I'm just in my first semester at college. We can go to the restroom whenever we want. Even in the middle of class without asking. We can also just walk out of class whenever we want. It is kindof nice. Sure beats signing your name three times to use the restroom. If you break your arm or something, do they make you fill out a huge form before you can be taken to the emergency room?
