You've grown wiser.

The mean girls always become nurses.

Your parents were teachers, too?

i honestly didnt care at some point. i just said im going to the toilet, if they want to punish me, they could do it when im back

(Maths?) I still am.

I have to say I actually do like knowing that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and that Athens and Sparta fought the Peloponnesian War and that the square root of 144 is 12. Yeah none of this helps me in my day to day life but school introduced me to many ideas and facts that I'm very happy to know.

It's ironic that school teaches and prepares us for the future, but dosn't.

Shout out to Ms F for teaching American and Economics in a very practical way: we learned our taxes, balance check books, understand credit cards and credit, mortgages, how to vote, how voting works. We also could take accounting as an elective…. Sadly I see acquaintances from high school re hashing the ‘school was dumb’ sentiment when I KNOW for a fact they took Ms F’s class. Before anyone jumps to conclusions about school budget, we were a ‘D’ /at risk school…school was poor and students were poor. Maybe we just got lucky with some awesome teachers

With some reading on my own, I’m able to do my taxes and do my stock investments. I didn’t really think math and calculations would be useful when I was in school.

I was (am) the weird sibling who was doing my brother and sister's tax returns at 11 yrs. old.

??????

People b!tched about basic algebra in school, but really think they'd be happy to sit through 18 weeks of tax code.

Economics classes were supposed to teach about taxes, etc., but they didn't ... at least not for me! I think they should have made all of fill out mock 1040s. I mean, heck, a lot of kids in my high school were already working.

Abd then we wonder why people think the Earth is flat, NASA is a hoax, and climate change is a scam.

I failed math in grade 11 and went into general math for grade 12. I learned more real life math there like filling out tax forms and household budgets. Algebra and calculus can suck it. 58 now and never used them in real life

I will remember mitochondria forever as well as Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin.

I dont know about some other countries but in Netherlands if you choose economics they actually do explain about taxes.

This. The pledge is so dumb. I never, ever stand for it. Had several teachers yell at me for it, but you just get numb to it after awhile. America is taking my rights and you want me to worship it?? Hell naw

At 57, still is... but then swearing and cussing about stupid things 'co'workers do which mess up my job.

Omg not the f*****g barkers. They're the same ones who'll grab each others' asses while still somehow being homophobic

Same guy still does that. Only now he also wears a hoodie.

Mile Monday's were a horrible invention. My friends and I would just walk around the track while talking and ignoring the PE teacher who was yelling at us to run.

Married to High School Sweetheart. Going on 22 years together. We actually had middle school 6th grade class together and choir but i dont rmbr him then. Whoops sorry Love.

That would be Shakespeare

In my school you had a shower after, it was just a big shower block with no curtains and all the girls had to shower in there, I would of rather been sweating and stinky all day than having to go through that as a teenager, it was so degrading.

And her name is always Emily.

7:30am? It’s still dark in the winter! Kids are a waste of time before 9 am!

Come to South Africa, when you are shopping and loadshedding starts, no one screams, they just take out their phones to carry on shopping while the generator kicks in.

Bragging about how you hurt your bodies is something to be neither ashamed nor proud of. I frankly think that most teenagers' sleep cycles and school timing are utterly incompatible, like I cannot imagine wanting to do Math at 7 am. On top of that, excessive homework, assignments, and exams to study for that takes up a lot of time along with other activities. With that being said, please recognize that sleep is important for you no matter your age. You're not tough for being able to survive on four hours, it's not funny just because it's a relatable experience, and you're actually being less productive and not more because sleep deficiency impedes your cognitive abilities along with many other side-effects. Start small, aim for consistency rather than an instant fix. Your body works day and night to help you survive, please give it the rest it deserves.

I went to a Catholic school in Spain. 1980, I remember one kid being dragged out of clase by a priest teacher, desk and all and being kicked like a football. Priests drags the kid away screaming , comes back, puts the desk in back in its place and carried on. Never saw the kid again. I'd only been in Spain for a few months and spoke little Spanish so I never found out what's he said or what happened to him.

Why tho? School in the UK starts at 9:30-ish. Were you finishing at lunchtime?!

Anxiety...

For Christmas they used to stuff the entire school into the gym and force us to sing songs or get detention.. ``\0.0/``

I could SMASH on those little chocolate milks.

At one point in my life my older sister worked at Chick-Fil-A, and she said that they are mostly home school (like herself).

That's because the other football team had a player that did the same thing and God had to make a choice

Had something similar in my high school. Learned to eat and talk really fast. BTW 25 minutes.

Lol I’m in high school I’ve never cared about being popular or “fitting in”. If I really wanted to I could, because the popular girls asked me to sit with them once and they’re pretty nice to me, but I just want to have a drama free social life

I mean what else were they meant to do if the jeans didn't fit over the brace? For the few weeks I had to wear a brace it was always over my clothes.