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School is harder than average adult life
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Jun 11, 2025
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failingapbio wrote:
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:
FavelaSwag wrote:
I get like no days off now and it’s still way easier than even highschool. My dad made me play division one football in college and I tried to do engineering and it was so hard that it all blew up and now I’m a janitor that has taken the hardest path in life for the least reward thank you dad
Pressuring kids into those extracurriculars is a form of psychological child abuse. I chose chess cause I liked it, was a break from school, but it should be 100% the kids decision ONLY. Football quite frankly is a ridiculous sport as it is, let alone for kids to play. You don't need sports scholarships because it's perfectly fine to just go to the basic public university system in whatever state you're in. I went from one of the top 60 high schools in the country, to CUNY. Can't even imagine an ive league college. Many jobs these days don't even care about a college degree, let alone which college. They want working experience.
There was an 8th grade girl in my honors precalc class who tragically committed suicide because she was forced into so many extracurriculars. Tiger parenting is a serious issue in rich areas.
That's on the parents, not the school
Jun 11, 2025
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#25
Working a real job is more enjoyable and less stressful than school ever was, complete psyop
Jun 11, 2025
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#26
ElonMusk-Official wrote:
SoupSailor wrote:
Working a real job is more enjoyable and less stressful than school ever was, complete psyop
McDonald’s isn’t what most people would call a real job
Projection much, Mr. Elon fan?
BasixWhiteBoy wrote:
I agree. I just finished my freshman year of high school, and it truly sucks. I feel a sense of dread with every day I wake up and have to go to school, knowing that I have eight hours of useless learning to do.
So, there’s a reason that more and more kids are depressed nowadays. Going through a day of school is a grueling process, and it doesn’t even end at the end of the school day. Especially in high school, you have daily homework, and there’s always some kind of test you have to prepare for or a project you have to finish by a certain date. It adds to the stress of kids, and doesn’t make learning fun at all.
The school system has not been changed since the beginning, and you’re forced to sit in your chair for seven hours a day, only really getting to socialize during your lunch period or in between classes. AI and the internet has made it to where we have everything at our disposal to use, but we are still forced to learn useless information daily, incorporating subjects like algebra, biology, and other useless information. The only useful class for me was my business class, which taught me the basix of running a business. Other than that, I spent my time playing games and relying on my natural intelligence, and got mostly Bs in my classes.
It’s reassuring to know that it gets easier. I’m glad that I realized that school doesn’t really matter, and that our system is outdated and needs to be fixed.
Well said, unfortunately the neurological damage from years and years of that nonsense is likely already done. They need to back off on the amount of subjects and teach only practical real-world skills, and preferably the school day should be from 1 to 4 pm (less hours from less pointless courses), because teens do need 10 hours of sleep to function. Even now I generally need 8-9 hours. Parents and teachers will try to make a ton of other excuses (its the phone its hormones its procrastinating..etc), no its the unnatural start time.
ElonMusk-Official wrote:
#1 and bruh, if you're posting this from your mom's basement, you’re not exactly in a position to talk about being an adult, you don’t even know what that means yet
8 day old account troll 🤣🤣🤣
ElonMusk-Official wrote:
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:
3. The lack of pay. I'm sorry but school is basically a form of unpaid labor by students. If it's compulsory with minimum standards and all those rules, with the amount of hours you put in every day/week and then overtime with excessive hw, you should be getting some level of pay, even if it was something like $5/hour to be saved into a bank account available upon graduation/turning 18 for the future (that parents couldn't touch). And then incentivizing good grades and studying by increasing this pay to $10 or $15/hour for getting above average scores in classes. Or even $1,000 bonuses for getting the top 20% in a class or something. Dedicating 12+ years of your life to forced work and losing sleep/freedoms throughout should be paid, no matter what the purpose. That's basic ethics and in accordance with how the real world works. And all schools should be required to follow the exact same OSHA regulations for air conditioning/heating/sanitary environment.
School is free, but college is a different story. Most of the time, you have to pay a lot for it.
You major in what you want. And even then the core courses are ridiculous. I shouldn't have had to take and pay for classic Greek literature for psych/neuroscience.
I don’t even need to read it
Finally an adult who understands the struggles
Finally an adult who understands the struggles
The number of adults who don't, either deliberately from a bias against kids, or just forgot, or the fact that school was much easier back in the day. What's funny is adults will whine over the lamest things like "oh my $200 bonus came a few hours late", or "I should be getting paid at least $50 hour instead of $45 since they added 3 extra things to my daily work schedule", or "the traffic is unbearable" (me lol), yet are fine with teens slaving away for free for years with 0 independence. And posts like mine are why parents don't like smartphones and why some states are trying to ban you guys from the internet. The same states doing so ironically have child marriage ages of 12 or lower, make it legal for parents to medically neglect kids for "religious reasons", are fine with measles outbreaks, and we're supposed to believe that they are genuinely worried about the harmful effects of screen time LOL, they're doing to isolate people and try to limit how much kids can look up about their basic rights and the constitution and because alot of social media disagrees with them politically (sorry mods had to say this).
Bro these schools be feeding us 1
Chicken drumstick and some tiny pieces of potato for lunch🥀🥀🥀
Chicken drumstick and some tiny pieces of potato for lunch🥀🥀🥀
ElonMusk-Official wrote:
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:
The number of adults who don't, either deliberately from a bias against kids, or just forgot, or the fact that school was much easier back in the day. What's funny is adults will whine over the lamest things like "oh my $200 bonus came a few hours late", or "I should be getting paid at least $50 hour instead of $45 since they added 3 extra things to my daily work schedule", or "the traffic is unbearable" (me lol), yet are fine with teens slaving away for free for years with 0 independence. And posts like mine are why parents don't like smartphones and why some states are trying to ban you guys from the internet. The same states doing so ironically have child marriage ages of 12 or lower, make it legal for parents to medically neglect kids for "religious reasons", are fine with measles outbreaks, and we're supposed to believe that they are genuinely worried about the harmful effects of screen time LOL, they're doing to isolate people and try to limit how much kids can look up about their basic rights and the constitution and because alot of social media disagrees with them politically (sorry mods had to say this).
You ungrateful kid. What’s so damn hard about school Algebra that you can’t handle it?
Nothing, math was my best subject, 95 on the Algebra regents and then got a perfect 100 on the geometry one. But the "common core" curriculum was unnecessarily convoluted.
Jun 11, 2025
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#36
But when ur an adult u have to do taxes and pay taxes and learn abt taxes- Darwin watterson
ElonMusk-Official wrote:
Stormy-Boy-2007 wrote:
Glad to see this. I NEED life to get easier after I finish school.
Hate to break it to you, but it only gets harder. especially if you’re aiming for something real, like becoming a top-tier engineer, not flipping burgers at McDonald’s
What a laughable false dilemna, you see guys this is what happens when schools don't require courses on job info!
Bro im a freshman and ive been writing 3 paragraph essays since 4th grade
Ty
ElonMusk-Official wrote:
Stormy-Boy-2007 wrote:
Glad to see this. I NEED life to get easier after I finish school.
Hate to break it to you, but it only gets harder. especially if you’re aiming for something real, like becoming a top-tier engineer, not flipping burgers at McDonald’s
If you had one of those jobs you u would be working rn it’s like 8am to three am every day idk how they do it
guys, trust me when i say that being in schoiol is like the best thing thats gonna happen in your life