• Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I know it’s not exactly the point of the post but I want to go on a tangent and note that it’s 100% valid for kids to complain about school even if you have it harder. You should take their feelings seriously because their feelings are just as real to them as you hating your job is to you. When a toddler spills their juice and starts crying, those feelings are just as intense as yours, and you should respond accordingly instead of thinking “don’t they know about the wars in the middle east?”

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I had an absolutely terrible time in my small underfunded high school due to chronic illness, family tragedy, coming from a poor home, and just generally not having that many friends. I got picked on, I struggled intensely with untreated ADHD and depression, and was just all together miserable.

        But to spite all that, I completely understand what people mean when they say they miss that period of their life, and I’d never seek to make them think they’re wrong for feeling that. There’s a weird defensiveness about this topic where people seem to feel anyone else having any sort of positive association with that period of time somehow invalidates their own hardships.

        High School is not a good or bad thing. It’s just a thing. An experience that was different for everyone. It’s okay to leave it at that.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Babies cry because whatever happened was the worst thing they can ever remember happening

  • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    I would not switch my current scenario for a scenario where I was back in school. Hard pass. Now is much better.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
    6·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, no. Worklife is much easier. No need to worry about tests and homework and no need to sit in what’s basically an office the whole day.

  • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    What school started at 9 mine was 8 on the dot. Also you only got 6 weeks we got 10. Did this person even go to school or is this the matrix pretending to be a human again.

    • Tankton@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. The people who long for the freedom of school life sure fucked something up in their adult life.

  • Knightfox@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    If you’re a social and relatively smart person (or just take the minimum requirements) high school is probably really fun and easy. If you aren’t social high school is either a job or a prison.

    If you liked high school more than adult life then you probably peaked in high school.

    • Okkai@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      As a teenager, I did not like high school. As an adult, I do not like adult life. What does this mean?

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      High school was easy, but so much busy work. Homework every night? Wtf. Not that it was hard, but, like, I’m not doing that shit

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          That’s exactly my point. High school was easy, but not doing homework caused me to get very meh grades.

  • Damaskox@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    A kid wanting to grow up fast and an adult wanting to be kid for having less responsibilities.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    What about the endless work you had to take home with you to finish, with some teachers even disallowing finishing it in class, having to deal with bullies and other idiots, being told you need to get laid and that it would change your life, finding out together with someone in the same position that it really doesn’t change anything and you just have to be a special type of stupid to think that, resolving stuff with bullies only to start getting bullied by teachers over your health issues, and probably so much more that has been buried as a defense mechanism.

  • Eochaid@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    The answer isn’t nostalgia for school. The answer is to improve work with the “perceived” benefits of school. 30-hour work weeks, 6 weeks paid vacation, paid holidays including bank holidays, occasional half days after the end of a big project, chatting with coworkers that aren’t stressed out of their mind and actually given the mental space to be chill with you.

    That’s the real dream.

  • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Depending on the environment you grew up in this isn’t necessarily the case, high school and college particularly can be very high pressure and consume tons of time when you’re not actively “at school”. The pressure in college was so much higher than in a real job for me. Weekends used to be for homework and studying only. Weekdays after 5? Also homework. The stress and self inflicted pressure before finals and exams which determine 20%+ of your grade was unreal. Summers were for internships and those weekends were nice. But still not as nice as doing the same thing and getting paid 4x as much.