What has/did High School Teach You?

Wow, that is a lot to learn. I miss high school too. That is so true about not having a totally carefree day after high school. I don't have those anymore now I worry about rather or not I am going to make it through college.

 

jeez so many high school haters!!

 

1. Homophobia is cool, but racism is horrible.

2. Individuality is a sin.

3. Creative writing means limitations, restictions, censorship, and creativity as long as your teacher likes it. True creativity and individuality gets you an F.

4. There shall be NO critical thinking in maths.

5. It's not about what you learn. It's about what you memorize that counts.

6. Freedom of speech is tolerated as long as you agree with the teachers and staff members.

7. All religions and beliefs are tolerated, but atheists, agnostics, pagans, and Luciferians are scary bloodsuckers who deserve no sympathy.

8. Having fun means you are not learning.

9. Teachers talk about freedom of speech, but they will send you to the office if you criticize them.

10. Heavy metal is evil and Satanic, but Gangsta Rap is harmless.

11. Rights? What rights?

12. Students who are traumatized by bullying are just crybabies.

13. Being a lesbian means you are a sideshow for perverted boys.

14. Metal band shirts distract people from learning, but baggy pants and XXXXXXXL large jerseys are fine.

15. Anti-intellectualism is cool. Your are not cool if you are intelligent.

16. Fuck literature, with the exception of Twlight.

17. You are a fag or a pussy if you do not play football.

18. MTV and BET rock.

19. You are not a tall, tanned Barbie doll infected with STDs, so therefore we hate you.

20. typin' lyke an ideeot iz lyke kewl, bitchez!

21. Soulja Boy is the greatest rapper of all time.

22. Saying "like" in the middle of every sentence is perfectly natural.

23. Be a teacher who criticizes Hitler and Mussolini, yet favor a certain group of students above others. Equality does not mean jack shit!

24. The students are not allowed to have cell phones, gum, or a radio. Yet, it is perfectly fine when a teacher's cell rings in the middle of the class.

25. When someone is being bullied, blame something else. Never target the bullies themselves.

Fuck high school!

 

I'm sure I'd be stressing about that too if I were in college lol Now I just take care of a baby that isn't mine and try to make sure I don't make any of my own by accident.

 

I was lucky enough to have a couple of amazing teachers in high school that really encouraged me to write. If I ever write a book, I'm dedicating it to them. Thats really the only positive thing I took from high school.

Other than that, I didn't fully process any lessons until after high school. I learned that I wasn't popular not because something was wrong with me, but because I was shy and kept to myself. I actually figured out after high school that I'm attractive, interesting, and do a pretty good job of making people laugh. If I had managed to come outside of my shell in school I probably would have had a lot more friends.

I also learned that the popular kids didn't ignore me because they were bitches, but because I never made an effort to talk to them. I learned that I prejudged them just as much as they prejudged me. Its weird how life circles around; now I am friends with a couple of people that I went to school with and I always judged them as being snobby and mean in school just because they were part of the popular group, but it turns out they're actually wonderful people. I wish I wouldn't have been so shy in school so I could have reached out and tried to be friends with more people.

I also learned that conformity is stupid and counter-productive. I've always been a free thinker and I always felt different in high school so I was always afraid to let my personality shine in school. I've found out since graduating that generally speaking, most people actually like people that aren't afraid to be themselves, no matter how strange that makes you.

 

^I totally get that. I was kind of shy and I stuck mainly to the same circle of friends throughout my four years of high school. I really started to become more confident in senior year but felt too intimidated to try and become friends with certain people.

 

I can sum up my high school experience with this "I went to school and was forced to learn about how many bones fish in Brazil have and i went home and i had to willingly research independently about physics, language, culture, law and human philosophy"..

High school taught me shit nothing.. I learned more with Google search and a handful of borders gift cards.
Learning is a passion for me as it is for almost every intelligent being on this planet. Public education however does not even encroach into the realm of intelligent thought. I was so pissed when I first went to high school and I had to correct my teacher every fucking day about science… and I was only like 14. This is what your tax money goes to these days.

 

well apparently somebody didnt like high school ^^^

 

State standards aren't stringent enough in many states, but a lot of that also has to do with the teachers. I would like to say that giving teachers more pay would fix that problem, but I'm afraid it wouldn't. You would still have people falling into the career of teaching without really having a passion for it. The only time I ever really learned anything in school was when I had teachers that absolutely loved teaching and had a passion for the subject they taught.

 

Well that sums it up. Though very true.

 

I know how having to take care of a baby that is not yours goes. I took care of my little half brother for years, before his mom and my dad moved to FL and for once had to take care of him themselves. Now its just his mom taking care of him. Her and my dad had a falling out now he is back here. Though I will not get into that. I'm sure you are doing great though.

 

yep, looks that way.

 

I was like that in high school too. I only hung out with one group of people, but we are all different. We were kind of like the outsiders. We all had different interest and by any means not supposed to get along, but we did. I loved every minute of it. Its great that you were able to become friends with them and find out what good people they are.

 

Thank you, it's nice to hear of someone that can relate

 

I hear ya there. most of what I learned in high school I learned myself. Except for a select few teachers that gave a shit about their students education and accurately thought their students something in the class room.

 

Your welcome, I hear ya there it can be hard to find someone that can relate.

 

it reminds me that the age of innocence ends much more quickly than we would like it to.bickering , name-calling, fighting for the pecking order. then we become adults and everything reverses: those at the top drop to the lowerpositions while the so-called nerds get the positions of leadership and the fat wallets. Me? i just turned on, tuned in and dropped out. as such, i never had todrag myself to the top or worry about falling from the heights. paisley skye.

 

h.s. has taught me that those at the top in school drop to the bottom in the real world and vice-versa. all it was basically , was a long, drawn-out war for the titrle of king/queen of the hill. over the years, however, those at or near the top begin to lose their grip. what did i do in response to all of this? i took tim leary's advice--turn on, tune in, drop out. paisley skye.

 

In the classroom very little but that period of my life taught me a lot of stuff but the older I get most of what I thought I knew I realize is bull. I have come to the point in life that I don't believe half of what I say. I wish I would have known less in hs; I might know more now.

 

ugh high school was the worst. High school in nyc is like prison. Strict rules, metal detectors in an all black school, which was my first school then I transfer to a diverse school. I find it is weird that there are metal detectors in an all black school, when school shooting was mostly done by a white person from past high school tragedy . Wtf?

High school full of fake people, clicks, popular kids who are dicks, followers, rumors. Basically stupidity.

Taught me to be an outcast, and more independent, and successful.

Its funny now, when I look back, because most of the “popular kids” did not graduate and is doing bad in life now. Karma is a bitch.