Being sick enough typically meant spending the day laying in bed, alternately shivering and burning, drifting in and out of sleep, occasionally puking, and that was still preferable to spending the day at school.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    It's still early but my kid loves school.

    I also, as a poor, unpopular student, didn't have a horrible time at any point in my k12 education. I'm not saying things haven't worsened or that they were ever perfect but the idea that the public school system is evil or something (other than teaching pro-US slanted "history" and the weird pledge) is not something I encounter outside of random Hexbear threads, even amongst people with generally progressive views. (Not counting frothingfash here.)

    This place is weirdly doomer about schools.

    • UlyssesT
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      18 days ago

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      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        As a former educator I am among the first to point out systemic problems and failures

        That said, "school sux and shouldn't exist at all" is a clownishly bad take

        hegel "Thesis, antithesis, synthesis!"