• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    i highkey think school as it stands is child abuse.

    i’m not a pedagogue or educator so i’m not versed on how to really articulate it, just had a constant feeling school was useless for learning, and felt like fucking prisons (and in retrospect i still think that’s true).

    school 100% stunted my potential big time and i still fucking hate it for doing this and more. free our youth.

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      3 days ago

      I left school around 9th grade, did “homeschool” which amounted to basically just watching documentaries and smoking weed and now I’m one of the highest earners out of everyone I originally went to school with. From being that weird poor kid who always got bullied to being quite comfortable- life is fuckin’ weird.

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        3 days ago

        to be fair i learned more in life from weed and documentaries than i ever did from actual school. you are justified in doing great.

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        3 days ago

        my country has been expanding the 48+ hour workweek instead of 40 for the last while, and sure enough schools are more and more starting to follow it.

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      3 days ago

      My highschool used the same blueprints as the local prison, so… yep that all tracks and they don’t even try to hide it.

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      4 days ago

      I learned more math from Khan Academy. If I knew about it, I would have started Khan Academy as soon as it existed (and bitcoin mining)