[quote=walterwhite]you didnt spend your days in school learning anything other than the most important lesson of bowing to authority.
you don’t really remember what happened.
there is little reading. mainly nonsense. blather. teachers speaking and students kind of nodding off.
the learning portion of the day could be compacted into a good half hour. the rest is bureacratic nonsense.[/quote]
So you experienced the perfect storm. Your schools and teachers sucked, you had little desire to learn and/or you just didn’t get enough sleep, you don’t remember much because of the haze you spent your time in, your rebellion and resulting friction with teachers gave you major issues with authority figures, and the more you fell behind, the more difficult it was to catch back up.
Well, there’s “bowing to authority”, and then there’s understanding that you as an 8-year-old really don’t know better than an adult teacher, and understanding that the purpose of being there is to learn. If it wasn’t, they would just stuff you in a storage closet with hamster bottles to drink from. We understood the big picture, took an active part in our education, read an enormous amount, and became independent, confident, knowledgeable adults with good memories and lifetime friendships. Again, that was with the right attitude at good schools with mostly good teachers. If I had your attitude and experience, I’d probably home school my kids, too. As it is, I wouldn’t even consider taking the experience of school away from them, and I’m going to stay involved to make sure the experience remains a good one.
