OT - Jeremy Tyler Going To Europe, After Junior Year Of High School

High school was invented so jocks could get laid.

 

So, you learned *nothing* from 9th through 12th grade?

Call me old-fasioned, an elitist, or whatever you like. This whole argument sickens me. I'm out.

 

Natebishop3 = stuffed in a locker as a frosh!

 

I learned that people at that age have no fucking concept of how to treat each other. They put some on pedestals, and others in the mud. I learned that it's more important to wear the right clothes, go to the right parties, and talk to the right people, than to be civil, polite, and intelligent. I learned that you must conform if you hope to survive.

I run into people to this day who worry about what people from high school think of them. It absolutely shocks me. They feel like they have to prove something to these people that they haven't seen in ten or so years.

Children that age would be much better off spending those years in community college, with smaller classes, better teachers, and less social bullshit drama. Not to mention the classes would count towards their high school diploma AND their four year degree.

 

was it a gym locker or a hallway locker?

 

Nah, I was the guy who skipped school all the time. Drove my parents crazy.

 

Eric, I've met you IRL. You aint shovin anyone into lockers dude

 

ah..the Best Bet. That was old school!

 

While I somewhat agree with what you're saying, if you think about it, you were able to learn from that situation as well. You learned, essentially, how NOT to be. How it makes more sense to be civil, polite and intelligent than worry about what you wear. That climbing the social ladder isn't as important as it seems because those people still fret over what others think of them. I dislike the social situation of HS as well, and I had lots of friends and was president of my class. Played football, etc. But I caught on early I didn't actually have to be a dick to make friends, and saw hwo trivial a lot of HS was. I got what I needed or wanted out of it, and made sure not to sweat most of it, sicne it was primarily bullshit. I think a lot of what I learned actually from HS was social in aspect, and how not to be. Not sure if that makes sense, or if I conveyed that correctly. I know you can say it's common sense to be nice, etc. but seeing crap in person of how people are treated leaves a mroe lasting impression.