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I feel the same when I see TEACHERS AND HOMEWORK ARE EVIL, SCHOOL IS TRAINING US FOR PRISON posts

Yep, basically. I literally just saw a post that was

"it actually pisses me off so much that there’s the whole world out there, yet I’m just going to school every day. while I could be off finding wonderful things in foreign cities or climbing mountains or helping people or just wandering, and I feel like I’d learn so much more doing that instead, really."

and like, I just want to shake the OP because it's just BS.

I mean, if that's your dream, go for it, but there are so many things that are taught in schools, like problem solving, (depending on your school), finances/economics, languages, political history, cultures, etc. so you don't go to this other country and be that total asshole while you try to ~learn~

My thought it just "but how are you going to pay for all that"

Oh, they'll just pick up a job here or there, despite not knowing the language, culture, or anything like that.

I mean, they could travel around their own country, maybe, and see about getting jobs their, where they (hopefully) would know the culture (which can vary region to region, but not as much as a different country most of the time), and would know the language, but that wouldn't be ~foreign and ~exotic.

I almost choked on my tea when I saw that post. Aw, you poor, precious, put-upon pretentious little snowflake. Go do your homework.

THIS

I feel you.

That'd make me roll my eyes a little, too. I get that school feels like a huge waste of time and I don't entirely disagree with that opinion, but... I'd bet good money those same complaining teenagers spend their weekends/vacations on their asses on front of the TV. You might not be able to climb mountains when you're a teenager, but you could certainly be studying cool and interesting things at the library or online, volunteering at the homeless shelter or exploring your own hometown. But they don't, so I doubt their sincerity and commitment to these high ideals.

Annnnd then you get into the real world and realize it doesn't work that way.

I just want to look kids who think this way in the eye and say, "you will never have more freedom than you do now. When you finish school and begin working, most of your time and energy will be chipped away. You will go weeks, sometimes months, without seeing your friends. You will find yourself wanting to rest rather than go on adventures. When considering travel, you will be consumed with thoughts of expenses and logistics, and will talk yourself out of going more often than not. Within a few years, you will long for the days when your parents paid for everything and your only concern was finishing your homework. You will long for it."

(Not that being an adult is really all that bad. But still. You lose something when you grow up, and you spend your childhood convinced that you'll only gain).

Yeeep. So much this.

School kids get the summer off. The whole summer! I get 10 holiday days a year and two weeks of vacation/sick days.

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otakugal15 - 2014-04-15 22:09 (UTC) - Expand

arcadiaego - 2014-04-16 23:07 (UTC) - Expand

Actually school is evil, though probably not for the reason tumblr idiots think.

Lel so edge

Enlighten us, anon, why is school evil?

THIS. So much this.

Someone posts a bunch of images with dubious facts written on them.

"Wow tumblr has taught me more than school ever has!"

And then making tl;dr posts about how those posts are legitimate complaints about school and stop mocking teenagers you ageists!

(Anonymous) - 2014-04-15 00:47 (UTC) - Expand

But incorrectly sourced information is better than school right?

"we have to be nice to our oppressors at school in order to get an education.
we have to be nice to our oppressors at work in order to not lose our jobs.
we have to be nice to our oppressors in public so that we don’t have to worry about our safety any more than we already do.
we have to be nice to our oppressors in a court of law just so they can have one less reason to abuse us with their power.
we even have to be nice to our oppressors at home sometimes just so we dont end up hurt, homeless, disowned or even killed.
tumblr is the one place where we dont have to be nice to our oppressors.
tumblr is the one place where we can have a voice and it wont have serious real life consequences or threat to safety.
so stop fucking telling us to be nice to you.
we already are fucking nice to you.
how dare you try to take away the one fucking place where we dont need to be."

THOUSANDS of notes

I don't get stuff like that.

You don't have to be nice to anyone, but don't expect people to take it well when you aren't.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I want to punch whoever wrote that in the face

after Tumblr whenever I hear the word "oppressor" I roll my eyes.

This worries me.

So having to show a modicum of civility to your boss is a sign of oppression? You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

Let's see...I'ma girl working in a rather dangerous warehouse typeish job and I get along with pretty much everyone there, old, young, Black, White, male, female, etc etc etc.

Not once have I been oppressed. In fact, there's many areas out there that end up with more women than men and its in some of the busier and even more dangerous places.

But, I'm certain SOMEONE on Tumblr will say it's some kind of plan to get us all hurt and disfigured since they CAN be the most dangerous places out there. *rolls eyes*

My biggest problem with this is that there are plenty of legitimate complaints against school and the modern education system and education culture at large. But shit like this isn't it, this is just immaturity at its finest.

While there are definitely a lot of problems with the current American schooling system (extreme focus on standardized testing, schedules based on what's convenient for parents instead of what's good for students, one-size-fits-all attitude to learning), most of the posts I see are just fucking whiny.

Yeah, I know it sucks that there are a lot of things you'd rather be doing than getting up and going to class, but do you know what? That's how life works! Sometimes you've got to get up and do what you don't want to, because it needs to be done.