Every so often, I wish I could go back to being younger. It would be nice to approach certain situations with the value of hindsight. At the same time, one thing I am 1000% good at never, ever experiencing again is the crushing pressure of academia. All those exams and all that cramming just to …
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Mom Doesn’t Force Her Popular Daughter To Include Her Lonely Younger Sister, Dad Gets Angry At Her Parenting Decision
High school is one of the most challenging periods of your life, especially socially. I tried my darndest to make and keep friends when I was 13-18, but it was not easy, even in my class of 700+ kids. I was never so desperate I had to eat lunch in the toilet stall, but one …
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Unpopular Opinions That Are Actually Unpopular
People claim to have «unpopular opinions» all the time, but just because you say an opinion is unpopular doesn’t make it so. One of my unpopular opinions is that, barring an actual emergency, people should not be more than 5 minutes late for anything. Most of y’all probably find that unreasonable, and it likely is, …
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Teachers Complain About All the Basic Knowledge That Pupils No Longer Have
Childhood is a vital time of life for many reasons, and perhaps the most important one is that it’s a time of learning things. We don’t just pop out the womb instinctively knowing every single thing that we’re supposed to do. Our first eighteen years are instrumental in setting us up for the practicalities of …
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Teacher Memes for Teachers Counting Down Until Thanksgiving Break
I do not envy the workload that teachers deal with. They have to teach kids all day, grade papers all night, attend administrative meetings, make new lesson plans, and deal with needy parents. I feel overwhelmed just typing all of that! Not to mention, they must manage and optimize productivity for the most distracted generation …
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Student Memes For High Schoolers Trying to Survive Monday
Ah, high school. It’s the worst time in a person’s life, and yet Hollywood wants to make the most movies about it. When you’re in it, you can’t even tell how bad it is. Your emotions are out of control, but no more out of control than they’ve been every year since the end of …
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7th Grade Teacher Shares The Struggles of Teaching Kids on a 4th Grade Level
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that public education in America is struggling right now. People often cite a recent major historical event of this decade as the cause of students falling behind. It’s clear that the past few years have only exacerbated an existing educational problem that’s only worsening. Everybody has a different …
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High School Spends Thousands of Dollars in Grant Money on Locking Up Student’s Cell Phones For The Entire School Day
I went to high school in the age of smartphones. When I entered the 9th grade, I entered with a purple slide phone in my backpack. After the first three weeks of school, it became abundantly clear that I needed to get an iPhone as soon as possible; not because of the social stigma of …
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High School Spends Thousands of Dollars of Grant Money on Locking Up Student’s Cell Phones For The Entire School Day
I went to high school in the age of smartphones. When I entered the 9th grade, I entered with a purple slide phone in my backpack. After the first three weeks of school, it became abundantly clear that I needed to get an iPhone as soon as possible; not because of the social stigma of …
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Parents Debate Whether Kids Should be Allowed to Order DoorDash to School
As time goes by, I begin to understand why certain rules were in place when I was a teenager. My high school had a rule against students with cars leaving campus to go get lunch, and at the time, it was super annoying. What’s the harm in driving three minutes to Sonic-Drive In and grabbing …
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