Dumb take.

I’m in my 30s and working an office job is way less stressful overall than school was. When I’m done with work, I can go home and stop thinking about it.

With school, you can never study “enough”, so its always creeping in the back of your subconscious. And good grades alone don’t cut it - you’ve also got to participate in extracurriculars and turn yourself into a trained monkey to write an “interesting enough” college essay. Oh and if you screw any of this up, your entire adult life could be ruined.

Diligent students have it way harder than office workers. Kids need our support and sympathy.

I heard this opinion many times and I couldn’t disagree more. I hated school and I much prefer my adult, working life. In fact I feel like my life only gets better as time goes by.

Granted, I’m privileged to have a well paying job I actually enjoy, which probably makes a world of a difference.

Doing nothing productive with your life, everything revolves around social drama, getting permission to take a shit…

I enjoyed my time at school. But you’ve got to ask yourself, if the best time of your life was at school that means you’ve made bad decisions, so what did it prepare you for really? School failed you.

The truth is that school fails all of us.

I loved school man, and not just in retrospect, I can’t believe I’m completely alone with that based on the comment section. And I wasn’t even one of the “cool kids” or anything. I went to a high school that some would consider “elite” (though that description makes me cringe), and sure, there were some stressful times, but generally as long as you had realistic expectations and didn’t aim to ace everything, it was pretty chill. My day began around 7:30 I think and was free after about 2pm, and usually I spent maybe like half an hour extra studying for the next day, plus a bit in the weekends, and then I could do whatever, it was such a bliss. And I loved learning, I just loved that I got to study such diverse topics, and you know what man, I love knowing that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Oh and the summer breaks were also great, some of the best times of my life. I’d take school over the sheer amount of bullshit you have to deal with as an adult any day.

Yeah thinking back, school was mostly lots of fun and little to no responsibilities. Cheap food every day and I’m home by 15:15, I meet my friends every day and we all have lots of free time to spend together. School was great.

Hard disagree. School was a nightmare.

Well, that is, if you had friends in school, and weren’t being bullied.

Also, no worries, but also no money.

I think it has more to do with less responsibilities and the freedom children have.

Then we become just another cog in the machine.

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True but learning is hard work.

And fuck, I hated homework.

Abled and neurotypical take lol

Fuck that. Give me 9-5 any day over going back to being stuck in an uncomfortable metal desk+chair contraption all day and then have to do hours of filler homework after. Hauling around books I may or may not ever even open in class. Pushing through rush hour traffic in the hallways between classes. Gym class? WTF no. Then take massive tests like our lives depend on it.

I’m cool, no thanks.

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Pay could have been better

I hated every moment of school. It was miserable from start to finish, and I wouldn’t go back if you paid me. I wish I would have thought to drop out at 16 and get my GED.