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August 2001 - June 2017

The School Survival Forums are permanently retired. If you need help with quitting school, unsupportive parents or anything else, there is a list of resources on the Help Page.

If you want to write about your experiences in school, you can write on our blog.

To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

The forums are mostly read-only and are in a maintenance/testing phase, before being permanently archived. Please use this time to get the contact details of people you'd like to keep in touch with. My contact details are here.

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  Thread: Stupid rules that has nothing to do with our education
Post: Re: Stupid rules that has nothing to do with our e...

aLexXaut0p5y Wrote:I am a student from Cyprus and I go to a public school. Well yesterday it was the first day of school and it was THE WORST FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL EVER. I pierced my nose and I have a s...
mychelle Youth Rights 13 5,161 10-26-2010, 01:13 PM
  Thread: Standardized Testing.
Post: Standardized Testing.

I go to a school here in lovely sunny Arizona. I'm a senior (if you didn't already know) and I just recently moved here like 3 and a half months ago. Back where I used to live, in Washington, I passed...
mychelle School Talk 1 2,174 10-26-2010, 12:36 PM
  Thread: Hello.
Post: Re: Hello.

Oh alright :) I actually was guessing that he was trying to mess with me. And thanks I will. :D
mychelle Welcome! 15 2,968 10-26-2010, 11:52 AM
  Thread: Hello.
Post: Re: Hello.

Ok then gosh my bad. And how do new people try to "do stuff?"
mychelle Welcome! 15 2,968 10-26-2010, 11:45 AM
  Thread: Hello.
Post: Re: Hello.

Pretty good. And thanks I really could care less. :D Life is way to short to worry about someone hating me over the web haha. ;D
mychelle Welcome! 15 2,968 10-26-2010, 11:39 AM
  Thread: Hello.
Post: Hello.

My name is Mychelle. I'm 17. A senior in high school. Anyways, I'm new (I'm sure that you've gotten that already since this is my first ever post).
mychelle Welcome! 15 2,968 10-26-2010, 11:33 AM

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