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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

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  Thread: I Used To Love School
Post: RE: I Used To Love School

(04-12-2013 05:11 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Oh yeah, I somehow missed the part where you say you're in Australia. We've had a few Australian members post about some other alternatives they tried, her...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 9 8,024 04-12-2013, 05:40 PM
  Thread: Should we be learning about the past or about our real future?
Post: Should we be learning about the past or about our ...

People say we learn about the past so we don't make the same mistakes and fine, I now know how America was started, how Australia was discovered, the gold rushes and all that jazz. I enjoyed learning ...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 19 5,489 04-11-2013, 02:20 PM
  Thread: Most retarded and irrelevant PE project ever
Post: Most retarded and irrelevant PE project ever

Up until year 10 we have to do H.P.E and we would have one theory class a week and three actual P.E classes. In the theory classes we learnt about the body and all those kind of things but we had to ...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 32 12,269 04-11-2013, 02:16 PM
  Thread: What's your average school day like?
Post: What's your average school day like?

On a usual school day for me I wake up at 7:30 and have coffee and toast while watch the news. Do the usual boring stuff then wait for my brother to get ready and usually end up late because of him! :...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 77 34,810 04-11-2013, 02:10 PM
  Thread: WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET A SNOW DAY TODAY!
Post: WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET A SNOW DAY TODAY!

We don't get snow where I live, but I remember one time we got a note that Tuesday was going to be a day of because there was going to be extreme wind gusts and terrible weather. It turned out to be a...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 16 5,452 04-11-2013, 01:58 PM
  Thread: What does Computer class teach us?
Post: What does Computer class teach us?

At my school we have IT up until year eight and then it becomes an elective and I haven't used a thing we ever did in those classes today. (04-07-2013 12:25 PM)DoA Wrote:  Everything useful I'...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 38 16,624 04-11-2013, 01:56 PM
  Thread: School Uniform..?
Post: School Uniform..?

It's funny, that. They say that uniform helps us all identify as one school and be unified. They also say it prevents bullying and things like that, and that's fine. What I don't get is why at my sch...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 8 3,843 04-11-2013, 01:43 PM
  Thread: I Used To Love School
Post: RE: I Used To Love School

(04-11-2013 09:20 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Hey there. :hug: Well, since your parents are mostly supportive of the homeschooling idea, why not just do that anyway? 2 years is a long time. Tell th...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 9 8,024 04-11-2013, 01:34 PM
  Thread: I Used To Love School
Post: RE: I Used To Love School

(04-11-2013 09:57 AM)SomeGuy12 Wrote:  Hang in there! its spring, summer is coming soon, you can survive until the end, besides, we all don`t like school, so we can help each other out. Actuall...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 9 8,024 04-11-2013, 01:30 PM
  Thread: I Used To Love School
Post: I Used To Love School

I live in Australia and I'm in year 11 now. I have been attending state schools for 12 years and I absolutely despise it. I hate school so much. I can't stand attending it everyday, and when I have w...
Jessieatscheese School Talk 9 8,024 04-10-2013, 03:29 PM

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