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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.

Please do not make a mirror copy of the forums in their current state - things will still change, and some people have requested to be able to edit or delete some of their personal info.


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  Thread: Single greatest rant ever
Post: RE: Single greatest rant ever

:o_O: Wow, I'm disgusted that people like those mentioned exist......fucking disgusting. What where these people thinking when they thought about having kids?! That,"Hey, someday, lets throw them into...
Kid Youth Rights 37 28,947 06-26-2017, 07:21 AM
  Thread: Simulated reality - Lemmino
Post: Simulated reality - Lemmino

Hi, I'm still alive. I thought this was interesting. (My favourite part is the end,"Final speculation" 20:29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4rCzA8fS
Kid Science & Technology 0 5,713 06-26-2017, 06:55 AM
  Thread: The last damn straw....
Post: RE: The last damn straw....

(10-08-2015 05:38 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Definitely get the GED as soon as you're allowed to... at what age are you allowed to drop out though? At 18 we're allowed to drop out. :noo: Adding to t...
Kid Psychology - Life, Love & Learning 6 2,487 10-08-2015, 05:55 AM
  Thread: The last damn straw....
Post: RE: The last damn straw....

(10-07-2015 06:12 AM)DoA Wrote:  If the GED is actually an option for you by the time you reach 16, do it! My parents wouldn't let me... I actually thought about doing it without even telling ...
Kid Psychology - Life, Love & Learning 6 2,487 10-07-2015, 06:36 AM
  Thread: The last damn straw....
Post: The last damn straw....

(I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I'm bad with that...still) Today, I just felt irritated (also falling asleep in classes, do to how boring it was). I refused to do a project for Spanish, wal...
Kid Psychology - Life, Love & Learning 6 2,487 10-07-2015, 05:38 AM
  Thread: So we have this project...
Post: RE: So we have this project...

(10-02-2015 04:28 AM)Cianna200 Wrote:  Ditto! Be careful, who knows the reaction you will get for writing about school being oppressive The teacher said something like,"Of course,if you drop ...
Kid School Talk 6 2,882 10-02-2015, 06:37 AM
  Thread: So we have this project...
Post: So we have this project...

In English, we're supposed to write a thing like the declaration of independence, and write something we think people are oppressed by. I' doing mine about school being a waste of time to most people ...
Kid School Talk 6 2,882 09-25-2015, 08:07 AM
  Thread: Uhhh I just felt stupid for this ._.
Post: Uhhh I just felt stupid for this ._.

Should I like fake my email or something, because I worry about someone finding out I posted on this site ._.' idk, maybe I'm being dramatic :| Also, is there a way to undo,"remember me"? you know, a...
Kid General Talk 7 2,895 09-17-2015, 01:01 PM

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