RIP School Survival Forums
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.


Post Reply 
 
Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
School & Youth Rights Discussions
Author Message
SoulRiser Offline
Site Founder

Posts: 18,240
Joined: Aug 2001
Thanks: 2669
Given 1978 thank(s) in 1208 post(s)
Post: #1
School & Youth Rights Discussions

School & Youth Rights Discussions

One simple and easy change schools can make.
I have a proposition. How would you (all of you) feel if schools stayed EXACTLY the same as they are now, except for one addition: Anyone, at any age, and at any time whatsoever, is free to take the final high school graduation exam, without attending any classes in that school whatsoever before that point, or having any previous requirements (like years passed or whatever). They can just....

Enough is Enough
Show kids that school is not the bogeyman. Homework can be irritating at times and the idea of a bell-schedule is counter-intuitive, but all in all school's primary aim is to help you. If you can stop being anal-retentive and get over its quirks, you will find that it can be one of the best times of your life. It may be compulsory, but it's for your own good. Just man up and go with it. Society isn't trying to brainwash you. Trust me; I used to be one of you guys....

Youth is not a fucking test!
School already sucks for most kids. Wouldn't it suck more if you were told every day that nothing you were doing mattered? That your social lives, your writing, your creativity, your games, were all just a fucking waste? That it was all going to be meaningless one day.
There's a lot of things that contribute to the problems of youth, but one of the worst things is the delusion that your youth is a test, a training period for the real world. What the fuck is this "real world"? A job, a relationship, "adult" problems?

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
This is, in my mind, one irrefutable reason why our school system needs to change. We shouldn't have to make the nation's children and teens suffer through unneeded psychiatric "care"--which in my experience can be incredibly and needlessly traumatic--just to conform to a system that doesn't do it's job anyway.

Intelligence vs. Effort
That's right. Ignore the kid when he says it's "boring" and "pointless", and rather assume that what he REALLY means to say is that the work is "too difficult" and he is "unmotivated".

Piggy, why are you so angry?
Bullied means Dad or Teacher or the Principal or the Priest can offer you useful advice or intercession; terrorized means you learn far too young that adults are often weak or ineffectual of liars.
Terrorized means sitting in your tie and shirt-sleeves in Sunday School, listening to sermons about the Prince of Peace and being kind and forgiving, alongside of people who will pound you into the ground like a tent spike the minute you get outside.
Terrorized means while he or she empathizes, the Teacher is very, very busy and there are so many rules, and they really can’t do a fucking thing.

If children and parents could legally do to each other...
It's certainly not going to happen any time soon, but if children and parents could legally do anything to each other, lots of problems could get fixed.
I've believed for a while that parents should be allowed to do whatever they want to their children but that this power should not be enforced by the government. It makes a lot of sense because children are just extensions of parents.
This would prevent the government from getting in the way of good parents and allow the bad parents' children to fail, kill themselves or run away. If children can also do whatever they want to their parents, their parents have to avoid getting their children angry enough to kill them.

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them." - Dalai Lama
Help & Support - Get help with leaving school, unsupportive parents, and more.
Click here if school makes you depressed or suicidal

Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein
"I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer
EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder

Push Button for Collection of Useful Links:
Hidden stuff:
05-02-2011 03:26 AM
Visit this user's website Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Money morkel Offline
Renegade

Posts: 56
Joined: May 2015
Thanks: 0
Given 0 thank(s) in 0 post(s)
Post: #2
School & Youth Rights Discussions

An education is an essential part of any young person’s development, in order to obtain both the social and academic skills necessary to proceed into adulthood. It can also be a very stressful and intimidating environment.
07-01-2015 05:04 PM
Visit this user's website Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 


Possibly Related Threads...
Thread: Author Replies: Views: Last Post
  Youth that betray youth rights and the anti-school movement when they get older. UnschoolShqiponjë 25 15,117 11-17-2013 03:57 PM
Last Post: brainiac3397

Forum Jump:


User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)

Contact Us | School Survival | Return to Top | Return to Content | Mobile Version | RSS Syndication