Current time: 03-29-2024, 05:19 PMHello There, Guest! (Login — Register)
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.
They are fucked up and retarded. While the kids may of been tortured, bullied and put through hell, that's no reason to shoot up a bunch of innocent people. These types of shootings wouldn't fucking exist if school wasn't so fucked up, so ultimately it's the schools fault, but still.
It's strange that people are still surprised when they happen.
Locking up a bunch of people in a small space that oppresses basic human behaviour will result in at least one person lashing out.
It's sad to think some of the victims were bright and had a future, but I don't feel sympathy for bullies and teachers (oh wait they're the same thing lol) getting killed.
But if you complain that it is about kids privacy, think 9.11.2001
That was the day we got to just hang out in biology class because the teachers were too busy watching something on the news to tell us something to do.
But what does it have to do with this thread?
Life is good. Jeta është e mirë.
Die lewe is goed.
Het leven is goed.
Zoidberg: What is it, already? What's the cause of your anger?
Leela: I guess I would have to say, I hate you!
In my humble opinion the big string of school shootings (late 1990s to late 2000s) was a muddled and messy war with three sides: the shooters, the schools/police, and students who just wanted to survive. All three of them ended up with blood on their hands and I'm still trying to figure out who won.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Rebelnerd Wrote:In my humble opinion the big string of school shootings (late 1990s to late 2000s) was a muddled and messy war with three sides: the shooters, the schools/police, and students who just wanted to survive. All three of them ended up with blood on their hands and I'm still trying to figure out who won.
Shit, it's not even over yet. School shootings are still happening.
hewhodestroysall Wrote:Honestly I never figured the point of the esrb.
Point is you can't censor reality.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) Wrote:In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out of school are "persons" under our Constitution."
Rebelnerd Wrote:Human rights are being violated by US law enforcement. This is what the media is here for, you're supposed to be the watchdogs! You're supposed to stand up for the downtrodden, not belittle them as though all their problems amount to nothing more than some angry glares toward parents and sabotaging their computers.
I've seen so much shit done to youth and for some reason, this has made me angrier than I've felt in years. Abuse and oppression happens all over the world. It's a terrible reality of modern society, but we've all accepted that it happens and we're doing what we can to fight it and build a better world.
But this...this mindless, condescending disrespect toward people who have no legal voice with which to defend themselves, this reduction of parents' betrayal into a cheap crack about kids being computer-savvy...it's like watching a surgeon joke about life insurance while his patient bleeds to death on the operating table. The media's job is to protect society from oppression and they've drawn a clear line between the people worth protecting and the people that don't matter. How can they people sleep at night?
You're a journalist. DO. YOUR. FUCKING. JOB.
(04-28-2010 08:17 AM)Liquid Wrote: Laws never seem to help people fight School. Laws only matter if the students are braking them...
(12-03-2011 07:40 AM)SoulRiser Wrote: Solution to all these problems: don't fuck people you can't negotiate with in a civilized manner.
(02-09-2012 02:14 PM)Absentinsomniac Wrote: The only solution is democratic self-paced education where students can excel in what they are good at and work on what their not if necessary, AT THEIR OWN DAMN PACE IN THEIR OWN DAMN WAY.
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
PIRATE MEMBER
Join the crew!
03-11-2011 07:01 AM
Thanks given by:
Miller0700
Here to save you.
Posts: 3,405
Joined: Oct 2010
Well, the number and frequency of shootings has gone down in recent years. There have been some attempts, some singer murders and violence, but nothing on the scale of Columbine of Virginia Tech. But I wouldn't be surprised if we get another wave somewhere down the road. Conditions haven't changed enough for the problem to go away.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Columbine was a tragedy because innocent people died, just like all school shootings. I won't celebrate it and if I ever found evidence that it would happen again, I'd try to stop it. But there have been victims, both students and teachers alike, who deserved what they got. We'll do what we can to prevent the massacres that killed them but we don't feel sorry for them and we certainly won't mourn them. If you're going to offer the view of "the other side" like your signature says, you need to try and understand our side.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
03-11-2011 11:02 AM
Thanks given by:
Miller0700
Here to save you.
Posts: 3,405
Joined: Oct 2010
Loxor Wrote:School shootings generally achieve the opposite of what I think they're protesting against. Oh hey, I don't like school for so and so reasons.
Well, now those just got a bunch worse because you scared the hell out of idiots.
You're goddamn right. I hear this type of shit everyday in school now "It's the quiet kids you have to be careful about", "TRALOLOL, THAT KIDS QUIET, I BET HE'S GOING TO COME KILL US ALL." and other retarded shit like that.
The shootings have fed the very thing they try to stop.