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
U.S. vs. Canadian schools?
Author Message
Lord "ZER" Daeth Offline
Rebel

Posts: 12
Joined: Oct 2012
Thanks: 1
Given 1 thank(s) in 1 post(s)
Post: #1
U.S. vs. Canadian schools?

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew the differences between Canadian and U.S. schools? I'm just wondering for curiosity's sake, as I live in Canada, (God save the queen) and have never been in America. Hug

"Our society values opinions more than knowledge." - Hank Green
"It's not porn, it's art." - Zone-Tan
"He had no hobby, he cared for no sort of amusement of any kind, and live in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene" - Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison's obitchuary.



Watch on YouTube
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2012 06:05 PM by Lord "ZER" Daeth.)
11-26-2012 06:09 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
magikarp Offline
Valerie Solanas

Posts: 1,146
Joined: Jan 2007
Thanks: 4
Given 68 thank(s) in 47 post(s)
Post: #2
RE: U.S. vs. Canadian schools?

A few things off the top of my head (I'm also Canadian though, so y'know): somewhat less difference between schools in poorer areas and schools in richer areas*, slightly less focus on standardized testing because of how funding works, and in general less security.

*Not that there is no difference, but at least where I live you're allowed to go to any school in your school board, as long as you can get yourself there. There's still a functional difference because probably you can only go to the schools there are buses to, but it's not like parts of the US where people fake their addresses and stuff to go to decent schools.

The security thing admittedly probably also has a rural/urban aspect to it as well as the national one. Also there is some trend towards increased security at Canadian schools. But at my high school, if you just wanted to walk out and go home during the break between classes, no one would physically stop you, you'd just get a detention for missing class when you came back. It's not like some people's stories of sneaking out past security, or like at many (most?) American schools where you aren't allowed to leave at all during the day even for lunch or during an empty period.

"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2012 02:09 AM by magikarp.)
11-27-2012 02:09 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
 Thanks given by: Lord "ZER" Daeth
Post Reply 


Possibly Related Threads...
Thread: Author Replies: Views: Last Post
  Canadian high school Canadian Patriot 3 2,222 08-27-2013 02:40 PM
Last Post: Just A Minor Threat

Forum Jump:


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

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