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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
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nrgyzerbenny
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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
Ok, so last year i was still a brainwashed goody two shoes and was only beginning to realize how bad school is, and i got on the honor roll. Which for me is a label of brainwashed ageist. What are your thoughts on the matter?
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RE: Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
I suppose it isn't all bad: it looks better on your transcript which could help if you stay in school.
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nrgyzerbenny
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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
But me being an average student sounds better in my mind. (ps im 11 i dont have a transcript and this year im being homeschooled anyway.)
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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
Yes, I only got into the anti-school beliefs halfway through the first year of high school, now I have years of honor rolls to live down. Everyone in my family and most people in my school think I'm this pro-"education" "star" (read: sheep). How I envy you... to have known when my position was less solidified...
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
Don't worry about it. If you are going to be homeschooled, then it doesn't matter.
"The idea I began to explore was this one: that teaching is nothing like the art of painting, where, by the addition of material to a surface, an image is synthetically produced, but more like the art of sculpture, where, by the subtraction of material, an image already locked in the stone is enabled to emerge." - John Taylor Gatto
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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
It doesn't really matter if you get on the honor roll or not. Don't worry about it.
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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
I always had anti-school beliefs, all the way back when everyone thought it was just something everyone my age said(I'd say since I was 8?). Unlike everyone else however, I was pretty sure I really hated school and not just some phase. I guess it proved true since I'm now here 
If you get an honor roll, and tried hard for it, you've been brainwashed with grades(or are just doing it manipulator style like I did). If you get it but just did as you do, you're just too smart for school(happened to me, obviously led to a lack of motivation over time, reason why my grades over the years look like the line graph of the American economy during the Great Depression).
If you're being homeschooled, it won't really matter. Since you're 11, you probably aren't in high school either. Bad news there, because any achievement before high school in the US is usually neglected by most colleges or taken like a grain of salt.
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Shit, i got on the Honor Roll last year.
Well, at least you're not brainwashed now. And hey. Being on the honor roll means people see you as intelligent and hardworking...regardless of whether or not that's true, that can be a boon.
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