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Free time is a privelige? WTF?!
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Free time is a privelige? WTF?!

'It's a privelige not a right'.
How many fucking times do I have to hear that?

The day before we went on holidays, our year coordinator was teling us how we work like good slaves until the moment we are temporarily released. Then he tells us not to get too comfortable on our break, because our free time 'is a privelige'.

WHAT. THE. FUCK. I HATE THIS GUY.

They waste our time in a prison for six hours a day, then waste our time at home, and before we know it 12 years have gone by, and guess what, almost all of it WAS POINTLESS.
And this teacher has the audacity to tell us that free time is a privelige not a right.
Maybe I'm overreacting, but I'm really pised right now, and I just had to get this off my chest.
Anyway, I'm on holidays now, but my parents stil make me do revision.

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07-11-2011 12:42 AM
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In the song Working Class Hero John Lennon sings

from the moment you're born they make you feel small
by giving you no time instead of it all

If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.


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07-11-2011 01:07 AM
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TheCancer Wrote:In the song Working Class Hero John Lennon sings

from the moment you're born they make you feel small
by giving you no time instead of it all

And I think the pain is so great that soon I'll feel nothing at all... I really hope it doesn't come to that.

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07-11-2011 01:22 AM
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Great now I have that song stuck in my head -__- Love the Beatles though.

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Free time should be a choice... and if you love your job you will always have free time. Fuck whoever says "free time is a privilege". He is an asshole who probably hates his life.

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07-11-2011 01:41 AM
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UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:Free time should be a choice... and if you love your job you will always have free time. Fuck whoever says "free time is a privilege". He is an asshole who probably hates his life.
^this.

Yeah, that guy is an asshole, I'm not sure if he hates his life though... he seems to enjoy oppressing us.

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I hope he gets shot.

"There's no 'I' in 'Team'." Yeah, but there is a "me" in "Team" spelled backwards!
07-11-2011 07:25 AM
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Horrid Dreamer Wrote:
UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:Free time should be a choice... and if you love your job you will always have free time. Fuck whoever says "free time is a privilege". He is an asshole who probably hates his life.
^this.

Yeah, that guy is an asshole, I'm not sure if he hates his life though... he seems to enjoy oppressing us.

Likely because his life outside oppressing youth sucks big hairy dick.

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Fuck. They told us right before summer vacation that free time was a privilege. Who the fuck do they think they are? Just because they grew into a twisted perversion of what school was supposed to be, doesn't mean they have to be a dick about it.

"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"

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07-11-2011 11:47 PM
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Re: Free time is a privelige? WTF?!

Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Fuck. They told us right before summer vacation that free time was a privilege. Who the fuck do they think they are? Just because they grew into a twisted perversion of what school was supposed to be, doesn't mean they have to be a dick about it.

Free time wouldn't even be considered free time as it is only a school brainwash technique. Shrug Whip Grouphug

Note: Teachers don't normally huddle together to preform free time.
07-12-2011 06:12 AM
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Re: Free time is a privelige? WTF?!

Apparently having a house to live in, food, clothing, water, and free will are too.

To be an anarchist, is to suffer greatly. To be a black woman is to suffer secretly. To be the earth, is to suffer silently.

I wish no harm on anyone, but those whose harmful ways will not stop without the same harm.

It's time we kill this cancerous system, before it kills us and everything left of gaia. Rise from our immaturity and take back our autonomy!

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Your views on school change a lot after you graduate.

"Troll" is a common defense mechanism. If someone disagrees with you, the immediate reaction is "lol troll." You can't just jump to that conclusion because you want to be victimized, however.

Granted, sometimes you are being trolled.

Sometimes you're just wrong.
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ErisQuodSum Wrote:Your views on school change a lot after you graduate.

Because you lack the care to complain or fix things and just let the next generation cop the same crap?
07-12-2011 09:49 AM
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alexander144 Wrote:
ErisQuodSum Wrote:Your views on school change a lot after you graduate.

Because you lack the care to complain or fix things and just let the next generation cop the same crap?

Yep.

"Troll" is a common defense mechanism. If someone disagrees with you, the immediate reaction is "lol troll." You can't just jump to that conclusion because you want to be victimized, however.

Granted, sometimes you are being trolled.

Sometimes you're just wrong.
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ErisQuodSum Wrote:
alexander144 Wrote:
ErisQuodSum Wrote:Your views on school change a lot after you graduate.

Because you lack the care to complain or fix things and just let the next generation cop the same crap?

Yep.

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ErisQuodSum Wrote:Your views on school change a lot after you graduate.

Yea... my opinion of school went straight in the shitter after I was free to actually see and read opposing opinions about the institution.

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WtF? more like WTFTGSGTHFSC

what the eff this guy should go to heck for saying crap.

but still, this guy is a SOAB

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Was he implying that you'd get summer school?

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Prince Rilian Wrote:Was he implying that you'd get summer school?

>:|

Yep. He told us since we can't get suspended at the end of the school year, they could slam us in summer school for the whole 3 months. I wouldn't consider it the smartest move.

"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"

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Freedom of Choice, Freedom of Life, Except for 18 years old and younger. Then they can be slaves. But everyone else is fine.

War is stupid.
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Phrozen_Soul Wrote:
Prince Rilian Wrote:Was he implying that you'd get summer school?

>:|

Yep. He told us since we can't get suspended at the end of the school year, they could slam us in summer school for the whole 3 months. I wouldn't consider it the smartest move.
Oh well, just don't show up.

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Prince Rilian Wrote:
Phrozen_Soul Wrote:
Prince Rilian Wrote:Was he implying that you'd get summer school?

>:|

Yep. He told us since we can't get suspended at the end of the school year, they could slam us in summer school for the whole 3 months. I wouldn't consider it the smartest move.
Oh well, just don't show up.

Instant expulsion.

"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"

People say the problem with me is I have psychotic tendencies and care not about other human beings I don't like and or know. So?
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Phrozen_Soul Wrote:
Prince Rilian Wrote:
Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Yep. He told us since we can't get suspended at the end of the school year, they could slam us in summer school for the whole 3 months. I wouldn't consider it the smartest move.
Oh well, just don't show up.

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Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Instant expulsion.
That's not how they did it at my schools. But if that is how they do it where you go, what's the downside?

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Prince Rilian Wrote:
Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Instant expulsion.
That's not how they did it at my schools. But if that is how they do it where you go, what's the downside?

Being grounded for 2 years, being beaten for 6 weeks.

"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"

People say the problem with me is I have psychotic tendencies and care not about other human beings I don't like and or know. So?
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Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Being grounded for 2 years, being beaten for 6 weeks.

Yeah, you probably don't want to do that then.

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Thade_Chan Wrote:
Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Being grounded for 2 years, being beaten for 6 weeks.

Yeah, you probably don't want to do that then.

What i'm trying to do.

"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"

People say the problem with me is I have psychotic tendencies and care not about other human beings I don't like and or know. So?
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