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Truancy A word for ditching school without a good excuse
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Truancy A word for ditching school without a good excuse

Writing is rather personal and uncomfortable for me personally so I have a hard time writing even for something short but I feel that I need to address and confront my problem. I've been quite depressed for a long time ever since I resisted against schooling. Theres quite alot of baggage and backlash from my parents, threatening to take away my computer and stuff that I cherish while yelling at me telling me that I need a high school degree or else I can't get any job, even though I'm very calm and deliberate telling them that simply is a myth and there's many ways you can get a job without a degree. I refused to go to school at the beginning of the school year and when I did go to school, I would usually skip classes and try to learn things I wanted read, my current reading list is Leo Tolstoy's work so I can tell everyone that this guy understands The Bible. But then I got into a shit ton of trouble and then they reevaluated me to see if there was something wrong with me. A child social worker came to my house, because I refused to go to school I was sent to a psychiatrists to be reevaluated and in the report I have Opposition Defiant Disorder and Narcissism. I was sent to the alternative "therapeutic" school because I refused to go to school and cut classes. My Dad said if i don't go to school unless i'm sick then hes gonna call the cops, he told me not to oppress me, but to aggressively let me be informed. I can't really find any alternatives to homeschooling since I'll need supervision, I'm pretty much gonna have to stick going to school until 16 when I can take the GED. The alternative school is slightly better as in you have no homework and you get to play music at the end of the school day, but its still heartbreaking and emotionally damaging to sit there for 4 hours straight and do busy work. I feel to emotionally exhausted to do anything when I get home from school. The only time when I enjoy school is lunch, since I get to sit with the people I have in common with. I'm still trying to find alternative and ways to get me out of school, and I would love ways to make my school experience better.

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RE: Truancy A word for ditching school without a good excuse

Wow. Tolstoy changed my life and taught me so much about pacifism. I wish I were there to advocate for you. Stay strong and keep reading!

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


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I find it hilarious that people have so strongly ingrained the belief that the public school system is the grand and infallible concept of "normalcy" and anyone who resists or opposes has some sort of psychiatric problem.

Ya wanna know who's crazy? The idiots who childishly believe in the utopian idea that public school solves all social ills and that it is the natural will of god and science for it to exist as it does...despite it's many pitfalls and fallacies.

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Quote:Wow. Tolstoy changed my life and taught me so much about pacifism. I wish I were there to advocate for you. Stay strong and keep reading!
Keep reading? Thats something my teacher would say, nonetheless thanks. It Literally put a smile in my face.

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Where I teach, it's probably less than 5% of the teachers who have actually read Tolstoy. But they sure kind sing and dance about how important reading is. Not that they bother reading anything of note themselves.

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


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Interesting observation there.

How many teachers who shove books down our throats really practice what they preach?
or how many admins? how many politicians? how many corporate scumbags taking advantage of the system?

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Yeah. Schools don't practice what they preach. They preach democracy all the time, yet they aren't even democratic.
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Do you want advice? Or were you just venting? Because, if I were to tell you something, it'd be this- a fake surrender. As you pointed out you have to somehow stand this shit until you're 16, and even if I don't know how long that is, stop fighting and conserve your energy for now. I think, with the way your parents are acting, it'll be a struggle to get GED since to them school is "god". It's obvious that they don't care or don't want to care about you.Sadhug Don't waste your time on them; focus on yourself. I wish you Das Beste.

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I don't actually understand truancy laws, they don't make those that bunk off suddenly not do that. Just punishes those who do their shit, but need a break.
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A combination of both really, I really needed to vent out on the atrocities and get advice on what to do on the path of defiance towards the system. It's honestly gonna suck having to deal with school for another 1 or 2 years.

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If school makes you hate it so much that you decide to skip it, then it has problems.

"If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security."

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RE: Truancy A word for ditching school without a good excuse

Every time the students in Science class oppose the teacher's decision, our teacher says school is a dictatorship rather than a democracy.

Then there is this anonymous survey that asks about the school. One question of the survey asks, "How much of a voice do you feel you have in school (scale of 1-5)?" Oh boy... -_-

"If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security."

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Theres something wrong with society forcing kids to school, where they are already are confident, happy, confident, optimistic, good people turned into robots.

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