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.
Thread Rating:
- 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
|
Hi everyone
|
| Author |
Message |
jetpi99
Rebel
Posts: 14
Joined: Jan 2017
Thanks: 2
Given 7 thank(s) in 4 post(s)
|
 Hi everyone
Hello everyone
I joined two days ago because I want to change something. I am living in switzerland, where the school system is far better than in America, but it still sucks. If you need someone to translate parts of the school survival website to german, turn to me. It's my native language.
Nice day
|
|
| 01-22-2017 09:00 AM |
|
 Thanks given by: | |
|
SoulRiser
Site Founder
Posts: 18,238
Joined: Aug 2001
Thanks: 2669
Given 1978 thank(s) in 1208 post(s)
|
Hi everyone
Hi there, welcome! I can give you access to the wiki if you feel like translating stuff. We already have the intro in German, and a few other things. Thanks for the offer. 
"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them." - Dalai Lama
Help & Support - Get help with leaving school, unsupportive parents, and more.
Click here if school makes you depressed or suicidal
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein
"I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer
EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
Push Button for Collection of Useful Links:
|
|
| 01-22-2017 10:30 PM |
|
Gwedin
dumb shithead
Posts: 2,361
Joined: May 2013
Thanks: 217
Given 559 thank(s) in 410 post(s)
|
Hi everyone
yehee gidday maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate
welcum and shit
|
|
| 01-23-2017 04:50 AM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
the Analogist
Connector of Dots
Posts: 820
Joined: Feb 2016
Thanks: 231
Given 434 thank(s) in 261 post(s)
|
RE: Hi everyone
John Taylor Gatto, whom I've spent some time verifying his claims, said that in Switzerland less than 1 kid in 4 goes beyond elementary school. He said this in 2001 (by me estimates as to when that lecture happened). He also said Switzerland is the wealthiest nation in the world per capita.
What do you have to say about any of this?
Purity is to Believe only that which deserves it.
Wisdom is to follow only the Opinion which makes the best use of evidence.
Excellence is to be mindful of all these things in Living.
Follow me on Twitter!
|
|
| 01-23-2017 02:44 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
jetpi99
Rebel
Posts: 14
Joined: Jan 2017
Thanks: 2
Given 7 thank(s) in 4 post(s)
|
Hi everyone
Most kids in switzerland go beyond elementary school. Maybe not every single one but definitely more than 25%. 35% of the swiss population have the equivalent of a college degree, as far as I understand the american system. You'd go to primary school for 6 years, 2 or 3 years of secondary school, 4 Years of canton school, then a few Years at university. 35 % of the swiss population have gone this far, according to an article from 2013. ( http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/Schwe...28624875). Barely anything has changed since 2001, so he definitely didn't know what he was talking about.
It is true, though, that Switzerland is very wealthy.
(01-22-2017 10:30 PM)SoulRiser Wrote: Hi there, welcome! I can give you access to the wiki if you feel like translating stuff. We already have the intro in German, and a few other things. Thanks for the offer.
I don't know that much about websites though, maybe it's better if you give me an html file copy, I translate it and you implement it.
(This post was last modified: 01-24-2017 07:28 AM by jetpi99.)
|
|
| 01-24-2017 07:25 AM |
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
Search
Member List
Calendar
Help
