More Off Topic: High School
shadowcat just posted a video link to life in the 1950s. Sort of my era; got me thinking of my high school years.
I was 13 in grade 10, 15 when I finished grade 12 (went to one room rural school for grades 1-9; did them in 7 years). Girls wouldn't give me the time of day because I was so much younger. Guys tried to bully when I was 13 until they discovered I was a tough little SOB. By the time I was 15 I was a tough big SOB beating the crap out of the 18 year olds.
FUCK!! I hated high school.
I was 13 in grade 10, 15 when I finished grade 12 (went to one room rural school for grades 1-9; did them in 7 years). Girls wouldn't give me the time of day because I was so much younger. Guys tried to bully when I was 13 until they discovered I was a tough little SOB. By the time I was 15 I was a tough big SOB beating the crap out of the 18 year olds.
FUCK!! I hated high school.
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Many of us did.
Dress codes in High School Ididn't care for. I did know a cheer leader and she often sat right beside me in one class in her out fit. It was distracting but I liked it.
I worked 15 years as a high school principal and would always try to get the misfit kids involved in school activities. So many of them had great potential, but poor social skills.
In first it sucked, I didn't even want to go, and often didn't. :-)
Then when I got in trouble for that and couldn't skip anymore, and accepted I had to go I got used to it and it was kind of fun, but I goofed off too much and didn't give a shit about my grades.
Finally I realized college was at hand, so got serious about the grades thing. I noticed alot of others had really matured as well toward the end, so the last two years weren't fairly fun too, but still I thought some teachers were just out on power trips.
Overall, though, I didn't really understand the point of high school. I thought I could learn all that shit myself much more efficiently, and often would just a spend a few weeks in the summer learning all the math, and science, for instance, ahead of time.
Then came work. (Another story, for another time.)
I was terribly shy though and found it ok to be friends with girls, I didn't have many girlfriends. I think I dated 2 girls for 3 months each the entire 4 years of high school.
It was still fun overall though.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It seems like many of you guys are pretty intelligent and have done well for yourselves in life- so I'm slightly surprised so many of you disliked high school.
High school was one of the best times of my life. I mainly hung out with 3 other people who were my closest friends. Grades wise, I did OK. Many people liked my personality back in high school and that made for some great times. We also had open lunch when I was in high school- which meant everyone could leave the school during lunch. This allowed people to have fast food for lunch, although some people used this time to get their smoke on lol
I skated through with a B+ average but had to forge my report cards for my parents to see due to the large number of absences. LOL.
Lots of stink finger in the drive in movies but that rubber in my wallet was leaving a ring. LOL.
"Those were the days".
txtittyfan: "I liked high school because I really enjoyed riding the short bus to get there. And then in special Ed I learned all about finance! Like shorting treasuries the day before they bottomed!"
@gawker - I'm sure you tried to get the misfits to go for school activities. But at my high school, there was way too much emphasis on high school athletics, and I was not a jock by any means. I loved sports, but my athletic abilities were limited and I wasn't lucky enough to be my brother, who grew to be 6'7" and thus got to play varsity basketball, if not real well. The problem with high school, and I doubt it's any different now, is that the whole structure, from the top down, promotes conformity, and it seems like everyone has to be the same or else. I did all right academically, but socially, I thought a lot of it was a joke and didn't have a place in the real world. Then again, I could be wrong.
It wasn't until my senior year that I managed to make some friends and had a little fun.
The work wasn't difficult and I did well without trying very hard.
Most of my issues were teachers I didn't get along with, but the principal and a handful of teachers got along with me so I never got into any trouble I couldn't get out of.
Still good friends with a couple people from high school and actually have a reunion coming up.
In my Physics class the teacher announced she never gave a perfect test score of 100 in all her years of teaching. The tests had questions you had to answer that took 2 to 3 sentences minimum to answer. Then she said after our first test and we were waiting for our results or scores that I got all the answers correct. She said she went back and looked for any spelling mistakes. She said she found one or two. It was a timed test. She took off a couple of points. She said to be fair, she would have to take off for everyone else's spelling mistakes as well. Yep, my popularity soared.
One year one guy I knew who was smart and myself somehow ended up in the wrong math class. It was new material but the teacher and all the other students covered the material so slowly it was like watching paint dry. I must have said out loud I could teach the class faster than the teacher. She took me up on that. I read ahead in the book and taught the class for two days while the teacher sat back and watched. She said I did a good job. I felt out of place in that class.
I did have an interesting literature class. In one class I read stories about a girl with teeth in her vagina. Required reading material. The guy suspected it though and crafted a wood dildo. When her vagina bit down to eat his dick, her vagina teeth broke and supposedly that was the beginning of girls without teeth in their vaginas. Maybe I had a perverted teacher. No one reported him. Our county had the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the state and one of the highest in the country. I wasn't involved. I was so popular. Well most people didn't bother me.
All that time and effort could be better utilized studying things related to your career. Government and institutions seem to be stuck in their old ways not applying lean and value streaming concepts. At leat several years ago that is.
Except when it came to history, right? Which I'm betting you would have flunked.
more jestie: "Most of my issues were teachers I didn't get along with"
Were you a whiny, cynical little bitch even back then? Your first year or so of post on TUSCL you didn't seem too bad. Was that just exception and then you revert to your usual self after that? Sounds like it goes back a ways!
Did you ever have go the "Principal's Office"?
In your case, that would gave been a good thing!
Are you still mad that I called you out on your lack of reading comprehension, inability to use quotes and total lack of WWII knowledge? Move on Dugly.
"Your first year or so of post on TUSCL you didn't seem too bad."
So "Dougster" isn't your only name on here? Seeing as how my account is older than that one? Good you finally admitted it. Quick come up with some bullshit explanation!
And now jestie shows he is even dumber than can possibly be imagined.
Jestie - you do realize that comments here are archived don't you? People can read what you posted way back then?
Waaayyy too funny! Did you think for even a second before you posted that or did my reminder of how non-existent your knowledge if history, and how odious your personality, cause you to totally flip your lid? Would not be the first time you've done that! :-)
Actually she was the year between myself and my SO. We would often chat out in front of the school waiting for our respective bf and gf. One thing I found unusual is the she was often alone. The girls were very jealous of her and most guys afraid to even approach her. Their loss. :)
Never went to the "office" with her. :(