[OversouL]

Six
Crappy
Hours
Of
Our
Lives

Here in my country it's 12 hours and when you get home from school you still have assignments. Then sleep very late at night. Wake up @ 6am until 5pm.

[Sly]

School is not just for learning, math or how to write you can learn anywhere. School is a place where they teach you how to be on time, how to properly behave in a faculty and most importantly, how to have communication skills. This is why if you compare a person that takes online class with a person that goes to school, the person that goes to school has a way better communication rate.

School it's not pointless like that other member said, it does way more than you realize.

I agree with this to the point of high school. Where I live when you get to high school you start taking more defined courses like Physics, Algebra, and World History. By the point of high school you should have an idea of what you want to do with you life, and should know basics like communication and arriving on time. Once you get to high school you should be able to take classes more directed to what you want to be when you grow up. Drop the Physics if you want to be a Historian and pick up a History of Sciences class.

[WackMyBeaver]

I think schools should be teaching us stuff we actually need to know instead of learning to calculate the mass of the sun. And how many apples john will have after he drops four. Schools should be teaching us how to handle ourselves in the real world.

[Reign]

School is a service that provides so many different things other than education, but people normally under the age of 18 take this service for granted.

[Spartan]

The idea of school is okay, but the force you learn the stupid shit that you don't need. They should teach you real life skills and other shit. Like do i really need to read Hamlet and take an essay on it to advance in my life? No.

[Lumi]

Fucking pointless and you'll never use half of the shit you learn.

Depends on which path you take for a career.

[cr33pyguy]

school is not about learning facts. it's about learning to work for something - even something you don't care about.

[Elmion]

It is convenience. School is convenient for letting the children socialize, i.e. interact with other human beings who are not their mother and father. I will certainly agree that most of the things that they force the children to learn are useless, but what do they do alongside the learning? They make friends, they shape their own identities, they may even discover their own interests and dreams.

Personally, it is a place to create memories and build connections. Societally, it is useful as a human sieve to cut down the student number because well-paying jobs are limited. It is useful, but thinking that success in school would secure one's life is naive; and conversely, thinking that failure in school would doom one's life is tragic.

School is not the only path; sadly, that is what most parents refuse to consider.

[BreShiE]

I hated school. I didn't really start enjoying life until I left.

[Cressi]

I personally think school gets interesting when you get beyond secondary high, when you actually can choose yourself what you want to do with your life. Before that, all is just basic knowledge everyone needs.