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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hated school, my kids hate school.

It’s not new. There are many reasons why.[/quote]

I didn't hate school until I moved to Mississippi and had to relearn things I already knew= bored. I was extremely lucky to have a private school education because my dad was a teacher and coach at the school and then we moved. We had real PE plus recess plus art plus music plus science lab and computer lab. I never remember being bored. I remember being uninterested or wanting to be outside but never felt like I wanted to run and leave and never come back.

Middle school was okay. HS was the slog. Long periods, dull instruction, relearning the same stuff but one concept deeper/more/etc, lots of pressure. I was bored. I brought my own books to class. I stopped caring because I could pass without trying. I missed 30+ days of my senior year while taking multiple AP classes.

I do think there was a huge switch during my sophomore year because the school I was at in 10th grade had a detention if you were late for class. It was a huge school and your classes could be on opposite ends on different floors. If you needed to go to the bathroom, you could be late. The first time I was late they sent me to the detention room where I had to sit silently and read or do coursework or for most kids, it was being on their phones. It was an unexcused absence from class. Kids purposefully meandered through the hallways so they could go to detention versus class. Planned it with their friends. It was just so incredibly dumb and short-sighted.

As a kid, you know if your teachers want to be there or if they care or if they hate the administration or if the administration cares and it can ruin any natural proclivity to being invested in the school as a student. Also being punished for other kids' behaviors is another added bonus of our education system. Can only go to the bathroom 3x a year in one class because other kids use the bathrooms inappropriately. 
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