Being sick enough typically meant spending the day laying in bed, alternately shivering and burning, drifting in and out of sleep, occasionally puking, and that was still preferable to spending the day at school.
Being sick enough typically meant spending the day laying in bed, alternately shivering and burning, drifting in and out of sleep, occasionally puking, and that was still preferable to spending the day at school.
It’s still early but my kid loves school.
I also, as a poor, unpopular student, didn’t have a horrible time at any point in my k12 education. I’m not saying things haven’t worsened or that they were ever perfect but the idea that the public school system is evil or something (other than teaching pro-US slanted “history” and the weird pledge) is not something I encounter outside of random Hexbear threads, even amongst people with generally progressive views. (Not counting
here.)
This place is weirdly doomer about schools.
As a former educator I am among the first to point out systemic problems and failures of policy and so-called “reforms” from the
years to even worse under 
, where “no child left behind” became “race to the top” and in both cases enriched private testing corporations and charter school conglomerates by expecting kids to fail their deluge of fucking tests and planning accordingly.
That said, “school sux and shouldn’t exist at all” is a clownishly bad take for any society that wants to exist longer than a few years. It’s “no veggies at dinner, no bedtimes” ideology at its most primordial.