OK - Middle School Student Handcuffed For Missing Too Many Classes

Naw mate.. You're wrong, public school is a joke.. Teaches kids to simply obey. Kills their creativity and prepares them for their coming years of slavery and exploitation(work)

then later when i got there to pick-up my things, they ran after me wanting me to sign papers. i never signed them and it was written on them that i "voluntarily left" school. they literally made stuff up in order to make me fail, then hastily wanted me to sign stuff.

Does mommy's allowance suffice for you?

It's illegal to not go to school, but a technicality is that it's not illegal to not go to class. As long as you're on school grounds, it's all fine (after all, you can legit be other places other than a class, like in the library or detention or on a field during PE.

A solution I found out in high school was just to not go to a particular class if I didn't care for it. There were plenty of places to hide where the security guards wouldn't find me. Took me a week to figure out their patrol patterns and timing. It was like playing a game of Thief, could just wander around the football field, the parking lots, around and between the various buildings. Did huge cycles around the entire school to pass the time. The school wasn't very smart about things: they only remarked an absence in the very first class of the day, so no teacher after first period really bothered taking attendance. They probably figured that if any student didn't show up some day, that there had to be some good reason for it. They had better things to do than police individual students or give a shit when one wasn't there or whatever. As long as you were there for the day of the tests, the rest hardly mattered.

Never got in trouble for this. Never saw any cops, never talked to any administrator, never got served any paperwork — nothing! Probably skipped half my pre-calculus classes the second semester because the teacher was a douchbag and I hated him. Still passed the class after figuring out how to program a non-programmable calculator to cheat which likely pissed him off more. Skipped almost as many Spanish IV classes because the teacher was a retard and I was literally the only student there who wasn't ESL. Passed it, too, and strictly by merit; hablo espanol bien, peenchy cabron. This is pretty good proof that kids have to sit in class for probably twice as many hours as they need to in order to learn the material. Too much time waiting for the retard kids to catch up. I just read the textbooks and slept through the classes I was actually in; the teachers got it wrong half the time anyway. Idiots all.

School was, and now is even more so, a joke.

Home schooled?

Don't do it lad!!!

Homeschooling isn't any better; it's the same content in a different setting. Kids will learn everything that's necessary to survive from their parents and/or guardians (which isn't much), and anything else they can learn if and when they care to.

Think about all the shit you learned in 12 years of school. How much of that could you actually remember well enough to teach someone else? Maybe a month's worth of classes, if that? So if that other 11 years and 8 months is so irrelevant that it doesn't affect your ability to live a reasonably productive and fulfilling life, why would you force someone else to waste a decade of their life on it?

I would complain but I sat through the whole video and the information quality started going down and down past the 7 minutes mark. I still remember that the first reason schools were invented was to make people obey authority, and that the 6th reason was to degrade poor people so girls wouldn't mate with them– I believe the others were important too but the quality is rather low.

I definitely would appreciate having this information read over aloud instead of having to search a arcane book for it, but I seems like stuff I'm mostly aware of or outdated. Shame.

Maybe school shooters were doing the right thing after all.

People don't understand that what you learn from school that is valuable has very little to do with the actual material. You don't learn history so you can remember dates and other trivia; you learn it so you don't repeat the mistakes of the past. You don't learn government so you can spout off memorized Supreme Court cases; you learn it so you can know how the government works and be an informed voter. Being stuck in classes for hours at a time teaches patience and discipline. Taking science classes teaches critical thinking and the scientific method, which can be applied to all sorts of things in the world around you. Knowing how to learn a new subject is very similar to knowing how to learn a new skill, which will happen to you every time you start a new job or new position at that job. It's the difference between the people who can adapt when the company changes all its computer systems, and those that throw up their hands and fail to remain productive.

But the most valuable skill school teaches is information sorting and verification. Yes, some of what the teachers tell you will be wrong and bullshit, and it's YOUR JOB to be able to tell that this is the case. I remember when teachers used to reward students who spotted factual mistakes in their curriculum (like spelling or mathematical errors). I had an anatomy/physiology teacher who often gave erroneous facts in the lectures that contradicted the truths in the textbooks; other students complained and failed test questions, while I spotted them and changed my test answers accordingly; it's pretty likely that he was doing this on purpose. Many teachers are fully aware that they represent a type of false authority, and part of their instruction to turn trusting students into cynical adults who can smell a rat.

All through your life, you're going to be bombarded with information — now more than ever. You must be capable of sorting that information and deciding, FOR YOURSELF, which is fact and which is bullshit or lies. The reason why we have Trump right now is because ~30% of the country failed to learn that one most valuable lesson in school.

They will get obligatory classes?. I thing we have that here.