Funny, I Recognized This Before I Started High School

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Of course I didn’t know how long it had been planned at the time or how pervasive it really was.

All I knew was that I was a square peg they tried desperately to pound into a round hole and obviously, they never did succeed.

They tried right up until the day I finally graduated.

With a 1.2 grade point average.

Fuckers.

Unfortunately for those behind me, they seem to have succeeded past their wildest dreams.

21 thoughts on “Funny, I Recognized This Before I Started High School”

  1. Despite those in education that tried to hold me and thousands others back growing up, I surpassed all their expectations to neuter me in education. I read voraciously everything I could get my hands on. From fiction to history and biographies, old technical manuals, periodicals, journals, old books on Rhetoric. I sought out as I got older people who were educated and listened to what they had to say. In all that I developed critical thinking skills. I knew growing up, without knowing the precise reason I was being lied too and told falsehoods and what I know today to be propaganda. I smite most of my former teachers and instructors to the lowest level of Dante’s Hell with a iced tea glass that never is full.

  2. Got the book.
    I can only read a few pages at a time because I get so pissed off.

  4. Almost no one reads books anymore if they’re under the age of 50. Most have the attention span of a gnat.

    • Every time I go to an appointment; Dr, Dentist, auto maintenance etc, where I know I’ll have to wait more than a couple minutes, I bring a book. EVERYONE ELSE, including people in their 70’s like me is glued to their phone. Then we wonder why the country is in the state that it is.

      • Just because a person is looking at a phone is not necessarily a bad thing. I spend my time waiting reading blogs and comments like this one and more. Credit to you for reading a book, however a phone is easier for me to carry.

      • Phones are good for books and music. Well tablets, anyway. I don’t even like landlines.

  5. I toed the line in the classroom and got my pedigrees – but was often kicked off teams for asking the coaches “why”, or thinking logically.
    About 1st year of grad school I realized it was all common sense, and it took about 30 years to undo the damage and live the life intended rather than the one prescribed. It has been a hell of a ride but now really worth the journey.
    I tell any teen, screw college, learn a trade, and don’t let the bastards wear you down. MAGA.

    • Well put.

      You get extra credit for “toeing the line” right, and not confusing a pedigree with your toes. 😉

      We are definitely in agreement that public schools stopped teaching common sense and logic, long ago.

      I’m no longer sure where my public education began, ended, and where the rest of life’s lessons started. What I do know is that even at 68 I’m still learning from, and teaching skills to, people with more education than I ever got.

  8. I knew there was a reason I like the company here. I “graduated” HS with a 2.1 gpa. Aced the classes I liked (few and far between), flunked the ones I hated, and usually had a full array of grades every term. The only reason I could pass any of them was a talent for taking tests. I have passed exams without knowing anything of the subject.
    My saving grace was a younger brother. No matter what kind of shitstorm I got caught up in, he’d always just done something worse.
    I’ve said ever since that HS was the three most wasted years of my life. My main accomplishments were reading a ton of SF, and building RC airplanes. The most valuable class I ever took, treasured to this day, was typing (now called keyboarding).

    • Agree 100%, keyboarding was the most valuable class, and I am pretty sure it was actually a “half class” when I went – I think we had something else the other half of the semester.

    • I’ve told this story before…

      In my Junior year in HS I took “typing”. I was laughed at because I was assumed to be working towards becoming a secretary (this was the late 60’s). FINALLY somebody asked me just exactly *why* I was taking typing and getting such grief for it, and I informed them, “It helps me keypunch my programs faster!”. Imagine the looks on my fellow students faces when they realized that a Junior in HS was programming a (mainframe) computer!
      I sure didn’t get a lot of grief after that point. It had been a deep, dark secret to everybody – I didn’t discuss it with my fellow students because I had noting in common to talk about!
      Interesting times…

  9. Well boys – most of you probly had more brains and maturity than your teachers did.

    When I was a kid I was just lost. Didn’t know what I wanted to do, or any clue on how to do it. My parents believed in hands off parenting and were shocked when I had no sense of direction or meaning when I became an adult. So many of us were like that. It took me ten years to get my head out of my arse and get back in the game.

    But I survived. I did better than some, not as well as others. I can’t complain.

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