#leaving school

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Children and mothers leaving an elementary school, Grand Concourse and East Tremont Avenue, the Bronx, March 4, 1929 (detail).

Photo: Al Ponte's Time Machine-NY, Facebook

[asiaphotostudio]

Indonesia, 1990 Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia. インドネシア スマトラ島 トバ湖 Photography by Michitaka Kurata

[greylight32]

So tomorrow is my last day at my school. And I’m having the violent urge to show up out of uniform as a big and final “Fuck you”

[69constellationsinatrenchcoat]

Low key going to get these made into hoodies however I need help

We were going to have it as “I survived five years of Catholic high school and all I got was homosexuality and an interest in witchcraft” or “I survived five years of Catholic high school and all I got was homosexuality and atheism” but making it religious is a bit hit or miss bc not everyone in our system is religious or spiritual (and we were going to make them for our friends too)

[tikuo2007]

『小学生と掃除のおじさん』

20240228

[cassinij]

It's kind of crazy to me how Schools just over now, I saw it coming a mile a way, I am 18 after all but its just really hitting me how it's over now. I'm never going back.

I have been in school for 12 years now or 66% of my entire life and now ITS JUST GONE. That's an ENORMOUS status quo change and I don't get how other people aren't more freaked out over it.

Way way WAYYYY back then in Primary (or Elementary for the Americans) School I was so excited for the future, what I was going to do once I got out of school, stuff like that.

Then time went on, and on, and on. Overtime I just stopped caring about what was going to happen in the future as I had spent so long in School I just resigned to my fate, it felt like I was never going to get out so I made peace with that fact.

Now here I am, out of school despite everything. This isn't even mentioning some far more serious stuff. Its just feels impossible that I'm really here. Idk where to go from now.

[passionate-of-literature]

i have officially left sixth-form, and i feel heartbroken and empty. i feel so alone and small and scared, and i miss my teachers. i feel so much grief, and nobody understands that i am actually undergoing the process of grieving. i've never felt this sad about something. nothing has meant as much to me as my relationship with that one teacher, and the experiences i've had at that secondary school. i was there for seven years. that teacher is the first adult to make me feel safe, and believes in me like no other. she knows how self-critical i am, and would always be in my corner rooting for me when i had no one else. i don't know what i'm supposed to do without her. she celebrated my every achievement, no matter how small it was. no matter how seemingly irrelevant it was. she was the only adult in my life to listen and understand and appreciate me for me. i have never felt so alone in my life. i can't believe it's all over. :((

[torisprlng]

💬

[starrytheclown]

FINALLY LEAVINGGG >:]

I'm also vibing to kesha in my headphones >:3

[stistilinskii]

saying goodbye to people you know you are never going to see again but have been a constant for you in the time you’ve known them has got to be one of the hardest things.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Even as the 1930s closed, and despite the clear inroads made, many working-class families still could not afford much in the way of secondary schooling for adolescent offspring whose wages were needed at home. A national sample taken in 1936 indicated that only 27.2 per cent of children fifteen years and older were in school. The class basis of that school population is evident: nearly 50 per cent of the children of the managerial class were in school, while fewer than 20 per cent of those of unskilled workers attended. Inadequate family income was the “dominating influence” in determining the age of school-leaving throughout this entire period. Because the average cost of four years of high school was an estimated $550 (1929–39), a high school education was assuredly “hard to fit” into a family budget of less than $1,500 that had to meet the needs of several children. Nonetheless, both adults and adolescents surveyed thought that “to get a better job” was the most important reason to attend high school. The type of schooling available took “little cognizance of the aims and ambitions of the poor man’s child who would become a carpenter, mechanic or clerk,” thereby favouring the traditional high school contingent: the offspring of reasonably affluent families who were intended for post-secondary education or for administrative and professional employment.

Extension of formal schooling was consequently seen as only a partial solution to the youth problem. It was effective mainly in holding the very youth who would likely have attended even in the absence of legislative compulsion—those thought to pose little in the way of a social menace in the first place. For the presumedly more problematic adolescents from working-class and immigrant homes, the law provided ways to evade or circumvent compulsory schooling. Recognizing both the primacy of parental authority and the continued need for supplementary wages in many families, “home permits” that sanctioned release from school for the purposes of household, farm, or paid labour were “freely granted” to fourteen and fifteen year olds. There were cases, especially in the nation’s farming and fishing districts, in which familial reliance on the labour of even the youngest members persisted, and where, consequently, even those under fourteen could receive permits.

In Montreal, the provincial labour department insisted that all boys and girls under sixteen show a certificate of education in order to earn reprieve and as evidence of their ability to read and write. The labour department’s new office was “swamped by a crowd of several hundred” boys and girls on its first morning offering this option, “all eager to get the educational certificates which will entitle them to work although under the age of 16." New Brunswick had the highest rate of illiteracy in all Canada according to the 1931 census, a large number of boys and girls having left school by the age of twelve years “with so little advancement that they soon come to the point of classifying themselves as not able to read and write.” Ten years later, the loss of students between first grade and the fourth year of high school was close to 82 per cent.

It was also reasoned that a large proportion of the estimated 70 to 90 per cent leaving school at fifteen did not do so because of economic pressure: not being academically inclined, they succumbed to the “innate restlessness” of adolescence. In Nova Scotia, school board reports of the time resound with truancy cases. One sixteen-year-old boy skipped nearly two weeks over the course of the academic year, was tardy “at least once a day,” was caught smoking on school grounds, and was “generally indolent in his work” and “most annoying during school hours, doing smart stunts to make the others laugh” behind the teacher’s back. A fourteen-year-old boy had a “most exasperating” manner, as his teacher complained: “When I tell him to go to work he just sits and grins at me.” Another fourteen-year-old boy went “absent without leave” for eight days; having stayed out after recess to smoke on school grounds, he fled home “in preference to taking a strapping” as his just reward. Girls also took their turn. Near the end of fifth form at Jarvis Collegiate in Toronto, Mildred Young “had a lovely time wandering through the Don Valley” with two other girls on a bright spring morning, rather than going on to school. Although they arrived at noon “quite content with the indolent morning,” there had been “great consternation” at their apparent disappearance, and “everyone was furious.” Truancy and running away were regular occurrences at the Shubenacadie residential school, also in Nova Scotia, despite the harsh punishment they entailed. At the age of fifteen, Isabelle Knockwood and an older girl snuck out a bathroom window to attend a Tarzan movie; Knockwood was terrified of being caught or reported on, since the townspeople knew that the girls were not permitted to leave the school after dark. Young people found ways to resist, whether through “smart stunts” or simple non-participation. Despite the strict behavioural regulations, the vigilance of faculty, and the persistence of corporal punishment, there are memories of “lively pranks” that took place on “the sacred precincts” of high schools, some of which “passed into the category of myth and legend” as part of school lore."

- Cynthia Comacchio, The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920-1950. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006. p. 106-107.

[ocelotrevs]

Huh?

I saw a bunch of kids with these messages on their shirts a few days ago.

Kids are still doing it.

[wanologic]

fortunately, or unfortunately, they only see each other like 3 times a year…

[vintage-tigre]

[luminarai]

Ringo says work smarter, not harder (also he replaced the pieces with delicious homemade cookies before the game even started. Taigen never notices)

stickers etc here