#tw: high school

[ignatiaflamen]

I'd read nosleep in high school computer class. One time the teacher tried to publically shame me by putting it up on the smartboard so the entire class could see what i was reading 💀 think she burned herself though lolll.

Same teacher(who tried to be "hip" and was overly bubbly) also tried to get us to do an assignment based on the Google Doodle of the Day. We were supposed to look up who the person featured was and write a small paragraph about them and their work.

...it was Edward Gorey.

She didn't mention the assignment again.

People who fuck around on their laptops during lectures are so important I'm watching someone in front of me play tetris online enraptured

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[ignatiaflamen]

Also agreed with all of this. If you asked me when I was in school why I went there and got through it every day I would answer you: "Because I want to get out of school." No dreams, no idea what I would want to accomplish or achieve with my "high school"(heck, even just "school" itself) "education" besides getting out of that oppressive, soul-crushing environment.

(the other reason i went was because of the coercive school attendance laws, but that's a whole other thing by itself.)

Soon after graduating I had the constant feeling that I wouldn't actually graduate, that they'd pull me aside and say "you didn't do well enough/make a good enough grade in this one class to pass, so you'll have to repeat a year".

This lasted the entire year after I graduated.

I had school dreams for a good half-decade after graduating including one memorable one where i actually went back to kindergarten.

Those lasted until i had a dream where I was at an after-school class where we were studying for senior year graduation tests. Everyone around me was (irl) in the grade below me. I looked around, realized this, and said "Wait, I don't need to be here. I graduated already!", got up, and walked out.

I haven't had another school dream since.

(related) I thought I didn't like(hated) learning for a good few years after I graduated. It wasn't until I started studying on my own that I remembered that i love learning. What I hate is the forced coercion to memorize trivia that'll only be used for (mostly multiple-choice) tests + exams which will be discarded immediately afterwards.

Also, I want to be a fiction writer but have always had trouble with coming up with details for my stories. I'll have a general idea for the characters, setting, and themes, but will be unsure of how to put them together. It's like once I put an idea down for the story, then that idea is set in stone and I have to work any further ideas that I have around it rather than weave it in with the rest of the story.

It was just last week when I was reading a book about novel-writing where the author explained the creative process by giving a practical example that I realized that you can expound on an initial idea and change elements in the story(several times, even!) before finalizing them. My thought was "Wait. You can do that?!"

I was ruminating on why I didn't know that before now and realized it was because of how school presents writing as assignment. We had primarily multiple-choice tests in school. When writing was required to answer the question, it was usually a sentence or two or three lines at most. Essays were written for the end-of-year exams and were usually about a personal topic. (and if we didn't have an experience that fit the topic required, we were told to "make something up".)

Additionally, we only started learning to write with the three-paragraph essay format in junior year.

My (not very succinct) point is that because we answered multiple-choice questions for nearly everything, sentence-writing was a chore, and essay-writing was a Task, a near-insurmountable obstacle put in your path on the mountain of School, where you were trying to go uphill as you reenacted the myth of Sisyphus.

Being unaccustomed to writing as an everyday thing instead of a stressor, or essay or creative writing for as something that i wanted to do for myself instead of being required to do it on a topic that i was unable to choose for myself in the first place and was completely uninterested in besides, my mind saw writing as something you did For School, not something you did because you wanted to.

It also, because of the emphasis on completing the essay as a Goal, something only to be done to be graded on at the end of the year and to be able to pass on to the next grade, calcified my ability to think about details while writing, expounding upon them and making connections between them.

(Maybe the circumstances under which we were writing them had to do with it too? We were only given a 45-minute period in which to do them and couldn't do any revision once the words were put down.) (thus "setting it in stone", as it were.)

Anyway, I'm really thankful for that book for showing me an example of the thought process behind (creative) writing. I would have had the "writer's block" problem for a lot longer without it. (I'm not sure I would have ever gotten over it, in fact...(because it was a problem with the manner of thinking rather than a lack of ideas v_v))

(The book is "Primer of the Novel" by Vincent McHugh and the relevant part is on page 163 if anyone's interested!)

(addendum: also in English class (which should have been called English Literature) we didn't learn Grammar or Composition but instead read fiction and studied "what did the author mean" by his writing instead of even basic fiction writing things like viewpoint or characterization. No learning how to write to express ourselves or studying how an author created his stories, just copying down what someone else did.)

(this is a general aside,but we didn't have art in school and they took out the drama class the year before i was supposed to be in it. No self-expression or attempted escapism for you! haha, yeah... school sucked.)

(i still had books, though!)

adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

[dew-creek]

tamaki suoh admitted into hospital by fnaf related incident.

[poguelandia]

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL TRILOGY (2006-2008) in RED

[alltoowsll]

I feel so high school every time I look at you, I wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you...

[one-time-i-dreamt]

There was a Wednesday-esque Netflix series centered around Timmy Turner from the Fairly OddParents going to high school. He smoked weed and was in the glee club. The characters from Glee were also there, because they are in every glee club simultaneously.

[secretly-an-automaton]

BEHOLD

my growing collection of characters who were on opposing sides of a love triangle when they should have just dated each other:

I eagerly welcome any suggestions for expansion

[spitblaze]

trans woman: well before my egg cracked, [goes into explicit detail about the social and gender alienation she experienced and the background radiation of dysphoria that she did not realize was dysphoria and how it seeped into so much of her life]

some brain genius: well really this is so vague it could apply to anything. have you considered that we should encourage men to be gnc instead of transgender actually

[opens-up-4-nobody]

I crucify the birthday boy as a treat

[dew-creek]

the i lgbtqi stands for . nevermind.

[futurebird]

More about Nex

“Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Ms Benedict said. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”

This is a gut punch to read. I've seen "old folks" go through that journey of gaining understanding. Ideally it wouldn't need to be a whole journey but there's something loving in people willing to grow.

But not knowing just how at risk they might be ... from this kind of violence.

what could have been.

Nex was a really good student apparently. Had strait As. So a nerd. Another gut punch. They just remind me of more than one person I know and care deeply about.

These FUCKERS destroy everything beautiful.

[poguelandia]

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL TRILOGY (2006-2008) in BLUE

[luminalunii97]

tw: suic*de, harassment

An iranian highschool student took her own life after receiving relentless harassment by the school staff over hijab dress code. School system in Iran is as awful as you can imagine. the harassment, the belittlings, the use of misogynistic language to keep girls in line, and the physical and verbal abuse. The principal and management staff in iranian schools are normally students' first bullies.

Things I've personally experienced at school, first hand (happened to me) or second hand (happened to my friends), are: getting slapped (x2), getting your hair pulled violently, getting your uniform ripped, getting suspended for three days because you dared to wear makeup/pluck your eyebrows/dye your hair, getting permanently expelled because you brought a cellphone to school (electronic devices are forbidden at school), getting called a wh*re by school principal because they found a love note from your boyfriend in your bag (the school has the right to check students belongings including looking into their bags and doing body checks to see if they have illegal things on them), and using fear inducing tactics to threaten you into following their backward rules (for example in my highschool they used to force us into watching "educational" videos about girls who got r*ped because they didn't have hijab and talked to boys, or video simulations of what hell looks like for women who don't wear hijab. In both instances, some of my classmates got so sick that they spent the rest of the hours crying, and one of my best friends literally threw up)

These are pretty common experiences for many iranian girls at school. Needless to say, many iranian teen girls hate school, have very low self esteem and a lot of mental health issues. Society is already pretty unsafe and hateful towards woman, school as an extention of the regime is the cherry on cake for us.

Of course the school experience is different from person to person based on the city/region/environment, but the difference is in the degree of how bad it was.

[Tweet made by Iranian journalist and human rights activist, Masih Alinejad, Nov 5, 2024:

Forced Hijab Claims Another Life: 16-Year-Old Arezoo Khavari Takes Her Life After School Harassment Over Dress Code Violations💔

A 16-year-old schoolgirl named #ArezooKhavari tragically took her own life by jumping from a building after being sent back from a school trip for violating the dress code by wearing jeans instead of the prescribed uniform.

Her grieving father revealed that this was not an isolated incident; Arezoo had faced repeated harassment from the school for her attire and her non-compliance with the mandatory hijab policy. Last year school almost refused to enroll her.

Following her death, her father lodged a formal complaint against the school authorities, accusing them of negligence and insensitivity, especially for their failure to offer any condolences or follow up after the incident.

A reliable source told me, that she was threatened with expulsion after the school’s vice principal handed over a video of her dancing without hijab to the principal for disciplinary action.

This case echoes a broader issue in Iran where in 2023, nearly 1,000 schoolgirls were victims of poisoning attacks, believed to be linked to the enforcement of discriminatory hijab laws in gender-segregated schools.

The responsibility for Arezoo’s death falls squarely on the shoulders of the Islamic Regime in Iran. /End of tweet]

#woman life freedom

[aprilblossomgirl]

Dad. I took our old customers here.

HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY | EP.09