I briefly attended a pre-school called “Kindercare” because someone thought I should socialize with other children.
They tried to teach me my ABCs but I already knew how to read.
They made me take a nap on a hard plastic slab.
They stole my little toy car.
They put green stuff in my Velveeta shells and cheese.
And I got sick from all the germy kids.
And so began a lifelong hatred of school.
Mercifully, I avoided “school” until kindergarten. But Impy’s horror stories are commonplace for those that did.
I was so bored with school by 10th grade, I wanted to take the GED and start college, hoping there was a better level of people* and that I’d be academically challenged there. But the combination of hormones and a drivers license kept me in school thru 12th grade.
*I still have a handful of friends from HS (and prior); they’re good people. But the majority of sh*^heads I went thru K-12 with? They mean less to me than dryer lint.
Indeed. For me, Kindergarten through 5th. grade was tolerable. As for the rest, the less said the better. I’ll just say that going to school was like going to jail and leave the rest to the imagination. But at the time, no one thought to point out that the school experience was the main problem.
IMHO, public schools should be phased out. Maybe it can be like public housing, a means of last resort.