Writer's Block: School daze

[seawasp]

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Negative. For me the school year was, mostly, an opportunity for continued boredom, pointless exercises focused mostly on things that didn't matter, and harrassment and bullying by other people.

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Wasn't it just so much fun to fall through the cracks of the educational system?

[seawasp]

I didn't fall through the cracks; the system wasn't designed for me and my mother didn't know at the time that you COULD homeschool (she said later that if she'd realized it, she would have).

The advice I was given that was always wrong was to ignore the bullies because it would make them stop. Yes, sometimes ignoring them is the right approach, but usually not.