School Damage

[United Dependencies]

edit:by the way C-C-C- COMBO BREAKER!

That's a good question to ask yourself, Bendira.

Why is it that everyone seems to get the same lousy impression of you? It's possible that everyone else is wrong and you are right, and everyone is simply afraid of your brave and defiant principled stance on whatever it is you have a stance about. But is that the most likely explanation?

Oh, I remember asking myself that question some years back. I actually heard myself say once, "what's wrong with everyone else that they don't get me?"

It's a painful stage that's very hard to see through. Cool thing is, when you do see through it, the ability to laugh at yourself, really hear and understand others, and not have a gigantic chip on your shoulder becomes a terrific gift.

It wasn't as severe for me. I do remember that time though. Ahh good times.

[Qatarab]

How about we get back on topic while you guys can flame each other via TGs

How about you learn what a flame is and don't read the posts you don't like. Scroll buttons exist for a reason, mate.

Wow..someones on a roll. Is it the caffeine, adrenaline or just you?

[Intangelon]

That's a good question to ask yourself, Bendira.

Why is it that everyone seems to get the same lousy impression of you? It's possible that everyone else is wrong and you are right, and everyone is simply afraid of your brave and defiant principled stance on whatever it is you have a stance about. But is that the most likely explanation?

I think its most likely because I have the audacity to diagree with the majority on something. So obviously that makes me arrogant, because I am principled and stand up for what I think is right, even in the face of adversity.

Disagreeing with the majority doesn't take audacity. Disagreeing in a way that doesn't make you sound like a whiny, attention-whoring, bratty know-it-all and actually proposes alternatives to the so-called majority view takes audacity.

What you're doing takes about as much audacity as proposing that Justin Bieber is a talentless homunculus. Iffy in an all-girls middle school, but audacious? Hardly.

[Bendira]

How about we get back on topic while you guys can flame each other via TGs

How about you learn what a flame is and don't read the posts you don't like. Scroll buttons exist for a reason, mate.

Its a bit hard to find the actual topic amongst the vitriol

[Intangelon]

Nah. Bitching about your school and your teachers makes this topic about your hang-ups.

AKA an opinion.

Just like yours.

[Intangelon]

I don't think so, I believe it is Da-something that is a teacher, they have a banana on their flag.

DaWoad is who you're thinking of, and Intagelon is a teacher as well. As are Katganistan and NERVUN...

And Ryadn as well.

[The Lone Alliance]

That would mostly just be soldiers dieing, so who cares. Btw, we most likely nuked Japan to just show the Soviet Union we had the bombs and were willing to use them. The Japanese wantedto negotiate surrender.

Actually that 5 million was in CIVILIAN casualties.
We'd be machine gunning Japanese house wives and school kids because they'd be running at us with spears. So "Moral" am I right?

[Intangelon]

And most employers will subsidize those additional credentials.
Teachers, alas, have to pay their own way (at least in NY).

Wait, did Bendira just complain about teachers who get more education to do their jobs? I thought he said they were lazy stupid people.

There are always exceptions.

Wait -- so you admit that your perceptions aren't the world's truth?

[Bendira]

There are always exceptions.

Wait -- so you admit that your perceptions aren't the world's truth?

I never said they were.

[Intangelon]

And Ryadn.

Damn... I can't believe I forgot her...

S'okay - I won't tell if you don't.

[Intangelon]

Homeschooling sounds good to me but the disadvantages are the that you would lack many resources available to you as a student in a school.

Such as?

(I homeschool my two daughters, fair warning.)

[Buffett and Colbert]

Homeschooling sounds good to me but the disadvantages are the that you would lack many resources available to you as a student in a school.

Such as?

(I homeschool my two daughters, fair warning.)

Personally, I'm curious.

Do you feel that they miss out on the social aspect of school? What about things such as clubs, sports teams, etc? Do they still participate in them some how or are they made up for some other way? Not necessary?

[Intangelon]

edit:by the way C-C-C- COMBO BREAKER!

Oh, I remember asking myself that question some years back. I actually heard myself say once, "what's wrong with everyone else that they don't get me?"

It's a painful stage that's very hard to see through. Cool thing is, when you do see through it, the ability to laugh at yourself, really hear and understand others, and not have a gigantic chip on your shoulder becomes a terrific gift.

It wasn't as severe for me. I do remember that time though. Ahh good times.

*bows*

Well broken, sir. Sometimes I just go on a reply tear and forget to multi-quote.

Severe or not, it's a phase most young people with an appreciable intellect go through. Once you realize that it's okay if nobody in the room laughs at your OBvious Monty Python/Terry Pratchett/Red Dwarf/Douglas Adams/Dr. Who/etc. reference, life gets easier. Then you meet the hot young woman who DOES get your references, and before you know it, you're a college prof homeschooling your two adorable children!

Life is good.

[Intangelon]

How about you learn what a flame is and don't read the posts you don't like. Scroll buttons exist for a reason, mate.

Wow..someones on a roll. Is it the caffeine, adrenaline or just you?

Less a roll, more nigiri.

(sushi joke!)

Sorry, mate. No offense meant. I have a peeve for folks who post merely to complain about tangents...thereby extending said tangent...you see.

[Intangelon]

How about you learn what a flame is and don't read the posts you don't like. Scroll buttons exist for a reason, mate.

Its a bit hard to find the actual topic amongst the vitriol

Or, in other words, your work here is done, amirite?

[The Lone Alliance]

Thats when you take the easy road and take something like Marching Band. Not that difficult, PE credits and you get in free at every school football game. People in it are also usualy nice.

NOW you're talkin'.

Not to away games anymore, some schools don't bring their bands with them because of "Budget cuts".

[Intangelon]

Wait -- so you admit that your perceptions aren't the world's truth?

I never said they were.

Not in so many words, but in posting nothing in your jeremiads here but references to your own experience, you give a strong impression that you believe that what happened to you happens every day to everyone.

[Qatarab]

Homeschooling sounds good to me but the disadvantages are the that you would lack many resources available to you as a student in a school.

Such as?

(I homeschool my two daughters, fair warning.)

From what i've heard they can't really get those extra-curricular activities students that attend a school get. Plus i think there was something about applying for college and homeschooling but not being a teacher or homeschooled i think i should leave this question up to the pros(such as you )

[New Korongo]

who says we are not allowed free speech in the class room

[Bendira]

Its a bit hard to find the actual topic amongst the vitriol

Or, in other words, your work here is done, amirite?

Well you did just go on a massive spree of posting, unfortunately none of it is really that relevant to the topic, although it has its moments. I must say I am offended that you chose to discredit everything* based on the notion that im just a kid going through a phase.

[The Lone Alliance]

Its a bit hard to find the actual topic amongst the vitriol

Or, in other words, your work here is done, amirite?

What his work to be a worthless insane troll that should be banned from NationStates if not the "Society" that he hates so much?

If so I completely agree.

[Camicon]

Or, in other words, your work here is done, amirite?

Well you did just go on a massive spree of posting, unfortunately none of it is really that relevant to the topic, although it has its moments. I must say I am offended that you chose to discredit everyone based on the notion that im just a kid going through a phase.

Oh, don't worry Bendira! You're not going through a phase! According to you, this is how you'll always be! You stick to your principals after all!

[Bendira]

Or, in other words, your work here is done, amirite?

What his work to be a worthless insane troll that should be banned from NationStates if not the "Society" that he hates so much?

If so I completely agree.

I think thats pretty innapropriate. I personally don't want anybody to be banished from society based on their beliefs.

[Intangelon]

Such as?

(I homeschool my two daughters, fair warning.)

Personally, I'm curious.

Do you feel that they miss out on the social aspect of school? What about things such as clubs, sports teams, etc? Do they still participate in them some how or are they made up for some other way? Not necessary?

Not a whit. The local HS has the orchestra I can't provide for my 'cellist, and the area's children's chorus provides the choir I can't replicate at home. The dancer goes to ballet and tap classes, the singer to ballet and soccer. The younger one's friends from her dance class and soccer team are all in AWANA, so she goes there, too.

We have their friends over, and allow them to stay at their friends' houses when it's possible and appropriate. Just like public school folk. What we DON'T get is the constant peer pressure, clothing pressure, body image nonsense, mind-numbing cultural garbage used as the lingua franca (i.e. using crappy TV show lines as in-jokes, and such). My kids have cell phones and the older one is fixin' to start driving soon.

What could they possibly be missing out on that's a potential positive?

[New Korongo]

i think they will shut this down soon