Is Grade School A Total Waste Of Time?

[MrMuffinMan]

I mean nothing that is done in grade school really matters. At least in my experience.

All the effort you put into being "cool" and making friends mean nothing. Your "aspiration" of being "cool" probably only drove you further away from having a prosperous future (you fried your brain with who knows what, you risked getting STDs and unwanted pregnancies which could ruin your future married life, you commited crimes that can get you locked up, you slacked off and skipped school which only leads to degenerate behaviour down the road, you developed an undeserved sense of entitlement which was crushed when you saw the reality of the cruel world)

Any genuine friends you had left shortly after highschool ended

Most likely your highschool crush (and all the "relationships" before then) didn't pan out. Leaving you broken-hearted

Any work you put into classes means pretty much nothing, since you graduate pretty much no matter what and the real world is a lot more messy than neatly organized letter grades. (Thank goodness for me)

You invested a ton of time into mastering a sport and building a killer body. Only to find out that you lost that multi-million dollar spot in the National-Whatever-League to one of the other million jocks vying for that position. Then disappointingly did the next best thing. Became this guy vvv watching your dream unfold with some other idiot who just happened to win the lottery of life.

Anybody have actual valuable experiences gleamed from grade school, or am I totally correct.

[meowcow]

I would think that children in the poorest parts of the world who do not even have access to grade school would call you the biggest idiot on the planet.

It is well known that a human being's ability to learn is at its greatest during childhood. This includes the ability to learn language, cognitive and technical skills, and athletic and social skills. The skills we learn during this period are what determines how we are as adults.

Kids, particularly girls, who are not engaged in sports at a young age become athletically inept as adults. I've seen a documentary showing that children who play ball frequently as a child learn to "wrist snap" when throwing. Those who did not play as a kid, basically used their whole arm to swing the ball with no wrist snap, and were not capable of learning the correct coordination in adulthood.

The same goes with learning social interactions through social cues. Put a kid in homeschooling in isolation from others, and that kid will grow up as a completely awkward person with poor social skills which will probably affect their life, career and relationship in every way.

Lastly, I think you should take a look at the segment of the population who either dropped out of school in America. Or those who never had access to school in 3rd world countries. They are amongst the poorest in the nation, with few marketable job qualities.

[Spiorad_Aisce]

Can I flip your take a little bit - I totally agree that all these things happen and are a waste of time but aren't your teens an ideal time to get it out of your system - At any other time of your adult life you will have responsibilities and there will not much room for messing up - At work if you mess about, you get fired, your rent/bills don't get paid, your kids starve

[MrMuffinMan]

So why don't they just call "school" what it is. "A hangout for the socially deluded" lol

[DarkHumorRUs]

You couldn't have written this without grade school.

[MrMuffinMan]

Actually I could have. I learned how to read and write from my parents.

[DarkHumorRUs]

Okay, fuck off, they taught you things that the majority of civilized people learn in grade school.
Were you homeschooled or something? Because that counts as gradeschool too, jackass.

[MrMuffinMan]

Homeschooled for grade 1 and my dad read to me a lot as a kid.

[DarkHumorRUs]

So what about the other grades.

[MrMuffinMan]

Anything that is actually valuable to you, personally can be learnt through other means then just having a whole bunch of knowledge you will never actually use shoved down your throat

[DarkHumorRUs]

Apparently proper grammar and punctuation don't matter to you then.

[MrMuffinMan]

Just get out of highschool and you will know what I mean. Proper grammar and pronounciation IS important but so is learning the neologism stemming from Greek and Latin. Yet the majority of people get by just fine without doing so. Is it beneficial? Yes. Is it necessary. Not for everyone.

[DarkHumorRUs]

I'm in college.
And I would say the social aspect is pretty necessary--again, based on how you're acting right now. But you wouldn't know about the social aspect if you've never/barely ever been to grade school.