It's hard to move ahead yourself when you are forced to sit in a chair for 6 hours per day plus 2-3 hours of activities around it (waking up early, breaks, home

It's hard to move ahead yourself when you are forced to sit in a chair for 6 hours per day plus 2-3 hours of activities around it (waking up early, breaks, homeworks). I remember it and it was like a torture. I don't intend to have children but if I had them I would never impose public schooling on them. I would home-school like my sister does. I am from Poland btw. For me school was traumatic 12 years which killed my curiosity, will to learn and faith in humanity. I still managed to learn quite a bit on the side but to this day I can shake out the thought of the best years of my life being wasted by the system. As to jocks and nerds my elementary school was full of bullies and it was basically a prison culture where any kind of deviation from the norm was severely punished. Short? Walks in funny way? Not so good complexion? You were treated as an alien and bullied around while no one cared. If you made stand you were punished for stirring trouble.