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After my terrible high school experience I was surprised to meet people in college who said their school was like you describe. "Everyone basically got along".
by mypalmike 5y ago
After my terrible high school experience I was surprised to meet people in college who said their school was like you describe. "Everyone basically got along".
I wondered though that maybe if your aren't being the bully or the bullied, you might just not notice the hell that some of the kids are going through.
- cbm-vic-20 5y agoI went to a "bad" inner-city high school (ie, poverty and the the things that go along with that, gang activity, kids being regularly sent to jail), the type where well-to-do parents in the city would pay to put their kids in private school or move to the suburbs, but the school had thousands of students. It wasn't too difficult to find a group or two to fit into. Everyone definitely did not get along, but you didn't need to get along with everyone...
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- etempleton 5y agoI was generally popular and got along with most everyone and still found high school to be absolute hell, though really no more than middle or even elementary school. The issue, I think, comes from a lack of agency, you are told where to be and what to do all day every day. Every minute is scheduled and that wears on people and leads to stress and abnormal social interactions where kids pick at each other. I do think school plays an important role in social development and learning to interact and get along with others, but I think the environment sucks and isn’t even a great parallel to the real world in most cases. It is more like prison than anything. If you find yourself in a work place and think, “jeez, this place is like high school,” you should probably run.