Back to School

Bernard Shaw said that "Youth is wasted on the young" but he might have said "Education is wasted..." instead! In truth there are some days when I think that it would be nice but it would have to be on my terms. I don't recollect that being the case last time I went to school!

Hey dragon! I refused to attend my highschool graduation ceremony, too.

It's not too late for you though. More and more colleges are offering distance courses. Here in the UK we have a wonderful prganisation called the Open University that lets you study to Masters Degree level without leaving home!

I have actually considered trying to go to school online... being a full time mom and having a newborn that is only 3 months it would be hard for me to get out of the house...and we are a 1 car family now ...s it is an option. now just to figure out what classes I would be interested in....LOL

What course are you doing? I couldn't wait to leave school and get into the world of work.

Goodness me. I know nothing about permaculture really. Clearly it's more than just growing better tomatoes! So are you in the UK?

Sustainable Land Use incorporating a Permaculture Design course. The teacher is Patrick Whitefield, which is very exciting.

There is s freedom about being a child that you don't realize that you have until you are older. I think that I am reverting to childhood now. I never really wanted to go back to school but I do wish that I had made more of the opportunities whilst I was there.

I actually went back to being a full time student when I was 23 to to a short six month course. It was fantastic to be learning something new. These days I wish I had stayed at school right until the end instead of leaving a couple of years early. At the time, as a 15 year old, I just wanted to start earning money. But if I had stuck it out, I could have gotten myself a high paying career doing something that was a bit more rewarding than working on cars!

We all have something in us that we do well at. It just has to be coaxed out of us.

I agree fully with you. I guess that i learned later when i was at college. But still enjoy my sport part of my school days, for that i would liuke to go back to school.

That's the down side of growing up.

I think that the idea of learning is attarctive, but I agree; there's no way that I would want to re-live my schooldays either.

If you ask me, there needs to be a balance. I've never been to a school which was totally laid back....but heard of a few such schools in my area (who try to cater to the students who have returned from Western countries). The first thing that a teacher needs to instil in a student is the love for learning...make the subject interesting and then take it on from there. Regular projects are fun for the kids and they learn in the process. I do consider daily homework which burdens the student with another 2-3 hours of work after school hours is not (in my opinion) of any use.

I wish that English schools were more pressurised. Some of them are so laid back that they are virtually horizontal! But I wouldn't want to be a teacher!

Both!

For education or the fun?

NO PIKE!!! As it was they took me ...not her...to court for her truancy. And to boot, the court tried to charge my 6000.00 for her truancy!! All that and I was missing time at work to attend the court date! You have no idea how involved I was in trying to get this girl to school. She wasn't as sneaky as I was with her skipping by any means. I didn't get caught until I'd skipped so much that many of my teachers thought I was a new student. I work nights and I was getting up and dragging her little butt to school and bringing her into the school. It was teachers who would let her go to the bathroom from class and she'd slip out instead. I had daily e-mail and phone contact with all of her teachers and had asked them to call me if she did not show up to a class. I would be right out there looking for her...I knew her hangouts and ironically and to her dismay...many of them were the same as mine were at her age. Anyway I argued in court and threatened to turn the tables. My daughter often came home high and drunk. If something happened to her after she had been signed in to their care...who is liable? The 6000.00 charges got dropped and she had to do community service and had a court order to attend school and keep her grades at a passing level. She challenged them and they bumped up the community service and supervision. She ended up with a curfew which they checked on and could not hang out with certain kids etc. It was a nightmare of a time but like most kids, she finally grew up and is an awesome person now...glad I let her live because there were times that I really didn't want to.

LOL. Perhaps that is how the parents of persistant truants should be treated. Made to attend school instead of their children. I bet that attendance would increase rapidly!

Was it a hot summer that year? Or was it something else that burned you!!

Last semester at college, and I wouldn't even have needed to be there, but the previous semester a class got canceled that I needed for graduation. Not enough students at pre-registration, and, despite the fact that enough showed up on the first day of class, it had already been canceled. So I ended up graduating later than expected, and I was just burnt out.

LOL. My life has sbeen downhill, uphill and along the level. I just wish that I had more time to learn the things that I want to.

I didn't enjoy my middle years either. In fact I only really enjoyed primary (elementary) school and that was because my best friend sat next to me and the teacher was lovely.

I set with my girlfriend in junior high. She and I were close for those years. We had alot of fun.

Good luck with that. I hope that you acheive your ambition.

Thank you!

They also say never go back. But it is nice to reminisce occasionally. XXX

I can imagine. But it sounds like you were alienated by your schooling which is shameful of the school.

Now I'm thinking "Legally Blonde"! LOL.

I agree that they are free of the stresses of adulthood, but they do have their own set of problems. At least you don't have to worry abouyt paying the rent or mortgage as a child.

I broke a few rules too. But I'd better not say what!!! LOL.

I think that there has to be a reason to go back.