/gulag/ - gulag

>>1133
In the USSR your class was the same every grade, and so was your teacher (maybe one teacher for elementary and one for high school).

So by the end you grew to have a certain level of understanding with these people you grew up with, even if you didn't like them that much.

I find this very interesting because by contrast, school in North America is almost designed to produce school shooters.

>>1134
Schools don't produce school shooters, it's gun culture and people going crazy. Most of us in America have the same kids in our class for many years, unless they move away. The teachers usually teach the kids of a certain grade and the classes pass through different teachers with different areas of expertise.
They didn't have a lot of school shootings in the 20th century and the school system didn't change.

>>1133
There wasn't a lot of heavy bullying in my schools. It was a big deal when there was an actual physical fight or beating. Rare. Kids have teased each other since the dawn of time and always will. Then again I didn't personally have a hard time or bully others. I may have missed it happening. But everyone knew each other and word got around when there was beef between people. I wasn't super popular. More of a class clown party animal with some artsy and nerdy interests. Everyone goes through phases. I played some sports. I attended advanced classes. I had friends and enemies. I'm not sure how others saw me, but everyone knew me. I wasn't afraid to give a speech. I wasn't afraid to get suspended. It feels like I did a little of everything. Waited until junior/senior year to start drinking and experimenting with drugs. Didn't become a stoner. Never got off track. Graduated and did some community college before going to work. But I've taken classes off and on for years just for interest.
I guess I was definitely a normal person, but I hung out with the freaks smoking cigarettes in the woods sometimes too.

I kind of miss high school now. It wasn't all good times I guess but it was carefree compared to adulthood sometimes.

>>1135
>They didn't have a lot of school shootings in the 20th century and the school system didn't change.


There were a lot of school shootings that had happened in the frontier days


>There wasn't a lot of heavy bullying in my schools. It was a big deal when there was an actual physical fight or beating. Rare.

>Kids have teased each other since the dawn of time and always will

Not wrong there, but adukts often downplay/dismiss/conflate bullying with teasing.

Yet, adults wouldn't like it when it happens to them.

>I kind of miss high school now. It wasn't all good times I guess but it was carefree compared to adulthood sometimes.

Lemme guess: you didn't have any life skill training prior to adulting?

There's nothing wrong with reminiscing your schooldays but there's something disquieting about how most adults glorify/romanticize schooldays to the degree they do.

They actually think it's inherently better than the newfound autonomy of adulthood.