It’s fascinating to see the reactions of people, but I’m just stating what I think.

I’m neurodivergent and was bullied for most of the time I went to school. If I was not being bullied, I either found it too interesting, or very boring. Plus, being unpopular, I was always picked last in gym class, so at some point I started not going to those classes, and eventually dropped out of school entirely. I really felt like it was a prison where parents dump their kids while they are busy earning slave wages. And from what I hear from my nephew and friends working in schools, I’m just glad I don’t have a child that also has to deal with this.

The whole concept of schools with classes of ~30ish kids with an overworked teacher trying to follow a standardized program that will not work for all kids, is… depressing.

Who is maliciously complying? The teacher? The kid?

Ah schools. Life’s first taste of arbitrary rules. Some schools here are confiscating stealing kids’ phones for a week.

I’m glad I don’t have children to send to those part time prisons.