You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
I can't understand people who shrug this off. I was driven just short of insane by boredom. Genuinely: the doodles & OCD-esque mental habits of those years remind me of the repetitive tics wild animals display when suddenly caged. Counting, carving notches, pinching myself hard.https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1144429628196417541 …
There is zero doubt in my mind that school made me an irreparably stupider person than I once had the potential to be just by depriving my brain of any kind of stimulation for most of my waking hours, most days, for more than a decade. How could it possibly be otherwise?
It would be interesting to survey schoolkids on how many of them have caused themselves physical pain (e.g. pinching, scratching, cutting) in the classroom to distract themselves from boredom. But no, I don't think even that would be a sufficient wakeup call.
My eating disorder was one of the most enjoyable aspects of my high school years. I hope some parents who need to sit with that go ahead and do so.
Some of my teachers let me read which was cool. If they didn’t let me read then I just did some writing and they couldn’t really notice. There are good ways to learn by yourself.
"I was fortunate and mistake that for merit."
When I was leaving school this “shrugging” was a complete mindfuck. I would have done anything to avoid feeling like this OTOH everyone else seemed unable to even acknowledge this meant a lot to me, let alone accept it. In their mind it was asking for a triviality.
I had good time at school, but I think it was total waste of my time. Last two years of high school I had less than 50% attendance rate, which officially should have disqualified me from graduating if it wasn’t for my GPA. But stuff like this makes me mad:https://twitter.com/mizroba/status/1051519655284748288?s=21 …
Probably depends on whether your school lets you read a book under the desk.
Schools/teachers that *force* you to be bored as part of their weird power moves are so much worse.
Whatever happened to flipping the classroom and all the innovative stuff khan academy and researchers in Finland were cooking up 5-10 years ago?
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
