i love to learn, but sitting still is a pita for me, and the whole hs scene
was boring to me then so really no interest now, in fact i went to three
years of hs, then the first semster of my fourth year but only went three
hours a day and sgtarted college in the evenings, was done with hs in dec,
Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> Storrmmee wrote:
>> some can't giv up "the good old days"
>>
>> either their adult life sucks, they were powerful in school, and miss
>> it, or they have allowed time and brain degradation to change the
>> facts in their own life.
>>
>> a while back a woman i grew up with said she missed HS, i almost fell
>> off my stool, i wasn't drunk when she said it, but i certainly
>> ordered an extra to try and comphrened how being too young, too
>> inexperienced, and too worried about the future could possibly
>> compensate for the great ride i have had from that point to this,
>>
> My mom has said that she missed school. This is a foreign concept to me.
> Perhaps her life was different because she grew up on a farm. Perhaps she
> liked school because she was going to it instead of doing chores? I don't
> know. She says she likes to learn things and wants to go back to school
> now, in her 70's. I always hated school and was glad when I didn't have
> to go. I like to learn too. I just don't like school!
>
> High school was really a breeze for me. I knew all sorts of ways of
> getting out of it. Mostly we went to the mall or out to lunch. Probably
> spent just as much time out of school as in it. Things were easy in those
> days and the truant officer was easily bribed. Didn't have much homework
> either. And I was still on the honor roll. Those days have changed! I
> certainly wouldn't want to be in school now.
>