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What do you think about school? What do you like and hate about it?

Education is always a positive element in your life; so is making friends. The distracting bullies can get on your nerves, though.

I despise school to an almost unimaginable degree. 99% of the students are mean, stupid, nearly illiterate, and general bad people. The teachers rarely know much of anything about their subject beyond the contents of the book, and even if they do they rarely can be bothered to teach anything that they arent required to (and the stuff they do teach they have to simplify a lot because the majority of the students cant even spell the name of what we are studying, let alone comprehend it). And much of what we learn is useless, and worse, boring. In the rare case when its an interesting subject with a good teacher, the students are so out of control that learning is impossible. Add that to the required social skills, lack of freedoms (including those gauranteed under the American Constitution), and the fact that its wasting 7-8 hours of my day, and I think it could be considered the worst thing in existance.

The students seem to never know the subject material, and half the time the professors don't, either.
I've been in school 4 full years and can honestly say apart from my Gender Studies classes and the methods of cultural analysis they taught me, I've learned not a thing I didn't already know.

As it seems school for us is easy, ok or hell on earth.

I'm quite a lucky aspie... I HAVE some friends both aspie and NT. Though they don't understand... and often tell my i don't care or I'm dumb or something... 'cos' I don't understand "simple" social skills and cues -
The bullies are very annoying and those popular kids get on my nerves.

I can't honestly say I hate my school, even though the "policy" won't let you take advanced classes until junior year, the principal fails to deal with complaints promptly and properly, some of the staff and helpers are corrupt and nepotistic, the culture values cold-blooded achievement, cutthroat competition, and aggressiveness, and the school in general is far from a meritocracy.
Plus, the only way I got respect and avoided bullies and ridicule was by passively intimidating them academically and intellectually - getting stellar grades and heaps of awards, and helping others with their schoolwork (not to mention being accepted into elite colleges). It's all about being able to play the system, and if you can't, you lose.

High school still grows on you, despite these things. I mean, it's been my home for four years.