Do you ever wish you could go back to school?

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I agree that it was easier to meet people in school than after, but I have always been asocial so that's a non-issue for me.

I hated school. It was usually one or more of three things: hard, boring or just uninteresting. It never felt like anything but a waste of time. But there are times I wish I could start over, maybe I could get the teachers to see how poorly I did at maths and maybe get more help this time around and at least get through high school the first time around. Avoid a couple of pitfalls along the way. For that reason I would like to go back.
And to re experience the good stuff!
Even it means the boring stuff too all over again, not to mention the hard, scary and painful stuff. I might be able to avoid some pitfalls but I won't be likely to prevent deaths.

Let me think...NO.

Never. My depression and anxiety went through the roof during my last few months of school. I felt like every day was increasingly harder and harder to get through. It's so much easier now I'm homeschooled - the work's less difficult, I don't have to face nasty people every day who talked about me behind my back and shouted abuse at me, and my life is so much less stressful. Even though I lost all my friends after leaving school 7 months ago, I wouldn't change this lifestyle even if someone paid me. My life is drama free and (relatively) stress free. I love it

if i could keep what i know, i would go back in time, but probably burn it down to prevent any more bullying

I just graduated. Wouldn't go back at all, but I will say that I'm going to miss some friends from there. This is going to sound pathetic, but I was quite upset because of that. Some of my friends in secondary school were also friends in primary, and I knew them for roughly a decade. I know that a lot of people say that college friends are better than school friends, but I don't think it's true in my case. I don't think they're going to replace my old friends.

I don't miss being avoided, bullied and ignored every day, so I don't wish I could go back to school.

Never.
Although I do like learning new things, just not in a school environment.

A part of me wants to return to the era of kindergarten and grade school. Back then, I had no concept of the things that plague me now, or I at least didn't have to worry about them nearly as much. It was so much easier to just relax and be happy. Every perk of growing up (higher knowledge, greater independence, romantic feelings) seems to come with a downside (anxiety/dread, responsibility overload, loneliness).

Hell no, I just graduated

As a current high school student I would say that it would be pretty cool to go back to my 8th grade year of middle school for a couple weeks. Other than that probably not.

Although not the same you could go to night school.

I wish i could go back to college so i could study a STEM subject

Not for all the tea in China. I am fanatical about self-directed learning, and am constantly cramming my head with new information and skills, but no way would I go back to the constant sensory overload, compulsory curricula, bullying and overt social exclusion, sleep deprivation, compulsory team sports, uncomfortable uniforms etc., etc. I did have a few very encouraging and open-minded teachers who I think would have been fantastic private tutors, and I've gained a couple of qualifications through correspondence courses, but institutional education is not for me.