Waterloo Sunrise said:
You lucky ******* - you went to the Oratory. Try to be a bit more grateful for the chance you've been given.
Oratory education standards dropped since your years.
As for the chance, pfff, yeah you are right if i ended up in 1 of the low quality chav schools where you get beaten up for your lunch money by 11 year olds completing their initiation into London street gangs then yes life would have been different.
But the other schools i (and people from my background) got accepted for were of similar quality to Oratory, only without the idiotic victorian rules system.
I'm 25 - I just think lots of teenagers are depressingly stupid and self-pitying. I do not include any specific individuals in that, but really, people who think school is a tough haul are going to have a horrible shock when they actually have to work for a living.
You are forgetting that teenagers often, even though they seem to have a more comfortable life, are very likely to get depressed.
Most 11-18 year olds find school life grim enough, especially when, with transport taken into account, its 6pm before you get home to start the marathon homework exercises.
And especially when the basic pleasures of a school day- crushes on the other sex and exercise at break times, are denied to them,
Maybe these things dont mean much to you and maybe you enjoyed the lack of girls around at school during puberty I don't know, but for many people, something to look forward to the day is essential, and many men will take the riggers of day to day work with the freedom it carries, without a whimper to escape the day to day sentence that the British Education system offers in its hands.
Dekket T said:
Indeed... high school was the easy life. I never liked it back then, but looking back those years were great.
People generally look back with nostalgia at a lot of things. Im not saying that is the case with you but i remember some members of my family when drunk talking about the good old days under communism and how fun it was to cue outside a meat shop with food stamps for the slice of ham that was to get your family through the week.
Red Rick said:
If it was so bad, i would've made sure to get kicked out if there i would've known a better alternative. It would have been easy to get kicked out i guess, just burn a bible in class or something
Forget expelled. These days, if i burnt a bible theyd be sending Condoleeza Rice down to plead with me not to do it again.
Waterloo Sunrise said:
Well, I do look forward to sitting in my club aged 75 railing against the youth of today.
I enjoy my job and my life, but I don't kid myself that school and Uni were actually very sweet deals. I know teenagers are shot full of hormones so its difficult to expect them to make reasonable assessments of their situation, but its still annoying to hear so much self-pity about 1st world 'problems'.
Im the first to admit my problems don't compare to what 80% of the world is going through. Its usually my answer when people ask me if i feel sad or something.
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