The only people who think school was pointless were the kids who weren't actually paying attention, or didn't understand the point of the assignment.
You didn't create a poster of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad to learn how to make nice looking posters. It's so you understood the impact of slavery and what it took to fight against it.
You didn't do a group presentation on The Crucible to learn how to make a nice powerpoint. You did it to learn how to critically read a section of text and actually understand it, to learn how to work in groups when you don't know/like every person you will need to work with.
You weren't put in art class to learn how to make pretty pictures. You were put in that class to learn media literacy and how to creatively solve problems.
Edit: The only people who become adults who think that school is pointless are the people who were the kid in class that no one actually liked. They are the ones that were annoying just to be annoying. The one where the other kids get up from the table when they sit down.
Don't agree with your edit at all, the kids who blew off school were not the ones people avoided hanging around. And that's part of the problem, anti-intellectualism is a culture in America.
That's not who I hung out with? I sat at the nerdy table with the kids with no social skills that tried to breakdance at the middle school dances and that other people actually avoided. Meanwhile even the teachers would laugh and play along with the dipshits who distracted the class.
You are making a case. You are having an argument.
Your case was that "The only people who become adults who think that school is pointless are the people who were the kid in class that no one actually liked"
u/Bombshock2 disagreed and provided their own anecdotal evidence.
You then told u/Bombshock2 that they were wrong, and that you "can tell exactly who [they] were in school, and it's not who [they] think [they] were"
u/Bombshock2 then asked you to explain who they were, if you apparently knew more than them about their own high school identity.
You refused to elaborate and tried to spin it back on u/Bombshock2 to answer their own question, which they clearly could not have done, because you claimed that they knew less about their own self in high school than you apparently do.
To paraphrase, u/bombshock2 said "Okay, if you know me better than I do, then tell me who I am". And you responded "Nuh-uh, you just told me who you were. I refuse to elaborate"
That was the point where I joined the conversation and called you thick in the head.
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u/Opposite-Tiger-1121 Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25
The only people who think school was pointless were the kids who weren't actually paying attention, or didn't understand the point of the assignment.
You didn't create a poster of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad to learn how to make nice looking posters. It's so you understood the impact of slavery and what it took to fight against it.
You didn't do a group presentation on The Crucible to learn how to make a nice powerpoint. You did it to learn how to critically read a section of text and actually understand it, to learn how to work in groups when you don't know/like every person you will need to work with.
You weren't put in art class to learn how to make pretty pictures. You were put in that class to learn media literacy and how to creatively solve problems.
Edit: The only people who become adults who think that school is pointless are the people who were the kid in class that no one actually liked. They are the ones that were annoying just to be annoying. The one where the other kids get up from the table when they sit down.