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High school highs and lows

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As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

What do you miss and don’t miss about highschool?

A lot of people will tell you that high school is the greatest time of a person’s life. I’ve never believed this myself. For my money, college is the greatest time of a young person’s life. There is not other time is a person’s life when they have both so much freedom and so little responsibility.

Having said that, high school is still a time of great growth and development for young people. High school is a period where there is very little responsibility, but unlike college, there is still is not a whole lot of freedom.

For a lot of us, high school is pretty much the low spot on the proverbial totem pole. Growing up, establishing your own identity, and trying to make your way through the rule is a very difficult time for a lot of young people. For money, young people, high school itself isn’t a great time; but reviving it is.

Being a school teacher puts me into something of a unique position to compare what life was like for my generation, and also for this current generation. Some people will tell you that life is a lot more complicated for kids today than I was “back in my day“. And in a sense it is. Social media has added a whole new dimension to young people‘s lives that I think they are still trying to Work their way through.

I do think a lot more understanding and less judgmental of each other. A lot of that I think has to do with the fact that resource students have been mainstreamed into general education classes as much as they can be. I think students recognize it when one of appears as a special need or a disability, they seem to be more tolerant about it then when I was a high schooler.

Going back to the prompt, I miss the lack of responsibility. As kids, of course, we didn’t think that we didn’t have a lot of responsibilities. School was our job, and it was her social life. It was the Lynch-pin around which our entire lives rotated, for better or for worse.

I miss the newness of everything when I was I. High school. I think about the first time I fell in love, the first time I discovered a new band, or even formulating my own political and social views. Everything was so monumental; so important then. The music we listened spoke to our identities and burgeoning personalities.

One thing I do not miss about high school is the sense of loneliness. I would be putting it my way to say that I was something of a late bloomer, socially. I didn’t really date much in high school; not because I was rejected too much, but because I lacked the confidence to even ask anyone out. I wasn’t afraid of people saying no to me as much as I was afraid of getting laughed at. When you lack confidence, and you don’t have any victories to hang out proverbial hat on, it’s hard to take some of those big steps, socially speaking.

Perhaps one of the greatest revelations I’ve experienced as an adult was talking to people that I graduated from high school with. A lot of us connected through social media before our 20th, and then our 30th class reunions. I realized that we all had so much more in common than we ever realized. We all had a lot of the same insecurities and wants and needs as young people. It’s just that some of us were better at hiding those insecurities than others were.

The problem with these revelations is that you never get them when you need them. Sometimes you don’t have these breakthroughs for years, or even decades in my case.

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