<story><title>Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?</title><url>https://www.ianwelsh.net/do-adults-really-not-remember-school-sucked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>This take is so common on HN but I dislike it so much. First off, comparing not having to go to school with the pandemic situation is wrong because kids can&amp;#x27;t physically meet outside of school either, so that sucks in an entirely different way and is a bad comparison.&lt;p&gt;Secondly though, school is not terrible for everyone. I didn&amp;#x27;t have a great household. My parents didn&amp;#x27;t read me books. I made a lot of friends in school, and I had good teachers who helped me chosing an education and career path my parents wouldn&amp;#x27;t have offered me. So getting out of my home environment into a different social one was vital.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d call the authors attitude the &amp;#x27;nerdy privileged kid&amp;#x27; experience, who most likely had bad social interactions as well as a household educated and affluent enough to get a rich education outside of the education system. It&amp;#x27;s not how it works for many, probably most kids.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also an important aspect implicitly ignored in the article. That a lot of parents &lt;i&gt;who cannot work from home&lt;/i&gt;, like say cashiers or construction workers who still have to go out, do not even really know right now how to manage their kids. People like that rely on having a school system that works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kinghtown</author><text>Totally agree with this. My parents were good in some ways but in terms of anything related to academics they were both in the negative. They never helped me with my homework even a single time growing up.. homeschooling with them would have been.. awkward.&lt;p&gt;Education definitely  needs to reform, speaking here in terms of North America, but HN is not a a good sample pool for the general public.&lt;p&gt;I’m so jealous of people from good families. Like when I hear so and sos parents went to Yale so they did to.. here I am like: my dad sold drugs :&amp;#x2F;&lt;p&gt;Don’t all of you go about underestimating your good luck.</text></comment>
<story><title>Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?</title><url>https://www.ianwelsh.net/do-adults-really-not-remember-school-sucked/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>This take is so common on HN but I dislike it so much. First off, comparing not having to go to school with the pandemic situation is wrong because kids can&amp;#x27;t physically meet outside of school either, so that sucks in an entirely different way and is a bad comparison.&lt;p&gt;Secondly though, school is not terrible for everyone. I didn&amp;#x27;t have a great household. My parents didn&amp;#x27;t read me books. I made a lot of friends in school, and I had good teachers who helped me chosing an education and career path my parents wouldn&amp;#x27;t have offered me. So getting out of my home environment into a different social one was vital.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d call the authors attitude the &amp;#x27;nerdy privileged kid&amp;#x27; experience, who most likely had bad social interactions as well as a household educated and affluent enough to get a rich education outside of the education system. It&amp;#x27;s not how it works for many, probably most kids.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also an important aspect implicitly ignored in the article. That a lot of parents &lt;i&gt;who cannot work from home&lt;/i&gt;, like say cashiers or construction workers who still have to go out, do not even really know right now how to manage their kids. People like that rely on having a school system that works.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>armada651</author><text>His argument about knowledge retention also completely misses the mark. My high school chemistry teacher said it best when asked why we needed to learn stuff we&amp;#x27;d just forget about after the exam:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t expect you to remember anything you learned in my classes after you leave high school, but when a time comes later in life that you need this knowledge you&amp;#x27;ll know how to learn it again.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not about being able to recite all the answers to the exam questions at any given time. It&amp;#x27;s about having gone through the learning process.</text></comment>