How would you do high school over again?

Much the same as I did... kept close, quality friends (a small, close-knit group we were), and I would drop-out by early senior-high.

I would enroll in more sports that I did back in the day, even though I always remained heavily involved with a lot of extracurricular school sports growing up.
 
I would take it more seriously. I did well, but could have done better. I was busy working and making money. Girls back then cost money, so I was considered a cheapskate. I had 1 girlfriend (kind of), but she had different ideas than I did about relationships.
 
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I would have spent time at school and elsewhere
advocating for schools to add practical studies like:

"IRS and Taxes"
"The Stock Market"
"Car Maintenance"
"Getting a Job"
"Balancing a Checkbook"
"Planning Now for Retirement"
"Understanding the Constitution"
"Common Sense & Staying Safe"
"Helping Others - Volunteerism"
"How to Run a Business"
"Being an Entrepreneur"
"How to Make a Million"
etc etc etc
 
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I would of liked to have started my freshman-senior high yrs at the same school. I know it would of made my life alot easier to cope
In reality,after being away for 6 yrs coming to a new high school for my junior&senior yr where I didn't know anybody was difficult for me.I didn't know anybody except for the other kids in my homeroom class. My graduating class in '72 there were 1,000 kids
 
High School was meaningless except for social integration.
The junior and senior girls were told, (this is ALMOST a direct quote):
99% of you will marry and begin a family within one year of graduation so there is no reason for any academic achievement. If you still wanted something other than marriage, there was a beauty school about 150 miles away and you can learn hairdressing.
I wanted to take woodworking but that was only for boys. Girls had to take "home-ec". We learned to sew and wash dishes.
I had an art class one semester but the art teacher was never in class. (maybe 5 minutes a day)
NO KIDDING!
Two classes I loved:
psychology, but I got in an arguement with my teacher because I defended metaphysics and recieved an F.
and, I DID LOVE English / literature.

Therefore, My high school years were PARTY, PARTY, PARTY! I dated the cutest guys, I had the best friends and we had more fun during those years than ANYONE!
 
It would depend on whether or not someone was there to educate me on a few things before I started high school. If not I'm not sure I would have been able to do anything differently.

I got pretty much want I needed out of high school and it prepared me well for college. I don't think I'd do much differently academically. I got decent grades and learned what I needed to.

If someone could teach me a few things before I stated high school I would have wanted the person explain what dating was all about, what having a larger circle of friends can do for one's life and also teach me to learn to be willing to try things and deal with potential failures as lessons rather than being afraid to fail. If the person could also help me have a better self image that would have helped as well.

I also would also have wanted to be told that it would be worthwhile to learn to play the guitar even though it was difficult and I thought I wasn't good enough at it at the time. It also would have been very helpful if the person could let me know that sometimes you need to go through sucking at something before being able to do it as well as you want.
 
How would you do high school over again?
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Uh, I would have actually studied...and taken the whole experience more seriously.

I guess I just didn't feel that the classes were relevant, I dropped out of HS @17 and joined the Army. I learned alot of relevant things in Basic Training, got my GED just before graduating from Basic.
 
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Perhaps I would have received a scholarship to attend a nice university @Aunt Marg . Mom had a difficult time in paying for the college I attended... so, I dropped out.View attachment 156271I regret not getting an education; at first I wanted to go to nursing school and then I changed my mind. (I can't tolerate fluids, phlegms, pimple puss, etc.). lol
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I was born into a poor family, and not being a brain in school assured me nothing in the end, so looking back on my school years in retrospect, it was a waste of my time.

I went to school with brains, straight-A students, absolute wizzes, and surprisingly enough, I don't remember one earning a scholarship, nor did the ones I still know amount to anything special.

To this day they're average working stiffs just like most everyone else I know. Shrug shoulders.
 

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