How would you do high school over again?

I wouldn't change a thing, I loved my High School ...I love learning and I still do!
 

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Aunt Marg said:
Boy... all of the members who mentioned that they would take school more seriously and study harder.

What for? Where did school get you?
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Both my wife and I took our studies seriously in high school. She was from a different town but we met while in HS. Not being what you'd call wealthy, we married and worked and studied hard to put each other through college. I worked longer, taking an extra year to graduate, so she could get her degree and begin teaching. School got us to college (with partial tuition scholarships for both of us) followed by good jobs, some really sweet cars, four new homes, a good crop of kids and a very good life. Education also helped us get through the inevitable rough spots in the journey from grade school to retirement.

Edit Note: We both look back in amazement at the poor, tiny little houses we grew up in and are both thankful and glad we studied hard back then.
 
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JonDouglas said:
Both my wife and I took our studies seriously in high school. She was from a different town but we met while in HS. Not being what you'd call wealthy, we married and worked and studied hard to put each other through college. I worked longer, taking an extra year to graduate, so she could get her degree and begin teaching. School got us to college (with partial tuition scholarships for both of us) followed by good jobs, some really sweet cars, four new homes, a good crop of kids and a very good life. Education also helped us get through the inevitable rough spots in the journey from grade school to retirement.
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Brilliant post...that is what it is all about. Education is the key as you have shown!
 

I hated high school. I was bored all the time. I was blessed with a rather high I.Q. and I got good grades even though I did about 4 hours of homework in 4 years. I took college level physics and chemistry my senior year just for the challenge.
I remember taking the physics final exam with no studying. I walked out thinking I flunked it. All these formulas kept popping into my brain and I didn't know if they were right or not. I got a B+
I nailed the college entrance exams and got into a top private college without even trying.
I partied hard & played sports for the first two years of college and left because I was wasting my time.
I worked demolition for year and had the epiphany that I would be doing this for the rest of my life if I didn't go back to college. I went back to college and made the the deans list every semester until I graduated.
 
High school for me was a total waste. Looking back I would have either gone to a tech school and learned something useful and meaningful or quit and made some money and would have been ahead of the game by four years.
I did become a practical nurse and enjoyed it but the ultimate goal back then was to get married, and raise a family.
I didn't even stay in the nursing profession after marriage because after ten years I was sick of weekend and holiday work. In my area even working part time meant working some weekends and holidays.
Being with my family meant much more to me.
I worked many other jobs as the kids were growing up but I always made sure it was flexible enough so I could be there when they needed me and actually a few of those jobs paid way more than nursing. Maybe not as satisfying but it paid the bills and I was with my kids.
 
Lara said:
Yeah, but then you wouldn't have made so many longtime friends. True friends take time. I remember seeing a pic of you years ago sitting at a table with a few friends and you looked like you were having so much fun. Now that is priceless. Maybe 2015?
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You're so kind @Lara. Oh that pic- I think it was a bit earlier, but I really can't remember. Those gals (and few more) have stayed close since school, yes.
 
Learning to write on slate with charcoal was in the pre high school days. When in high school using a pencil & paper was a luxury. Did well enough to graduate. Only advantage I remember about high school was the amount of girls that liked dating. I don't think high school prepared me for life. I think joining the Navy after graduation gave me experiences that served me well all my life.
 
The first thing I would love to change was going to an all-girls Catholic high school taught by Nun's. They were hard to deal with. The second thing that bothered me in High school was going to the same school as my 2 yrs older sister. If a nun liked her, she would always call me by my sisters' name and not mine. When my sister dropped Spanish and took Italian instead, I was not lucky to get the same nun she had for Spanish. She was soo mad that my sister had changed taking Spanish that she hated me for it and picked on me constantly, even though I received good marks,
 
Lara said:
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've thought the same thing for many years. Maybe have some classes that dealt with things one might come across in life. Oh I did ok in High School, jumped through all the hoops and graduated. But I'd say my real education came after .. 🙃
 
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I would not choose to go through high school with the circumstances that I had then; a controlling, castrating mother, a limited circle of friends, and a system that exulted athletic over academic performance. Had I then the things that kids today take for granted such as a cell phone and personal computer, I might have suffered less angst and felt more connected...
 
I tried to be a cool kid. I wasn't. I should have embraced my inner nerd. Studied harder, done more extracurriculars, stayed out of trouble.

Things turned out all right in the end, but it would have been a lot easier if I had figured that out first.
 
For me, it is good practice to not wish I could do parts of my life over. Since my life has turned out fine, I simply figure that what happened along the way either didn't impede my progress or at least didn't derail it. So I see no reason to look back with any regrets and wishing to do it over again.

Tony
 
I would learn to do something practical with my hands such as auto mechanics.

Wasted all those years doing academic stuff (and got excellent grades) but found no use for all my studies of Shakespeare and Western Civilization. Had I learn to fix autos I would have lifetime skills that were financially rewarding. Such a livelihood is so much better than working dead end jobs as a pencil pusher.
 
Nathan said:
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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I left home at 16, got a job , got my own place and stayed in school. Since I didn’t go to my math classes I didn’t get my grade 12 diploma however in my mid 20’s I went to adult high school and finished my grade 12 and 13 with honours while getting accepted into university. If I would have applied for a scholarship I probably would have gotten it and I LOVED adult high school. It was really fun. I went to school with younger students and older ones; one woman who was 73 and got along with all of them. I used my education to become a nutritionist.
 
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