Would you like to be a freshman entering high school in Sept.2023.

[fuzzybuddy]

We fondly riminess about our school days- walking 'mile and miles' to school, the hairnet lady, etc. But would you like to be a freshman entering high school in Sept.2023. The Class of 2027?
(OMG, I was the Class of 1964!!!)

 

[jujube]

Class of '65 here. I enjoyed high school, but no way would I want to do it again. Nope.

 

[oldaunt]

****shudder****

 

[Pinky]

Nope!

 

[Been There]

No, but thanks for asking.

 

[CarolfromTX]

Oh, HELL no!

 

[JustBonee]

Youngest granddaughter will be Freshman entering high school in Fall 2023.

 

[MarkD]

You had me at “would you like to be a freshman entering high school”. Oh hell no!

Class of 71, and done with school.

 

[garyt1957]

Hell yea!

 

[Jules]

Not a chance.

 

[Alligatorob]

would you like to be a freshman entering high school in Sept.2023. The Class of 2027?

Maybe, if I could take some of the wisdom I've gained since I was a freshman maybe. But probably not...

 

[JustDave]

Once was bad enough. Class of 61 here, and the most important part of my education was when a friend pointed out that our class ring still said 1961 when you looked at it upside down. Actually, I did learn a lot my Senior year, about 10 times as much as the whole 3 years that came before. But I'm still working on blotting out that Freshman year from my memory. Loved college though. Never got enough of that environment.

 

[rwb]

Also the class of '65. And I feel bad for students today. Certain groups have successfully DUMBED DOWN our nation's educational system!!

 

[Pecos]

Not a chance!

 

[Pepper]

I was a truant in high school. Wasn't caught till end of my senior year. Almost didn't graduate. I bucked the system by scoring ridiculously high on standardized tests.

Maybe it wouldn't have mattered if I didn't graduate H.S. I don't know.

 

[DaveA]

Became a Freshman in '48 and graduated in '51. Disliked high school but only managed to flunk French.

For some reason, after 4 years in the military, college was more pleasant (if any schooling is truly enjoyable).

 

[Pepper]

For some reason, after 4 years in the military, college was more pleasant (if any schooling is truly enjoyable).

For me, college was pleasant because I chose to go, was not forced to go.

 

[Nemo2]

I was a truant in high school. Wasn't caught till end of my senior year. Almost didn't graduate. I bucked the system by scoring ridiculously high on standardized tests.

Maybe it wouldn't have mattered if I didn't graduate H.S. I don't know.

My 'education', for all Malcontents & Porpoises, ceased around age 12.......diagnosed with Terminal Truancy and ejected from the fold.

 

[chic]

Yes! I think I'm the only one up for this challenge.

 

[hearlady]

No!!!!!!

 

[palides2021]

No. Once was enough.

 

[Alligatorob]

Yes! I think I'm the only one up for this challenge.

You may be the most honest one here, I suspect if actually given the chance more of us would take it.

Answers, mine included, are more the easy thing to say without admitting that we really would rather be young again. Not a possibility of course.

So count me in! I'll go with you, though I'd like to figure out how to skip the acne phase.

 

[SeniorBen]

Someone entering high school in this day and age is so screwed!

I graduated high school in 1975, so I would have entered in 1970. We had just come out of the turbulent '60s and the Vietnam war was in full swing, but at least we had great music.

Kids today have nothing but technology going for them. We might have had the war, but kids today have the housing crisis, unprecedented polarization, inflation, homelessness, the immigration crisis, federal debt...

The only way to thrive today is with a degree in something technical like engineering or something in the health care industry, or finance, and a few other fields. But not everyone is college material. And those people are totally screwed.

 

[Nemo2]

The only way to thrive today is with a degree in something technical like engineering or something in the health care industry, or finance, and a few other fields. But not everyone is college material. And those people are totally screwed.

Might have mentioned this before.....(I'm a very repetitive individual I'm a very repetitive individual).....but around 1994, living in British Columbia, we were putting an apartment in our house......plumber sent around a young guy....green hair.........got talking to him while I interrupted his work.

He said that the rest of his HS cohort wanted to wear suits & ties and work in offices - he was apprenticing as a plumber, and in a few years would have his own business with his own employees.

Hope he made it.

 

[rwb]

"Those people" are totally screwed because our educational system and our current governmental state of affairs is so corrupt, ineffective and downright criminal!!