Every day is NOT children's day

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• Anonus

  2015-10-03 00:31:11

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Well yeah, there's a lot about childhood that is shitty. Like how when you're five years old and angry about something your parents think it's cute and refuse to engage you seriously about what you're mad about.
• Anonus

  2015-10-03 00:31:58

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  And it's also frustrating how no one remembers anything from when they're that age, and assume no one else does either. And no one talks about how "big" it felt going from half-day kindergarten to full-day schooling.
• Anonus

  2015-10-03 00:32:54

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  No one ever seems to wax nostalgic over kindergarten. Personally I remember being taught how to read despite already knowing how to read at that age.
• Princess Alice

  2015-10-03 00:38:27

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Kindergarten was kind of a mess for me, so I can't get too nostalgic over it.

  
  

  To give a quick rundown: I went through at least 4 different kindergarten classes, got thrown out of a Catholic school for putting a chair on top of a classmate, and got promoted directly from kindergarten to second grade because I already knew most of the crap they were trying to teach me in kindergarten.
• Tachyon

  2015-10-03 00:38:52 edited 2015-10-03 00:39:25

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  ^^ It's interesting that you do apparently remember quite a lot from that age.  afaik most people don't.
  
  "every day is children's day" is just one of those dumb parent jokes
  
• Anonus

  2015-10-03 00:39:01

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I'm still furiously jealous of you that you got to skip any grade

  
  

  I never did
• Tachyon

  2015-10-03 00:40:22

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Remind me, how old are people in Kindergarten?  Is it just the one year, or several?  Our grade system is different and we don't normally use that word.
  
• Princess Alice

  2015-10-03 00:41:28

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Kindergarteners are usually 5-6.

  
  

  I went through so many different kindergarten programs that I was 7 by the end, so skipping to second grade just put me back in line with my age group.
• Salix Babylonika

  2015-10-03 00:42:48

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Anonus said:

  I'm still furiously jealous of you that you got to skip any grade

  
  

  I never did

  usually what happens ime is that people get promoted and then held back again. Happened to several people I know.
• Tachyon

  2015-10-03 00:46:25

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  that happened to a couple people at my school
  
  5-6 is what we call Year 1 . . . i was thinking it was Reception, which is the year below.  i do remember a fair amount from Reception, but it's mostly pretty vague.  Before that is basically a blank.  i can remember odd details like what a room looked like, but nothing of what it felt like to be preschool-age.
  
• Princess Alice

  2015-10-03 00:49:28

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Whatever progress I gained by skipping 1st and 8th grade was lost by taking 6 years to finish high school, so...

  
  

  I wan't "held back", per se, I just, uh, didn't finish stuff on time? Online school is weird, it's kinda self-paced and if you're a lazy asshole like my teenage self was it can take longer than an actual semester to finish a semester's worth of material.
• Tachyon

  2015-10-03 00:51:11

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i had to repeat my last year.
  
  Had to do that at uni, as well.
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2015-10-03 00:51:51

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  :insert bitching about being kicked out of community college here:
• Imipolex G

  2015-10-03 02:22:04

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Anonus said:

  I'm still furiously jealous of you that you got to skip any grade

  
  

  I never did

  I skipped a grade too NEENER NEENER NEENER
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2015-10-03 03:02:45

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Childhood can be awesome and awful both in alternation and simultaneously.
  
  Also, I managed to have the necessary test scores to get into college in late elementary school and flunked out of high school, sooooooo.
• eriophora zia

  2015-10-03 08:26:18

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  I almost skipped a grade in middle school. Overall I'm actually really happy I didn't, though. Starting college extra young kinda sucks, as I've seen in a few of my friends. I think it's easiest to either be with or a couple years above your main friend group. Not that being significantly older or younger is bad, mind, it's just often less easy. 
• Alduin

  2015-10-03 08:47:13

  Middle school was godawful. I had nothing but emotionally abusive fake friends/bullies who thought it was funny to pick on the fat autistic kid.
• lee4hmz

  2015-10-04 01:13:09 edited 2015-10-04 01:13:57

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Erio: I was super-smart in elementary school, and everyone thought i was going to be like Doogie Howser and skip a zillion grades and become a doctor at 16. :P 

  
  

  If there's something I've never been good at, it's managing stress and setting priorities for myself, and even in elementary school I'd rather have been reading books or tearing apart an old radio than doing schoolwork. It took a lot of motivation just to get me to high school on time; college would have squashed me like a bug at that point.