a) to resist you must be educated. in a world that hates you you have to have so so so much knowledge to back every single claim you have. school also puts you in an enviornment where you have to coexist with people you wildly disagree with. you learn how to get away with disruption, how to fight back in an enviornment where the stakes aren't brutally high. you learn to connect, analyse, resist. it also forces you to get into the swing of reading which is really convenient.

i did not go to school today, and did everything at home. I get up at 4AM almost every weekday for my own convenience and the fact that i often feel like i don't have enough time for myself because of school. Because I am ill, i want to sleep in a lot later but i also know that that won't end well for me! It'll end with me being unhappy and uncomfortable during the school day despite being "well-rested". I do not have enough time to actually sleep because I AM A TEENAGER. i also have a birthday party this weekend (it's mine! yay!!) and am tyring to not be sick by then!! what i'm trying to convey here is that the amount of itme school allows students for sleep is not enough especiall considering the activities that a lto fo teenagers enjoy signed, a teenager whose brain is melting a lil

Minors deserve to have a school system that allows for as many sick days as needed, firstly. Not just because minors can (gasp!) get sick, but also because some minors are (gasp!) have disabilities that can flair up! (Who would have thought? /sarcasm.)

Secondly, minors need a school system that can cater to their sleep schedules.

I (and my system as a whole) have non 24 hour sleep wake disorder (Non-24 SWD). This means that my entire life, I never have had a consistent sleep schedule for more than a week, and I am physically incapable of changing that, because my body responds poorly to sleep medications. My sleep either slowly shifts a few hours ahead per-day, or it drastically swaps what time I will fall asleep.

Growing up, I was being homeschooled, but it took a while before my bedtime was removed by my parents. Mainly because I was so anxious about telling them that I didn't always obey the bedtime (because my melatonin production didn't always align with the bedtime), and would secretly sit up in my room drawing or playing games on my kindle at night. I was scared to get in trouble for it.

But when my parents figured out, you know what they did? Instead of getting me in trouble, my mom was understanding, and simply changed the rule from "finish your school before this time of night" to "finish your school within whatever period youre awake" and removed my bedtime.

All of this to say, there should be options for people who cannot wake up at specific times, and there should be options for people who cannot leave their house. There should be more free online programs provided by schools, night owl teachers, things of that sort.

And for the love of God, less homework! School shouldn't follow you past school hours! Let youth have time to enjoy their lives outside of school, and let them have time to sleep!

Bullshit That My Sister Witnessed At School

because I don’t go to public school, but man this shit makes me want to set it on fire for her

First entry:

There’s a “no politics” rule in her school, where no classroom is supposed to talk explicitly about their political leanings or political opinions.

she just told me that the day after Charlie Kirk died, her science teacher gave a five minute talk on how an “influential man” who has “done mutant important thinfs for the world” died, “tragically leaving behind his wife and kids.”