When Does High School Stop Being Important?

[The Hunter]

As soon as you enter high school. Really, it shouldn't be a big deal at all, and this is coming from someone normal who was socially accepted in high school.

 

[cheersensei]

I gave up on it the minute I graduated. I was happy to be away from it in it's entirety. I was ready to escape from my small home town.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

I graduated in '99, so '98.

Honestly, anybody who tells you to enjoy high school because they'll be the best years of your life thinks very little of your potential. Some people (our Chris included) romanticize it as a cross between Grease and Saved by the Bell. An idyllic rose tinted fantasy wallowing in arrested development. What they're basically telling you is that these are the only years where you're starting (starting) to think like an adult, but don't have to worry about rent and mortgage, etc. It's another Plato's cave scenario. A complex life is so much more rewarding than spinning your wheels in a regimented classroom existence. But Chris wants to stay in kindergarten.

 

[bradsternum]

I never thought high school was important. I still don't. Nor do I think college is all that important, outside of making connections and getting internships. Anyone who looks at a period in their life as being the best is limiting the potential for the enjoyment of future experiences.

 

[CWCissey]

Just replace '/b/' with high school and 'good' with important.

 

[Pikonic]

As soon as you enter high school. Really, it shouldn't be a big deal at all, and this is coming from someone normal who was socially accepted in high school.

Yeah, this. It's annoying when you say high school sucked and isn't important and not try to come off as the ainsty goth kid.

 

[Overcast]

Soon as I left, I moved on from High School. Didn't much care for it.

 

[Sonic]

Highschool was horrible for me. I went though a few months of depression afterwords but after that ti really doesn't matter. The only time i thought about it was today because there was a bomb threat there. It was more of a 'do it faggot' reaction.

Otherwise, everything I did was irrelevant and I won't bother to get in contact with any of my high school gal pals. The only people I still talk to at this point are my boyfriend and best friend. Thats about it.

 

[PvtRichardCranium]

When you graduate.

 

[Joan Nyan]

It stops being important the day it starts.

 

[TastyWoodenBadge]

I never cared for high school and I never saw anyone outside of it, my health is more important than some stupid lessons you won't need later in life.

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

High school was the most important part of my life. You see, I was dating this girl named Mary. Well, long story short, she ended up getting pregnant. For my 19th birthday, my old man drove me down to a justice of the peace, gave me a cheap Sear's men's coat, and signed me up for a construction union. But often there's not much work (on account of the economy, you know). And then all those things that seemed so important . . . well, they just kinda vanish into the earth. I mean is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Maybe it's something worse? It makes me want to go back to the shores of that river, where Mary and I made love for the first time. And into the river I'd dive . . .

But Bruce Springsteen aside, high school sucked, university was better, and my career is best. Sorry, Chris.

 

[MysticMisty]

I didn't care about high school before I started high school, I didn't care during, and I sure as hell don't care seven years later. I hated my teachers, my homework, the curriculum, and pep rallies. I didn't care for my peers or the food. Honestly, high school is about the same as elementary school. The only difference is you deal with more teachers every day, go to pep rallies, and prom.

 

[Some JERK]

The millisecond you complete your SAT.

 

[jaijai]

I stopped caring about school once I started college. Before that, i'd had zero self esteem thanks to bullying at school, and thought i'd fail at college and ultimately university. Best move I ever made.

 

[cypocryphy]

It was fun sometimes, but after you graduate it's time to move on.

 

[c-no]

There was some importance in high school to me such as attending a dinner cruise and having a senior trip to London Bridge at Lake Havasu but once I graduated, it stopped being important. Right now, college is important to me and anyone else in college. Within college, I actually felt like I achieved something such as making the President's List (which surprised me since I never was the best student in high school) and even making friends and acquaintances with some of my peers(Meet more people at college since my old high-school was a private Christian school). I'am guilty at looking back though one year after graduating (took a picture of myself in my graduation gown and posted it on Facebook) but that was due to taking a gap year doing nothing productive until I actually looked at myself and thought "I'm kinda gonna end up like Chris and any NEET if I don't do something with my life".

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

My mother is a teacher at my old high school (and yes, I did have my own mother for my Ameican History and World Civ classes). 13 years later, my mother is my only tie to my old high school. She'll sometimes talk about politics with school administration or vent about problem students, and I'll sometimes ask how an old teacher is doing, but that's as far as my loyalty to the Bulldogs goes.

I'm not sure we even had a basically promised 10 year anniversary. I never got an invite, and it's not like they couldn't have just asked my Mom for my address. Maybe mom just never sent it my way due to her knowing I wouldn't be interested.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

High school was OK, I did well in classes, but I failed the social aspect miserably and didn't have any friends, although people usually left me alone. Some kids only messed with me once or twice.

My 10th year reunion is next year and I'm not going. My 50th reunion, sure, by then it's all about nostalgia and not trying to one-up your classmates and having your ego stroked.

Do I wish I had the chance to do high school over? Sure, I'd join more clubs, play a sport and try to meet more people. I'd also read a lot more outside of class, like what I'm doing now.

 

[Linako 2.0]

High school is there to give me a paper that says I'm not retarded, why should I take it seriously after that when I have more important things to focus on like getting a job and not starving?