Would you go back to HS?

[cally]

If I had to do it over again I would have left HS and gotten my GED. I hated HS and just hung in there to get my diploma. I thought you couldn't succeed unless you made it through HS but I was wrong.

I tell my parents this (I'm 46) and they are shocked. They had no idea how unhappy I was. I got close to straight A's, was in student government, had friends, went to parties but I hated it.

I now have teens and I think we all make a mistake when we tell them HS is critical. Education is critical, diplomas are, but not attending HS.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Not everything is for everyone

but unfortunately, you need to be labeled a "good can of tuna", or else you won't get into a good college, where they can label you a "better can of tuna", so that someone will buy you eventually. Unless you come up with a Bill Gates-ian idea and do it all for yourself, but that's a longshot.

[cally]

3. Nope, I don't buy it

I had a weird major in college. Everyone told me that I couldn't get into grad school with that. Turns out grad schools loved it. I had a plan and a goal. I was accepted everywhere I applied. And no, I didn't score in the stratosphere on my GEDs.

[Wickerman]

2. With grey hair, a beard and a big ass pot belly

I'd look even more silly than I did in the day.

Ok, would I go back - all things being equal? Nah, I think I agree - get the GED, go to college, have a life.

[politicaholic]

4. You're right, unfortunately you can't get a scholarship on a GED.

I was raised by a poor poor poor single mother with merely a high school education. There was no way we'd have gone to college unless we were either acedemic or sports super stars in high school.

My brother is now a doctor and I have a masters and am very successful in my prefession.

If the system worked differently maybe, but for now, I'd do highschool.

[cally]

6. For the scholarships, then yes

We had a Russian exchange student. She basically went through our HS in three years. She told me that the year in HS here, where she had many electives, was her most intense she had ever spent. She had much more homework. Some of that was because of language but she always told me we give more homework but demand less.

[TlalocW]

5. Yes, I would

If only for the opportunity to throw the first chair trumpet player in the band into a brick wall for constantly trying to give me a red-belly. :)

Sad thing was, I was always bigger than he was and way bigger once I started lifting weights but didn't believe violence solved anything, but I think his meeting a brick wall might have made him stop bullying other band members (he had a Napolean complex).

TlalocW

[MsTryska]

7. Knowing then what I know now?

hell yeah. i would have been unstoppable.

[kittenpants]

8. I have nightmares that I'm back in high school

even though I also did well & looked "popular" it was probably the most miserable time of my life.

[Worst Username Ever]

9. Only if I knew then what I know now

[Bellamia]

11. If I knew then........

what I know now, you bet I would, I might even like it this time around! Might just be fun.

[SmokingJacket]

10. Only to get into college.

I like my life now, so I wouldn't want to change anything.

But YOU BET if there was any way to avoid it, I would!!!

Hell on wheels.

Only thing worse was middle school.

[seabeyond]

12. i hated hs, cut at least half the time

went to the park and read a book. i didnt like being around people. was hard to go to groups every day. i liked to be alone. still like that. not do anything wrong, read and learn by myself. school has always been hard for me. still made good grades. my oldest is like that. so i am empathitic as i make him go to school

[bigwillq]

13. I would. I enjoyed HS very much.

But would and want to are two different things.

I wish I knew as much as I did know when I was in HS but that's what the growing up process is all about. I also wish I was a little more opinionated and outspoken in HS, I was kind of quite although I had a lot of friends.