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  • Does that make you feel better that we are letting people fail? That seems to be what you’re advocating for.

    Probably because you can’t read, or you’re incapable of admitting you might have some wrong ideas. I’d wager it’s the latter.

    These people aren’t “failing” because they don’t do well in school, just like people aren’t “succeeding” if they do well in school. We’re telling students that they’re failing or succeeding, but that’s all.

    What you’re advocating for is a system where we destroy the self-esteem of most students by telling them they’re failures because they’re not cut out for academia. We’re not living in a Disney fairytale where everyone is “supposed” to go to college, or whatever metric for “success” you have in your head that’s dependent on academics.

    You don’t seem like someone who has much world experience, so I suggest you get out there and see ways of life different from your own. You’ll find that many people who you thought were “failures” because they did poorly in school are actually quite successful and happy. Meanwhile, I’m sure you personally know many college graduates who are downright miserable. But hey, they “succeeded,” right?






  • Man, novels are really what killed what love of reading I could have had.

    I absolutely fucking hated reading the shit that was forced upon me in school. It’s like forcing someone to listen to a song or watch a movie. It genuinely makes me sick even to this day.

    Thankfully, I found out that I actually enjoyed reading the textbooks, so I’m still reading textbooks to this day.

    We do a great disservice to people by spreading the idea that novels are the only thing they are expected to read on their own.