Was talking about home economics as a school subject in another thread and i realised that for me personally, taking “Food Tech” (cookery gcse) would have impacted me pretty negatively, even though generally speaking GCSEs don’t have much of an effect on the rest of your life or education.

So i wonder if anyone else has similar revelations? My post title is also phrased more openly than that, so it doesn’t have to be school specific, but i am mainly interested in things from the teenage time period.

Another choice i made in HS, for instance: i remember being really glad to have a medium-size group of friends in high school, but in retrospect they were terrible people and i realise that there would have been huge benefits to spending more time alone and in the library - yes, i genuinely look back and wish i studied more, lol. Something which I'm always told never happens.

This one “affects me as an adult” because i ended up entering adulthood with several friends determined to force their personality to be cool, relying on manosphere influencers to determine how they should behave; a lot of these people i didn’t want to know in the first place.

  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    None. Every year at school was so boring I forgot what happened, but I don’t care since I had to learn everything on my own way after it happened.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      same, they shunted all the poor performers into “Baby sitting class” so the school doesnt get bad marks and lose funding. its a game to them, plus all the participation grades, albiet less severe than it was today. we were at the beggining of the stages of that happening.(still had ton of summer school to graduate people. these days likely they are passing people who are failing regardless.