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Jackal, did you have a stage name?
Lech, yes it was worth it as that’s where one gets in the training for getting onto and running around the “bases” else one is rookie-like playing the field in college
Plus “homework” = keep a very heavy textbook on the table and a notebook on her lap while she texts on her phone and Facebook chats with 6 or 7 of her favorite friends while watching TV and something on youtube.
[heavy sigh]
There aren’t elephants in every circus you know.
but yeah – high school is pretty wack, if only because it’s so inconsistent from town to town, city to city.
pretty sure i was better prepared for college after the 9th grade than the average NYC public school kid was after 4 (or more) years in the system.
haha dh, touche. With a gay little accent over the “e”.
No, more productive to breathe fire in a traveling circus and learn social skills from the elephants.
On the other hand, as I hear from my daughter, there are the 4 minutes between classes, plus lunch.
“If I told you you had to spend 7 hours a day Monday to Friday for FOUR ENTIRE YEARS in some drab building somewhere tapping your fingers waiting for idiots to catch up”
sounds like good preparation for 99% of the jobs we have now.