6-Year-Old Stares Down Botomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling »

Posted By ind06 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Humor

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CARPENTERSVILLE, IL - Local first-grader Connor Bolduc, 6, experienced the first inkling of a coming lifetime of existential dread Monday upon recognizing his cruel destiny to participate in compulsory education for the better part of the next two decades, sources reported.

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    ind0610 months, 2 weeks ago

    In Related News: 6-Year-Old Learns Recess Merely Sop To Keep Him In Line

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    uncle-dave10 months, 2 weeks ago

    I am a survivor of the Catholic school system, taught by the "Pointer Sisters".
    One false move and the good sisters whacked you with an oak pointer.
    I feel Conner's pain.

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    ind0610 months, 2 weeks ago

    Do you feel his existential dread too?

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    berkeley10 months, 2 weeks ago

    the clearest example of an anti-school is detailed in the book, summerhill by a.s.neill.

    quick, somebody send it to connor's mom.

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      BronxBomber10 months, 2 weeks ago

      Believe me, I feel junior's pain! All I have to do is go through my old class photo's alone... Ov vey! Those zits, and lousy haircuts!

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      Mdiar10 months, 2 weeks ago

      I loved school until I hit 5th grade and they introduced the concept of "homework" to me and recess was cut down to one a day, if you were lucky.

      Then I started to like it again in junior high/high school, as finally they taught stuff I didn't already know (sometimes).

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      Sludge-Guzzler10 months, 2 weeks ago

      I can't figure out where I spent the most time. In class or in detention. I think it was about 50 / 50

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        dandt161210 months, 2 weeks ago

        Bless his heart, he is a cutie. Hang in there Connor it's not all bad.

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          amazed10 months, 2 weeks ago

          At the end of her kindergarten year, my cousin decided that they had wasted enough of her time and she was done. Her mother told her she had 16 years more to go before she was done (13 of grade school and high school, 4 years of college). My cousin, who was only allowed to stop doing an activity after the session she had originally signed up for was finished) replied, " Well, if I had known it would be that long, I never would have started!"

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          Harbeas10 months, 2 weeks ago

          For those who think the article is right, what would you have done if you didn't have to go to school. How would you have prepared for the job market and the rest of your life?

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            sayssimon10 months, 2 weeks ago

            i'm confused of what this articles is even talking about.

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              amazed10 months, 2 weeks ago

              uh, I think it's a joke (mostly)...

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                PainGoddess10 months, 2 weeks ago

                Maybe he can CLEP his classes...LOL

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                  UltraLeft10 months, 2 weeks ago

                  Cheer up Connor and don't worry! Why, you'll be growing up in a country where there are no schools! Where people are proud to do subsistence farming and share-cropping! Where everyone keeps in top shape by riding bicycles to work for their 80 hour weeks! Where there is no money (weell, some money but it's all worthlessly inflated, kid) and barter is the rule! And you won't have to worry about buying your own home either, Connor, because you'll be living in an abandoned factory dorm, if you're lucky that is!
                  Yes, Connor, welcome to Third World USA, the real Cheney/Bush Legacy!

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