CarrionCrow: 8th grade sucks, and high school's not exactly a picnic full of wine and roses either.
Part of why I stopped going, right there. ;)
GreenDamsel: High school remains a mysterium to me.
- From my experience it is considerably easy and basically everyone who wants to finishes it.
- But it is celebrated as if they just scored a PhD
- Hollywood keeps making movies about it, as if it is the time of your lives.
- Most Americans I talked to hated it.
I just don't know.
It wasn't particularly difficult, just boring as all hell.
Didn't celebrate it, it was just something to do when I didn't feel like chugging Nyquil and sleeping instead.
Some people try to build up the experience in their mind because it's built up to be something that matters, but it doesn't.
Hollywood deals in idealized versions of reality, so no surprise there. Add in people's tendency for nostalgic rose-tinted glasses self-delusion bullshit and it goes together like a con artist and a person with a ton of money and no sense.
Not surprised there either. High schools are full of teenagers. Teenagers are generally assholes.