the thing about schools is that schools aren't there for learning
how it goes on: you get an assignment, you complete an assignment, and then you get graded
getting graded efficiently destroys the very foundation of studying and learning: fucking up, and fucking up royally at times
a bad grade is a punishment by itself, and depending on a kid's luck or lack of it, this punishment has further punishments attached to it, be so "no sweets for you" or getting beaten up to the point of getting into a hospital
therefore a child has no real reason for learning, only for memorising stuff for enough time to write a test and forget it forever if diligent, or just not giving a shit if normal or troubled
again, a student can also be diligent but not neurotypical enough to just memorize shit without attaching any meaning to it, resulting in a diligent student with bad grades
and this is the rotten system that makes the foundation of pretty much everything

@tomie the lesson of schools is that your existence is based on pleasing the deranged whims of others, try to get away with doing as little as possible. if you put in any effort then you get punished with more, for me i got lower grades because my teacher personally held higher standards for me specifically.
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@mactonite my personal hack was always to be the second worst; that way you apply the least effort and draw the least attention: even if the worst performing person in the class draws enough ire and gets expelled or something, moving up to the second worst position again is easy

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