Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked?
This take is so common on HN but I dislike it so much. First off, comparing not having to go to school with the pandemic situation is wrong because kids can&#x27;t physically meet outside of school either, so that sucks in an entirely different way and is a bad comparison.<p>Secondly though, school is not terrible for everyone. I didn&#x27;t have a great household. My parents didn&#x27;t read me books. I made a lot of friends in school, and I had good teachers who helped me chosing an education and career path my parents wouldn&#x27;t have offered me. So getting out of my home environment into a different social one was vital.<p>I&#x27;d call the authors attitude the &#x27;nerdy privileged kid&#x27; experience, who most likely had bad social interactions as well as a household educated and affluent enough to get a rich education outside of the education system. It&#x27;s not how it works for many, probably most kids.<p>There&#x27;s also an important aspect implicitly ignored in the article. That a lot of parents <i>who cannot work from home</i>, like say cashiers or construction workers who still have to go out, do not even really know right now how to manage their kids. People like that rely on having a school system that works.