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'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't have a great household. My parents didn'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't have offered me. So getting out of my home environment into a different social one was vital.<p>I'd call the authors attitude the 'nerdy privileged kid' 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's not how it works for many, probably most kids.<p>There'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.