The people who miss high school the most… tend to be the ones who peaked at high school.
I’d go back for a day, but knowing what I know now- and only for a day.
But I have to ask, what’s behind this question? A hs senior asking himself if he’d restart hs, go back 4 years, is entirely different than asking someone who’d have to go back decades, has already faced a lot of living and had a lot of great experiences. Why the poll?
@lookingforward no real reason. I didnt get into the best colleges, and I was wondering if I would go back 4 years and do everything again. I thought about this, and said no… id rather save 4 years and go on with what i have now. i was wondering if adults had different thoughts… i guess not.
Don’t know a soul who wants to go back and repeat those years.
Is not it against the law not to attend HS? Not sure.
Then, what constitutes “good” school and not such a good school is what a student was able to achieve there. The school is as good as it fits to a specific student. So, it is up to a student to choose such college. It is also up to a student to make sure that he/she have choices of colleges that fit them. So, if you feel that you do not have such a choice, then the good idea would be (if it is possible at all) to go back to your 9th grade and absolutely make sure that you have such choices at the end. Apparently, some 9th graders are not mature enough to recognize this fact. However, they still have a choice to make the best while attending the UG that they got in. So, be this person, your future is in YOUR hands, recognize this fact instead of dreaming of impossible. Do not waste a day of your life. Stop your misery, you are the only one who can do it for yourself, no other person, any organization or any drug is capable of it.
In 9th grade I was happy. Then my dad was transferred and I went to a very, very different high school. I was miserable and unhappy. I cried every day of my senior year in high school. Then I went to college and I was happy again. After my freshman year, I spent the summer where I’d gone to high school. My high school classmates hadn’t changed.
Maybe I’d do high school over if I could spend all 4 years at my 9th grade high school. At least if I dreamed about it, I’m pretty sure it would be a happy dream. I wouldn’t cross the street to say “hi” to most of my classmates from the high school I attended 10-12.
I thought about going to one reunion. I managed to get in touch with 3 people in my class I had liked. None of them were going. Their reactions were all the same–“Why would I want to spend time with people who ignored me in high school?” So, I didn’t go because it just wasn’t worth the cost of attending if I wasn’t sure there would be at least a few people there I’d enjoy seeing again.
Would not do it again. I enjoyed it while going through it for the most part, but once was enough. Time to move on.
If I were forced to go back, I would go back with the knowledge that everyone was as self conscious as I was.