It's the people, not the institution. If you have good leaders, you get good results. See: USA for reference.
I used to hang out in the art room during lunch in high school. There was a big metal hoop in there for some reason, and one day about ten of us kids climbed inside the hoop and went down the hall to the lunch room, spinning inside it the entire way. A teacher stopped us and said "what is this, guys?" We said "it's a hoop, sir." He sent us back to the art room.
Flawless logic, I see nothing wrong with this amswer
Not me, but my producer, Sendo, as we call him in the Cocules Media sphere.
He's been making music starting with GarageBand at the age of 10. Mostly, it was hip-hop/rap before he turned to singer/songwriter and maybe a few different genres after that. In that case, as far as I'm aware, he's been known to perform in front of his class for some events outside his middle school before performing in front of larger crowds on a few different types of music. His biggest musical performance was when he played guitar with a singer/songwriter piece that he no longer remembers (despite writing it himself), and it was in front of some 700+ people (this was, I think, during junior year). Mind you, he had a lot of influence, and it showed in his behavior during sophomore year when he said some things that got him suspended for a week during sophomore year.
He first started it when he sent a song over to a close friend of his back in 2015, when he was 13 (his friend was also 13). One thing led to another, and his two other friends also caught wind of it, and the four of them started writing songs together, though Sendo would produce all of them and perform them. He wasn't a good producer (like he is nowadays using Ardour and/or Zrythm on the Arch Linux-based CachyOS), but over time, he changed his technique to improve big time. His old music is on SoundCloud on an account that's inaccessible, but it's still there regardless.
His music nowadays is insanely talented composition in my eyes, especially since I learned how to produce straight from him (I produced some pieces for a Vtuber group that is on the verge of debuting soon, a group of indies in particular), and I plan on releasing some pieces myself soon once I learn how to verify myself on a few platforms like DistroKid (if that's even possible for me). Despite that, I still have plans on producing, and even collaborating with him, though he's currently working on an EP to add to a previous one, of which I didn't even know about until he told me what he was doing.
That's what I have on him as of right now.
Growing up ADHD in the 80's and 90's was... Different.
yeah, it was just starting to kind of come around when i went to school. we had one mainstreamed kid with significant special needs, and most everyone loved him. not to the point of making him homecoming king, but we all looked out for him and once you knew his name you were his friend. Every once in a while (like today) I wonder what happened to him.
I grew up in an era where special needs kids were bullied and assaulted daily. I got punished by the principal for defending myself.
My experience was the opposite of this unfortunately. Everyone hated me and even the people who didn't avoided me because I imagine being associated with me devalued their social standing.
I guess that's what happens to people that don't like hotwheels. ๐๏ธ๐๐
Next time you're a child, try liking hotwheels.
I actually had plenty of model cars, just not hot wheels! :p
I think it really depends on the culture of a school. It gets carried from generation to generation more than you think. That freshman saw this and it clearly had a profound impact. Once those seniors are gone the younger teens are still going to want to emulate that. There are plenty of other external factors that play into this as well though.
i think a lot of that comes from the staff and administration as well. if the adults in the room get annoyed or exhausted by someone with special needs it basically gives the kids permission to be mean. and the staff tends to stick around.
i work with high school sports teams a lot. this DEFINITELY holds true for team culture. the number of high school sports teams that just act like teenage versions of their coaches can be unbelievable.
I always know I'm in for a bad day when the coach is a dick.
It was always particularly unbelievable to me, when teachers chose to get in on the bullying, since it improved their standing with the majority of the class. Like, what the fuck, you're supposed to be the adult in the room. Instead, you're such a loser that you depend on the validation of bullying teenagers.
That's like a mirror universe version of my high school. Was this recent? Talking to my nieces, it seems like the public school experience has changed dramatically over the past few decades, and I'm grateful for it.
Do people in high school really know when your birthday is and give you gifts?
not gifts, but i'd throw parties every year with about 50-60 people attending. my 18th had about 100. We had a large yard.
Dayum. I always thought big birthday parties were a Hollywood thing.
i'm a musician. had several larger social groups, and then there's the people who haven't figured out how dorky musicians actually are and think we're cool.
Iโm a musician too but back then all I was was extremely socially awkward (weโre talking Bocchi would look normal next to me).
If people were generally nice to him, I can see someone with autism getting excited for their birthday and announcing it to everyone weeks beforehand...
Sometimes! At my high school, it was a thing for your friends to decorate your locker for your birthday as a surprise. One year my friends covered my locker in Christmas wrapping paper with a giant drawing of a dog on it, because our running gag at the time was that my hairstyle made me look like a spaniel
Depends on the people, but sure, sometimes!
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