Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird I grew up living adjacent to a poor neighborhood and got to see this firsthand. In elementary school my homeless classmates would show up by city-subsidized taxi. I had classmates who had to have their heads shaved by the school nurse because they couldn't shower enough to get rid of the head lice they'd picked up. In middle school I had a classmate fall asleep standing up because they spent the entire night moving apartments. I witnessed students getting arrested and even saw an officer use excessive force slamming a handcuffed kid into a wall for mouthing off. When these are the things going on in one's life how could a kid care about synonyms and antonyms or the historical allegories in Animal Farm or any other school subject for that matter

@futurebird when I was younger I'd parrot this complaint but then I remembered the few times I was given real world advice as a teenager I simply lacked the real world experience to actually comprehend it, and I didn't truly understand the value of money until I lived on my own actually budgeting my own money to my own competing expenses.

For an example, in middle school I remember an assignment where they had us put down what we think various normal expenses cost like rent, water, electricity, and groceries. I don't remember what the point of the assignment was just the teachers laughing about how we had nearly zero idea of what anything actually cost and assigned high amounts to forgettable bills and low amounts to the most painful ones. I think it might have been a budgeting assignment? I honestly don't remember. But what I do remember is as kids who didn't have actual financial obligations we had no clue what anything cost so giving financial advice was kinda meaningless