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[Skyrunner]

I might have to go back at least a day because bureaucracy.

 

[Helgoland]

I might have to go back at least a day because bureaucracy.

 

Hidden camera time!

[MaximumZero]

I might have to go back at least a day because bureaucracy.

 

Nope. Just don't show up. Fuck their red tape. It sounds like they're going to try to rope you into staying there, one way or another.

Suddenly, you're not feeling well enough to go. *cough cough*

[GiglameshDespair]

Damn those time travelling bureaucrats.

[Jopax]

Yes, you accidentally knocked over your shiv collection and will have to spend the day arranging it so somebody doesn't get shanked unintentionally *hint, hint*

[nenjin]

I might have to go back at least a day because bureaucracy.

 

Nope. Just don't show up. Fuck their red tape. It sounds like they're going to try to rope you into staying there, one way or another.

Suddenly, you're not feeling well enough to go.

[Frumple]

Yeaah... if there's any fiscal entanglements, untangle them (at a distance, off campus. Parents can send a money order or somethin'.), then cut contact and if they call kindly tell them that this is their warning and any other attempts at contact will be treated as criminal harassment. Then block the number, if possible.

[Descan]

Yeah, that's not a thing I'd do. "Oh, you mean to make your paperwork easier, you want me to show up again to the thing I hate utterly and would otherwise never ever see again, and thus not give two shits? Yeah good luck with that."

[AlleeCat]

Spoiler: Recap of how this 'learning center' alternate school thing went down. (click to show/hide)

I was actually excited.

It went so ridiculously bad I actually laughed once I stopped crying. I would have never expected it to be that bad in a million years.

Let me give you the blow-by-blow.

First few periods, fine. Nothing special here.

The next few periods, I started to get reaaaally uncomfortable. From what I'd seen of the tour, it had felt just a tad Orwellian what with kids being watched at all times. This was much worse. There were a few minor arguments with teachers and whatnot, and I put in to talk to (names) about it.(People who know me know) I can't work well at all when I'm pressured and uncomfortable.

I pushed a little too hard about the subject, then felt too meh to go where they wanted me to go. They did not respond well, by physically dragging me over to my locker and then shoving me into their time-out room which does appear to have been at least used as a padded cell. Three big teachers are as solid as any door.

It was hard to explain what was wrong in between crying and sobbing from being shoved. But I at least got out the feeling that I was not okay with it seeming like a behavior modification facility of dystopian proportions.

They promptly told  me that it actually WAS a behavior modification facility of dystopian proportions. Oh, and the guy (?) talked to me like he owned me and I couldn't back out. Which, judging from how my parents talked about it, is at least partly rooted in reality. He talked like he could just force my depression to go away somehow. Because somehow, dragging me into things when I feel too terrible to do them is going to spontaneously make the chemicals balanced again.

....
After that, I just waited.

Oh, and whoever I talked to while waiting for the bus (names) liked dystopian fiction.

What the actual ____.

Like seriously. What the actual fuuudge. I mean, I'm sure there are people who need this, but for crying out loud this is absurd. :I

Reposted from WTF thread because it fits quite comfortably here too. :I

These kinds of alternative schools never seem to go well. I went to a pretty basic alternative school for elementary school and most of middle school, and I think it might have messed me up for an actual public high school. I tried to go to an alternative high school, mind you, but all the kids there were basically street kids that I never fit in with and then a week after I left someone got stabbed on campus. So that was fun.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Yes, you accidentally knocked over your shiv collection and will have to spend the day arranging it so somebody doesn't get shanked unintentionally *hint, hint*

This I sig.

Also, I totes agree, just don't go. Who the fuck do they think they are?

What kind of paperwork is it, Twi?

[Twi]

...the cool teacher agrees with it. What the actual fuck.

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But yeah, meeting at 2 (PM, 1400 for you military time folks )with the normal school people. Not that it seems worth it what with the primary education system seeming to have entirely turned against me somehow.

[Helgoland]

Who's up for nuking the site from orbit? I'll go ready the cannon, you guys calculate the aiming information, and we'll meet back here at 0200.

[Iceblaster]

I'll calibrate the cannon. Just to be sure

That or just sit around and do stuff.

[Twi]

oh god she didn't even acknowledge the fact that 75% of her counter-email was ABOUT SOMETHING I NEVER ONCE MENTIONED, MUCH LESS CARED ABOUT.

what the actual fuck

who's paying for this

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I've found that most of the people some of the time fail to actually read the email before replying.