Perhaps it's because I am a bit cynical, but looking at my grade school websites have not made me happily nostalgic. In fact, I find most people who went to the public schools in my town don't miss them too much.
It's a phenomenon that is profound to me that, instead of all of us bonding in the yearning for times past, we all hated that time and bond in happiness that it is over! Sure, we cried a little at graduation. We'd miss the strong friendships we'd made. However, most of those tears were of happiness. Tears that shouted: AND YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN!!!
Frankly, school worked in a weird way. The older you got, the harder your work was and the less cruel people became. Elementary school was a battlefield of being picked on for everything, middle school introduced relationships and the horrors of puberty, then by high school you were dealt less social problems but more academic ones.
The days of "kids have it easy" are finished. Kids have it hard. Harder than adults. No, they don't have to worry about bills, marriages, and kids. But at least adults choose to work, marry and have kids. Kids have to go to school. Then, when was the last time an adult had to defend their self-esteem from 20 to 30 of their peers?
Cut the kids some slack. They have it harder than you!
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