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I was recently missing my ex-best friend, not really knowing if I did the right thing of ignoring her. Basically in December, it was the last day of the year and I had plans to go out with this one friend. It was the night before the hangout and I got a text on Snapchat saying “do you mind if I go out with someone else.” You what? You don’t just ask someone that, it’s like picking someone else. I was heartbroken but didn’t show it, I just ignored it until the next day and never replied. She knew something was up with me. It was also Christmas and her birthday in a few days, so I had a present for her. She had a present aswell although after that i didn’t want to give it to her. I felt used. Anyways I gave her the present, and acted fine. It was also a half day, even better. After the Christmas half term, I acted like nothing happened and continued that until Easter. This also happened before the Easter holidays. She again left me for someone else however this was for lunch. I didn’t like the girl she was hanging out however it wasn’t any of my business, who she was hanging out with. Then when I got home from school, I messaged saying you seemed distant today. And she said yeah I think I’m going to hangout with some other people. I mean we did grow apart because we weren’t in any of the same classes although we made it work. Anyways I messaged saying “you could have told me” and she said yeah I could’ve. I didn’t go mental at her I just was completely polite as could be. In the hall way the next day she said “hi” while walking past. I froze. I couldn’t look at her the same as I usually do. I don’t know why she doesn’t want to hangout with me. I thought lunch and break times were where we hung out at and now they are gone. We aren’t even talking to each other. After that she kept looking at me. And as human instincts do, you look back and that’s what I did. Fast foward a few months, it’s about may or June now. I waited with my best friend for our two classes to go in and in her class was the ex-best friend, I was in a big group and she joined. She stared at me while I was talking. I couldn’t even look at her.
I just want to know was I overreacting

I was recently missing my ex-best friend, not really knowing if I did the right thing of ignoring her. Basically in December, it was the last day of the year and I had plans to go out with this one friend. It was the night before the hangout and I got a text on Snapchat saying “do you mind if I go out with someone else.” You what? You don’t just ask someone that, it’s like picking someone else. I was heartbroken but didn’t show it, I just ignored it until the next day and never replied. She knew something was up with me. It was also Christmas and her birthday in a few days, so I had a present for her. She had a present aswell although after that i didn’t want to give it to her. I felt used. Anyways I gave her the present, and acted fine. It was also a half day, even better. After the Christmas half term, I acted like nothing happened and continued that until Easter. This also happened before the Easter holidays. She again left me for someone else however this was for lunch. I didn’t like the girl she was hanging out however it wasn’t any of my business, who she was hanging out with. Then when I got home from school, I messaged saying you seemed distant today. And she said yeah I think I’m going to hangout with some other people. I mean we did grow apart because we weren’t in any of the same classes although we made it work. Anyways I messaged saying “you could have told me” and she said yeah I could’ve. I didn’t go mental at her I just was completely polite as could be. In the hall way the next day she said “hi” while walking past. I froze. I couldn’t look at her the same as I usually do. I don’t know why she doesn’t want to hangout with me. I thought lunch and break times were where we hung out at and now they are gone. We aren’t even talking to each other. After that she kept looking at me. And as human instincts do, you look back and that’s what I did. Fast foward a few months, it’s about may or June now. I waited with my best friend for our two classes to go in and in her class was the ex-best friend, I was in a big group and she joined. She stared at me while I was talking. I couldn’t even look at her.
I just want to know was I overreacting

I’m 15 and I never really thought about being a kid anymore, but for some reason I want to be a kid again. When I was a kid I felt like I wanted to be done with school and move on after school, however now I want to be a kid however looking back on how I hated school, it may seem weird but I want to be a kid but without school? I think this has been brought on becuase of my work experience, I worked in my old primary school. I think that has opened my eyes to the adult responsibilities.

Anyways i just wanted to know do you want to Be younger

I’m 15 and I’ve hated school my whole life. I’ve cried nearly every single Sunday about going back to school. I’m in year 11 and thankful I am although it isn’t the end yet. However it may lead to college which would be best. I have thought about homeschooling at lot recently and I want to know if homeschooling will get me at least grade 4s in four subjects (including maths and English) which I’m already achieving in a school. I think homeschooling would be best for me because I hate social interactions and cannot read body language and cannot have eye contact with anyone, me and my sister think I’m autistic. Which I agree with her. I think it’s probably the better option because I have had a situation at school before summer started where I have been bullied and I said something back and all my friends hate me or haven’t talked to me since and sent a message basically saying if you don’t apologise then we won’t speak to you anymore. And the bully didn’t even get a punishment. I am scared to go to school. I’ve got 2 weeks left of summer and a holiday but all I want to do is cry about it. I think the best option to preserve good mental health is to be homeschooled. I’ve also never fit in to the school category, the “smart” one. And I think I can self teach myself some of it tbh and it only takes 2 hours of your time rather than 6 disgusting hours of my time. It will free up a lot of space in my mind and focus on content creation, and other stuff.

Anyways i just want to know if I can keep my grades going into my final year of gcse and hopefully secondary school. And if it should be best for me and my mental health

This summer I have debated about if school is actually needed to become comfortable and able to afford nice things. It may not be now with inflation and the cost of living crisis, however I think that school isnt needed in the long term. I’m in my year 10 summer so I’m going into year 11 next year and most of the things I’m learning is revisited especially in some of the languages and maths. I think if should be an education it should teach you about taxes and finance, it would probably make adulthood a lot easier. I also think that other people, like myself, do not fit into the category of education unlike top set students. I think people who are bottom to middle sets are people who don’t think like the top set students. In my school top set students take priority such as before mocks they got lunchtime revision. Where was this for middle sets and bottom sets. It’s most likely that the top set students are basically carrying the schools reputation, like the ones who want to go to Cambridge or Oxford. Us middle set students and bottom set students, I think are most likely to be richer than the top set students, because we don’t think like them. There is honestly other ways of making money, such as content creating which I have explored, I also have explored Vinted, I’ve made over £200 on it. Yes Ik not a lot but it was selling my old stuff. I do think that school is a way to make money, but with all money making methods this is the least likely to happen with me. I’m predicted 4s and 5s in gcse, enough for me to get into college. And that’s my plan. I will not go to university becuase the crippling debt that you have. I’m more likely to go for an apprentiship than to go to university. I honestly do think you can get by without university Atleast.

Hi I’m 15 living in the UK. In the past academic year (year 10) I have experienced bullying and learnt a-lot about my friends. In the whole time I have been at school I have never experienced bullying. I always keep to myself and have little friends, and always dreaming about becoming a streamer. Anyways, I thought schools had 0 tolerance for bullying except that’s what I thought. There’s a trans girl in my year. I have had so much problems with her over the past year, I don’t know where to start.

At the start of the year, she was ok but she kept kicking me and telling me to kill myself or nobody liked me. I always used to brush it off with a laugh becuase it was a joke. I had bruises on my legs, and invisible scars that nobody saw or heard about. Until around the start of July. Around the 2nd. I have this date pinned in my brain because that’s when I realised I was being bullied and fought back. I never knew I could do this, until now. The girl (let’s just call her belly) kicked my leg at lunch really hard, I laughed it off as I usually did but this time was different. In 5th period at the end of the day she kicked me again and I got mad i kicked her back stronger and harder than she ever did to me. I also told her as Shes told me many times “kill yourself”. This was my patience falling to pieces and she knew she hurt me. Then 8 days later, it was Tuesday we had PE and we were playing tennis in PE and I was in her group. It was too hot to play so we didn’t play. Anyways i
Came over the other side of the net and stood there at chatted with my friends. And Shes in with my friends and chatted. Next thing I know she says “you don’t belong here” and repeats it until I broke and said “Atleast I’m a real girl” I also said “what’s so wrong about that, you tell me to kill my self” and she said “I say that to everyone, your not special” my friends took offence so to please them and for my conscience to be a bit more clearer i said sorry, I was brought up that way. I repeated it. I cannot look at faces, and I think I have autism anyways she said i didnt apologise properly. I’m sorry? I cannot look at faces and laugh uncontrollably in serious situations. I would laugh at a funeral. It’s just how my brain works on a regular basis. Anyways after that horrific PE lesson I still had English, with her. I sat next to someone else while she was alone. I held it together for one hour. When it was time for lunch i cried to my friends and said I said sorry what else does she want me to do. And there argument was that Shes in a body that she doesn’t want. I get it, I said sorry but she bullied me for the whole year and I snapped and she wanted me to. My friends were defiantly not on my side, this is probably because they are part of the same community. I was getting angrier and angrier and more sad, I needed someone on my side. I knew my mum was so I called her. She picked up I cried and cried and said I wanted to go home and can you pick me up. My friends heard all of it. She said to go to the student support centre to write a statement while she tried to get the teachers to let me go home. I finally got with my mum and she got an email from my year head stating “she used her phone so she needs to hand it in.” After Tuesday I was off for 2 days. 2 days later i went in with my mum to have a meeting about the problem. My year head collected statements off all the people who were there and concluded that it was nobody fault . NOBODYS FAULT, I have been bullied all year and she isn’t even getting a suspension. My year head also said she wants me and belly back together in a room to sign a contract saying we basically won’t have any communication and that we won’t talk about it to our friends. What friends, I forgot to leave this part out, my friend Megan had messaged stating that in order for us to be friends I need to apologise properly and my other friend agreed. PROPERLY, are you kidding. What do these people want a public apology? Anyways in the meeting on Friday we signed the contract. I apologised again and it was a “proper” one. Guess what she apologised but it didn’t sound like an apology, she said “I’m sorry for whatever I did.” Now at this point I was sick of it, I’m surprised for the best school in the county and an “outstanding school” can’t even suspend or Atleast punish her for what she did? This is a piss take. My friends still haven’t even talked to me except Zoe, but she also said she was mad but “not holding a grudge.” This is some rubbish school if they don’t stand against bully’s. I am not against trans or lgbtq people, I just got sick of it. Belly also spread it across the school that I am transphobic. I am surprised she hasn’t been suspended. Is this what school has always been like with bully’s or is it just mine?