The Problem with Each Grade of School..

From Kindergarten Innocence to Second Grade Social Shifts Have you ever realized that every single year of school was horrible, but each grade was horrible in its own special way? Like first grade you had kids randomly throwing up everywhere. 9th grade you had kids chasing you around the locker room with homemade flamethrowers. Or maybe that was just me. So today, I'm gonna slander every grade from kindergarten all the way to 12th grade. And if you're not all the way through school yet, this can be a warning of what's coming in your future. Kindergarten is the only year of school where everybody is just useless and no one expects anything better from you. And honestly, that was kind of big. You're five years old, built like a juice box, and every feeling you have is the biggest feeling any human has ever had. If your mom drops you off and leaves, your life is over. If another kid gets a blue crayon first, your life is over. But kindergarten was still beautiful because life was so simple. You color, you eat snacks, you throw up whenever you feel like it, wherever you want. And I haven't even mentioned how easy it was to make friends back then. That's the craziest part of kindergarten. You sit next to some random kid during story time, you both laugh when the teacher does a funny voice, and just like that, the person next to you is your lifelong brother. I still have a friend now that I'm in kindergarten, and our friendship started that exact way. And after you make that friend, you guys are locked in because this is basically your first friend ever. So you're sharing goldfish crackers with each other, learning how to spell together, and you're both silently agreeing to stay very far away from the one kid who just threw up all over the table at 10:14 in the morning. And everybody had a kid who did that too. Like there was always one kid in kindergarten who just collapses for no reason, throws up cries, takes his shoes off and never puts them back on. And nobody knows what his deal is. But everybody understands one thing. Do not sit near him. That's kindergarten. A bunch of little civilians with glue on their hands, loving life, missing their parents and becoming best friends faster than grown adults choose a Netflix show. And that is why first grade feels so disrespectful. First grade is when school takes the clown nose off, because you come back after kindergarten thinking you're basically a decorated veteran. Now in your head, you know the system, you know what recess is, you know where the bathroom is. But then you get something very horrible. Homework. Now you've got worksheets. You've got to know how to spell words. You've got to know how to add numbers together. Kindergarten was just coloring and vibes. First grade is the first time you realize the adults in the building are actually expecting you to do something. So now you're trying to live up to these new school expectations while still being surrounded by people who throw up on command. Because when you're in first grade, now you're at recess with the older kids. It's not there's other kids in your grade. Every recess had that one kid who was just fully feral. He bites, he screams for fun, he runs at full speed with no destination. He'll chase people around the playground like he was raised in the woods and briefly introduced to civilization. When I say the word first grade, my heart literally starts beating faster because it just reminds me of that kid chasing me. Because all I can think of when I think about first grade is keeping enough distance between me and that weird kid so I can make it to lunch without becoming his lunch. That's first grade. Then summer comes around again and you tell yourself one of the biggest lies It. Speaker 2 Can't get worse from here, right? Speaker 1 Wrong, because second grade is where the magic is officially worn off and everybody starts becoming an actual person. That's what I remember most about second grade. Not the people, not the homework. What I remember is that this is the year everybody started to get an actual personality, which means they started to get their own roles. You had the teacher's pet who reminds the teacher about homework like he's wearing a wire. You have the class clown who is either the most funny kid in the class or just the least funny kid ever. I was kind of a mix of both, to be honest. That's second grade. But because you start to develop a personality in second grade, that means it can also start to feel evil because one day everything is fine. You're playing at recess, having a good time, life is good. Then the next day you walk up to the same group of people you were playing with and somebody just hits you with the yeah. Speaker 2 You can't play with us today. Speaker 1 There was number reason for it, they just simply shunned you from the group. Now you're just standing there on the blacktop at recess, forced to hang out with the weird kid who would bite people. Crushes, Homework Stress, and Fifth Grade Power Dynamics But for 3rd grade, I'm not gonna lie, I don't remember that year super clearly. And I think that's because third grade was one of those weird in between years and I don't have any big memorable moments from it. Except for one. Because third grade is about the time where you start to develop a crush. And that may sound amazing, but it usually ends up horrible because the second you like for the first time, you stop acting like a normal human being. I'll never forget my first crush to this day. I thought I was going to marry that girl in 3rd grade and I wanted to impress her so bad. So for some reason I decided the best way to impress her was to show off on the monkey bars. Now you may think, if I wanted to show off on the monkey bars, that must mean I was really good at the monkey bars, right? No, I was horrible at them, but I was determined. So one day I'm up there on the monkey bars acting like this is my moment. My crush is watching and in my head I'm about to do some smooth little move, hop off the monkey bars, do a backflip and land. Everyone will see that I'm the coolest person out and my crush will be obsessed with me. Unfortunately, that's not what happened. Not even close. What actually happened is I tried to do a flip, but my hand slipped, I folded up weird, and I got the wind knocked out of me when I hit the ground. And I made these weird, disgusting little accordion noises while everybody looked at me. And that was painful, but not as painful as the fact that my crush saw it happen. It still makes me cringe to this day 'cause I was just laying there on the wood chips trying to act like I was fine, but my crush literally just watched me go from cool athletic guy to Victorian child with asthma in about one second. There was no bouncing back from that. But the true peak of third grade was the book fair. The book fair was not just a school event. It was magic. You walk in and suddenly everything looks unbelievable. Pencils, erasers, books, weird little gadgets nobody needed but every kid wanted. You would see about 50 things in there that you're thinking, oh, I'm gonna get that, I'm gonna get that, I'm gonna get that, I'm gonna get that, I'm gonna get that. But then you remember you only have like $7.00 to your name. So now you're standing there trying to decide between buying a Captain Underpants book or buying one of those pencils that smells like Coca-Cola. But luckily, this is also the time where you find out that you can steal. Just kidding. That's a joke. It's a joke. That was third grade for me. Then summer rolls around and by 4th grade, school starts talking to you like you should already have your life together. 4th grade is when school stops feeling like a place you go to and starts feeling like something that follows you home. This is where the amount of schoolwork you have just starts getting disrespectful. Like, we've learned how to spell, we've learned how to do subtraction and addition. So now the homework's starting to get longer, the rating's getting heavier, the projects are getting bigger, and the teachers start talking to you like you're old enough to be held accountable for anything. Matter of fact, we were all still peeing our pants in 4th grade. Right before 4th grade, if you forgot something, teachers would give you some grace and look at you like a child. To 4th grade though, they started looking at you like a very disappointing employee. Speaker 3 Why did you read Long Outside? Speaker 2 I don't know, maybe because I'm nine and I spent the summer doing cannonballs into my friend's pool, not reading books. Speaker 1 4th grade was the first time I came home from school and actually felt stressed. That was the first time I actually had to do schoolwork into the nighttime. Nighttime was supposed to be met for watching Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel, not doing math. I remember in 4th grade I had a project that we were given 8 weeks to do and I procrastinated it until the very last night. I told my mom about it the day before it was due and my whole family basically got drafted into working on it with me. My mom was cutting things out, I was gluing things together, my dad's walking around pretending he understands the assignment we're doing when we both know he doesn't. In reality, most the work I had to do in elementary school was just done by my mom. That's 4th grade. Thinking back to it, 4th grade might actually be my least favorite year of school. And that really sucks because my favorite number is 4, and weirdly enough, my least favorite number is 5. But fifth grade was way better because when 5th grade rolls around, for the first time in your life, you're the big dog on campus and giving that amount of power to a child is a horrible thing. Now you're the oldest people at the school. The kindergartners look microscopic. The younger grades are just little random civilians moving around beneath you. You start walking through school like you own the place, like the principal should run all major decisions past you first. The best part is, all the other grades look up to you because you're the oldest people in school. They all think you're super cool. The only problem with fifth grade is that everybody keeps reminding you that middle school is coming, and that ruins everything because teachers talk about middle school like you're being transferred to another country. Your older siblings make it sound like a lawless wasteland, and if you read Diary of a Wimpy Kid around that age, middle school looked like the worst thing that could ever happen to a human being. So 5th grade was weird. Half the year you're loving life because you're the oldest person in the element school, but the other half of the year you're quietly realizing that your days are numbered. But fifth grade was also the year I had my very first sleepover with kids from school. Parents drop you off. You bring way too much junk food. You and your friends act like you're basically grown now. And that feeling lasts for about 40 minutes, because then the whole house just turns into complete chaos. Somebody's yelling, Somebody's fake wrestling in a room that is way too small for that. Somebody's eating more sugar than those rats in scientific studies. Then you've always got the kid who randomly gets homesick around 11:43 PM and just goes home without telling anybody. That's fifth grade. You're at the absolute top of elementary school, but once again. Then summer comes and all that big dog energy you had slowly turns into one disgusting thought. Navigating Puberty, Drama, and High School Anticipation Next year you have to go back to being at the bottom of the totem pole and that is called 7th grade. Middle school is insane and I remember thinking on my very first day of 6th grade, how bad can this really be? Let me just tell you bad because in elementary school life made sense. You had one teacher, one classroom. Then you get to middle school and all of a sudden you have a schedule, no recess, and kids randomly vape it in the bathroom. It still takes me about 14 minutes to know how to use a lot. But it wasn't any part of the actual class in middle school that was the craziest. The true horror of middle school was walking into the bathroom for the first time. It's always the 7th graders messing around in there. 7th grade is when middle school stops attacking you from the outside and starts attacking you from within. Your voice cracks at the worst possible time, acne shows up like your face owes it money. You start to smell for some reason and you're just trying to figure out how to balance all this without your crush thinking you're a psychopath because a 7th grade boy around a 7th grade girl does not know how to act. Because 7th grade is where drama becomes a full time job. Now one person is crying in the bathroom over a relationship that lasted 4 days and mostly consisted of eye contact and walking near each other after. I remember having my first real middle school girlfriend in 7th grade. Relationships in 7th grade are basically just acting like a divorced couple with joint custody of an apartment. Like 80% of it was just awkward hallway interactions, 15% was overthinking texts, and 5% was standing next to each other trying to figure out if we were supposed to hug or just like nod to each other like Co workers. And the whole time I was acting like this was some deeply complicated love story. All in my super cool outfits. Neon green basketball shorts that went down to my ankles. The actual schoolwork gets harder too. That's what makes 7th grade so cruel. It's not enough that your skin is betraying you and your social life feels like a badly managed TV drama because now algebra shows up to whoever created algebra. Why? Like I already had enough unknowns in my life, now you want me to find X to like? I don't care about figuring out the value of X right now. I just got left on red by a girl who has braces shaped like a pick a fence and I am going through it. That was what 7th grade was. Also, one thing I have to mention about 7th grade, The worst haircuts I've ever seen. I'm just gonna say it. If you're in 7th grade right now watching this video, your haircut is probably chopped. That's not supposed to be a roast. It's just the reality. But that's what 7th grade is about. Bad haircuts, embarrassing crush stories, and getting publicly humiliated. Now, I've told you guys my least favorite year was probably 4th grade, but if we're asking what my favorite year was, it's gonna be 8th grade. 8th grade is when I started to touch grass for the first time in my life. Matter of fact, it was the only time I touch grass in my life because I won't do it now. But this is the year when your brain stops living in middle school. That's the whole year you're physically still in middle school. You're still in the same hallways, still eating the same gross lunch, but mentally you're already in high school. Because all anybody talks about in 8th grade is high school. High school, this high school. Speaker 2 That bro in high school, it's gonna be so different. Just wait till you get to high school and try doing that. Nobody cares in high school. Everybody cares in high school. In high school everybody vapes. The students are in high school. You can leave for lunch in high school. Speaker 1 But the crazy part is every single person describes it way differently. So now your brain is just a blender full of rumors. One person will make it sound like a movie, another person makes it sound like a prison. Which I mean, there are movies about prison. So I guess both those can be true. The funniest part is when a teacher says that. Speaker 3 Won't slide in high school. Speaker 1 I Remember Me and my friends talking about high school like it was the promised land when? Speaker 3 We get to high school, everything changes. Speaker 1 We thought we were about to get taller, cooler, more funny, better looking, more athletic, more confident. For me personally, when I went to high school, I switched school so I went to where I didn't know anybody. So in my mind this was an opportunity to completely reinvent myself. So I was excited for it. But this was the reason 8th grade was so great. You just didn't take the actual school you were in seriously. You're finally the oldest person in the school and you can just do whatever you want. I thought high school was going to be so peak, which is funny because my real high school life was absolutely not what I was imagining. I thought high school was going to fix me. Suddenly people would think I was funny, people would actually like my haircut now I would be more confident. But none of that happened because summer rolls around once again. But this one feels so different from all the other ones before it. For the first time in your life, August doesn't feel like school is starting again. It feels like you're being sent to somewhere completely different. Somewhere bigger, somewhere scarier, somewhere everyone has spent the last year describing to you in the most dramatic way possible. It's like finally getting called up to the big leagues. 9th grade freshman year of high school. From Freshman Fear to Post-Graduation Choices I'm going to be honest, this year terrified me. I walked into high school feeling like someone had dropped a child into a building full of grown adults. That may sound crazy, but if you actually think about it, that's true. In high school, you are literally 14, growing to school with some grown adults. You're still a kid. Your voice is cracking, but now you're going to school with people that can vote ways the voting age 18 or 21. I'm gonna be honest, I forgot, but that part isn't saying to me. Your backpack probably still has a Buzz Lightyear lunch pail in it and some seniors walking by looking like they already have a full time job. They got two kids at home to take care of and they own a house. And it was even worse for me because like I said, I went to a new school. So I wasn't just scared of the older kids. I was scared of everyone because I didn't know anybody. That was a horrible feeling. Walking into a giant building full of strangers while trying to act like you belong there should count as psychological warfare. And I never even been to the campus before, so I had no idea how to get to the buildings. Because when lunch comes and you don't know anybody, lunch is not a break. It's more like a public hostage situation. Everybody else already seems to know where they're sitting. They're moving with a purpose and they look like they belong. And I'm just standing there with a tray in my hand. Look like I got separated from my family at the airport. Because the second day of lunch during my freshman year, I had no clue where I was going to sit or who I was going to talk to. But luckily, this 11th grader kind of took me under his wing. And I'm not even exaggerating when I say that this changed my whole school experience in 9th grade. Because since an 11th grader took me under their wing, now all of a sudden I was around the older kids. I've got somewhere to sit now. I'm hearing conversations I definitely have no business hearing. When you're a freshman, one older kid being nice to you feels like somebody just granted you immunity, like nobody could hurt you anymore. If they do, the older kids will take care of it. Did I instantly become cool? No. But freshman year was so scary that this one little lifeline felt huge. Another reason 9th grade was so scary was of course the Klaus, because high school is where I really started looking around and thinking, when am I ever going to use any of this information we're learning in real life. If I need to do math, my phone has a calculator. If I have a question about history, I can Google it on my phone. And when am I ever going to dissect a rat in real life? Like why are we acting like my future should depend on whether I know the quadratic formula or not? This made so little sense to me that in 9th grade I would just pull fake sick days. I would act like I had a stomach ache, stay home, and for about 11 minutes it felt amazing. But then you're halfway through the day sitting in the couch in your pajamas and you're just thinking to yourself, I'm going to have to do more work tomorrow now. Like you just moved the fear you had to tomorrow. That was freshman year, by far the scariest year of school I ever had. Then 10th grade comes along, you get comfortable. 10th grade is a trap because in 9th grade you're so scared that you're basically moving through the building like a deer in traffic. Sophomore year is when high school finally you into thinking. Speaker 2 You know what? I know how this works. Speaker 1 And that's dangerous. Why am I saying that? Because I basically took all of 10th grade off. Like I just didn't focus during any of my classes. I got like really bad grades that year. It was basically a vacation year. But I'm just telling you guys this so you don't make the same mistake because that was 10th grade for me. It wasn't scary like 9th grade. It wasn't crushing like 11th grade would be. But if we're talking about 10th graders in general and not just me, 10th grade is usually the year where everyone changes drastically. One random guy suddenly gets super into the gym. He's talking about how he's trying to decide whether he should either bulk cut or maintain. Like, brother, you're 15, you don't have a driver license, you don't need to do any of those things. So yeah, don't do the same thing I did in 10th grade. And especially don't try it the next year in 11th grade because 11th grade is the World Cup final. It's the Super Bowl. It's the year where everything is to play for. You have to be absolutely locked in for this year. If it goes good, your future will be great. The reason 11th grade is that series is because this is when you take all the tests the colleges will see. So they'll be looking at your grades from this year. You need to do good. You don't have another choice. But to be honest, if you haven't gotten to this grade yet, don't be too scared because people make it sound way more dramatic than it actually is. I mean, sure, it's way harder than any other grade and if you don't do good, your life is practically over. But besides that, it's like any other school year. But like for example, I didn't do the best in my 11th grade year and look at me now, still living with my parents and I have no girlfriend. Maybe don't look at me actually, let's just move on now we're on to the Holy Grail. 12th grade. 12th grade is the year. All you hear about 12th grade is that it's a party. You're a senior now, no work, no anything, just vibes. You already know what you're going to do after high school, whether that be college or McDonald's. One guy's always doing construction, one person's going to play video games for 15 hours a day. But 12th grade is the most awesome time. Well, at least that's what I've heard about 12th grade. I wouldn't know because for me, 12th grade happened during COVID, so I had to do it online. Do you know how unfair that is? The one Goodyear of school that people talk about, I didn't get to do. My senior year was spent in zoo, turning cameras off so the teacher couldn't see that I was in bed, having to raise my hand to ask if I could go to the bathroom in my own house. I'm still not over it, man. It's not fair. It's not fair. You know what? I'm going back to 12th grade. I don't know, actually, that's weird. Possible. Anyway. Anyways, I'm not mad. I'm not mad, but after high school you have two options. Do you take the blue pill and go to college or do you take the red pill and get a job? A job. Okay in the video, as wild as this video was, the school confessions my viewers set in was the most diabolical things I've ever seen. So click right here if you want to see all the confessions.