>in primary school >have different level readers >on

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>>9231128
Holyshit, imagine being this intellectually blown the fuck out as a kid you're still insecure about it as an adult

>>9231138
This is from Alain DeBotton's biography

>>9231138
>Assuming OP is an adult

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>>9231144
De Botton isn't an adult. He's a millionaire child who makes vague, self-help videos from real philosophers.

>>9231310
That's precisely Bismark's original reasoning for introducing the welfare state in the first place.

i don't have any retention, either, but i've got a catheter.

>>9231141
Why are you reading Alain DeBotton's biography ?

In my school you got a headlock and a mouthful of sand for being an obnoxious nerd

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>school has reading level system
>move to this school in the middle of the year
>automatically placed at average level
>to advance you need to read books on your level and earn points with multiple choice tests from this computer program sparknotes tier shit
>you earn more points for bigger books
>school wants me to slog through hundreds if not thousands of pages of shit to slowly go up this level ladder and eventually read what I actually want at a bigger level
>the quality does not matter a retarded ratio of pages in a book does
>1000 pages of D&D is worth more than 300 pages of a classic novel when both are at the same level
>have to go up a fuck ton of levels to get to where I want
>get in trouble for being caught reading outside my level
>stop reading altogether and grow massive disdain for the education system that take years to recover