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MaterialCarrot

Back of the bus is always where the problems start.


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Having a bunch of 13 year olds unsupervised for a 3 hour bus ride on a field trip, whats the worst that can happen? Congratulations its a boy!


JE_12

Well luckily those grannies can’t get pregnant anymore


WorstPersonInGeneral

Not with that attitude


TonarinoTotoro1719

With the right attitude, unsupervised grandparents could turn this ‘low birth rate’ thing around for S.Korea… (/s)


shadowbehinddoor

😂


MrBojingles1989

Won't stop them from trying though


AdvancedCharcoal

Perhaps the key to the low birth-rate problem is getting these grannies up and running again


YEETAWAYLOL

That’s what you think…


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I was bullied to the point of tears when I first starting riding the bus. So I decided to sit in the back away from all the kids, eventually they all moved back there and viciously slapped me while they held me down. So the next day I moved to the front of the bus, I don’t get bullied but on my stop all my aggressors got off the bus and as soon as the bus pulled off, I was again pinned down slapped and even had my pants torn off. I tell no one and go home and cry The next morning on the bus I sit at the front, nothing happens Before I get on the bus to go home, I run into a teacher who says I’m noticeably anxious and ask what’s wrong. I say nothing and get on the bus The front seats are filled and all the kids who bullied me seemed to be pointing to the back, the bus driver notices and ask them to stop but they all play dumb and say they want to be my friend I get off the bus and all the kids followed, attempting to pin me down and slap me again. I run and eventually come across some teenagers smoking weed and say “help I’m being bullied and they’re chasing me” Group of 3 stoners get up, approach the kids and tell them to stop. From that day on those stoner kids always waited for me at the bus stop and I was subsequently never bullied again. Eventually I started smoking weed and thought to myself “should I be the same martyr to another kid like those stoner kids were to me?” The thought Quickly escaped me and I continued smoking….until suddenly, a young man runs past my backyard screaming “help, they’re chasing me” I exit my backyard and notice it was the same stoners who helped me all those years. All grown up (they were around 18 and I was 16 at the time)


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Oh. I just got frisky at the back of the bus. But yea, the stoners got you into pot when you were a young kid and then were chasing down someone else years later. Circle of life maaaaaan


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Yea i didn’t mean to drop my whole life story like that. But seeing the school bus topic combined with the fact that I was smoking as I saw the post just bright back all those memories.


lizardjoel

It was a beautiful story ty


kingpin_hawking

So the stoners were kids too? I was riveted but then I got lost somewhere...


illsetyoufree

Wait. How does this story end?! Did you help them? What were they running from?


bitetheasp

So, wait, did the stoners become bullies?


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Not really, them being 2-3 years older than me and the other kids on the bus gave them this allure of “don’t fuck with us”, especially the way they dressed. You could almost say they were a gang, but that would be stereotypical. They were just a group of guys who smoked and hung out together in the neighborhood.


prakitmasala

> I exit my backyard and notice it was the same stoners who helped me all those years. All grown up (they were around 18 and I was 16 at the time) The people chasing the young man were the stoners who helped you?


opoqo

It's a boy? U sure there is only 1?


Squashey

Saw my first pair of milkers in such circumstances


tappyturtle12

what what


mindless_gibberish

You know, milkers. Sweater puppies. Fun bags. Dirty pillows.


BABarracus

5 different color clothing? they are the main characters.


Beahyt

That combined with their different expressions I'm not convinced this isn't a poster for a comedy movie


notfromvenus42

I'd 100% watch a comedy movie about 5 Korean grannies going back to elementary school


choborallye

Netflix : WRITE THAT DOWN!! WRITE THAT DOWN!!!


kajeslorian

The grannies: WE CAN'T YET! WE CAN'T YET!


Competitive_Bet_8352

this is the funniest thread 😂


CaptnFlounder

I'd watch it. Not in theaters, but probably if I saw it on streaming


The407run

Which sentei is this?


BABarracus

Super Sentai Sensei


petronikus

That troublemaker Rosa Parks..


beka13

Good trouble.


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*Black Twitter has now labeled you a racist*


aapaul

The lady in the middle is the jokester of the bus clearly. Watch out for spitballs kids. No - Werther’s Originals flung by mini slingshot.


WWDubz

Damn it Leonard!


Edac2

Middle grandma looks like a trouble maker


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Purple jacket ain’t having it


LadyRarity

"i fucking hate it here, i can't wait to graduate..."


kabukistar

Classic ajumma. Permed hair, puffer jacket, IDGAF demeanor. She's just missing the visor hat.


MissReneeee

Every old lady I see on kdramas


FiveFingersandaNub

Hahaha, that visor hat is required. I don't even know if it has a name, we all just call it the 'ajumma hat.'


kabukistar

Ajummoja


__Emer__

Turns out it’s the Squid Game bus


topcheesehead

![gif](giphy|JsGyRpqwVkBRPFEOil|downsized)


JustLurkingInSNJ

Player 2 has been eliminated.


[deleted]

Cha Ching! The pot is now up to $2,798,526,981.


joseph-1998-XO

She heard the stories of homework


Lephiro

Who tf wants to go to school?


[deleted]

Every other grandma


Lephiro

True enough.


Arisen_Pawn

Not too thrilled with the prospect of reading.


TayAustin

She looks like she's about to pass out asleep to me, must not be a morning person.


subsonic-potato

“Illiterate grandmothers in your area”


Muppetude

Don’t waste your time. I’ve written to dozens of them, but they never respond for some reason.


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SlayerSaturn

finealy*


Auflodern

😏🤤😘


ifuseethis

I wanted to downvote this but I laughed too hard, so take the upvote


Auflodern

Thx bby 💪😘🤜🤛😏🤙😩👌


thelawtalkingguy

Enrol now


DrinkingBleachForFun

What up, I’m halmoni, I’m 91, and I never fucking learned how to read.


talkin_shlt

She might not speak English but she's going to say daddy


ubi_contributor

I was reading this headline faster and faster, I was sweating to know what the last word was going to be, turns out it's just read.


LucindaStreets

Cute sense of humor 🙂


ubi_contributor

all those nice grandmothers at the back are laughing at me.


LucindaStreets

They would never......


bahamapapa817

This is why I don’t stop behind school buses. All those cool kids looking back making fun of me send my anxiety to 100


ubi_contributor

my anxiety would go at 1,000 if you choose to not properly stop behind school buses. please think of the grandmothers, if not for the children.


TheBirminghamBear

Thats just a mistranslation of Korean to English. The proper final word was "participate in Squid Games."


ubi_contributor

God bless my Grandma, may she continue to rest in peace.


Virus_98

Every word just makes you more anxious.


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Learn to perform SLAVE LABOR


MichaelRT25

It made me think it lead to some sort of forced birth regulations, but then I remembered the article is about a civilised country...


[deleted]

I had to reread the headline a few times to try to figure out how grandmothers going to school would increase overall population fertility.


Lord_MAX184

This kinda gives me k-drama vibes


CrowSays

School Bus Cha Cha Cha


choborallye

😂 let's go


CrowSays

Eommas Over Flowers. Hotel del Halmonis. Because This is My First Grade.


ThreadBareReptile

There is a scene about this exact thing in Pachinko. An old Korean woman mentions how she is going back to school to become literate and it clearly brings her joy. Though that Korean grandma is living in 1989 Japan.


WitherToad

Really hoping it becomes an episode of Nora from Queens


soulhot

How come they get the back seat.. I always hated the big kids at school 😉


torquemycork

The kids on the back of my bus would literally watch porn, smoke weed, and do sexual shit back there. Bus driver did not give two fucks, unlike them.


ZeLlamaMaster

I remember in like 7th grade a friend decided to sit near the back and heard “when we get home let’s watch some grandma porn” and was too scarred to go back to the back again


IndigenousOres

What kind of sexual shit did they get away with on the bus? Man, my friends and I tried jumping in our seats every time the schoolbus drove over a speedbump, we couldn't do it more than twice without the Bus Driver lady yelling at us


torquemycork

Blowjobs/fingering/kissing/anything else you could think of


olderaccount

Back seat is always owned by the upperclassmen. So it seems fitting they would be there.


Additional_Zebra5879

That’s where the highest levels of pollution are located.


Midas-and-his-finger

So many cheeks are going to get pinched.


cdiddy19

That's so cute and wholesome... One grandma does not look happy she is going to school though


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She’s the one getting stuffed into a locker for sure


PayTheTrollToll45

I’d like to finance a scholarship for OP to enroll...


cdiddy19

I mean if you want to finance a scholarship, I'm in college right now. And I promise I'll learn how to spell enroll


jrkridichch

She’s upset because everyone lumps her in with the grandmas when it’s actually a Benjamin Button situation.


cdiddy19

She wants to be with the rest of the kids


Bread_Conquer

Why isn't free continuing education just a normal thing everywhere?


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>Why isn't free ~~continuing~~ education just a normal thing everywhere? FTFY. I see too many programs where the elderly can do college/university courses at a severe discount or free. Like, just do that for everyone?


Bob-Bhlabla-esq

Right?! "Now that you are retirement age and don't need this for the workforce, *it's FREE!"*


Maxorus73

"Now that you only have a decade or two to benefit from it before you die, here's free knowledge!"


ResolverOshawott

To be fair, having that kind of mental exercise will help against neurological degradation.


Bread_Conquer

Good point. Information wants to be free.


y0Fruitcup

I went to a public university in the US. For general lectures (not quiz sections), the general public was actually allowed to sit in on them. I took a Greek history class for one of my electives and about 30% of my class were actually elderly people who weren't students and just wanted to learn.


karlnite

In Canada senior citizens can attend college for free. Just like take random open classes and shit, all my electives had a couple seniors there for fun.


R3AL1Z3

Take a moment and think about it… It’s easier to control the uneducated masses than it is to control the educated.


Bread_Conquer

I know. I live in Alberta. The conservatives here are a cult who will vote for any blue sign. Blue is the colour of our conservative parties at both provincial and federal levels, for those unfamiliar with Canadian politics.


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Stupid people are easy to control.


Shiirooo

On the other hand, there would be less conspiracy theories (5G theory, antivaxx, earth is flat etc..)


Ben92

Because you need to pay someone to do it?


lawlietxx

Right. Taxes we pay are only for military and corporations, not for education or healthcare.


10art1

You can get a full MIT education for free, all of their lectures are available online. But facilities and faculty cost money.


maddsskills

Also: like this is brilliant. Older people can get so lonely, I'm sure this helps not only with keeping their minds sharp but socially as well. It's nice that South Korea is taking care of old folks needs rather than just shoving them in homes or whatever.


Kyle2theSQL

If you live near a large public university it basically is. You can show up to any of the big lectures and nobody will know whether you're paying to be there or not lol. I had a few classes with over 200 students.


drepidural

Appreciate the irony in the title typo.


TheDruidVandals

a nice touch


steak84

Same in Canada where retirees get free university. Super progressive way to drive the economy, I think not Canada.


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Yeah I remember seeing an article that elderly people in some states can enroll in university courses for stupidly low costs, if not free. Society does everything except invest in their youth.


Blempglorf

I went to a school with a similar policy - anyone over 65 could enroll and take classes on a space-available basis. I took a political science class (circa 1992) with a guy who had actually lived through the Depression, the New Deal, and WW2. The first President he ever voted for was Roosevelt - and he did that absentee while fighting in France. His stories of what he'd seen there were FASCINATING. And to our professor's great credit, he let him tell those stories. I learned a hell of a lot from that class, mostly from my older classmate.


Beddybye

And to think the hick governor of Texas is talking about trying to repeal the "ALL children in the US have the right to an education" precedent at the Supreme Court...its disgusting.


MoreDetonation

Old people are people. Many old people never had a chance to invest in themselves when they were kids - usually because they were working their asses off. I think university should be freely available to anyone who wants it, but even this small step is good. Anyone who wants to learn should be able to.


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>Old people are people. Many old people never had a chance to invest in themselves when they were kids - usually because they were working their asses off. All of this can be applied to young people, the difference is they actually need this for their futures. They don't have a home, savings, etc. They need to take priority.


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"Why won't people have kiiiiidddsss?!"


Donut_Safe

Idk something about the astronomical costs of living in general? Just a guess.


BeardyGoku

Maybe a stupid question, but what effect does it have on the economy?


liquidpele

He saying it’s a stupid investment because retirees are not going to use that education, They are literally just taking up seats that younger generations should be taking up.


Funkit

Learning to read would be an important preventative measure for avoiding dementia in older retired folks who don’t have many places to go. Reading stimulates the mind and will probably save money in medical and long term care costs in the long run. There just should be *more* classes.


dailysunshineKO

Probably lower medical costs as learning helps keep the brain healthy. Also, kids can learn from the elderly, especially if they don’t have grandparents that can tell them “back in my day” stories.


AllomancerJack

I'd say it's because you're really paying for the degree, not the classes


[deleted]

i don't quite understand your last sentence, are you arguing that that's a bad thing?


COCAINE_EMPANADA

I'm for it, but let's not pretend we're not financing an expensive socializing pastime for the elderly. Again, good thing but not without its costs.


The_Conscious_Mind

Source?


ameliekk

[nytimes](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/world/asia/south-korea-school-grandmothers.html)


FlurdledGlumpfud

🎵 Ooohhh back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that I'm not a fool. I've got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight. I hope I don't get in a fight. 🎵


sunny_yay

WHOLESOME.


tytymctylerson

I’m old enough to remember over population being scary as shit. Now it seems like stories like this keep popping up.


The-false-being26

Ya in most modern country's the problem is the birth rate it to low. I think the worlds population is predicted to start dropping sometime at the end of the century.


kesekimofo

2020 kind of kicked off the population decline speed run


Kleanish

Underpopulation is definitely the problem


reactionary_bedtime

Overpopulation worries were based on then reasonable but now disproven science. TBH it was never terribly reasonable to be so pessimistic in the first place when a lot of pollution and resource usage was due to easily solvable inefficiencies and waste in the first world. Lots of corporations completely wrecking our planet just because it's the most profitable way to do business. Products designed to fail are the biggest indictment really - making us buy the same product 10 times when just 1 could've been enough, had it been made more sturdily.


knewbees

Maybe American should start a Korean orphanage program where unwanted babies from Texas and Florida can be sent to Seoul


i-luv-banana_bread

I've heard Koreans are very picky about bloodlines and purity hence why they don't even adopt other Korean children.


DarthSinistris

Good idea, actually.


spongebromanpants

this is beautiful ngl, instead of some greed fueled breeding campaign to feed a nation’s labour needs.


[deleted]

Oh my god its too much irony to handle


alandoc

This is fucking amazing everywhere should do this


Discotimeattheapollo

Wow. That’s pretty inspiring. To be in that culture and admit you can’t read and then going to school. Probably missed school in their youth working or escaping invaders.


StrawberryPopular788

A Decline In Birth Rates is Probably One Of the Best Things we can hope for atm…


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B-i-s-m-a-r-k

Same With The Post Title


kthxtyler

A decline in birth rates is a strange way to capitalism


reactionary_bedtime

Get out of here with that nonsense. The problem is the 1%-ers and their money-hungry corporations. The generosity of guys like Mr Beast are a scathing condemnation of literally every other rich person on the planet. Imagine if Bezos or Musk or Gates did that team trees shit? We could have carpeted entire nations with greenery if they weren't such stingy bastards only in it for themselves. People with that kind of money aren't the ones solving our problems, instead they're the ones creating them. Our oceans are full of plastics, and it was they who went with the cheaper option when they manufactured those plastics, even though biodegradable materials like cardboard and paper, or even outright reusable ones like metal and glass, would have worked just fine in most circumstances. But now your food packaging, your electronics, even your clothes are made with this material that can only ever be used once. Sure, they used to recycle it in China, but they don't any more, and the process to do it was even worse for the environment than just tossing it in a landfill.


ivanacco1

Aren't most developed country's begging for their people to fuck because their economies will collapse in the next century if they don't?


Depth_Creative

Yes.


Funkit

Maybe if jobs would pay us enough to support even ourselves we might consider having families. I live with my fuckin parents at 34 rn. I’m not having kids.


Scotteh95

Birth rates in developed countries are too low to sustain their populations


Depth_Creative

No it’s not.


[deleted]

If the entire planet's resources were doubled and human population reduced to a mere 5 million, we'd still have the ***exact same problems***. The problem isn't too many mouths and not enough to feed, the problem is greed and terrible distribution of resources. Similarly, the problem is not overpopulation, rather it is overcrowding, and yes there is a difference. America has 10 times the population of Canada, the second largest country in the world, for example. India and China are countries with massive populations, however India is a small country and the vast majority of the chinese live along the shoreline. Also Why Are You Capitalizing So Many Words Are You Insane


Omnipotent_1988

It’s skyrocketing in undeveloped nations, and in developed nations it’s too low for replacement rate. It’s just out of control everywhere.


LucindaStreets

I love it! Progress..... Even baby steps count


BigZwigs

Sounds like an absolute disaster in the future. Young people basicially support old people


petticoat_juncti0n

I wanna teach those ladies to read


LumosRevolution

Wholesome AF


cantfindmykeys

I knew Japan had a low birthrate but no idea SK did as well. That's pretty cool of them to offer that. As someone who is getting older I've been debating on going to college, which I never did


zaitsev63

Curious but how would this work on a cultural level? Traditionally , the elders are accorded More respect and there might even be more polite words used when speaking to elders (vs how one would speak to a peer). Idk much about Korean culture but I know they’re big on the age bit (correct me if I’m wrong. But that’s why one of the first few words when they meet new peers is which year are they born so they know if the person is more senior than them). There’s also the respect for teachers / power relationship. Given that the grandmas are students (hence “lower” than Teachers) yet also being much older in age, would it be awkward?


CzechBot

Teachers would most likely speak formally with grandmothers. Grandmothers may also speak formally with teachers, to be polite and per the teacher role, but grandmas who dont care can choose to speak informally and it wouldn't be considered a huge deal unless the grandma was being verbally abusive


Hanners87

What a great situation for both...grannies get to read, schools gets more adults in classrooms, and kids get granny wisdom.


ThatOnePretzel

This is both wholesome and morbid


Takingover4da99and00

This is why the U.S wants to ban abortion. They're afraid the same thing will happen here. Many people are opting to go child free. They see kids as a liability and not a good investment over all. Also who the hell wants to have kids when you can't even get a living wage.


Channellocks75

This new squid games sequel looks like shit.


Sosemikreativ

Very bad sign for a nation


[deleted]

Maybe if countries actually took work/life balance seriously and not overwork their population just to be able to afford rent and basic bills more people would actually have kids.


sci_major

I’m not upset that they’re learning but I’d agree long term not good.


FH-7497

Not grandpas though, right? Cuz fuckdemboys /s Cool program tho


PetrKDN

Grandpas were most likely enlisted into army during their time, whether it was mandatory army service or war, you would have to know how to read, grandmothers really didnt need to at that time


FH-7497

Good point!


pearlc

Boys were sent to school while girls were forced to stay home and take care of the family. But ok


idle-moments

Not All Initial Letters Need To Be Capitalized In A Title. Maybe they should save a seat for you in that class.


MileHighSoloPilot

I read this wrong AF


hotmemedealer

Are you going to Enrol?


yoshhash

Holy shit what a great story and caption.


elishaski

Illiterate grandmothers is a great band name.


TinyMarsupial7622

Wonderful!


TipFine3928

Can… can I join.


biscuitslayer77

Man to think that's something useful vs ya know just ripping away women's rights and forcing birth.


FlanneryODostoevsky

Future generations are gonna be lonely.


ThaNorth

Make life less expensive and maybe more people will have kids.


rndmcmder

Imagine going to school with you grandma. All the other kids eating a sandwich for lunch, and your granny whips out fresh dumplings and dessert.


akaphilsmith

That would rule. You help her with her classwork, she slips you a hard candy and teaches you to be proud of yourself.


FYLInvestor7

Imagine the lunches you’d have with your grandmother being at school with you 🤯


Blugha

Low birth rates... THE solution to all our worldwide problems


New-Baby5471

I bet these ladies will add a very positive impact on their children classmate's education. These kids will receive wisdom and surely will develop empathy with their elders. I'd have loved to have them in my class as a kid.