Five-year-olds told fun is over for next 60 years

CHILDREN have begun six decades of doing things they do not want to do.

No more dicking around

Infants who previously spent all their time having fun will now be required to dress in clothes they hate, sit down at desks and write words and numbers until they want to cry.

After school, they will come home and write words and numbers until bedtime, a routine which will continue unchanged for the next 13 years.

At 18 years old, they can choose between taking a job where they write words and numbers, taking a job in which 13 years of learning words and numbers was a waste of time, or going to big school for a few years before being presented with the same options again.

They will then continue on their chosen path until the age of 68 or death, whichever comes first.

Five-year-old Tom Logan said: My favourite thing is doing whatever I want at any given moment, so I was excited about school where mum and dad wouldnt be there to stop me.

But its even worse. And the big boys say the lessons get harder and harder and you get more and more homework just forever.

I mean I dont want to sound ungrateful, but was it really worth me being born?

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