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Why isn't anyone farting in school? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was homeschooled previously with a small group of other children and we fart in class all the time.

Now I'm in public school for high school and no one is farting. I was very sheltered and public school is like a whole new world for me, so I don't know what the norms are. I've been holding it in but my stomach hurts and it leaks out anyway.

I don't understand how there are so many more people in high school and yet zero farts...

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (14 children)

It's a myriad of issues.

Farts are not considered to be socially acceptable, and thus one loses "social status" if one farts. So at an early age, you learn to hold it in. This has been going on since antiquity, as it is the source of the oldest humor seen via graffiti.
You can get in trouble if you fart (I guess because of #1). I knew of a few times someone farted, and the teacher sent them out for punishment for "disrupting class."
People learn to fart silently, usually through experimentation and training to avoid item #1.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

People learn to fart silently, usually through experimentation and training to avoid item #1.