My Rant About School And The School System
Mar 9, 2018 11:21:48 GMT 10
Post by rainbow on Mar 9, 2018 11:21:48 GMT 10
Wasn't sure what section to put this thread in, so I just went with this.
I was thinking about this as I was thinking about school. In many ways, our school system is so bad I don't even know where to begin. Firsts thing first high school starts unusually early. Most students here who take the bus have to get up at around 5 AM, when most teenagers biological clocks aren't meant to wake up that early, leaving a lot of teenagers to be sleep deprived.
Second, one of the reasons why I believe the school system is terrible is because more than half the things we learn aren't even going to help us in the real world. Unless knowing the French Revolution is going to help me find a job, stay financially stable, help raise my future kids, pay bills, and take care of myself, then I really don't need to learn this nor do I have an interest in doing so.
The worst part is, our success in the future is determined by how good we do in high school as teenagers, and you must get a good grade on tests that are about things that are very pointless and won't even be relevant at all in the real world. There's a teacher and then there are around 20 students with different needs, dreams, and futures. Yet they're all in the same exact classroom learning the same exact stuff, at the exact same pace. This video describes it pretty well.
Furthermore, I definitely feel like school is more about memory and good grades than actual learning. Do you remember at least half the stuff you learned in say 9th grade? Were any of the stuff you learned relevant or helped you in the real world?
Hell, even my parents don't even know shit about the French Revolution, or how RNA carries DNA instructions, or how to write the DNA complimentary base stand, or how to find x, yet here they are able to raise their kids and keep financially stable, buy food, water, toilet paper, etc. etc. all just fine.
I feel like our school system is teaching kids that failure is bad and that you won't be successful if you fail. You'll wind up having a hard time finding a good job if you don't have a good GPA on your transcript and you don't do well in school. Which is funny, because about last month our homeroom teachers showed us a motivational video that failure needs to success, but not according to our school system.
I feel like our school system is teaching kids to think a certain way, rather than come up with their own creative ideas.
I was thinking about this as I was thinking about school. In many ways, our school system is so bad I don't even know where to begin. Firsts thing first high school starts unusually early. Most students here who take the bus have to get up at around 5 AM, when most teenagers biological clocks aren't meant to wake up that early, leaving a lot of teenagers to be sleep deprived.
Second, one of the reasons why I believe the school system is terrible is because more than half the things we learn aren't even going to help us in the real world. Unless knowing the French Revolution is going to help me find a job, stay financially stable, help raise my future kids, pay bills, and take care of myself, then I really don't need to learn this nor do I have an interest in doing so.
The worst part is, our success in the future is determined by how good we do in high school as teenagers, and you must get a good grade on tests that are about things that are very pointless and won't even be relevant at all in the real world. There's a teacher and then there are around 20 students with different needs, dreams, and futures. Yet they're all in the same exact classroom learning the same exact stuff, at the exact same pace. This video describes it pretty well.
Furthermore, I definitely feel like school is more about memory and good grades than actual learning. Do you remember at least half the stuff you learned in say 9th grade? Were any of the stuff you learned relevant or helped you in the real world?
Hell, even my parents don't even know shit about the French Revolution, or how RNA carries DNA instructions, or how to write the DNA complimentary base stand, or how to find x, yet here they are able to raise their kids and keep financially stable, buy food, water, toilet paper, etc. etc. all just fine.
I feel like our school system is teaching kids that failure is bad and that you won't be successful if you fail. You'll wind up having a hard time finding a good job if you don't have a good GPA on your transcript and you don't do well in school. Which is funny, because about last month our homeroom teachers showed us a motivational video that failure needs to success, but not according to our school system.
I feel like our school system is teaching kids to think a certain way, rather than come up with their own creative ideas.
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And I didn't want to be in classrooms with dumb and mean people who had vocabularies like the Vietnamese prostitute in Full Metal Jacket either.