i am not a complicated person. that is an outright lie. but at the same time, it's a blatant truth.
anyways,
i hate school.
shocker.
an 18 year old male hates school? who wouldve thunk it! but seriously now.
i hate it for atypical reasons.
i dont think it's 'gay' or 'stupid'. i hate it because it's failing.
i think school should have two or three main goals (i say two or three because i have yet to figure out what i think on this matter, and i'm far too lazy to edit something as worthless as a blog post.) now then, school should set out to accomplish these basic things:
1) teach students facts.
this is obvious. and it is obviously not working. i am certain that if a i met a teenager from 50 years ago, they would have quite a bit more relevant raw data at the tip of their tongue as opposed to know-a-days. of course, that data might be wrong and irrelevant in the modern world, but they would still have more of it. which means that we should be teaching students more (presumably) correct facts today. of course, we aren't. we might be trying to, but eavesdrop on one average student/teacher conversation, and i swear you'll think they both have brain damage.
2) train students.
i'm serious. we should be forced to do things we dont want to do. high school is INSANELY easy. there is actually no reason why the average person should fail. (yes, average is a lie, but you get the point.) we have no accountability, no consequences. i have outright refused to do culminating projects, and i still have an above 80 average. i have no reason to try, because i have no reason not to. teenagers are stupid. we need carrots and sticks. but not just any sticks. we need large, sharp, poison, pointy sticks. we should use the vegetable and tree piece to train students to have work ethic, or gumption, or something. my high school is filled with people that are dead on every level except a drug level. and i'm not even sure if that is a level.
3) make us use our knowledge.
if you havent noticed, my blog posts are filled with lowercase letters. this is because i am lazy. i have no reason to care. no one is going to judge me in society because 'i' isnt 'I'.
heck, no one is really going to care that this entire post has gone completely off kilter and is now focusing on my grievances with society, not just the schooling system.
whatever.
it's 11:20 and i have homework to do. this homework was due 3rd period today, but because of the disgustingly easy system i'm in, i could hand this in at the end of the term and probably still get marks.
i'm not sure about you, but this disgusts me.
but, i dont care enough to change it. it's a cycle.
meh.
song:
solidarity
by
enter shikari
and now the floodgates will open.
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