the pointlessness of school.

[KandeeLover]

I find it useless to learn about the history of small unknown countries as well. SS, LA, Math, and Science DO help you. Gym I find pointless to "make" us do. If we don't want to run we don't, its not like the teachers can make us run laps in the heat. So, its kinda a waste of time. However, I get the point of exercise and stuff, but there are other ways to exercise than making us run laps with no shade and not giving us water. <<which is what is done at my school at least.

[AlteredReality]

Hmm. Typical responses.

Anyways I won't even bother with the grammar/spelling issue since it's already been mentioned. What I will say is that I agree with you to some extent. There are several aspects of school that are pointless and I will always loathe any type of learning institution beacuse of this. First let me say, in opposition to the previous comments, while it is necessary to attend school in order to obtain a job and be successful (successful according to society's definition, that is...but I won't get into that because that's a whole other rant), it doesn't have to be that way. The reason why it's necessary is because over the course of time, job standards have evolved to require a good education, when in reality there are plenty of people more capable of certain work than a typical 'educated' person. My main point being: That's the way the system works though, and obviously people are too accustomed to it to care to change it or realize that it could be changed for the better. I think the major problem with education is that it's much too generalized. If I could make it the way I wanted it, everyone would receive an elementary education consisting of the basic language and math skills required for life. After elementary school however I think the rest is useless. (No you don't have to learn about your history, you don't have to learn how things work, etc. Let the people who think that's important learn it, and let those who don't learn what they think is important.) During that period, students should be given the opportunity to discover what they're interested in instead of studying the same crap over and over again every year or learning things they'll never use for the next however many years. After that period ends, for example, someone who may want to be an engineer could go and study calculus, whereas someone who wanted to study art wouldn't have to because it's absolutely useless. This way, school years would be cut in half, in a way, and skip to a more college-like phase where you specialize in what you're going to do. Then at least it would be more enjoyable because you're working on something you love.

Then of course there are the other 'little' issues that I despise just as any other student does. School uniforms, waking up at ridiculous hours, assigning homework when you've already spent the whole day at school. (That makes absolutely no sense in my mind. Why spend the whole day at school then come home to, essentially, more school? School shouldn't consume students' lives so much - quite frankly, it sickens me.)

Sorry for the long post, but this has always been a touchy issue for me and I could go on and on.

[Harpalyce]

While I do think there should be a shift to vocational training - not everyone needs to go to college - it saddens me that you are so disinterested in learning, OP. Do you honestly have no curiosity about the world around you? Do you not experience wonder at, oh, how DNA replicates itself?

As a very wise man once said, "don't let school get in the way of your education". You may not like the rote, bland, dry way things are being taught right now - and that's fine, I agree with you. But don't let that turn you off from learning altogether. The world is a rich place. Take advantage of it.

[splenda]

Actually, school is not pointless.
Not homeschooling, not public schooling, not private schooling, none of it is.
Right now, I imagine you're an upset teenager who hates school for a probably ridiculous reason. Because you have to learn something?
How would you prefer you learnt things? Or would you rather just go around knowing nothing?
You're educated as a child so you can have a SUCCESSFUL future, not just so you can have pointless knowledge stored away in your head which you'll never touch again.

The only thing important is learning math so you can count money?
No.
What about geography? What about spelling and grammar?
Not everything you learn in school is useless just because you feel it is.

This post would've looked less like it was made by a riled up teenager if it wasn't full of red text, spelling and grammar mistakes, and just bad reasoning.

School isn't pointless just because you don't pay attention and don't care about the things you learn and make it seem pointless.

[purinz]

Math is useless?

How can you count beats in music? How are you going to make sure everyone gets a piece of pizza? Keshkesh would not be happy to see herself getting a little piece. >:c

Stare at your computer. No seriouly, do it. How could it be made without school?
Stare at your food. How could it be made without school?
Stare at your bed. How could it be made without school?

I say the exact same thing. Almost everything around us is needed to be made with school. I really do agree with you, Kesh.

[Grell Sutcliffe~]

I..I like school....9 u 9
It helps me and nourishes my brain...to make me smarter..heehee..I like learning new things.. ^ u ^
Without the schools...we wouldn't learn..and we'd end up not getting into college...and end up having to work at Mcdonalds....as an uneducated and inexperienced noob.. 6 n 6
Th-That's just my point of view...o u o

[Snorlax]

The only thing wrong about school is the sitting for 6 hours.