apollo. wrote:I know this isn't as important as some peoples posts but I could really use some comforting or a pep talk.
It's just school. I watched this documentary on what it's doing to kids, and all the ways the school system is broken, and now I feel like schools just a rat race to nowhere. We're not ever going to use most of these skills you know? We go through our whole life and how good we are, if were worthy of anything, it's all determined by teachers and letters and standardized tests and how were able to memorize facts, were taught not to question them, or look at them from another side, but just to memorize them and spit them out in a neat fashion on a test just to make the teacher happy. We're never taught to be creative, ever. One time when I was 8, I wrote this story for a creative writing class, and we were suposed to follow the form, but we were also told to use our imaginations and be creative, at the end I differed from the setup a little, and I do mean a tiny bit, everything else was the way it was suposed to be. The teacher just started screaming at me in front of the class and accusing me of not paying attention or respecting her and how is this fair at all? How is this fostering to our kids? That's not being creative, and if we never differ from these dumb facts were taught to memorize how are we ever suposed to be better than our predecessors? Especially now that there's all day every day jk here now, how do we think 3 year olds are going to adjust to this? From naps and being at home all day to going to school all day every day?
I just don't want to do the whole school thing anymore and I have years ahead of me. Why should I even bother to try of no matter how hard I work I end up with b's? Why should I even try if in 20 years I'll forget everything I ever learned from school. Nothing here is even important, we're not taught how to vote, here we don't have home ec so we're not taught how to cook or sew, we're not taught how to take out student loans for college, or how to write a cheque or why so many marriages fail. We're not taught how to write resumes or what a cover letter is and if you need one, were not taught how to apply for jobs, or positive ways for coping with stress. And finally and most importantly we're never taught it's ok to be creative, arts a complete joke and no one even wants you to take it or think for yourself. School doesn't even get us ready for college, it just gets us ready for good things to write on our college applications.
Why does our worth have to be determined by these things? By our grades and how many extra curricular we take. School has so many people believing they're worthless or not good at anything. You even mention being stressed out to a teacher and they give you a 20 minute guilt trip about how lucky we are to have school etc. and I get it and all I just wish things could be different. That good enough was good enough for them.
Anyway I'm sorry for this giant rant. It just kind of poured out.
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I really agree,
but the sad truth is that I think the "pointless" subjects are simply for a little test themselves, for teachers to give you good scores that show understanding, and THEN people see those scores and think, "Wow, you were really good in school, that means you're educated and qualified for me to hire you!" Even though you remember...nothing.
Creativity - Well, it's funny that creativity is not encouraged: because most students freak out and don't know how to do it when they aren't given some sort of rubric. Which is, again, one of those tragedies we want to change.
I encourage you to stay in school longer until you really feel a problem with it. When that happens, talk to several people for feedback. Leaving school is a big deal! o:
I hope you eventually make the right choice (whatever that may be)...you have the power to change the world! Find what you're looking for!
