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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 10:29 pm
Alright, I don't want this to be one big complain or even a rant, although that's how it's starting off. I'm actually going to try to jump-start this into a discussion as well as a life issue.
I'm in high school, I've got one year (and a bit) left until I graduate.
Every night before school, I hate my life. Same with every school morning. I dread it. I have no logical reason for dreading it, I just do. I hate it. It makes me feel worthless, though my grades aren't tremendously awful and I'm fairly sociable. It makes me feel lost, like I have no direction. All in all, I feel like I'm not recieving what I feel I should be out of the educational system. The teaching methods aren't right for me, though I get along with my teachers.
But if I were ever to commit suicide (even though I never would) I would do it in the name of high school.
I am a happy person as a whole. I don't think I know anybody as happy as me, because I'm fairly good at dealing with ill-feelings and conflict. However, school's got me beat.
Does anybody else feel left-behind of beat-down by the educational system? What are your feelings on school? Do you have similar/opposing feelings towards it?
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:27 am
I don't have a lot of respect for some of my teachers, I swear most students are smarter then them. Some teachers actually try, but the whole system is flawed. I say don't sweat it. Einstein was a numbskull in school and I'm sure there are plenty of people with a nice Ivy league degree or something that aren't getting anything out of it. School's meant to avoid ignorance really, and since your not ignorant, just pay enough attention to get by or study what you plan on pursuing in life.
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:31 pm
Yeah I'm going to try and get out of Bio 12 for next year, and replace it with a spare.
If I can manage that, I'll have almost all electives xd
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:15 pm
For me personally, I think there is most definitely something wrong with the school systems despite actually having really amazing teachers (they are seriously great teachers, dedicated and knowledgable). For me, it feels like the system is pigeon-holing me with a mass of very different individuals all with their own goals.
I really believe there are fundamental things you should know, no matter what your goals are. However, it feels like they are actually an obstacle towards my ultimate goal. LOL. I'm an artist - yet I've been spending most of my time in college trying to finish my GE (which I'm almost finished with, thank goodness) before I can REALLY start learning about art. :b [sigh]
But yea, I'm just trying to keep focus and get by. IT WILL NOT STOP ME!! xD
Main thing my way is money issues but that is a completely different thing! augh.
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brother stevenson Captain
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 1:09 pm
School.
Eh its kinda the thing you cant get away from even if you want too.
It’s good for you and all that jazz and you do benefit, but its just the being around other people that makes life in school a little evil sometimes.
I actually go to an odd school, there are no staff rooms (they can’t cut lunch queue either). We have swipe cards, and an 8 weeks of work two weeks off system. The school is also open till 6 everyday allowed to stay behind for one on one work with the teachers.
Basically it’s the best school in the area and most of the people b***h about it, but we all know deep down we’re privileged.
But there are days you don’t want to go and you know why. Everyone else.
BLAME EVERYONE ELSE!
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:26 pm
Well it can't be avoided its a must and you don't realize just how important it is until its far too late people always say make the best out of the school years you have. Even if you think your getting very little out of it stick it through because its not teaching the top of your mind it is teaching your subconscious later on when your asked a question it will come to your mind and you won't know how but that is what it is for. I felt like that all the way in high school I didn't come upon that until my senior year and that was too late learn all you can and simply get by.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:28 pm
When I was younger, school was just oblivious to me, it was just there, ready for me to enter into and start getting educated. It was back in the Philippines where I can't even seperate my memories of vacation and school since they were both so closely mingled together in my mind. I do remember that I used to think that school was better than summer vacation (I almost said the same thing last summer stare ).
When I got here, my first year of school in the U.S. was fifth grade. I didn't notice my weekly school schedule, I just went with the flow. Now, I realize how boring fifth grade was and I try to figure out how I put up with it. But it was during middle school did I start to realize the five-day-a-week schedule of school that can drive anyone insane; wake up 6AM, go to school 7:40, math, science, english, etc...go home 4PM, do HW, go to sleep, repeat cycle. Going through this for over forty weeks drives me crazy; it makes everything worse if I notice it happening (uniform in my middle school also contributed to my two-year insanity) -__-".
But then, when I got into high school, I started thinking differently of school. The schedule was the same insane kind, but maybe it was just the classes, environment, and freedom of dress that calmed me down. So, I guess it depends on the school and classes whether I like school or not 3nodding .
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:10 am
Being a rather socially dependent person, finding myself suddenly outcast by my peers completely and entirely (at a new school where none of my established friends go) I have to say that I hate school.
I get along fine with most of the teachers, I do the work easily, whatever. It unnerves me how anyone who doesn't like school is seen as a lazy gadabout who can't complete their work.
If I committed suicide, it would also be over school. There is no place that can make a person feel more alone, untalented, disconnected and stupid than one filled with other, intensely happy, shallow and beautiful people who make elephant trumpets when they walk by.
The kindest person I have yet met at my school is in the special ed class; he barely talks, he drools, he laughs at nothing, and is your typical, mockable 'retard'. I was having a really, REALLY bad day, four people were bugging me at once, I had a snowball down the back of my collar, and some p***k was making those elephant trumpets. I was literally about to just scream something to the effect of "EVERYBODY STOP", and then there's someone hugging me.
Yep, it's that kid, and he just kinda gave me this look like, "Hey, it's okay," and limped off.
Sweetest kid ever, and I can't get him to say his own name.
The rest of them? Horrible. Sexist, racist, slaves to fashion in general, and having essentially shattered my goodwill towards men and my confidence in the human race. (No, literally: even the people I didn't like at my old school were just aggravating and we didn't share the same interests.)
They believe Afghanistan is in the U.S, laughed at Emmett Till, and did I mention those elephant trumpets?!
Also -- I have learned more in a day on the Internet or at the library than I ever do in a year of school. The only reason I see for it is to prepare the next generation of workers and drones, and because MOST people aren't WILLING to learn. I'll go to the library, and I'll look up whatever interests me at the moment and learn about it.
For example, at this moment I am looking at information on George Seurat, architecture, and matamata turtles. Yesterday I looked up Charles Byrne and the Hunterian Museum (and probably got an ulcer from anger, but that's another story.)
Damn. If people were more willing to learn, I think we'd have a perfected society.
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