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how much do you really hate school?
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how much do you really hate school?

please tell me why is that teachers have favourites, and usually those favourites are the ones that are mindless zombies. i have come up with the fact that school is trying to make us all think the same, and basically we have not life. tell me why that every teacher on the computers right now, will not give students privacy and that every man and his dog will see what i am writing now, they say they are protecting us and that it is all for our own safety and they are making us concentrate on work, but isnt it our responsibility and our choice how we want to do time management?

Tell me what do you think about school, how much do you really hate it?

Tell me are there people in teh school that give you so much S***! you just hate them so much?

Im interested to know how much do you really hate school? ;D
02-26-2009 10:20 AM
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Hi!

I'm Aviator!

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Here's my explanation for why teachers like the mindless zombies. Teachers, surprisingly, are human. Like other humans, they are genetically programmed to take the path of least resistance as much as possible. Students who behave, do well grade-wise, and arrive to class one time make their job easier, because they don't have to write referrals or worry about the kid they kicked out of the classroom, or have their teaching skills scrutinized over some failing grades and such. Thus, they are more likely to like the kids who are "zombies". They're more pleasent to get along with, because they don't have to fight with them over grades and stuff.

The kids who don't do so hot grade-wise make them look like bad teachers; the kids who misbehave force them to write up referrals, which makes them look like they can't handle the situation; and the kids who don't arrive/show up to class on time make them look uninspiring and boring. They then look bad among their peers, are percieved as mean and strict by their students, and have to work harder. Understandably, they don't like that. They like ease - aka, good students.



My opinion on school is that frankly, it's uninspiring. It's boring. And the micro-management drives me up a tree. I am considered a "gifted" student, by their measures. Mostly cause I used to shut up and do the work - but now because I can ace all of the classes without even trying. 75% of my classtime is spent with my nose in a book, and I can still ace all of the classwork without hardly trying. I can gather the gist of a subject in 10 minutes or less by skimming the textbook. I don't need to spend the entire class period sitting there, listening to a teacher lecture on a subject that I already understand fully.

In short, I'm BORED.

In regular classes, I find most of the other students to be morons. They misbehave and slow down the class, distract the teacher, and ruin my learning experiance. As someone else put it, they're simply being babysitted at school, not learning. It ruins it for people like me who can actually appreciate learning something new. Without the morons, the lessons would move faster, and I might actually be interested. But moving at the pace of a snail is boring for me. I can grasp the gist of the lesson quickly - having to wait an extra 2 minutes, every 5 minutes, for someone to shut up slows it down a lot. It drives me nuts.

In Honors classes, half of the kids are there not because they're gifted, but because they behave. In classes that have the potential to promote great discussion on challenging topics like philosophy, human nature, and other interesting, useful subjects, we have to stick to vocabulary because, like I said, half of the kids can't wrap their mind around the harder subjects. The kids that can can only move at the pace of the slower half. It's BORING, and only creates busy work.

On top of that, the teachers get pissed when I try and move ahead or do something else on my own. I got thrown out of a classroom one time for writing a story while they spent 20 minutes memorizing the names and placement of parts of the male reproductive system. I had it down pat in about 2 seconds, and was bored, so I pulled out paper and pencil. The teacher found me to have an attitude problem (I was like WTF. I'm quiet and in my seat, how does this constitute an attitude problem?) and threw me out.

So, basically, they discourage progress at one's own pace, if it happens to be faster than the majorities. I am not challenged to do my best, because, it only requires about 50% brain power to complete their stupid worksheets to a satisfactory level. And if I do actually give it 100%, the other kids get mad because it makes them look bad. It's a lose/lose situation. It sucks.

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02-26-2009 11:18 AM
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i hate school cause they are so narrow minded.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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02-26-2009 01:40 PM
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I hate school so bad, I faked a bomb threat and school was closed for a week

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02-26-2009 02:08 PM
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TrueAnarchist Wrote:I hate school so bad, I followed though with a bomb threat and school was closed FOREVER

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02-26-2009 02:11 PM
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how much do you really hate school?

I really hate how I have to:

1. Be a mindless zombie
2. Shut up when the teacher's talking
3. Be forced to memorize things, answer questions, and write loads of crap on topics I don't care about
4. Treat it like it's actually important for me to be this mindless zombie
5. Bring home a whole boat load of homework and turn it in, completed, the next day
6. Accept anything I'm forced to memorize as truth
7. Regurgitate everything I had to memorize onto a test
8. ATTEND THIS PRISON IN THE FIRST PLACE

I really hate that I can't:
1. Rebel
2. Talk back to a teacher or administrator
3. Talk to my friends
4. Cheat on exams/tests
5. Pursue my own interests
6. Say that I'm bored
7. Disagree with the teacher
8. Think of new ways to do things
9. Get this time back
10. State any of school's problems

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