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glowybluething Offline
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School is useless now to me. It was useless a couple years ago. I am learning nothing new that is needed in any way unless one day I want to be a teacher in the subject. Classwork should not be graded. Tests should be graded. If school is there to actually teach you, you should only have to prove that you have learned, not prove that you can do every little piece of useless paperwork they can make for you. There should not be homework. School is forced upon you for schooling, school should not interrupt the rest of your life. Being on school grounds should not take away your rights. You do not sign a contract when you start school waiving your rights away. Teachers should be paid more. Teachers should be screened often as to if they are suitable to be a teacher. Teachers should not act as a parent or caregiver. A teacher should be a friend. Teachers should be able to identify with their students and should not be able to assign ridiculous work. It is no use to a student if they are forced to go to school to a classroom in a class which they are required to be in with a teacher that does not fit their learning styles and be expected to learn and pass the class. Situations such as these cause people to hate school in general even if it is just one teacher or class that ruins their learning experience. One class that does not agree with a student can ruin their entire day, every day, and repeated long term experiences can ruin school for a person for life. Actions should be made to better the system. If students had a little more say in what they absolutely had to do, school could actually be a productive, enjoyable, useful thing.
09-25-2009 09:47 AM
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It's sad. School could have become an actual place of learning. Unfortunately it's just a hellhole that gathers stupidity. Noo
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09-25-2009 11:06 AM
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I agree with you for the most part. My school (and I'm guessing most everybody's) is just full of so much BS that has nothing to do with learning that just pisses me off.

Stuff like so called "planner checks" where the teachers make sure you were writing your homework down in the organizational planners they give you and grading you on completeness of it. Really? C'mon. What does this have to do with geometry?

One day I hope school becomes a place of learning and mind expanding and all that other cool stuff, doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon though.
09-25-2009 11:36 AM
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Very nicely put, Glowybluething Yourock
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