It's funny how school is a game you can never win at. I can excel in school, but in reality I just won't go to work (make money, support myself). I can go to work, but then I'm too exhausted for school. We are taught that in order to do well in the future we must go to college. Yet, this is quite unfair. You see some people are born into families with higher income. With this higher income, the student is less inclined to have a job. Thus, they have more time to dedicate to school. Those who live in low income families must scrape along and help their parents pay bills by finding a job. With almost no education the only jobs to be found are physically strenuous jobs that pay minimum wage. This leads to the student working insane number of hours and coming home near midnight exhausted, every school night. At the end of the day many bright students are strained out and simply do not get accepted into top notch colleges due to their grades. It is simply not possible to dedicate 7 hours to physically go to school, 10 hours to actually working, roughly 1 hour commute time between locations. Notice how of the 18 hour day, simple needs like lunch, dinner, or simply even preparing for school, and prepping for work have not been included. At the end of this 18 hour workday, do you sleep? How could you? You have an entire day's worth of adrenaline in you. By the time you have calmed, prepared for bed you already lost another hour. In which case, you now only have 5 hours to sleep. Where does this said student have time to actually do homework or study? Well take it out of your resting time. The amount of homework you will do is inversely related to the amount of sleep you will receive. This is if time is on your side. However, in reality this said student will only have 3 hours between the time he gets home and has to wake up the next morning for school. Now the question is how does this said student function? How would this student actually function at school on 3 hours of sleep? He doesn't. His attention is more focused on trying to stay awake than what the teacher is saying. He has now developed issues staying asleep for more than a hour at a time. But on the bright side he can stand for 10 hours at a time without rest. What the school system today has taught us is, those who come from wealthy families have a better chance of succeeding in school. In which case even if they don't succeed they have a small family fortune to fall back on. Those that come from less financially stable families are reliant on working in order to keep a roof over their head. And with every day that passes by the dream of going to a nice college seems to fade further and further out of sight as their grades slowly start to decrease. Once a straight A student is now a student struggling to get C's and B's in school. While I was younger I questioned why people would be so.... well.... dumb to drop out of school. Now I see why. Now I see that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. I see that there is no winning. I now only see suffering. I see that the time between getting that getting up at 6 in the morning to prepare to go to school and 3 in the afternoon could be re-purposed. This time could go towards sleeping. Ahh beautiful sleep. But, succumbing to this offers nothing but a lifetime of working 12 hour shifts at restaurants. Instead I also see a tiny glimmer of hope in the distant future. A day where colleges can see into a students life. A day where colleges can say "Damn, his grades aren't exceptionally high but then again he's consistently running off 3 hours of sleep".
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