there is a problem with the american education system when
when getting 6 hours of sleep is a “really good night’s sleep” because you spend so much time at school, then doing homework, and (god forbid) any hobbies/extracurriculars
when the only “counselors” available to you have little or no psychological knowledge and will contact your parents and tell them you were there
when school lunch tastes, looks, and smells like cardboard, and is often unavailable to lower income students, but we are reprimanded for not eating healthily enough
when kids can not eat lunch for every single day of the year and not a single adult will ask them why
when anxiety is interpreted as “nervousness” and depression is interpreted as “laziness” and any sort of disorder or disability, mental or physical, is utterly ignored or ridiculed
when you have to fake sick on multiple days throughout the year because school takes so much out of you that on some days you cannot tolerate it
when you are forced to be around people who are toxic to your mental/emotional health, and if you ask to switch to a different class because of those people you’ll be told to “just ignore them”
when students are forced to participate in activities they are not comfortable doing such as presentations in front of the class in which failure to comply results in a zero
when teachers assign an hour (sometimes more, especially for advanced/AP classes) of homework for you to complete and most of it is nothing but “busy work” (work that serves no purpose other than to take up time)
when tests can count for 85% of your overall grade so no matter how much effort you put into that class, a bad test or poor test taking skills can result in bad/failing grades
when you miss school due to illness and have to complete 3+ days worth of work and turn it in the next day or in 2 days and if you don’t complete/turn it in the teachers act like “well you shouldnt have gotten sick then”
when sports teams get new equipment practically every year and the music/art/drama/etc departments are literally using costumes/instruments/supplies from 10+ years ago and can barely afford to purchase music or supplies or pay for repairs
when a teacher can give a bad test that everyone fails and its our fault
when a teacher can put up notes but not actually teach at all and blame us for failing
when teachers are forced to base their entire class around a certain curriculum but the standardized test is completely different
when a standardized test determines your value
when a student is struggling and no matter what theyre struggling with, its their fault, they should just work harder
when pretty much any student in high school will tell you that they do not like school
when a student’s hopes and passions are discouraged as being impractical and if ur not good at math/science ur basically told that youll never have a decent job and treated like hopeless, pointless waste of space
when teachers/staff can discriminate based off of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, WHATEVER, and reporting it will only put u into a worse situation
when school dress codes are ridiculously unfair towards girls and lower girls’ self esteem and teaches girlsthat her body is something to be ashamed of
when sex ed classes was nothing but teaching us statistics about STDs and that “abstinence is 100% effective”
when without a scholarship college is nearly impossible to afford
when we’re expected to know what we want to do for the rest of our lives and where we want to go to college by the time we’re 16
when students are so stressed that they turn to drugs just to keep their heads above water
when students are taking their own lives and nobody notices or cares
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