School is exhausting
Rant Incoming:
Very common sensation people feel about school and an unoriginal thought, but I love education, but the current system is generally horrible. Are kids supposed to sit still for hours and get bombarded with information? This can not be good for mental and physical development especially with the new technology, a lot of gen alpha are not able to read or write properly, although they also get filled with information and dopamine hits through screens, a lot of older people I know praise the younger kids for knowing these things, but is it really that praisable? It's mostly pattern recognition and repetition but other skills are not being developed at all.. are we educating kids to become doctors to heal the part they missed out on at the end? Our youth is being robbed of their freedom and development, what is an efficient and sufficient replacement for the current education system? Will it ever properly change and bloom into something better?
I love learning, but for me personally, I mostly study at home and learn the things myself and I personally also have a lot of interest in a variety of topics which I inform myself about if I have time. I love educating myself, but I feel robbed sitting for hours and hours at school and stressing about exams. I don't feel like the education system is aiming for functional & social people but rather economical robots like AI.
I've seen this one video about a guy talking about how the newest models of AI are using unethical and malicious methods to do what they are told, he explains how the newer models of AI are developed and mentions that older AI basically teaches the newer AI until it gets it correct. Therefore the newer AI has found ways to cheat the system and use cheats, be unfair/unethical and do anything to fulfill its goals, it is taught to fulfill its purpose and it does anything to do so. I feel like this is a direct parallel to our world especially in the education system.
I feel like I’ve seen this post before, though I’ve seen a lot about how awful the school system is.
I was in highschool for only two years before the stress started hitting me real bad. I finally called it quits and asked my mom to be homeschooled online, which she agreed to.
In school, I felt like I was getting nowhere at all, especially in certain subjects that I didn’t understand and care for but they were required to graduate. The pressure to remember and keep pushing my own boundaries was so bad, and mixing it with my home life wasn’t any better. Around the fifth week of my junior year I had a feeling to quit public school and do homeschool, that I needed to be around my family more than people that don’t even care about me. My grandparents are getting old, my mom was having trouble at home, I felt like I was missing out on everything, including the lives of my loved ones because I was always at school.
Another thing is, adults force children to not be children, yet they get mad when a child isn’t acting like a child. You can’t sit 20 kids in the same room, force them to be quiet and listen to a lesson, it messes with the brain. Do you really wanna know why by the time you’re 20 you more childish than you were when you were 6? Because you have the free will to be a child; you can talk as much as you want without someone telling you to shut up and sit down; you can have whatever interests you want; you have the freedom to live something that was stolen all because of “education.”
I was talking to my orthodontist about school and she straight up told me all the stuff she learned in college for her job, she never uses it, never. It amazes me how many people want you to go through school to what? Waste my life on something I’m not even gonna use?
The school system is trash. No one can change my mind because I lived it most of my life.
