At what point did school become a competition between homework and your mental health? There was a time when I thirsted for knowledge and everyday was an adventure. Then it became, "Just one more day until the weekend." "One more test this week." "Two more weeks til summer." It became a never ending cycle of "I can't do this," and "it's almost over." I no longer wanted to learn, I just wanted to memorize the endless facts so I could pass the next standardized test. I'm no longer learning, I'm just drinking coffee until it replaces the blood within my veins so I can function for another hour and get through the next chapter of my AP book. I started blowing off friends so I could "do homework" when in reality I'm just staring at my notes and papers trying to figure it out, trying not to cry, and if I no longer had homework I was so glad and just needed some time to myself to decompress. And there's the stress, I swear to god I have a never ending supply. But it's alright, because if I make it through highschool them I can go to college and spend ungodly amounts of money to learn a subject I could probably have learned better from the internet. But if you don't go to college then you struggle in life to get a good job, and make a life for yourself. So I wanna know, when did we put our health on the back burner so we could make it through another week of lettered grades deciding how much knowledge we posses?
