#broken education

[princess-from-the-stars]

The Broken American School System:

https://youtu.be/T82UHZWvXTE

Honestly, yeah, I completely agree with this video. School should have lots of other classes, like these: politics, cooking and cleaning, sewing, taxes, and everything else an adult needs to know. And if the students show that they know how to do these things for adult life, they can opt-out and choose new classes. I know I certainly know how to cook and clean, but I don't know how to sew or how to do taxes or even the first thing about politics! Schools should have more clubs, too! Like more writing and drama and news and so many other things! Those clubs could even give students "degrees", so to speak. I already know that I want to be a writer and activist, but I only ever had one creative writing class in 6th grade, and that was an extracurricular, more or less. And I was a lucky one, as also seen by the fact that my grade's writing class coincided with my gym time. I even have a good plan for my future job, too, actually. And I'm only 13. And tests shouldn't be that horrible anyway. We should have less standardized tests and more opportunities to do the tests again to get a better grade. Extra credit is very important. And kids should have less homework and more extra credit. If kids already know the work, why give them homework? We already struggle with having a personal life, family life, social life, and not to mention school life. It's hard, let us be kids. Many of us are already too stressed out. There's a reason that high school kids in 2012 had the same amount of mental issues as 1900's insane asylum patients, at least from what I heard a few times.

@angstycatthatlikestea

@awkward-finger-guns

@barbara-lazuli

@chefpyro

@drawing-cookie

@muffinlance

@my-chaotic-soul

@mynameisdoofthelizardandiamlesbi

@sheikofthesheikah

@enbies-and-felonies

@ceejles

@whimsquirksandstuff

@xenosaurus

Hey, guys, can all of you repost this?

It's important.

[edgarvilhelm]

The Worm Devouring Its Tail: Some Thoughts on the Education System

  I've been contemplating school and the effect it has on me, and the education system in general. I get told all the time that school is there to prepare us for the real world, and to prepare us for jobs, but what average part of the real world involves memorizing answers to barely coherent questions and filling in bubbles on a scantron? Why is teaching critical thinking skills almost never a priority in schools? The most vital skill set for learning is missing from schools? What's the point then? There's no motivation for going to school for many people besides "You need it to get through life." Not because it'll help me unlock the mysteries of life and understand this world and the universe better. Not because it could help me realize my potential for greatness. No, it's because we need it to get through life, because that's all it's there for anymore.

 There's barely any true learning in schools besides memorizing ideas that you can barely understand. The world doesn't give a shit, so why should the students? If the students don't care, then why should the teachers do so? If the teachers don't give a shit, then why should the students? If the students don't care, then why should the world do so as well? It's an endless cycle that's only causing more problems. The worm is devouring its tail, gradually destroying itself. We're told that we should care about intelligence, but we're barely told why. In the meantime, we're always told why we should care about stupidity, which is why stupidity is highly respected -- because we're told why we should care about it, even if the reasons barely make any sense.