I feel like schools don't really know how to actually work for students because what's stopping you irl to just search something up or to use like your notes for a task at work or something
I mean this for like language and math. Imagine you're doing like a shelf, and you need to make a triangle to hold it in place on the wall and let it be stable and hold lots of stuff yk, so you think "Hm, im not sure how long this piece of wood needs to be for the triangle. Oh, I remember! The Pitagoras theorem! Oh, shit i don't remember the formula :(" but this is not a school test so you go grab your goddamn phone and search "Pitagoras theorem how to" and now that it says "the square of one side, the square of the other side, addition, and now you calculate the square root of that result" and what matters is that you can apply that, so you start measuring the two sides you already have like the wall and the width of the shelf and you realize "Oh hey the shelf is 27 centimeters wide and the wall is 36, but I don't know if I wanna try and get the square rn" so you either grab a calculator (because it doesn't matter that you use it so long as you know the formula and how to apply it and write for the calculator to give you the right answer) or remember that one time in school where they taught you that if you're calculating a triangle, if one side can be divided by three and the other can be divided by 4, the longest one should be divisible by 5, and that in this case if you have 27 and 36, you know how to divide, so you realize that's 3*9 for the shelf and 4*9 for the wall, and now you need 5*9 for the last side which makes a 45cm line
Like I genuinely can't think of a situation where you'd be prohibited to use your notes and your calculator or whatever in real life or in your job. And language, you don't need to memorize whatever like literally trope with a Latin name you can't say, you just should be able to recognize them. And like, in our tests for reading comprehension they give us a text and on the next page the questions, so we can go back and reread the text to answer confidently, so why can't we do that with the monthly book? Why do I have to remember stuff from a 200 page book that I couldn't even finish because no one teaches you time management or study techniques and you have to figure it out on your own? And because I wasted 15 years of my life thinking I couldn't read without music, and then I felt horrible and didn't want to use music so I had no choice but to read in silence, and I read 30 pages in one sitting barely ever losing focus?
And just in general. How do you expect us to remember what we've learned when we have to memorize things for other like 6 classes?
And another thing, the orientation classes. We have them to supposedly be able to choose a career, but how do I know to pick where to study? How do I know it's good enough? How do I know I'll be able to get a job after studying there? Because you can study somewhere for certain jobs but they only accept people who study in a specific place. How do I know I won't regret it? How do I know I'll be able to take it without having a godammn breakdown at the end of the first semester? How do I know it's worth it? How do I apply for a job? How do I even work? It's been two years with this shit and I still don't know. It's been the same fucking bullshit of "here take this test so you know yourself better and can choose a career" like thanks but most of us know what we want and what we like. I know I want something technological probably like coding, or maybe something artistic like animation. I have the general idea of what I want, but I don't know anything else. I don't know what to do about it, I don't know what separate classes I should take, I don't know where I should aim for. I don't know shit, but sure keep pretending it's an useful class.
And you know what I hate the most? PE. it's not actually physical education, it's just sports education. We have it ONCE a week. I personally don't work out much, barely ever actually, so PE should be my chance to at least do exercise, but all we do is play basketball, football, handball, and some athletism, and for the last couple years, a trot of 3-15 minutes at the start of the class (which makes us lose between 6-45 minutes of class because we do it with other two classes and the teachers make us do the trot separately). So no warm up, no cool down, no health stuff. We haven't had any of that since the pandemic, and it's because they deemed it was more important the academic learning than our mental and physical health.
I just hate school, man. It could be SO good for people, but it's not. It's not done right. It's not taught right.
