#school rants

[belled-ing]

Can confirm as I am staring at my math teacher rn this is the happiest ive seen him (in the drawing)

I have never seen this man smile genuinely and highkey hes scrolling on his phone rn like old people do

this is his EXACT form rn and im jealous i wanna be on my phone, but school is a bitch

[wanderingmind867]

Class is dedicated to looking over all the kid's old photos most of the time. It feels like the first 40 or 50 minutes of class are always a perfectly acceptable time to ignore the class and stop paying attention. Hell, sometimes it'll be a full hour until something interesting happens! It's way too easy to stop caring, both because I'm too awkward to handle the feedback well and because I have access to public internet (which usually interests me way more than the long lectures). It's so much worse than it was in High School, for so many reasons. I can probably think of two or three major reasons without even putting too much effort in. I'm gonna demonstrate that right now just by sharing some of my complaints surrounding College as it compares to High School.

In High School, classes were shorter. That meant the teachers couldn't talk for so long that you'd begin to feel like you were dying if boredom. And if the teachers were boring, the shorter time meant you also didn't have to deal with the stress or embarrassment or tiredness for nearly as long. Also, I never had access to public internet in High School. They had it, but I couldn't access it unless I knew the school password. I never memorized the school wifi password, so I could go without internet and be forced to dedicate myself to tasks like listening to the teacher way easier. Without internet, I had only four options for stuff to do at school: read my physical books, write notes in my notes app, pay attention in class or text my dad. With public internet in College, I can pull up things more relevant to my hobbies and/or fiction based interests or whatever and simply lose all care for class or desire to pay attention. It's a real problem that the teachers here don't even seem to understand. It's one of many things that really contributes to me struggling with College.

In High School, every class was the same length. You didn't have to worry about all this nonsense with different times for different classes on different days. You had more stability, and that was greatly appreciated by me. Here, stability is only loosely existent. I know where my classes are, but I never know how long they'll run for. I never know how much work they're gonna give me. I never know what to prepare for, basically. It's a lot to deal with, and I really don't like it. In High School, I read better. I seemed to focus better. I certainly enjoyed my time there more than I've been enjoying this. I personally feel a bit of an injustice is done to the world by the school system completely shooting itself in the foot here. High School was far superior to College, but College is treated as the more advanced one. The more advanced the education system, the less time you actually seem to spend in the school building! That's bizarre to me. I don't understand it at all. It's a complete conundrum, but not in a good way. It's a conundrum in the worst way possible.

[star-seeking-stray]

When you're allowed to mold The Starry Night into whatever you wish during art class and decide to use inspo from a fandom...

And then get told "this is great, now we're gonna use AI to generate more ideas and make more sketches!"

Haha... fuck chatgpt I just drew something based off of memory instead (I was allowed to keep the fandom stuff in it because "Oh the numbers/time is interesting you should keep that!)

[clarafyer]

One of my favorite teachers from the middle school was subbing here at the high school (I didn't get to actually have her class but we got to catch up after school), she's on the older side and for some reason like everyone hated her?? I never got why but I love ranting to her about my characters and their lore because she's an English teacher and LOVES creative writing and ESPECIALLY THE DARK + HORROR STUFF SO SHE ACTUALLY HAS AN APPRECIATION FOR WHAT I WRITE!!

Anyways, when we caught up we were interrupted by my mom since she's a paraprofessional there and after some blah blah blahs, SHE SAID I WAS ONE OF HER FAVORITE PEOPLE TOO AND I WAS SO HAPPY AND AAAAASGSHGSH

I love her sm I don't care if people didn't like how she was <3

[w-h-i-t-e-mochi]

Yeah, This is how it's going so far apparently.

MOOD

[dmziaart]

See the problem is, is that I can and do think academically but school is not a place where my brain can academically thrive, if anything it lowers my brain function so that I am not thinking academically I just instead feel like a robot who Is forced to learn problems and facts that most likely I won’t need to know often especially with the age of the internet where you can easily look up something if you want to learn it. I just get forced down into an academic hole where I cannot even think about certain concepts without feeling bad that I do not automatically know them because of school

[high-fructose-jay-syrup]

my carpentry instructor be like. ah yes. I am going to present the pre-made slides and read directly from the textbook to my students. I am sure they will enjoy that very much and it is the very best way for them to learn