What do you think about school?

[Beached Whale 57]

I'm still in school so I can't tell you whether I miss it or not yet, but I have mixed feelings about school. On one hand, it takes up a ton of time, and it's pretty easy to burn out if you're studying in a room for hours on end. However, I hope the end result will be worth it. Having knowledge and being able to apply it is a good feeling. 

I made some of my best friends in high school, and I still keep in touch with them even if we aren't in the same programs, so there's always that friendship aspect! 

The paying thousands of dollars a year part though? I could pass on that 

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I go to an online school, but I have a lot more work and the minimum time you have to spend is 3h 16m

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

School is hell depending on the teachers and education system. For me, it's driving me to suicide.

Edited November 30, 2018 by Midnight Solace

[Nsxile 26,902]

I certainly don't miss it.

[Lucky Bolt 35,063]

I just graduated, so ha! I don't have to think about it anymore! 

But I will say, it would've been better if I didn't have to take classes I didn't like. 

[Mini 451]

I miss school so much. It's so much more fun than adult life.

[Clawdeen 12,191]

I would have enjoyed school more if it weren’t for the other students. 

[ExplosionMare 18,062]

If school was focused more on actual learning rather than hurrying to meet a deadline, I would like it more. Some parts are actually fun this time around, at least, since I can pick what I study.

[Splashee 28,563]

School is a system to prepare young minds for things, and that is cool!

But right now, it is summer, please let school be over for now

[Pentium100 2,122]

My memory may be biased, but I didn't hate school or the university. Shorter hours than a full-time job, long vacation, some interesting subjects. Less money though, that part was worse and there were boring subjects or boring teachers. But all in all it was OK.

[EpicEnergy 23,211]

I wish I paid more attention in school rather than doing school just to get it over with and play video games as soon as I could.

[Savy 5,077]

I just have a lot of good memories... and not so good ones as well.

[squishsquoosh 16]

I mean, it’s pretty good. I interact with the downstairs teachers a lot, they really like to talk with me. I also make new friends every year.  It’s also how I make money, considering I sell Kandi bracelets. There are a few things I’d like to fix about the system, though. Like the sexist dress codes & the ableism within. Luckily, I only have two more years of that and I’m outta there!

[J.J 922]

Information comes from "independent study." Knowledge comes from continuous reaffirmation of your understanding of this information. School is more so "work training", it SHOULD be more like this anyways... They want to train younger individuals minds into naturally waking themselves up at 7 am, and sacrificing 8 hrs of their lives bc it's societal conditioning... Nothing wrong at all about being patriotic and saying our pledge every morning, but the routine oriented schedule you follow is supposed to help discipline you, it's just the material that is in these little cult houses are outdated, irrelevant, and the social environment fostered by the "local cultures" creates an intense bias/favoritism that helps the less intelligent/less qualified thrive so they can hold on to their privileges/boast a privilege that other "ordinary students"(some of these students are bound to be WAYYY more academically successful) it basically means bc we need dumb dumb to run fast, he gets less homework/his homework gets easier or the entire class can be negated, you know the mandatory class that everyone else has worked their asses off to keep up in.. he gets to float off of one assignment often times.. then the academic spread sheet is falsely represented... We put the majority of these ppl in easier classes so we don't have to worry about our sports team failing, the likelihood of any of these  individuals playing "pro ball" is laughably low, "electives" need to take priority over athletic capability and even over ones ability to memorize the "general curriculum", promise needs to be looked at by which individual has the highest potential in career promise, we need to be teaching more "skilled labor" as part of our "general curriculum", and just as needed we need to have social/political programs for those with an even higher potential, the "information" we consume in classrooms is literally all available at our fingertips, ones ability to retain this information does not depend on our ability to listen to another individual reiterate this information to us. You have to look at students for their personality strengths, philosophy, and obviously general skills and ability to retain "information" through actual EXPERIENCE. I think they are trying to avoid making schools look like a work camp, but turning it into one may be what's best for the "students".. "They are still children, let them be children". I agree, but there are plenty of talented children, children that want to know more than they are being taught, and they need to have experience to learn some of these things... Bc all of the "good students" the ones with genuine interest and thirst for knowledge, they "in this day and age" (thinking of my own country) have access to the internet, at their literal finger tips... And there is information in our literal pockets that contests information in some of our texts.. now I think they are moving toward making the computer a mandatory part of human culture in 2022, (another career path that could be greatly explored) but not by reading BS from the school website or Wikipedia, but like learning how to use computers for coding and encryption, and other useful PC skills that could turn one of these average internet surfers into the world's next private investigator... Lol, we just have simplistic priorities nowadays, like lying to children by telling them the most ethnically tolerant country in the world is racist, or trying to make white kids figuratively give up their lunch money bc they have a family that loves them.. it's gross and annoying

 

 

 

[ExplosionMare 18,062]

I can't stand how difficult it is just to prepare for school. It feels like every time I get my forms filled out and do everything I need to, something is always missing. You would think just getting enrolled wouldn't be all that bad, but it feels near impossible at times. I've also had times where I was put in unnecessary classes due to being misinformed and I really hope that doesn't happen again. 

[Espy Vibe 4,267]

I already graduated high school some years ago and don't really have any intentions to pursue further schooling but the biggest problems I had with school was how rushed curriculums were and the actual useful subjects for modern day life being cast aside as "optional" for graduation.

Something that I've learned from myself is I love to learn! I just don't like to rush through something when I barely understand the last topic of a subject which leads into the current one. Even with tutoring its not enough and the teacher has to catch us all to prepare us for final tests, which may or may not have what we've learned. Most of the time, they're full of stuff we've not gone over yet or I personally hadn't completely grasped.

As for life-relevant subjects, I actually really enjoyed Business & Law and Personal Finance. (The latter I've heard is cool that my school even had that class compared to rival schools which didn't have it.) Those were quite relevant, important and interesting.

Funny enough, I did poorly in English but I got the highest score out of anybody in my class on my graduation project. The essay, I got a 98/100 and the presentation I got a 4.5/5 (I made the presentation the night before I was to present it but I showed up a bit late to the judges so they cut off half a point).

It's a miracle I even graduated.

But oops, heres my answer:

Education is necessary but half of it is learning the foundations of how to learn and the other half is doing the learning. As long as you're actually interested and engaged with it anyways. 

Not sure if that makes any sense but yes yes 

 

[Fluttershutter 2,447]

I agree with Rick.

 

[Lnx1ynight16 556]

On 2022-08-09 at 11:07 AM, squishsquoosh said:

I mean, it’s pretty good. I interact with the downstairs teachers a lot, they really like to talk with me. I also make new friends every year.  It’s also how I make money, considering I sell Kandi bracelets. There are a few things I’d like to fix about the system, though. Like the sexist dress codes & the ableism within. Luckily, I only have two more years of that and I’m outta there!

I also love to make Kandi too! My friends love my Kandi and I made some Kandi for them