Common Core. Isn’t that the part of the apple they throw away?
School has ruined my life. I imagine it has ruined everyone’s, whether they choose to see that or not. I remember my first day of Kindergarten was so exciting, I loved those years, they are the wonder years and they are beautiful. But the educational system has since changed. What was once, in our parents years, a place of learning has truly become a place to teach everyone exactly how to grow up too fast. We are living in the age where a child who can’t read carries around more stress and paperwork than a contract lawyer. We are living in an age where creative writing has a system to follow. But most of all it will be during the best years of life. trapped in that cold cell, conforming to society. Elementary school age should be spent exploring, laughing, scraping knees. Middle school, spent making friends, being innocently stupid. High school, making mistakes that will make you your own person, because we are individuals. But that isn’t how it works anymore.
And what happens to the people, who do enjoy school? Well they became full blown adults in their senior year. They peaked too early. Peer pressure evolves people into a new person they didn’t even know was inside them, and they turn into the most popular, spoiled little thing. But years from then, you get proof that it happened all too fast, where is your quarterback? Certainly not doing pro football. What about Ashley, the girl who starred in every school play? Who had a new boyfriend each week? Anywhere but Broadway. They are years meant for mistakes, not perfection. But we are taught from such an innocent age that that is what we should be. The word “Popular” engraved in our minds since day one as “Perfect” and no one is working to change that. We are taking creative minds, that could do amazing things- and telling them that’s wrong. Think this way.
And that’s just not a world I’m ready to live in.
5 comments
So true.
I agree. There’s way too much pressure at school, even at a young age, and in most schools there isn’t much opportunity to be creative or to practice anything that makes you an individual. The curriculum is so tight, and there are so many tests to practice for, that there isn’t room for anything else. I think schools have more focus on teaching than learning. They don’t give you room to grow as a person. I hated the lack of decision making we could do at school, particularly how we had little opportunity to do our own research and learning. Everything has to be from the curriculum and the teacher’s mouth or set books. It’s a limited world.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I’m studying to be a primary school teacher and ministry standards are ridiculous. Im of an indigenous race and my people don’t learn from curriculum standards and set ways on how to approach things. I hate the western European world they take out all the fun learning activities like Art, sports, music basically everything my people excell in. You can teach maths, literacy science the whole friggen lot in a child’s favourite subject all it takes is a good teacher to manipulate that curriculum. I don’t believe there is any such thing as a dumb child its dumb teachers and dumb role models.
I 100% feel you man. I think the quality of the education system varies from state to state. In some states its not too bad but in others its really bad… I live in nyc and the education here is terrible. They put on way too much stress on you, ALWAYS pressuring you for the next test, project or whatever bs is next.Even in the early grades like middle school. Theirs never a time where they give you a break. Not even on vacations. They always make sure you’re worried about something. Whats sad is that the common core standards is made by the government, not even real educators.
Thanks for the positive responses, I’m really glad to hear I’m not the only one who thinks this way.
Question: Did anybody else have “College Mondays” in like, first grade? I did, it was ridiculous.