School system
School system has been the same for way too long. We learn the same things, the same ways. Our system isn’t adapted to our generations. We keep on learning innappropriate things for our time. We keep on being taught with one teacher in front of a full classroom made of desks and chairs.
Did you know there was different types of intellignce ? So why are we taught about only a tiny part of all these intelligences? We practice our memory with exams, but what happens to those who don’t have a good memory ? We force them to learn something to hard for them. It’s like asking a dyslexic person to read outloud a 1000 word text without being allowed to practice before hand, with a too small font, in front of a thousand people. Do you see the problem too or is it just me ?
It is weird to ask students to go to school from eight in the morning to four in the aftertoon, if it’s not more. They can’t go to the bathrrom when they need too. They can’t eat when they’re hungry. They can’t ask questions when they need to. And that’s not it. We come back home with a pile of homework to hand back in record time. And, if this wasn’t enough, we have to study for our evaluations too. Imagine how you, adults, woudl react if you were forced to go the work a full day, come back at home to work overtime, do you chores, have social interactions and everything else. Do you realise that you’re imposing to children something you couldn’t yourself do ? Children live under a multitude of responsabilities, they live under the constant stress of an unadapted system. Stress after stress.
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Now is the moment where you tell me you’re preparing us to adulhood. Full of stress and due dates. It’s crazy isn’t it? Why prepare us to leave hell instead of changing the system iteself ? It’s like a catholic person said “Me, I’m preparing myself to survive hell” when he could, in the first place, not act so he ends up there. We force children to live in a system they never asked for. Why force us to live in anxiety when we could live peacefully if you decided to change things ?
Oh sorry. It’s not your problem ? Of course not, you, you’re adults. School and the futur do not concern you, but if it never concerns anyone, nothing will ever change and everyone will end up, sooner or later, in burn-out at 20 years old ! No, but excuse me, I can’t be the only one that sees a problem here ? We ask children twicde more than what we ask adults, while childhood is supposed to be a moment full of joy and innocence.
It’s not fair, here I said it. The system is old. We discovered plenty of techniques with science and we keep on using the one from 1800 which, as we have seen, isn’t the most effective. We tell children that, that’s how it is. We lower their self-confidence to a grade. If they don’t have good grades, they’re worth nothing that will never succeed in life. Basically, if we’re bad at school, we’re incompetent. Me, I think that if we don’t succeed in school, it’s because school represent only a small part of the population. School is not as good as people think and it is time for that to change. Now !
“If school is so great, why does no one want to go there and why does everyone want to leave”
Nelly
