Wednesday
Apr142010
Why Do We Hate School?
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 2:49AM
Tyler Romeo, Daniel Bru and I share one very vocal thing in common.
We dislike school.
I think it is interesting that all three of us, and many other teens that blog, dislike school. So I decided to delve deeper into the reasons why, and I have come up with three common reasons why.
1. Education is important, but repetitiveness is not
I can't tell you how much redundancy there is in High School. A great example though is are lovely history classes. I have probably gone over everything before World War 1 at least seven times since my days in elementary school. After a while, you get it, and if there is a student who doesn't get it by now, then they never will. It is a waste of time. Either teach us something new, or don't teach us anything at all. It is sad when I can honestly sleep from the beginning to the end of a classroom period and take a test a week later and get a 90% or above.
This applies to homework as well. There is absolutely no need for me to copy directly from the book to a piece of paper what I read. Jesus, it is annoying as hell. I read it, no need to rewrite it.
2. Music, Art, and plenty of Gym classes... do I care?
I am not a very artistic person, I like music and play guitar, but have no interest in studying it, and while I am active, I do not have the competitive determination in a game of basketball that would make Gym remotely interesting to me.
In short, there are no classes that interest us.
I would love to take a class in journalism, or a class that taught web design. Very few schools offer such specialized classes, and if they do, often times the students that are interested in such classes know more than the teacher (which brings us back to repetitiveness as well).
3. There is no need to have school 7 hours a day, 5 days a week
A lot of what makes up my day, and many other students day, is sitting down and monotonously working on homework that was given to us to make up for "spare time", and depending on the teacher, a 20 minute rant on politics is not uncommon either. Honest to god, every class I am taking right now can easily be reduced to 40 minutes a day, easy. This is frustrating because people like Tyler, Daniel and I know we could be doing something better with our time, and many other students feel the same way.
Any other teens out there have thoughts on the matter of school?
We dislike school.
I think it is interesting that all three of us, and many other teens that blog, dislike school. So I decided to delve deeper into the reasons why, and I have come up with three common reasons why.
1. Education is important, but repetitiveness is not
I can't tell you how much redundancy there is in High School. A great example though is are lovely history classes. I have probably gone over everything before World War 1 at least seven times since my days in elementary school. After a while, you get it, and if there is a student who doesn't get it by now, then they never will. It is a waste of time. Either teach us something new, or don't teach us anything at all. It is sad when I can honestly sleep from the beginning to the end of a classroom period and take a test a week later and get a 90% or above.
This applies to homework as well. There is absolutely no need for me to copy directly from the book to a piece of paper what I read. Jesus, it is annoying as hell. I read it, no need to rewrite it.
2. Music, Art, and plenty of Gym classes... do I care?
I am not a very artistic person, I like music and play guitar, but have no interest in studying it, and while I am active, I do not have the competitive determination in a game of basketball that would make Gym remotely interesting to me.
In short, there are no classes that interest us.
I would love to take a class in journalism, or a class that taught web design. Very few schools offer such specialized classes, and if they do, often times the students that are interested in such classes know more than the teacher (which brings us back to repetitiveness as well).
3. There is no need to have school 7 hours a day, 5 days a week
A lot of what makes up my day, and many other students day, is sitting down and monotonously working on homework that was given to us to make up for "spare time", and depending on the teacher, a 20 minute rant on politics is not uncommon either. Honest to god, every class I am taking right now can easily be reduced to 40 minutes a day, easy. This is frustrating because people like Tyler, Daniel and I know we could be doing something better with our time, and many other students feel the same way.
Any other teens out there have thoughts on the matter of school?
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