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I apologize in advance - this isn't going to be well planned.
School sucks.
I don't mean that in a 'teacherz r crap, I don’t need no education, I could survive on the streets' way. I mean it in a 'funning hell this is a stupid way of doing things' way.
Let me try and explain.
I'm in year 11. I have half a term of compulsory education left - it's about 9 school weeks. In May I start my GCSEs - the things I've been working toward for the last two years.
I can't say that I'm an exceptionally hard worker, but I'm smart. I read a lot, I try to keep up with politics, I'm interested in the world around me. The thing is, after two years of doing minimal work, I'm really screwed - I have two years of I.T. coursework to do in the next three days. This isn't the schools fault, it's mine, and I accept that. Believe it or not, I'm not perfect.
So now I'm spending my entire time worrying about what I'm going to do. The coursework is stupid, to put it quite frankly - as with a lot of coursework, you have to DELIBERITLY make mistakes in order to rectify them. That doesn't make much sense to me.
The way they mark coursework is silly. They have a mark scheme, the teachers have a mark scheme, and you have a mark scheme. So all you have to do it jump through a series of boring, utterly useless hoops. Inspiration is strictly a no go area - with GCSEs, thinking for yourself seems to have been banned.
Even poetry - you have to interpret it in the areas that they want you to interpret it. For example, you have to make points about structure, make points about language…it, like I've already mentioned, it stupid.
I don't want to do the subjects that I am doing. I have no interest in Geography, or French, or DT, or IT, or History, or Maths. And they certainly aren’t educating me - when was the last time you *really* needed to know how an igneous rock was formed?
What I'm wondering is just what I've been doing spending THE LAST TWO YEARS OF MY LIFE on these things. I can't see a reason for it, other than that it is the easiest thing to do - it’s the thing that everyone else does so I have to follow or society won't like me.
I'm not saying that I'm intending to drop out and live as a hermit or something - I'm too balless to do that. I intend to ride the system through to university. So maybe I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here - I'm moaning about a system but I have no plans to try and change it or leave it.
What I'm just getting my head around is that school is my life, really. Yes, I do do other things, but like it or not everything else has to fit in around school. It's the center point of my existence and there is nothing I can do to change that. Yes, I can get married and have children now that I'm 16, but I have to attend French lessons against my will.
It's just so frustrating. I feel like I'm spending my life waiting for school to end, just procrastinating. I'm waiting to start my life, yet I can see it flashing past me. All I have ever known is school. 5 days a week, 9 - 4, every year of my life that I can remember. And when I think of what I could have accomplished in that time had I put my mind to it…
11 years I have been at school, and what have I got out of it education wise?
Well, I can read and write, and I can add numbers up. That's quite handy, but I learnt almost all of that on my own out of school. Nobody has EVER taught me how to write a story, or how to construct sentences, or even told me what words mean. I've leant it all through copying the books that I've read.
Out of school I have got no education. I've learnt a lot of facts by rote, but there is no understanding there. I wouldn't care, it's just 11 years - just think, if I had spent that time in a music school, wouldn't you expect me to come out of there being able to play at least one instrument?
I need GCSEs so I can go and do A-Levels. Philosophy, Politics, Film Studies, and English Literature. To do these subjects, I need GCSEs in French, DT, IT, History, Geography, Maths, and Science.
That doesn't make much sense to me, but then, I suppose none of it does.
I'm off to make up the results of a questionnaire. Excuse me.
School sucks.
I don't mean that in a 'teacherz r crap, I don’t need no education, I could survive on the streets' way. I mean it in a 'funning hell this is a stupid way of doing things' way.
Let me try and explain.
I'm in year 11. I have half a term of compulsory education left - it's about 9 school weeks. In May I start my GCSEs - the things I've been working toward for the last two years.
I can't say that I'm an exceptionally hard worker, but I'm smart. I read a lot, I try to keep up with politics, I'm interested in the world around me. The thing is, after two years of doing minimal work, I'm really screwed - I have two years of I.T. coursework to do in the next three days. This isn't the schools fault, it's mine, and I accept that. Believe it or not, I'm not perfect.
So now I'm spending my entire time worrying about what I'm going to do. The coursework is stupid, to put it quite frankly - as with a lot of coursework, you have to DELIBERITLY make mistakes in order to rectify them. That doesn't make much sense to me.
The way they mark coursework is silly. They have a mark scheme, the teachers have a mark scheme, and you have a mark scheme. So all you have to do it jump through a series of boring, utterly useless hoops. Inspiration is strictly a no go area - with GCSEs, thinking for yourself seems to have been banned.
Even poetry - you have to interpret it in the areas that they want you to interpret it. For example, you have to make points about structure, make points about language…it, like I've already mentioned, it stupid.
I don't want to do the subjects that I am doing. I have no interest in Geography, or French, or DT, or IT, or History, or Maths. And they certainly aren’t educating me - when was the last time you *really* needed to know how an igneous rock was formed?
What I'm wondering is just what I've been doing spending THE LAST TWO YEARS OF MY LIFE on these things. I can't see a reason for it, other than that it is the easiest thing to do - it’s the thing that everyone else does so I have to follow or society won't like me.
I'm not saying that I'm intending to drop out and live as a hermit or something - I'm too balless to do that. I intend to ride the system through to university. So maybe I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here - I'm moaning about a system but I have no plans to try and change it or leave it.
What I'm just getting my head around is that school is my life, really. Yes, I do do other things, but like it or not everything else has to fit in around school. It's the center point of my existence and there is nothing I can do to change that. Yes, I can get married and have children now that I'm 16, but I have to attend French lessons against my will.
It's just so frustrating. I feel like I'm spending my life waiting for school to end, just procrastinating. I'm waiting to start my life, yet I can see it flashing past me. All I have ever known is school. 5 days a week, 9 - 4, every year of my life that I can remember. And when I think of what I could have accomplished in that time had I put my mind to it…
11 years I have been at school, and what have I got out of it education wise?
Well, I can read and write, and I can add numbers up. That's quite handy, but I learnt almost all of that on my own out of school. Nobody has EVER taught me how to write a story, or how to construct sentences, or even told me what words mean. I've leant it all through copying the books that I've read.
Out of school I have got no education. I've learnt a lot of facts by rote, but there is no understanding there. I wouldn't care, it's just 11 years - just think, if I had spent that time in a music school, wouldn't you expect me to come out of there being able to play at least one instrument?
I need GCSEs so I can go and do A-Levels. Philosophy, Politics, Film Studies, and English Literature. To do these subjects, I need GCSEs in French, DT, IT, History, Geography, Maths, and Science.
That doesn't make much sense to me, but then, I suppose none of it does.
I'm off to make up the results of a questionnaire. Excuse me.
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Hmph. Just you wait until you're in a job where a manager who's been cut'n'pasted out of a Dilbert cartoon has you making changes that actually make the product you're designing worse. And then three weeks later berates you for making the changes, and tells you to put it back like it was.
Then, and only then will you know the true feeling of wasted potential.
Then, and only then will you know the true feeling of wasted potential.
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