What we do in school has no actual value, yet they aren't flexible about going outside the guidelines, they time us, test us, and grade us unreasonably.
I'm tired of doing the same assignment over and over again. It's the same assignment I was introduced to in 4th grade and the same assignment I've been asked to do every grade through my final year in high school. This is every assignment. School has taught me not to look for a career pushing paper all day, I'd kill myself before that.
No, these assignments aren't of the utmost importance. They're not going to do anything except be looked at and graded by a person most students couldn't give less of a shit about anyway. Stop pretending that these essays are worth anything more than they are. All we do in school is practice, and the more we forget that, the more I wonder what I'm expected to be capable of. And from the looks of it, I don't want to be. I don't want to live a life where I'll be subjected to the kind of stress I'm being prepared for.
We learn to be prepared for life, but it really preoccupies us as the best part of our lives slip away, and we are left looking at the future as if it should be the pinnacle of our existence, but it never really is.
Posted by Insomniac at January 4, 2006 06:13 AM