Poll: No Reality In This Classroom!

[000Ronald]

How many of you are currently in school or are recent graduates? More than a few, I'd suppose. Then you may know what I'm talking about when I ask if you've had problems with the reality in school.

Do you know what I'm talking about? A student getting a week of detentions for writing an essay about the essay question not having depth. Another student getting suspended for yelling at a teacher because he wouldn't break up a fight. I got suspended (and nearly expelled) because I said, "Right, because there's no place for the real world here."

This shouldn't happen. It does not create a safe environment for learning; in fact, it doesn't create a learning environment at all. I never felt safe at school because I wasn't sure what to expect from day to day, and I suffered intensely for it.

In school, you're told to sit down, shut up, and do what you're told. In the real world, people who do that rarely do more than scrape by. Why is it that school is penalizing us for wanting to succeed?

And how many of you have encountered this problem? If you wouldn't mind sharing your stories, please do so. If nothing else, it helps to vent.

Apologies Abound

 

[Radeonx]

I got banned from my Theology class for questioning the idiotic grad-student's logic of making all the tests based on random dates that we didn't go over. I was able to fix it, but it was quite irritating.
[small]Stupid *****.[/small]

 

[Chicago Ted]

If I were sent back 4 years to middle school, I would probably be expelled. When I look back I always wonder why I put up with the shit they gave us.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Well lets see, I sit in a desk for 2 hours and get lectured, then I move to a DIFFERENT desk and get lectured again. That certainly sounds like the real world to me.

Although I have to say highschool is alot more realistic. Its grade school that used to drill holes in my fucking skull. Walk in a straight line. Give me 10 real life scenarios where that would apply, and I will sacrifice my left nut

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Shoot I'm taking a Perspectives in Science Fiction class. So there goes reality right there

But I sit down and shut up and do my work. I don't complain about it XD

 

[ZeroMachine]

I have so many stories of that sort of bullshit happening in my old high school that I don't even want to delve into it. The general idea of what people consider a "school system" these days is nothing but counterintuitive. They don't teach growth or creativity or dynamic thought... they teach "book learnin' and nothin' else", which very, VERY rare exceptions.

It's one of the reasons I love the movie Accepted so much. Although the movie is incredibly unrealistic and is heavily disguised as a "college movie" ala American Pie, its social commentary on the school system as a whole is great.

So basically? I hate school. I wanted to be a teacher for a while in order to try and make a difference, but I more or less said "fuck it" because the problem isn't just the system. It's the kids, the students. Because of the world today, any other school system would fail.

It's a sad, sad world we live in, folks, and it's up to us to make the neccessary changes.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

I once nearly got suspended for arguing with my Vice Principal about the fact that I had skipped 48 study halls in a row. I used that time to go down to the band room to practice, and even had my teacher speak to her about it, because I legitimately was there.

She said study halls are there for you to complete homework so you can practice at home. I nearly threw a stapler at her for that one.

 

[Cakes]

Since when has school had anything to do with reality?
Outside of school I usually don't have to ask permission to go take a shit.
Though, I go to quite a nice school, so I guess I don't have the same problems as you do.

 

[Zetsubou]

It's one of the reasons I love the movie Accepted so much. Although the movie is incredibly unrealistic and is heavily disguised as a "college movie" ala American Pie, its social commentary on the school system as a whole is great.

Fuck yeah Accepted! Love that movie. Ane it does have many good points on the school system and it's limits of expression and creativity. I've really never enjoyed the social confomity of school and how everything is so limited to the status quo.

 

[wewontdie11]

One of the main points of regular schooling is to groom people into accepting authority. Without some acknowledgement of a higher body than ourselves society would be a very different and probably a lot worse place.

But on the other hand teachers can just be dicks too.

 

[piez13]

Grade school? Terrible. Jesus, in the 8th grade I stopped following rules like "walk in a straight line," "don't enter the classroom without a teacher," and "don't run in the hallway." No one cared too much.

High school? Better, barely. There's nothing like listening to a teacher talk about shit we already knew for 45 minutes, realize that I could've used that time to finish an assignment but couldn't because the teacher told me not to because she was TALKING.

Y'know what? I just discovered why I dislike much of school. Teachers think students are incapable of multitasking. No wonder my iPod was allowed in half my classes.

 

[Deleted]

Well I got forced to a lunch time study session for 'rowdy' kids because I aced a test on material the teacher covered when I was at home for a week. I told her that I'll pass it because its all easy, and she said that I should study. I was the only one to get 100% and the kids were like wow he wasn't even here and he aced it and she got peeved I guess :/

 

[stonethered]

OP: what context did you make your comment?

i was homeschooled, my Mom gave me my assignments and i finished them. the deal was i could play video games when i was done. i was encouraged to think about things, and i often questioned how useful something would be 'in real life' and i always got a good answer.
i was lucky. it sounds like some of you got stuck in the worst possible schools.

 

[The Shade]

[A]nd one of the film students would have made it into a comedy short.

We film students are a crafty bunch.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

If I could go back in time and confront my Grade 6 teacher, I'd tell her she's a ***** and eat veal sandwiches, covered with cheese in her face and say the veal wasn't organic.

She has made me hate enviromentalists. It may be unfair but... she got me suspended because I took a plane to London. (Also I told her to fuck off when she said I'd get detention for that trip, but.... c'mon....)

 

[cobra_ky]

One time a TA gave us horribly bugged sample code for a programming assignment. we asked him if he had tested it at all and he said "yeah! then i deleted some stuff afterward but that shouldn't have broken anything."

little did i know that at the same time, he was writing code which would eventually sink my game dev project. god i hate that guy.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Schools are trying to compact reality into a book, of course they've got no idea what's really going on after spending so long condensing logic.

If I could go back in time and confront my Grade 6 teacher, I'd tell her she's a ***** and eat veal sandwiches, covered with cheese in her face and say the veal wasn't organic.

She has made me hate environmentalists. It may be unfair but... she got me suspended because I took a plane to London. (Also I told her to fuck off when she said I'd get detention for that trip, but.... c'mon....)

Enjoy your bowel cancer, if you plan on eating meat and go out of your way to make sure it has GM in it...

But, yeah, your teacher getting you suspending for using a plane is pretty ridiculous, but those emissions are killing us... suspending you wasn't going to do anything about it, though.

You might have simply shown her up as insane if you simple didn't swear at her, by the way.

 

[blackshark121]

God, I couldn't agree more. I'm in fucking college, and 99% of the freshman I'm with still think its a game, or something to that effect. I spend 8am to 6pm studying, and they spend most of the day playing video games and that stuff, and only studying when they have something due with a few hours. It drives me insane, to used to be that I couldn't wait for college in high school, now I can't wait for med school.