School is bullshit and will always be bullshit. The government forces you to take your child and put him in a class along with 29 other children. They then assume that each child is the same and starts teaching them crap that they will most likely forget after their first test. This has gone beyond educating the youth to just throwing shit at a wall and hoping something sticks. Yes, knowing the basics isn't a bad idea but they're going beyond that.
You learn the basics of math and then they force you to continue studying math like it's some sort of holy shit that has to be worshiped every single goddamn year. I mean, here high schools are based on profiles. You choose the social science profile and you're supposedly going to have classes focused on social science BUT YOU STILL have a physics class, a chemistry class, a mathematics class, a literature class, a biology class, a geography class, a history class and about 2 SOCIAL SCIENCE CLASSES.
You choose a biology profile and instead of actually getting to learn about biology you get two biology classes a week and the rest is, you guessed it, MATHEMATICS, PROGRAMMING, LITERATURE, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE. What do these have to do with biology? I mean fuck, even chemistry, which is needed when studying biology, has some stupid shit in there. Why do we need to solve chemistry problems? Will these help us better understand biology? Will they somehow heighten our intellect to a superior level or will they just bore the living shit out of us and make us realize we're never actually going to learn about biology. I mean, from my understanding the needed course would be BIOCHEMISTRY but we never DID learn about biochemistry. Again, more examples of simply throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. But there's a catch. If the shit doesn't stick then you're going to have to take it, eat it, keep it in long enough for an exam and then throw it up.
The education system currently in place is absolutely bullshit. It's based on old and outdated methods and assumes that an at least semi-advantage knowledge of everything is needed in order to succeed in life, which is false. I sure as hell won't need to know the history of the Romans in order to become a doctor and I sure as fucking hell won't need calculus when I go to the store to do my groceries.
Oh, and let's not forget jobs. "I don't care how smart you are or how good you are at doing what I need you to do. You do not have a piece of paper stating that you're smart and you're therefore not smart". That makes total sense. The government basically said this: Either follow my rules or I'll make your life miserable and we're doing jack about it, are we now?
Not only that, but they're forgetting bullying. Bullying is so prevalent in both middle school and high school that it's amazing no one has bothered doing anything about it. I mean fuck, here our tax money is supposedly used for patrols but apparently that money is used for something else because I sure as hell haven't seen any patrols near schools or high schools. I mean TEACHERS do nothing about it. My best friend was being bullied and the teachers just stood there, watched and proceeded to go to class. He was being humiliated in front of an entire high school and the 5 teachers that passed near the incident did nothing. Apparently, "teens should be teens" is a good excuse for when the parents came around. What? Is it to hard to take care of your fucking students? Or that fancy Armani suit you just bought justifies not having guards patrolling the perimeter?
If the shit that's currently boiling right now won't be flushed down the toilet then at least spray some perfume on it. Get rid of grades, tests, homework and moronic teachers. Schools, in their current state, demand 3 things of the student:
1. Never speak up against a teacher. The teacher is always right and you're a worthless piece of shit - your opinion does not matter;
2. Never speak of what happening in the school, never film what's happening in the school, never take pictures of what's happening in the school. The school must be protected whenever "tintsy snaffus" happen(This is actually why they don't allow cell phones in schools nowadays);
3. Always remember that school isn't about learning, it's about passing tests.
Remove the tests and grades and you removed the stress associated with school. After that you can actually focus on teaching the students and making studying, wait for it, FUN. It seems that when something is enjoyable people open up to it and it makes it way easier to learn. Yes, LEARNING, that thing that schools are supposed to do. I'm fairly sure I'd have be more receptive to, say programming if it actually involved programming. As it stands, for the entirety of that class you're just being given information and forced to memorize it so as to pass a test. Learning about it is fine but I'm fairly sure if I actually did some programming I would've learned way more.
There is absolutely no reason for homework. You're just stressing the student even more by saying "Here's shit to do whilst you're home. Spend 3 hours attempting to memorate what I just wrote on the blackboard and then reproduce it. If you don't, there will be consequences". If you want to teach a student something you will do so during school hours. School is school and free time is free time. There is no reason why one should bleed into the other.
There should be teaching seminars. These seminars would be used to discuss new techniques to teach students and hold their attention. The fact of the matter is that you cannot teach today the same way you teach say 50 years ago.
