Why the Public School System is Bullshit
The public school system has changed a lot over the past twenty years. I've begun to notice that public schools no longer teach students life lessons. Instead, they start off teaching children that life is perfect and that the world is innocent, and the children have to find out on their own that, no, the world isn't perfect after all. School isn't just about learning how to read, write, solve equations, etc. School is the medium that prepares our children for the challenges of life. Life isn't about knowing how to read, write, solve equations, etc. Those are just minor tools for living a successful, normal life. The majority of challenges in life deal with social skills, coping with stress, understanding right from wrong, how to handle tough situations, etc. Public schools are no longer teaching these lessons, which forces students to learn these things on their own, unprepared.
I'll give some examples and elaborate on the following topics:
* Designing the Perfect World
* Developing Social Skills
* Coping with Stress
* Understanding Right from Wrong
* Handling Stressful Situations
* Dealing with Violence
* The Disciplinary System
* Sexual Education
Designing the Perfect World
First we start off in pre-school/kindergarten, where we endulge in various activities throughout the day. We learn the first steps to reading, how to be creative, how to count, etc. In our first years of school, we are thrown into an unfamiliar room with other children and we are expected to make friends with everyone and get along with everyone. Well, even as children, we don't like everyone we meet, but we are taught that it is unacceptable and rude not to invite every boy and girl to your birthday party whether you liked some of them or not. You are forced to tolerate something that bothers you. This type of lesson isn't a bad one, because teaching people how to tolerate something that normally bothers them is a good thing--in most cases.
So we are taught that everyone is equal and that everyone is supposed to love everyone and be happy--yada yada yada. All that lesson does is pussify everyone. And then you get into building your social skills...
Developing Social Skills
You begin making friends, and you cling to them. Friends eventually become more important than the things you have in your life, such as your family. You don't realize until you're out of highschool that all of those years that you spent with the drama and the friends that you thought were true to you were just a medium for social development. After highschool is over and done with, all of the drama and most of your friends will be gone and you will be left with whatever social skills that you shaped for yourself.
The only benefits that public schools bring you, as far as building social skills goes, are situations where you are forced to work with people that you barely know. This is one of the strengths of public schools, but it leads us to one of the weaknesses, which is helping children cope with stress...
Coping with Stress
The only thing that public schools provide to help children cope with stress is the guidance system, which not many students would seek the affirming words of a counselor for fear that their peers would find out, and thing he or she is a loser for needing help from guidance. So the only thing that really helps children cope with stress is the reliance on their friends. When someone goes to their friends more than they go to their parents for help, they begin to favor their friends over their parents. Part of this is the fault of the parents. Parents should know from an early age that it is crucial to listen to their children and help them with their problems by talking to them calmly and thoroughly. When a child comes to his or her parents with a problem such as drugs, a parent might say something impulsive, such as, "If you ever smoke, I'll kick you out of my house!" Things like that don't help a child. It just scares them into not wanting to tell you anything.
Children eventually find their own ways to cope with stress, whether it be talking to a friend, or bottling everything up and using sharp objects to release it from their... flesh.
Understanding Right from Wrong
The public school system sets down right from wrong early on. Children are taught to obey their teachers or suffer the consequences. At some point, when a student, or a group of students believe that something in the system is not right, they rebel--usually by daring someone they really don't care about to break the rules to "make a statement", which, if they didn't, they wouldn't be "cool" enough to hang out with their group. This happens a lot in schools that make many ridiculous, strict rules that carry punishments that make no sense at all, such as chewing gum and getting detention, being late and getting detention, saying a dirty world and getting detention, fighting and getting suspended. All punishments should fit all crimes, and detention is not a solution for any of them. In fact, a lot of students don't care if they go to detention. Many don't care if they get suspended. Many see detention and suspention as ways of not having to listen to their "annoying" teacher for a day.
Handling Stressful Situations
Most children have a hard time dealing with stressful situations because they don't think their way through their problems. When someone wants something solved right away, they become impulsive and attempt to handle the problem themselves. They don't seek parental advice, or the advice of a teacher or counselor. This problem is linked to the problem with violence.
Dealing with Violence
When a student finds it necessary to use violence to get his or her point across, it's usually because the teachers or persons in charge have done little or nothing to correct the problem that bothers the student. When a student uses violence, whether he was defending himself or not, he is still punished. This is the main problem with the disciplinary system.
The Disciplinary System
It makes no sense for both students to be disciplined if one of them was victimized and merely defending himself. Most public schools will punish both students to prove their point that they don't want fighting in their schools. They don't stop to think about what the message is that they're giving to the students that were just defending themselves. Eventually, the student who was just defending himself is going to begin standing up for himself and giving the schools a reason to punish him by kicking whoever's ass that messes with him. The school's form of punishment is bullshit and literally solves nothing.
Sexual Education
All the sexual education system does is to try to scare students into not wanting to have sex by showing them the horrors of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Naturally, teens want to learn more about sex because of a few reasons: it's something that's "supposed to be for adults" (and teens want to be accepted as being grown ups); they never get to see other people nude (this makes them curious to explore with other people regardless of their gender); the feeling they get when they're with someone they "love" or when they see the body parts that they are normally not allowed to see, they consider it more because their hormones begin to rush wildly.
Since the sexual education program began, more students began to become aware of sex at an earlier age than before. Instead of parents having the courage to talk to their children about sex, they went ahead and let the schools do it. The sexual education program is positively correlated with the increased numbers of teen sex, STD spread, and teen pregnancy.
I know this entry was long, but it serves its purpose. These are my views on the public school systems.
I'll give some examples and elaborate on the following topics:
* Designing the Perfect World
* Developing Social Skills
* Coping with Stress
* Understanding Right from Wrong
* Handling Stressful Situations
* Dealing with Violence
* The Disciplinary System
* Sexual Education
Designing the Perfect World
First we start off in pre-school/kindergarten, where we endulge in various activities throughout the day. We learn the first steps to reading, how to be creative, how to count, etc. In our first years of school, we are thrown into an unfamiliar room with other children and we are expected to make friends with everyone and get along with everyone. Well, even as children, we don't like everyone we meet, but we are taught that it is unacceptable and rude not to invite every boy and girl to your birthday party whether you liked some of them or not. You are forced to tolerate something that bothers you. This type of lesson isn't a bad one, because teaching people how to tolerate something that normally bothers them is a good thing--in most cases.
So we are taught that everyone is equal and that everyone is supposed to love everyone and be happy--yada yada yada. All that lesson does is pussify everyone. And then you get into building your social skills...
Developing Social Skills
You begin making friends, and you cling to them. Friends eventually become more important than the things you have in your life, such as your family. You don't realize until you're out of highschool that all of those years that you spent with the drama and the friends that you thought were true to you were just a medium for social development. After highschool is over and done with, all of the drama and most of your friends will be gone and you will be left with whatever social skills that you shaped for yourself.
The only benefits that public schools bring you, as far as building social skills goes, are situations where you are forced to work with people that you barely know. This is one of the strengths of public schools, but it leads us to one of the weaknesses, which is helping children cope with stress...
Coping with Stress
The only thing that public schools provide to help children cope with stress is the guidance system, which not many students would seek the affirming words of a counselor for fear that their peers would find out, and thing he or she is a loser for needing help from guidance. So the only thing that really helps children cope with stress is the reliance on their friends. When someone goes to their friends more than they go to their parents for help, they begin to favor their friends over their parents. Part of this is the fault of the parents. Parents should know from an early age that it is crucial to listen to their children and help them with their problems by talking to them calmly and thoroughly. When a child comes to his or her parents with a problem such as drugs, a parent might say something impulsive, such as, "If you ever smoke, I'll kick you out of my house!" Things like that don't help a child. It just scares them into not wanting to tell you anything.
Children eventually find their own ways to cope with stress, whether it be talking to a friend, or bottling everything up and using sharp objects to release it from their... flesh.
Understanding Right from Wrong
The public school system sets down right from wrong early on. Children are taught to obey their teachers or suffer the consequences. At some point, when a student, or a group of students believe that something in the system is not right, they rebel--usually by daring someone they really don't care about to break the rules to "make a statement", which, if they didn't, they wouldn't be "cool" enough to hang out with their group. This happens a lot in schools that make many ridiculous, strict rules that carry punishments that make no sense at all, such as chewing gum and getting detention, being late and getting detention, saying a dirty world and getting detention, fighting and getting suspended. All punishments should fit all crimes, and detention is not a solution for any of them. In fact, a lot of students don't care if they go to detention. Many don't care if they get suspended. Many see detention and suspention as ways of not having to listen to their "annoying" teacher for a day.
Handling Stressful Situations
Most children have a hard time dealing with stressful situations because they don't think their way through their problems. When someone wants something solved right away, they become impulsive and attempt to handle the problem themselves. They don't seek parental advice, or the advice of a teacher or counselor. This problem is linked to the problem with violence.
Dealing with Violence
When a student finds it necessary to use violence to get his or her point across, it's usually because the teachers or persons in charge have done little or nothing to correct the problem that bothers the student. When a student uses violence, whether he was defending himself or not, he is still punished. This is the main problem with the disciplinary system.
The Disciplinary System
It makes no sense for both students to be disciplined if one of them was victimized and merely defending himself. Most public schools will punish both students to prove their point that they don't want fighting in their schools. They don't stop to think about what the message is that they're giving to the students that were just defending themselves. Eventually, the student who was just defending himself is going to begin standing up for himself and giving the schools a reason to punish him by kicking whoever's ass that messes with him. The school's form of punishment is bullshit and literally solves nothing.
Sexual Education
All the sexual education system does is to try to scare students into not wanting to have sex by showing them the horrors of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Naturally, teens want to learn more about sex because of a few reasons: it's something that's "supposed to be for adults" (and teens want to be accepted as being grown ups); they never get to see other people nude (this makes them curious to explore with other people regardless of their gender); the feeling they get when they're with someone they "love" or when they see the body parts that they are normally not allowed to see, they consider it more because their hormones begin to rush wildly.
Since the sexual education program began, more students began to become aware of sex at an earlier age than before. Instead of parents having the courage to talk to their children about sex, they went ahead and let the schools do it. The sexual education program is positively correlated with the increased numbers of teen sex, STD spread, and teen pregnancy.
I know this entry was long, but it serves its purpose. These are my views on the public school systems.