Believe it or not, I really don't like school. In fact, you might even say I detest it. Nine months of sitting in stiff desks while duncical nonsense is interminably drip-fed into uncaring minds. At least it's almost over for the year, and we get to breathe for a couple months before being pulled kicking and screaming back into this compulsory torture.
School really wouldn't be that bad if we didn't have to come. Or maybe if we didn't have to be here every single weekday, forced to mindlessly wander the patterns we traverse 180+ times each year. It's funny how you always hear people talking about how school is preparation for "the real world." School is nothing of the sort. If I had a job that resembled school, I'd be out of there in a heartbeat. Where's the option to say, "I think I'll be in late tomorrow, it's been a rough night." School is not life. And then there's homework. Don't even get me started on homework. How many times do I need to point out that assignment of homework leads to the exacerbation of pre-existing social inequities before someone starts to listen? Studies have shown over and over that high homework loads are a major factor in turning kids off toward education, and yet teachers continue to roll out assignments night after night.
I used to think the system would change someday; that it would catch up to the new world business has created. I don't anymore. Instead, I've decided that the winners in this big game we call education aren't the ones who do the best, they're the ones who merely manage to survive.