Why the School System SUCKS and How to FIX IT

So if you are researching me for college and you see this, please disregard that previous statement… Please let me into your college. I’ll give you money… I should probably stop now…

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[Kalani_Saiko]

My school encourages us to sleep 8 hours each night then gives us 6 homework assignments due the next day and complain when we didn't sleep. There's just no way to win.

On a different note your video is a breath of fresh air even though it's 5 years old now.

[IIwII_usxx]

i hate when schools expect you to get 8 hours of good sleep, but make you be at school at 7 am and give you massive amount of homework that you stay up all night doing.

[angelinatheweird]

My mom once said: "The school system is making kids stupid so that it's easier to control them".

[ariira]

This video was made 7 years ago, but the fact it still applies to today is insane.

My biology teacher last semester is one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. He fully understands the subject, and he actually makes the effort to INTERACT with his students so they can also understand. One of my friends had a different biology teacher, and they literally had to LEARN FROM MINE just because their teacher couldn’t teach biology.

[randommemesweekly]

its almost like the system doesnt care about the students, oh wait, they dont!

[jetv]

I started to realize that when I reached middle school I stopped learning and started trying to get a good grade. Most of what I have learned has been lost because I have to put all my time and thought into what I am learning at the time and can’t stop and think of what I am “learning” sometimes.

[F_]

My dad always said, "School is just here to teach you how to do things that you don't want to do. That's what life is about when you grow up." My dad is a workaholic and wannabe perfectionist, and this is why.

[siemagooo]

As a pupil in poland, i have to say that when my parents were at a teacher - parent meeting. THE TEACHER SAID 40% OF THE SCHOOL PROGRAM IS USELESS. And guess what? The only thing we do in school is write, and at maximum theres 1 assignment per two weeks.

[ardishco]

the worst part of it is that they trick your parents into thinking the same so your life at home gets ruined

[memeverifier]

Elementry school is when you learn the most

[diino]

i had a teacher a few years ago who got fired because he would tell stories at the start of class. i didn't understand back then but now i see that it was to get us all in a lighter mood and concentrated. mr foy you didn't deserve to get fired, you had good teaching. thanks for being a good teacher

[christianmiller]

I honestly don’t regret being a rebellious, underachieving student in high school. It wasn’t until high school that I said, “fuck it.” I didn’t do homework, didn’t pay attention in class, skipped classes when I could, didn’t follow the rules, and drew in class wanting to focus on art.

Art was the only class in high school I actually got A’s in.

However, the 12th grade came along and I actually applied myself then and got A’s, B’s, and C’s just so I could graduate.

Afterwards, I didn’t go to college. Why the hell would I want more of the bullshit I just went through, this time it actually costing money?

I made the best decision of my life by joining the Air Force. Stayed in 8 years, got permanent disability pay for life, and now I’m still working for the government. One of the most secure jobs someone can get.

I’ve seen the world, experienced amazing things, and learned more than I would have ever learned in school.

[danielplocica]

I think the main problem is forgetting. people have life outside school, and remembering everything for every subject for ever is impossible. Most students forget the knowledge they learn after an exam. Why? because you don't need it, and there are 80 new things to learn. You will never forget how to write/read/do basic math ( I am talking - + * /) because you actually need that in life and use it daily. But school encourages learning for exams to forget shortly after if you want to maintain good grades while focusing on thing you want to focus home.

[illknockyourlightsout]

School has absolutely failed me. I get all A’s, but it has taught me minimal useful info. I don’t know how to really function outside of a school environment, because I’m at school for so long and for such long periods of time. It’s not just that I’m there for half the year, it’s also that I’m in school for half a year straight, with breaks that give me a taste of freedom right before taking it away again.

[Goblinofgobl]

Fun fact: did you know that the guy who made homework made it to be stressful but it was only for the bad kids in his class and it worked at making the kids better in class

But the school system thought that the homework was made for all the kids and made them smarter

[mysillygirl]

when i was in second and third grade, i went to a montessori school, it was a private school, and the system was completely different. we actually learned real life skills in a way that small kids could grasp easily. we didn't have classrooms, we were in a house that was renovated to be wide open and there was a kitchen. it was all independent work, we wandered freely, we were supposed to take out a rug, take out a tray with a "work" on it, and then we'd lay out the pieces how they were supposed to go (for example: matching term cards to definition cards, it was usually more interesting but that's the only kind of work i remember) then we'd get a teacher to look at it and sign our work plan. at least once a day someone would turn the rainstick and we all circled up for a meeting and the teacher would teach something new or maybe just have a talk. lunch was an hour long, a student was chosen to do the dishes after lunch, and we had nap time after that and we could make requests for classical music. if you were asleep at the end of nap time, they let you sleep. there were flower beds outside and we each had a section where we could grow things, i grew a hybrid plant and harvested multiple squashes and a watermelon. we did hands on activities together sometimes, like going out to a field and unrolling a giant black rope with a tiny strip of white at the end to show how old the universe was compared to the earth. they also took us on walks to pull weeds and return shopping carts. there was a chicken coop, and we hatched chickens in an incubator, named them, and cared for them. we did art projects and creative writing all the time. a lot of things i needed for high school came from montessori too, like the periodic table or biological concepts like producer, consumer, decomposer. sometimes we played the matter game where the teacher would call out "solid!" and we had to stand close together and vibrate or "gas!" and we all ran around really fast. i think more schools should be like this, and it sucks it only went up through sixth grade, there should be a less childish but similar approach for us high schoolers too

[Gabehleg]

Ok this is more of a me thing, but I’m a freshman in high school, and for the final for my health class we are doing a presentation, it has to be on something we haven’t looked at in class. I’m kinda interested in snakes so I thought I would do my presentation on the effect of different snake venoms on the body. So I create the slides, with jokes, less words and more pictures, i memorize all the lines, try to have comedy to make it as engaging and entertaining as I can in about 3 minutes. It goes very well I got the entire room laughing, I even got the teacher laughing at my snake jokes (my teacher almost never laughs at anything so this was a huge accomplishment). I felt very proud, and I went back to my table and everyone there was like “good job, and it wasn’t boring at all”. Compared to other presentations which were them just reading off text from a white background. I got my grade, and it was a 22/25, which is a 88% for a final, which is good, yeah. But his comments were “you have to many jokes, be more serious”. The thing about a 22/25 is I had a group presentation before that, and all I had to do was one slide where I just say like a paragraph, I have some notes on a notecard and I just said like a paragraph, It has some lame pictures on a white background, it got a 23/25. Me not even trying got a better grade then my final that was funny, engaging and I think I got a lot of points down, but this one paragraph on a white background did better then that. And it really made me just not feel good about the education system. (Sorry this is so long, I was really pissed, and I’m kinda ranting).

[Ben-vlew]

Finland: 3 hours of school, hardly any homework.
England and USA: 6 hours of school, lots of homework, depressed, stressed and tired students.
England and USA:
*I don't see the problem here!*

[civetbutlemonbutmouse]

i feel like the way that school drills information into us is like someone forcing food down your throat and saying it's good for you

[flared_beacon]

This school system really is fucked. I wake up at 6 am everyday (I’m a 7th grader) and go to school, and the fucking teachers expect me to pay attention while I’m a tired mess in the morning. You barely get any sleep, you have the stress of doing homework, and since I’m a kid that plays an instrument in band, I have to practice that too everyday for at least 30 min. It feels like school is just the same exact thing everyday, doing the same shit everyday, waking up, going to a building for 8 hours and come back like a tired slop, do homework and practice and eat and sleep then repeat. I have to do this shit over and over again until I earn a piece of paper with words saying "you graduated college" so I can get a job that is also probably as stressful as school, but at least you earn something from it other than a piece of paper with an A on it.