MORE PUBLIC SCHOOL PROBLEMS

Hi everybody. So, I know I haven't posted something in a long time. But honestly, I don't think anybody reads this blog except me... so nobody cares. If you do read this... please leave some sort of comment so that I know that i'm not just talking to myself.

So, I am almost 100% certain that I have already written some sort of post similar to this one... so I may or may not repeat myself a couple times. But, I just have to get this off my chest. So, here goes nothing.

I think that public school is a job. It is a job that children are forced to do for free. I would call it child labor if I didn't think some people would take some sort of offense from this. But let me tell you something. In the olden days, like 100 years ago or 150 or so there was all those child labor and factory worker protests and what not. Those kids had work every day about 15 hours a day. They sometimes lost fingers and got diseased and died on the job, so obviously child labor (Then) is worse than public schools (Now) but i'm still going to compare them. I don't know about you, but my school starts at 8 am. I live in Brooklyn. Way on the East side of it too. My trip to school takes about 50 minutes to an hour every morning. So, I have to wake up at 6 am every day. 6 am! I'm 14 years old. I need my sleep. I have spoken to other students at my school who wake up at 4:30. What kind of "good" education forces their students to wake up at 4:30am every morning?

So, I wake up at 6, I get home at 5 (approximately). That is 11 hours of my day outside of home. Then at home I have about 4 or so hours of homework and school related things. Leaving me finally free of school at 9pm. If I do the math, (That I learned in the 2nd grade. elementary school math is the only math you ever need. Middle school and high school are wastes of time and just try and teach you stupid things so that they can have "genius" students and brag to other states and countries about it, when really they are only making a few "Geniuses" while the rest of us fail at every class and cry ourselves to sleep every night), that is 15 hours of school a day. Now, if you have after school class or some sort of extra curricular activities that you need to work on, for example, piano like me, then you are going to want to practice that every day too. But sometimes you don't feel like playing the piano after 15 hours of constant boredom. Then, your piano teacher starts getting annoyed with you because you are slowly working less and less on the piano music while your school work piles higher and higher until you feel like you could rip out your hair and die. Then, you take 3 hours to yourself, doing whatever it is you like to do, of course never including anything outside unless you have a backyard or deck, because by the time you are even ready to take a step outside it is dark and your parents won't allow you outside. Then at 11 you get into bed and try to sleep through those horrible school related nightmares until 6 when you are woken up and have to do the whole cycle over again.

Not only are the days too long and the work too heavy a load, but school itself is a horrible place. According to many people LaGuardia happens to be one of the best high schools in New York. Well, let me tell you. I go to LaGuardia so I can say this truthfully. Not once have I ever truly felt welcome to the school except in one class in 9th grade which was Social Studies (Global). The teachers do nothing but barf up random information that you don't care about into your lap and expect you to somehow be able to remember all this stuff for a test every two weeks or so. The very first day of school my teachers always mention some gigantic test we are going to have at the end of the year, an they say, don't ever think it is too early to start studying for that. LISTEN TEACHERS!! I was sent here to learn useful things for my future, not to stress out about some stupid test that was created by some stupid phoney who was trying to scare kids into pulling out their hair and stressing out over absolutely nothing. Never in high school has a teacher asked me anything personal or friendly. Never once has a teacher asked me, how are your parents? Are they doing alright? How is your sister? How's your dog? How's your writing coming along? How was your evening? NOTHING!! They don't ask me those things because they don't know anything about me. They can't ask me how my siblings are because they don't know I have a sibling. I go to a building every day filled with a thousand absolute strangers! I didn't figure out who the principal was until the third month of 10th grade. The principal should personally introduce themselves to all of their students. I don't care if that takes too long. Maybe you should have less students in one school so that each student can actually get help from the teacher when they need it and don't have to be forced to sit in the back and learn nothing.

We shouldn't be learning stupid geometry or even most of algebra or chemistry or living environment! At least not before we even learn about street smarts or social skills or actual life skills. I am going to graduate high school and think to myself... "Okay. I just finished my 14th (For some it could be 15th) year of school. What have I learned? Well.... I learned how to add. I think. I learned how to subtract. I can't divide anything without a calculator... I can't multiply double digits without a calculator either. George Washington was the first president... Who was the 5th president? Who knows?? How many days are there in March? Beats me. What are taxes and how do you pay them? I have no idea. I guess i'm just gonna have to ask my parents, who are then going to say, didn't you learn this in school?"

The answer is NO! WE DON"T LEARN ANYTHING IN SCHOOL! WH AM I GOING TO SCHOOL?? because my parents force me to. because it is a law that you have to send your kid to some sort of schooling system. What kind of law is that? Why can't some people just not have their brain filled with useless facts that nobody cares about?

Anyways, if you agree with me leave a comment and maybe we can start some kind of revolt where every kid in new York high schools and middle schools just walk out of school and fill the streets and start chanting things and throwing rocks at the windows and stuff.