truth

Will school ever go away?
Every day I pray
for a holiday. . .

OK, that wasn’t supposed to be a poem, but I guess it gets the point across as well as anything. Seriously, I hate school. Not on general principle, teenage coolness and laziness disease, but because junior year really is too much.

In the beginning, I was motivated (yeah, I’m a dork, I was all excited about learning). The entire first semester I worked my ass off, didn’t sleep, did all my work, and didn’t even procrastinate. And what do I get as a damn reward?? Congratulations, you’re halfway there! You get one day off and start all over again for the second semester!

Do people understand how tiring it is? Second semester is hard enough as it is – having to concentrate with summer on the horizon, damn birds and bees fluttering around everywhere, getting in your eyes. (Not to mention all the wonderful television programming on UPN – new back to back Sister, Sister, how can I not succumb to their wily temptations?)

There are lucrative distractions, but I feel something different – an estranged lethargy. I am so tired. Tired. Sick of it all to hell- there is no meaning in my life-I don’t care-stay in bed for weeks- tired. And no one has any sympathy, because as I’ve discovered, most people slack off first semester and really focus on the second. I just can’t do that. Level with me here, should I be crucified?

According to popular polls, yes. Because schools, teachers and spring couples exist, and these types have no sympathy for my kind. You are a serious student, almost an adult, grin and bear it.

I know I’m not the only one who reaches a breaking point sometime in the school year. I think everyone has a giddy-glazed eyes-shaky hands-loud voice-long depressive crashed kind of breakdown. How do we avoid something like that when everyone’s comes at different times? (Time to get adult like and pragmatic, Katy.)

Well, I don’t know, but we can do something. That’s more than what’s being done now. Criticism – our schools are run with monstrous inefficiency. Teachers and students agree. I blame the bureaucrats in the school districts. (Explain why I’m wrong and I’ll stand corrected.)

Why do we have a ridiculous number of staff development days and days for standardized testing? I’m not complaining about long weekends, but doesn’t it make our school year falsely extended when we could have longer vacations? Hey now, why don’t we have a break between the two semesters? Hey now, why don’t we take the money that goes towards ‘developing’ and buy us some new books?

Maybe if things were carefully and foresightedly (is that a word?) planned, we could cater to individual needs more adequately. Maybe if we fire half of the money termites we can use that money for more teachers, smaller classes, more individual attention; hence a better and more efficient education?

My personal hypothetical explanation of why things suck – administrative jobs are so boring and mucky that no talented or innovative person would want them. The majority of the people that do work there are either opportunistic or lazy. Great, that’s the way to mold our young fragile minds. (Afterwards, we’ll blame it on the violent media.)