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.)
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