Caleb Bell
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School Is Useless
School is almost completely useless. Whether this is an unpopular opinion or not it needs to be heard and spread because I almost guarantee that at least 80% of students agree with me on this. Take my privileges, take my car, take my gaming, take my phone, take whatever, but your doing it wrong. I know you parents and adults will look down on my opinions on this because I’m a 16 year old kid that knows nothing of the world and should be an immature teenager but one of these times you will realize and so will all the other parents of the world that this is the wrong way to go about things and almost every single kid in the school will back me up and vouch me on this. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of kids will back me on this across the country. School is so pointless it’s ridiculous, it teaches you absolutely nothing worth knowing or keeping in my brain. Everything I learn for a history test gets forgotten the next day. Every math concept forgotten the next year. If I ask any parent a quote in quote “basic” history question about some war in 1912 or whatever year about why when where and how it happened you don’t know that. Yet I think any parent would 100% tell me that history is an important subject that is needed in life. Teachers over and over say your gonna need this on the test, when am I gonna need this in life. I know I’m not the only one that thinks this because I have friends that have shared my stories with all this stuff on it and texting me that this is facts and that they agree. I’m just the one willing to put it out there and stand up for what I believe, isn’t that what you parents teach us. The world is evolving every day and the practice of teaching hasn’t changed one bit since the 1800's. You can send me to in person school but you will just make my life more miserable, I have all the same resources that I use to “procrastinate” at school that I do at home. When I’m not writing essays, not doing my math homework and missing zooms, I’m not gaming or watching pointless videos on YouTube or Netflix. I sit at my desk and learn about things that interest me, such as finances, learn how to do taxes, invest, how to read the stock market or how to become a digital marketer. Multiple things which need to be taught in life, but I sit in school and learn about what war happened in what time, at what place and why. Instead of teaching these actually essential things in school I am left to learn them on my own. I understand your frustration about grades and school but whether you like it or not it’s not interesting or worth my time and until someone can explain to me the good of doing that I will continue to fail classes or be an average student. If you wanna take AP classes, be a book worm and you enjoy studying be my guest, work towards MIT and Harvard. That's not me though I’m not gonna sit around and make my life miserable just because that is the standard in life.
By Caleb Bell3 years ago in Education