Discussion of School

The other day, at the dinner table, my mom said, "I've raised four disgraces."

Guess why.

School. That's it. That's the reason for our failure. That's the reason we're not out in the world doing what we're supposed to. That's the fault for everything.

I knew that immediately. Seriously, why spend twenty years of your entire life wasting it on studies you are not going to use? It's basically wasting time. Really, all you need is 2, maybe 3 or 4, years of education and you can be off doing something for the world. Back then, 20 years would probably be half of your life or more. You'd just be becoming old and barely getting out of school.

Who needs to learn calculus? Theorums? All that stuff? Why learn it? When do you really use it in the real world? Why would you need it when your going to become a dentist, a vet, a singer or actor?

If we didn't have school, then we'd have more time to think about the real world. About what we want to do in life to waste our time on instead of forcefully sitting in a chair and learning about what Deoxyribonucleic acid stands for. We'd have time to think, "What is really harming our world?" We'd have time to observe things we really want to see instead of just staring out of a window and dreaming. We'd have time to do our hobbies. We'd have time to learn what we want to learn. We'd learn how to survive on the streets. We'd have more money for school just takes all of it. We'd have time just to do anything we want.

You know how schools say, "Don't do this! It's bad for you!" That's practically showing us something we didn't know about before and making us think, "Oh sure! I'll do it." Do you know why we think that? Probably because we want to kill ourselves. Get suspended. Expelled. Just anything to be away from school.

You know what's even more stupid? They tell us, "Don't do this!" and then right after they say, "Oh, but if you do, do it this way." What's the logic in that? Why do you tell people to not do drugs and then give them a clean needle to do drugs with? Why show them how to put condoms on bananas when you say that sex can give you disease?

Iris told me that some of the stuff we learn is cool. Like calculus and how it's done. Sure, it's cool, it may be useful, but some may wonder why it's so complicated? Or why does it seem so complicated? Why can't it be simple? Is it because school and all the stress it pushes on you make it seem complicated, or is it simply because I don't want to learn it that it seems so hard? I don't get it, seriously. Why are things hard? Why can't life be simpler?

Iris also told me that homeschooling is awesomesauce. Of course it is! From what I hear, you learn what you want and not what you don't want. But why is homeschooling a privilege? Why can only so few do so? If it's so much better and it teaches you what you want and need, then why can't the world start off homeschooling instead of going someplace unknown for school? I don't get any of this. They let us go to some torture chamber which bores the life out of us and leads lots of teens to suicide.

Linda told me all about her break-ups and crushes at school. She falls in love with boys there, but then gets heartbroken. What's with that? The school doesn't even care. I think a lot of people just go to school because of friends. It's the only place people can meet friends. That's why people come to school everyday.

I don't get why school is hard. If it was just a bit easier, I'd be happier to even go to school. But they torture us and brainwash us. They stress us out. They make us want to kill ourselves. They make us waste our time. They make our parents disappointed, not only in grades but how we're going to lead our lives. They do all this stuff and they don't even care, just as long as you "learn". It doesn't make any sense.