Reasons why America's educational system is fucking stupid

My school's entire curriculum is focused on 1 big test. However it's cancelled because of COVID-19

Can anyone relate?

standardized testing is also stupid dumb imo. it's gatekeeping the people who are less intelligent than others when their way of measuring "intelligence" is already fundamentally flawed.

And also mental health, I believe it is as valuable as physical health education and it can make a huge difference if you go in depth rather then briefly skim over what mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety are.

So I'm going to college to teach. We'll see which subject (thinking of switching to Health Education, you'll see why here). So, going on from this I'll highlight key words so lazy readers like myself (no judgement) know what they might go and read going forward in my post.

TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of mental health disorders including depression and anxiety, mentions of suicide, mentions of sexual health and rape.

I have so many terrible experiences from (public) school that I'm pretty sure it's the reason I have multiple mental health issues (depression, generalized anxiety, and social anxiety). You're FUCKED if you don't go to preschool, from what I've seen. Most people I know who didn't go to preschool were behind socially, if not scholarly. If you don't know anyone your age by your first year into public school then you're an easy scapegoat and target. So my first issue is that preschool shouldn't be optional, it should be a form of public school. (I know there are financial/tax issues with this, but I want to stay off that topic for the purposes of this thread)

It can easily come down to what teachers I had, I got really unlucky. But I became a "troubled child" because of the constant bullying causing my to lash out, nobody believed I was being bullied until I got to Middle School. Nobody even believed me when I felt sick or had migraines, which, turns out that it runs in my fucking family. Also, it is known that many times how we feel mentally can affect us physically. But abusive adults don't want us to know that. This has happened to so many people I know! I even once got yelled at because I didn't want to play with other kids during recess. What in the fuck?? I only had one good elementary school teacher, and luckily had them two years in a row.
There's two educational parts of the elementary school curriculum I experienced that is fucking stupid. 1) CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. He wasn't the first one to discover the Americas and he was a murderous jackass. 2) They had us wear Native American head pieces in a way that just wasn't all that educational, but more so for shits n giggles.

Going on after this, let me just mention a few other things fucked up with our educational system.

I’m going to reply to this because I’m personally offended by a few parts here. I participate in an Upward Bound program at a local Uni here in my state. Several of the Uni football players are RAs/Counselors or whatever. They got scholarships to play football for this Uni. They are very good football players, and are in no means ‘dumb fuck’ It’s a false stereotype that athletes are stupid, I’m a football player, and a majority of the players on our team are skilled but also take AP classes and stuff like that. If you look into what most college football players go to college for, sure some of it may be like sociology or easy classloads or whatever, but some of them are even like astrophysicists and stuff. Now Phys Ed is different from school to school, but at my school we have a mandatory Lifetime Wellness class, no matter what. The football players also have to take it. Teaches CPR, and things you need to stay ‘lifetime well’ or whatever. The second part of the class is actual physical work but it’s nothing bad.


My feelings on the actual issue of the thread is that the school system is flawed. I do not believe that classes should be aimed at a goal of a standardized test. Even the AP exams are rigged because it’s almost 100$ per test and if you have two, that’s almost 200, and if you have three, well, I think you understand. Also collegeboard is ran by actual children who go out of their way to fuck students over who even ‘think’ about cheating. Creating fake redditors, subreddits, and they even say that they could delete or change information on websites to throw students off during the test. In case you’re unfamiliar with CollegeBoard’s fucked logic, if you are suspected of cheating CollegeBoard has the right to nullify your test score (before, during, after you’ve taken the exam) and bar you from taking another AP class your whole life. Not so bad, except when you apply for colleges they also tell the colleges you cheated on the AP exam. This is detrimental and unfair abuse of CollegeBoard’s power. As someone who takes AP exams almost every year, it frightens me that one day my grade could just be nullified and all this could happen because they ‘suspect’ me of cheating. Now I’m sure this next one will be a surprise to you guys, but I also think the way that most schools go about punishing vaping or using marijuana. In my school, I would get in the same amount of trouble with a bag of cocaine as I would with having a bag of marijuana. It is also a mandatory 180 day expulsion. I think this throws good students off the right track, makes things hard for the better students and completely throws off the worse students. Otherwise, I think school has prepared me pretty well for the future. Beside the obvious, ‘oh yeah I’ll never need to know how to find the cosin of angle a when I’m an office jockey’ but I think we all feel that way.


And another observation I’d like to put out there is the people who get these scholarships for sports are not lazy individuals. They’re hard workers who more than likely need the scholarship to do anything in life.
Unless it’s tennis, than it’s useless.

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