Hi chums
On a more serious level now for this post. It was an article I wrote for a local paper and got a lot of support so I thought I'd share it with you.
Earlier this month I was scrolling down my twitter - which
has become somewhat of a daily ritual - there were the usual tweets: ‘sickkkk
night last night,’ ‘it’s 11pm so I better start my homework for tomorrow LOL’
and ‘CRÈME EGGS ARE ON SALE.’
After reading through all the usual tweets, I stumbled
across one which caught my eye and made me think: ‘people shouldn’t be dreading
school after coming back from a holiday or weekend – aren’t we supposed to
enjoy learning? But, school isn’t about learning anymore, it’s about getting
good grades and passing classes, I can’t tell you a single thing I’ve learned
this year. All I care about is getting good grades so I can go to a good
college or university. I’m not going to be prepared for anything in life. How
is learning how to pass a class going to help me in the real world? Yeah, I can
memorise facts and figures to pass a test but I have no real life skills. They
don’t teach us how to do anything but sit at a desk and regurgitate information
that we will most likely never need to know.’ A bold statement yes, but
incorrect no it is not.
Only the students in the current education system know what
it’s really like, not the parents, teachers or the infamous OFSTED inspectors -
they all have their grades and a job. This tweet is literally said on behalf of
tens of thousands of hardworking students in England.
Just because we don’t walk round with a forehead of wrinkles
or have grey hairs sprouting from our head doesn’t mean we’re not stressed. The
pressures we are put under border on the obscene. Not enough UCAS points? Well
you probably won’t be going to the university you want or enrolling on the
course you want to. Got 90% in your exam and not 91%? No A* for you then. Don’t
do at least 2 hours of independent learning outside of school? You’re
apparently not working hard enough. Harsh but true.
Many students walk around on autopilot in some sort of
trance obsessed and fixed on the grades they need to pass onto the next stage
of the education system. It’s gotten to the point where students and the
majority of society frown and look down on a grade B and question why it’s not
an A or an A*.
The sad thing is, once we’ve spent about 20 years in
education and get out into the ‘real world’ we’ll find out that we won’t be
able to get through it by merely memorising facts and regurgitating them all on
a paper with black lines on – and then what will happen to us?
Abi :)
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I agree with so many things in the post. No one really enjoys learning anymore because it all boils down to exams at the end of the day. They don't actually allow students to properly engage with their subjects!
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Thankyou! I agree with YOU haha, I don't think students have a loud enough voice in society for people to hear us! Abi :)
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