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When I get too attached to people, I go through this lovely phase of being utterly repulsed by them.
This period of being disgusted fluctuates, but it happens with nearly every person I become really close to.

For example, I've been hanging out with one of my friends a lot lately, and recently just the thought of seeing a movie with him anytime soon sends me into a bout of nausea.

I don't get it.
Maybe I'm really a raging antisocial on the inside?

Recently, I've grown incredibly close to one of my guy friends.
Which is awesome.
He's become the brother I never had. And I the sister that he never wanted at first but he grew to love after the initial "annoying crying baby" phase.
So now that we have this great friendship going on, we share pretty much everything with each other.
But there is one thing I wish he'd shut up about for like, five minutes.
His girlfriend.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm really happy that we've reached a level in our relationship where we're comfortable enough to share things about our feelings and other emotional shit like that. And I'm happy to give what advice I can. But when you talk to me about her and ONLY her, it gets kind of annoying. I'm not a matchmaker. I'm a friend.
At least say "hello" before asking me for help like you're paying me for the service or something.
At least say goodbye before hanging out for hours on end with your girlfriend.
At least acknowledge that I still do hold some importance in your life, even though we both know that the most important girl in your life is your girlfriend (as it should be)

Seriously.

How will this choice impact our nation and the world?
Well, I guess we only have 2 more months until we find out.

Here, I will bitch and moan to you the plight of today's high school student.
Why, you may ask?
Because I am a high school student now, and seeing as I consider school to be the bane of my existence, I don't see why not.
Also I don't want to start my homework.
But I digress..

a) School tries to make children learn a broad array of subjects when life calls for specialization in a few specific areas.---->Preeety self explanatory.
Even though being well rounded and all of that is good, pushing a child to learn all of these core subjects after middle school is pretty useless, in my opinion. A good chunk of my friends already have a future career in mind, or have strongly grounded interests in specific areas.
So wouldn't it be more beneficial to those students who already have a career in mind to remove them from the hassle of attending all these core classes and required credits (like BCIS or a fine arts credit) and just have them attend classes that would be suited for their career?
I mean if you want to be a doctor, then wouldn't it be better for you to attend extended periods of Biology and Chemistry instead of having to focus on history and english and random electives as well? (I don't think that knowing the environmental ramifications of early exploration will help you much when you need to prescribe a patient some medicine)
High schools that are specialized have the right idea (like Debakey High School for Health Professions or the High School for Performing and Visual Arts), but there needs to be more of those, or at least an increased opportunity for students to pursue interests earlier.
For those of us (like me) who have no idea what we want to do, then a liberal arts education is just fine, but if you already have a future goal in mind, I don't see why school should hinder that goal rather than supplement it.

b)Shit's boring.---->Honestly. I know this isn't really a valid reason, but...school sucks.
I mean I honestly hate my life most of the time and have been driven to crying and suicidal thoughts by the stress I'm under and how boring and unfulfilled my life is because all I do is homework and schoolwork and I  have so much work that I don't even dare to miss school for fear of the make up work that would crush me upon my return so even when I'm sick I must attend and even when I'm not at school it manages to seep into my home life and manages to destroy my social life and my emotional well being has been seriously affected and oh dear I know this is a run on sentence but I need to shove all of my distress into words and this is the only way I can do it grammar and syntax be damned.
Moving on.

c)Teaching has become obsolete.--->Today, I'm taught not by my actual teachers, but by worksheets.
Yes, these inanimate pages are what conveys each lesson every day. My teachers are simply a means of transportation for these all-knowing worksheets to be handed to the students. Students then return the worksheet to the teacher so they can assess what the students' have gathered from the worksheet. Those of us who can learn from nothing more than a paragraph explaining what to do (but not how it works, why it matters, or even what "it" is) manage to succeed, those of us who can't just copy the successful person's worksheet and feign "intelligence" (a word I use loosely because I hardly call filling in the blanks an endeavor meriting the word intelligence).

d)The grading system is screwed up---->The way we assess knowledge now is seriously messed up. I've seen incredibly smart people deemed unintelligent by their teachers and peers because they can't learn under the flawed education system we are forced to deal with for a good chunk of our lives. We are classified by letter grades that don't really reflect our erudition. If a student gets enough answers right on a history test, then they are rewarded with that oh so coveted "A," but I'm pretty sure that the next day that same student couldn't tell you shit on the same subject that he or she was tested on only 24 hours ago. We don't learn for the sake of the pursuit of knowledge, we learn so that we can pass a test and make our GPA's look pretty for college applications. We don't retain what we've learned because we know that as long as we can get a decent enough grade by cramming and forgetting and repeating the cycle, then we're good. That mentality is detrimental to today's youth, in my opinion. We learn for the short term but aren't prepared for the long run....and that's never good in any situation.

e) No personalized attention----> Class sizes are so big that the teachers can pretty much only learn your name. You're pretty much on your own when it comes to learning....except for your handy-dandy worksheet.

These are simply a few of my problems with modern education.
Sure, there are flaws in my arguments, I guess (if anyone actually reads this, then I guess they'll find them)
But I think that we can all agree that school needs fixing.
(YES I AM AWARE THAT WITH SUCH LARGE QUANTITIES OF STUDENTS THAT NEED  EDUCATIN' IT IS DIFFICULT TO ISSUE OUT PROPER INSTRUCTION AND TO ADDRESS ALL OF THE PROBLEMS IN TODAY'S EDUCATION SYSTEM AND THAT HAVING A SYSTEM THAT IS COMPRABLE TO AN ASSEMBLY LINE IS MORE CONVENIENT THAN ACTUALLY CATERING TO THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.
But I don't care and I'm going to complain anyway =D )


tl;dr
BAAAAWWWWWWWWWW
i hate school with a burning passion.