my thoughts on school

As an Australian hearing about American schools, I was shocked when I learnt that American schools don’t have recess in the older grades. I finished year 12 last year and we had recess up until we finished school

As someone who has been to multiple different types of schools, I think what you’re looking for is Montessori style schools. Basically they set you in a classroom and say “go learn stuff, you’ll have a math lesson at 2:30 so show up for that and make sure you have all your work turned in by Friday. Have fun” Not only did that style of teaching teach me school stuff, but it also taught me time management and gave me the opportunity to do crafts in my free time. One of the best school experiences I’ve ever had.

5:47 What they described was a lady "Crybullying" basically, you abuse someone and then pretend to be the victim when you're called out, it happens with shocking regularity. You're not "gullible" for believing a believable scenario with well-established precedent happened on someone else's word alone, you were just DISINFORMED, which is definitely something a media literacy class should teach.

That one thing you mentioned about picking your own subjects and having mentors is a REAL THING! It’s in the Netherlands, and has an actually really high success rate

honestly, props to that teacher for not forcing you to do something you don't want! we need more teachers like that!

The biggest issue I have with school is that it's too focused on acedamia and not just learning important things.

As a teacher, I totally agree! I try my hardest to take the education system out of my class and try to focus on getting kids interested in learning for themselves.

Hearing stories of schools in the 1980-90's sounds so much better. My dad would ask me if we hung out at school during "break". Apparently they had breaks in highschool where you can leave the building for an hour or so. WTF. I asked my teachers this and they all had this. No matter why kids aren't going outside, it's because we aren't allowed to from 6am-4pm if you're excluding detentions, sports, or extracellular things. It's becoming more of a prison than a learning/social place.

The thing that always bugged me about school is when we get massive amounts of homework for one class, and the teacher not realizing that we have four other classes that give us the same amount of homework and wonder why we couldn't finish it the next day

This is something I love talking about

The worst part about our horrible school system is that people use it as an excuse to say the whole idea is pointless and should be thrown out. Just because something is being done poorly doesn't mean it should be removed entirely!

The coming up an idea and then having a teacher being a mentor is basically being homeschooled (in a certain way if you choose to make it that way) and it is AMAZING, MAN!

The problem with school is that it makes education feel like a pain and we're kinda just forced into it. We're always told to accept that "this is just how things are and you'll have to deal with it" as if nothing can be done to improve the system. School feels more like a struggle to get by than actual motivation to learn.

Ice Cream is the definition of quality over quantity, the artstyle is on point, props for 6 years of dedication

Feel this 100%. I love learning. I hate school with every single fiber of my being

The funny thing is, I'm a third year education major, and like half the ideas in here are pretty advanced educational theory that we discuss a LOT in my classes, especially the inquiry-based system you described at the end which is close to one of my proposals for a final this past semester! The american school system is so weird and if we had more creatives pointing that out and coming up with ideas like that maybe it would get a little better haha

Anyone else learns more at home than at school?

The "Just let kids pick what they wanna learn and the teacher could mentor them" Is a real thing! I don't remember where it is, but there is a school where the kids themself 100% pick what they wanna do and it has shown AMAZING results! Because when you CHOOSE to learn something, you actively do better then if you are forced.

My media literacy class was merged in with computer science and the teacher was an absolute demon. The class taught me alot on how to determine fact or fake, and how to research properly, but the teacher was straight up evil. Reminder: this was in like 6th grade and one time she yelled at a kid so much she had a panic attack and the teacher was almost fired, but since she was the only teacher who could operate the new computers they had to keep her.

Actually have a similiar story to the frog thing I've always loved frogs and toads, so the idea of cutting one open was not something I was anticipating. Also have a soft stomach so that didn't make things any better. It didn't help that the desk I had so sit in was right next to the tub of dead frogs so I ended up having to look at all of them throughout the class, so not only was I feeling a big sense of sadness seeing the dead frogs but I was already getting that sickness feeling, but I went through with it because I didn't want it affecting my grades. After it was cut open I started feeling dizzy, and my face was becoming ice cold as I was feeling nauseous as hell (the smell also didn't help). The teacher eventually noticed and told me I could step outside of the classroom if I wanted to and get a drink of water. I stumbled of the room and got a drink of water before I just sat against my locker trying to get myself together. Must've been a lot longer than I thought because a classmate was coming over and told me the teacher sent them because they thought I probably fainted. Went back in and the teacher told me I didn't have to participate anymore Yeah that whole experience was not fun