Quite frankly, {and personally} I hated school. Board to tears…day-dreamed all day. Picked on incessantly only made going every day worse. I was so eager to learn but year in and year out…just the same dry, repeated material. So applying myself was pointless. It didn’t matter if I got an A. I was still stuck in class while everyone else had to be taught. And when I did apply myself? I wasn’t believed to have done it alone then.
Looking back at my experience, I see how glaringly unbalanced the normal conventional classroom is. Don’t get me wrong. Great teachers ROCK! But you’d have to in order to maintain some semblance of order among 29-35 completely random kids coping with forced interaction all day . I really wonder now if its not to simply train up a child that they aren’t supposed to expect to do anything but “work” 40 hours a week. ALL in the grand purpose that one day you will see the benefit when you graduate. Which will lead the majority right back to a desk and odd deja vu of repetitive {often purposeless} nature. Is it any wonder then why the majority of individuals “Work to Live” instead of “Living to Work”?
No. I want more for my kids. I want to see them thrive and grow with unlimited potential. I want them to spend more time with our family then they do at school. We look at society and wonder why kids are so desensitized anymore. Teachers are paid to teach….NOT raise our kids. Just as a Lifeguard isn’t a babysitter at the pool, people need to realize that Teachers are not surrogate Mothers or Fathers. And with ever increasing budget cuts, larger classrooms, and less teaching staff to assist, our children are merely raising themselves.
Whether its home-school, charter school, private school or just an at-home tutor to instruct my child; The benefit right now for thinking “outside the box” is exponential to the success my kids will see. Because quite frankly, with the economic downturn, competition is fierce in the job world now. And it won’t be getting any easier as my children get older. They need to get whatever leg-up they can on a standardized education. Which basically means, not being apart of it.
What about what you think? What is your answer to shaping a brighter tomorrow?
Sadie U. says
Thanks so much for sharing. I also didn’t enjoy school that much…but there were a few things that made my school years ok.
Stopping by from SITS!
Laurie says
Amen to it all! 🙂