School System

I’m just gonna call it how it is, the school system is fucked. We start school as babies compared to the rest of the world. Going in with our auras full, colorful, and bright. Yet we come out adults, adults with all the life and child-like personality traits drained out of us with every test, every assignment, every sleepless night we take on, making sure we’re staying on top of our school work. And all for what? A letter grade? We wake up five days a week to look out our windows, it’s still pitch black outside. But that doesn’t matter because it’s time to get ready for school. It’s time to get ready to sit in seven different classrooms for fifty minutes each. Sitting at our desks, fighting to stay awake as our teachers try to force information into our still developing brains. They’re failing us, no, they’re setting us up for failure. Telling us to memorize everything that comes out of their mouths, just to write it down on paper, and then forget it again less than a week later. Again, just for a letter grade. It’s a game, a game we do not enjoy. So we try to break the cycle, but no one wants us to push these boundaries. We are seen as less than average if we step out of line, troubled. We are seen as delinquents in a world where we are expected to follow every rule to a t. How are we expected to be perfect, when we are brought up entitled to our own thoughts, opinions, and actions? Teachers and professors who encourage us to ask questions and to reach out for help. Yet when we do exactly that, they shut us down and treat us like idiots. They’re setting us up to fail. Are they satisfied by this? I thought teachers take on this profession to help kids, not to mess with our heads. Worst thing is that they don’t even realize the harm they are causing. They are so stuck in this cycle with our fucked up school systems, they don’t change. So we are forced against the wall with our hands tied behind our backs, just barely slipping through the cracks. We’re lucky just to make it to graduation, but our sparkle was drained long ago. We are just walking bodies with no soul, forcing a smile for our families as we walk across that stage in our caps and gowns. Just to move and continue through the same simulation. The simulation of school, the never ending cycle of draining success.