My rant on public school...

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The thing I hate most about school is that I have to get up at six in the morning five days a week because classes begin at 7:30. I am definitely not a morning person, and I hate having to get out of bed at a time in which I am not ready. Thankfully, though, I am in my last year of high school, so I will have to put up with this for only three more months.

I swear, once I enroll into community college, I am not taking a single class before noon.

When you get a job, try to get a swing shift job or grave yard.

What I hate about public school is that:

1. They "cram" 2 hours of education into an 8 hour day. The other six hours are intended for socialization and childcare for working parents.

2. There is no incentive for teachers to teach. The worst teacher with 20 years experience makes the same money as the best teacher with 20 years experience. Pay is strictly service based. Now that I think about it, since the day is 75% childcare maybe this makes sense.

I could go on for days, but I won't. I will just homeschool my pre-schooler who reads on a second grade (public school scale) level.

Here in Juneau, AK the highschools are starting at 9:00 a.m. First year, and people seem to like it.

I hated grade school for the same reason. Have to get up early in the morning, get punished for being 30 seconds late with hours of detention... the whole system is completely stupid. I pushed for improvement in the system, which I eventually received... but it was far too late. Weeks of detention had prevented me from joining any clubs and having even a minor social life.

I go to ECC... and generally speaking, the hours are better. Unfortunately, this semester, I have to be in school at 8 four days a week. Two days a week, I have a class that runs from 6-8pm. So you won't always have it easy, but you will have more time off.

I hate the unwritten, unspoken, underlying curricula in schools that often oppose what we're explicitly told. Supposedly, we're there to learn about what's in class syllabi and state-mandated requirements. We're told that those of us who are educated get further in life. But we also learn, for example, that it's the guy with the biggest muscles who really wins. It's completely contradictory to what we're told. I feel like I got shafted in a lot of ways.

I also hate that those of us who deviate from the mean are punished, in a sense, for not being in the same place as everyone else. Special education is humiliating because if you're in it, everyone knows about it. If you're ahead of the curve, you don't get to work ahead of the rest of the class unless you have a sympathetic teacher; instead, you're stuck regurgitating what you already knew for the rest of the class's sake. And you pay for it dearly, on the playground and in the classroom. Nobody likes a know-it-all.