For twelve years I have been actively enrolled in a school system of some sort, most recently at Hillcrest High School. The first time I stepped through the front doors of HHS I was overwhelmed by the buildings dull personality. Color seemed some-what faded, and a cold shiver ran down my spine. I could sense that I was in for a long four years.
My Freshmen through Senior years were unnecessary, and undeserved. I’ve heard it said that high school is important because the information it provides is necessary for one to be prepared for life’s various obstacles and challenges. However, I have to believe that the original good intent behind developing a community system of education was inevitably infected by a genuine lack of reason within its educators, and the destructive, dishonest system behind them. I was given assignment after assignment, quiz after quiz, test after test, and for what purpose? I do not feel more prepared for life because I stayed up late all those nights copying random terms from a glossary, and answering random questions that do not truly inspire thought, but rather discourage an actual love of learning. I can not tell you how many history classes I have sat through, and how sick it has made my stomach. When a sixteen year old junior can see the obvious manipulation of truth plastered in a US history book, it becomes much harder for him to dedicate time and effort to the essay question about “How Amazing America, and its godly government saved the world”.
Sometimes I feel as if I just lost four years of my life that I will never get back. But then again, Who would want to go back? Despite every scholastic curriculum, and every pointless lesson plan I still managed to learn a thing or two about life while attending High School. I was fortunate enough to meet a lot of really great people, and have a laugh or two in the process. But seriously to all the teachers who took themselves way to seriously, get your egotistical power thirsty heads out of your ass and understand you are not helping anyone grow up by acting like a child.
