Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Mathematical school for artistic people

Rewind a few years and I am sitting there in middle school worrying only about my friends and what to do over lunch break. Bring it back to now and I'm stuck with not much else except the few skills that I have. The only things that could possibly help me in life are my writing and drawing skills that Ive worked on since i was twelve but they have only now just meant anything. But here i am in grade twelve, largely based on arts, and doing math eleven for the third time in two years and passing science with a 50%. why? because there are people like me who's life revolves around Arts and the comprehension of Science and Math is almost non existent but we have to depend on it if we want to pass grade twelve, and we have to depend on the passing of grade twelve to get anywhere major in life or to even get close to our goals most of the time. so what the hell do we do. we fail, and then we try again until we fail again. until school has become nothing more then a waste of time. And our teenage years are supposed to be the most important, its where we develop and grow up. So what if we grow up being told we are failures and we cant do what we want because its not in the guidelines of school. then what.

I do think that i am developing the skills that i have in school but i don't have much time for them because my school days and homework are mainly focused on the classes that i struggle with and that i don't have any skills in. So how much do i get to enjoy and work on the skills i do have when i have to focus and struggle on the classes that i have no comprehension in, in order to pass high school and the classes i wont need to get to where i want to go in life. So how is it helping me. its not.

We are living in an entertainment world. Its an Art world. but you are in school and your years are mainly about math and science. So here you go throwing a bunch of kids into school and forcing them to learn stuff they don't understand and testing them on what they don't understand and then telling them that they are stupid because they don't understand. It all depends on the build of your brain. Some people are just generally smart and can do everything possible in school and they get 100% in everything and they are set to go in life. But then you throw in a bunch of Students who's brains see things differently. People who aren't mentally challenged and need extra help but people who just generally see things scattered and not straight. These people generally aren't good at math and science but Art. Because in math and science there is one way to do it and if its not that way, then it is wrong. Why? because someone made it up and said so. So these Art people go to school and there are math and science outlines. ones you have to follow to pass. it doesn't make sense! there's math and science people who cant even draw a stick figure but it doesn't matter because that's not important and they are set because they have smarts in Math. But everything is put on the art people to do good in subjects they cant. Its not balanced.

The perfect school. If you want to be an RCMP officer you have to go to a special school that has certain training ways. Such as you have to march where ever you go and have your room perfect down to every shoe lace neatly tucked in or they toss it. why? because its learning discipline and how to pay attention to detail, like the polished button of your shoe. But thats not in normal school and kids run around with no respect for parents or teachers and adults complain that we are the generation thats going to rule them. But they never taught us otherwise. so who is to blame. I see tests as something like a training way. If there was more discipline to it, it would be perfect. Having to learn and remember it and then get it down on paper properly. Might not sound like discipline but there's consequences to not studying for most people and sometimes you have to give up a bit of your social life to study.

Its almost impossible to be able to change and have a perfect School system without changing the home. Parents have left it up to the schools to raise their kids and now the school also has to focus on that. Because now its not enough to have just one parent at home with their kids, now to survive with a family, the costs are higher and both parents have to work and focus less on starting a family or the family they already have. and its a mystery why immigration is needed to keep Canada alive. ...

But the school system needs to not be built around science and mathematics. Most people need the basic systems of math and they can live their life and do their job with that and can sleep at night with the fact that they dont remember K means potassium. they dont need trigonometry. Now, its a technology age and there's lots of games being created and photos being edited until they are almost completely fake and fake things being made to look so real, you believe it. There is art programs that you can use to create life like looking creations online. and there is a bit of math needed for it. but not algebra. After middle school, most sciences and math things being taught, go right down the drain once a student has graduated, or even just right after the test. So how many hours a day which add to weeks, which add to months, which add to years, were wasted struggling through math and science just to forget about it. Doesnt mean that every student has to learn to draw, because it is difficult, but learning something you dont comprehend or completely throws away the creativity that you have, is even more difficult.





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