School shouldn’t make kids cry, or want to throw up, or not have the energy to get up in the morning.
Learning should be a privlege but the school system is so fucked up that kids groan when they hear the word school or learning. I have friends who have mental health disorders because of school. Someone seriously needs to change the school system.
school is such a weird concept omg this is a place I should be so happy to be in and excited to go to but instead it’s just a place that makes me actually wish for natural disasters to occur so I don’t have to go like literally how fucked up is that
the fact that community colleges are seen as less valid and for “stupid” people is a result of classism and in this essay I will-
ppl in the tags saying that it’s “genuinely a lesser tier of education because people go there for trades and nursing and thats about it” are just proving that its classism. bc a) no thats absolutely not correct. a good chunk of people that go to community colleges do so to knock out their gen eds at a lower price than they’d be if they went to a four year, then transfer to a four year. and more importantly b) trade professions are not lesser than other professions that take higher degrees. people who go into things that take associates degrees are not “stupid”.
if you think ppl who are too poor to attend a four year university for all four years, or that ppl who are too poor to/don’t want to get their bachelor’s/master’s/doctorate are “stupid” then i have news for you:
thats classism, babe
As someone who’s been to both community college and university, there is virtually no difference in quality of education except for size of the campus/school and price of tuition.
If there could be some consensus at my school on what people who don’t have first hour are supposed to do that’d be great
Also if the school could stop acting like some maximum security type deal that’d be super great and would actually make me feel a lot more comfortable
Nobody can time showing up at exactly the time we need to be here. They’re just going to have to find a place for us. This is a place where it gets incredibly cold. They’re going to have to figure it out.
students genuinely don’t give themselves enough credit for their achievements… like it’s to the point where it’s systematically debilitating. it’s like we’re walking the line between two parallel realities – one that is empirical, the other perceptual; and the perceptual reality is very distorted. no one subjected to formal education is dumb, in any sense of the word, yet there is a culture of self-criticism and chronic self-deprecation that prevails, compounded by habitual stress and sleep deprivation and all the ills of student life that make us literally blind to what we have personally and collectively achieved and, crucially, the inherence of our value as students and by extension our worth as individuals. the “grades don’t define you” rhetoric is disingenuous precisely because it neatly ignores and omits the fact that the lived reality of many students is an intimation of the untruth of that statement, and a symptom of the toxicity of an establishment in which students are mired in.
i have friends who are so smart and witty and bright who have been deprived of the ability and privilege to see themselves in that sort of light because of the way the education system has pounded the capacity for self-compassion right out of us. it’s painful to see them straining so unnecessarily under the weight of their academics, which they define themselves by. which they have been taught to define themselves by.
i really can’t go a school year without going into an in-depth critical commentary of the education system at least once lmao.
anyway it’s just another example of how bureaucratic authority can’t be trusted and how audaciously out of the loop the top 10% are with the remaining 90%, a dynamic that is scalable across the entire hierarchy.
There’s NOTHING wrong with still living with your parent(s). Whether you’re in school, dropped out or graduated. Please take your time, especially if you’re not being pressured to move out. This is your time to really build a solid plan, save money and be sure you won’t have to return once you’re ready to move out. Do not let anyone pressure you because you’re in your 20s and still at home. It’s no joke out here. Believe me. Take your time baby.
The amount of people actually angry at this post is craaaaazy. BIG mad in the notes. Tumblr is undefeated in unnecessary anger.
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