I managed to score more than 100% with extra credit for years, then I moved back to the US and failed high school entirely due to boredom. I didn’t learn a goddamned thing the entire four years. I ended up earning a GED through just taking the test and getting 100%. It was entirely busywork bullshit with no thought whatsoever put into actually teaching children not only knowledge, but how to thirst for knowledge.
I failed a high school class simply because the teacher gave us homework projects every week, which I failed to complete or turn in. Even when I did the projects, I knew the teacher would put them up on the classroom walls and I was too self-conscious to have my work be displayed like that, so I didn’t turn them in.
So I had to re-take the class in online summer school - it was ridiculously easy. I still learned everything from the original class and retained the knowledge. When I went to in-person testing for the final exam, I was the first person in the room to finish. Easy A.
It just bugged me that so much time could’ve been saved if the original class has been condensed the way the online course was - it was the same information, just without the performative art projects. It solidified my opinion that school isn’t for teaching knowledge, it’s for teaching kids to accept busy work (even on their own personal time.)
I managed to score more than 100% with extra credit for years, then I moved back to the US and failed high school entirely due to boredom. I didn’t learn a goddamned thing the entire four years. I ended up earning a GED through just taking the test and getting 100%. It was entirely busywork bullshit with no thought whatsoever put into actually teaching children not only knowledge, but how to thirst for knowledge.
1/10 would not recommend.
I failed a high school class simply because the teacher gave us homework projects every week, which I failed to complete or turn in. Even when I did the projects, I knew the teacher would put them up on the classroom walls and I was too self-conscious to have my work be displayed like that, so I didn’t turn them in.
So I had to re-take the class in online summer school - it was ridiculously easy. I still learned everything from the original class and retained the knowledge. When I went to in-person testing for the final exam, I was the first person in the room to finish. Easy A.
It just bugged me that so much time could’ve been saved if the original class has been condensed the way the online course was - it was the same information, just without the performative art projects. It solidified my opinion that school isn’t for teaching knowledge, it’s for teaching kids to accept busy work (even on their own personal time.)