My Rant Book (SPORADIC UPDATES)

School

OK so let me set stuff straight. I am not going to rant about how awful school is.

I have recently came across a song by boyinaband (aka Dave) called don't stay in school. Of course, I thought that title meant truancy. But no.

Dave talks about how he was taught a bunch of useless things in school that he never uses now and could be replaced with something different and more useful.

I completely agree. I want to go into computer engineering, preferably web design/coding, and when will I use isotopes in that field? Or if I wanted to be nurse, again, where would the isotopes be?

I will probably know more about king Henry than coding by the time I get to college.

Another fault in this system the government calls education is what is actually useful in real life, not just one specific job. In math, I spent so long on things like the quadratic equation, how to take square roots, etc, and now, in the fourth quarter, we have FINALLY gotten to something realistic (compound interest). I will NEVER use quadratics as a web designer.

Why did we spend so long on quadratics instead of something like stocks, investments, or something actually used in everyday life? Oh yeah, because we won't have a calculator on us at all times. Oh wait, there's this thing called cell phones and most have thing awesome thing called apps, some of which are calculators people!

We could be learning things that could save lives! If we were taught practical medicines and how to properly care for wounds, we could save so many lives! If we were taught how to care for our health, instead of putting that responsibility on our doctors and putting posters saying "wash your hands!" up in bathrooms (my doctor has never told me how to care for myself by the way), we could prevent ourselves from getting sick!

And you know how we are taught how to put on a condom and where to get birth control? Yeah what if that doesn't work? They just say "oh well you shouldn't have had sex with him" but if we were taught how to care for a child, then that would be so much help for those teenage moms.

I don't know the laws for the country that I live in, either. Instead I am being taught about the Russian revolution. Shouldn't we have the laws drilled in our brains just like our parents did with the house rules? Because the government can NOT just expect its citizens to know about the laws through osmosis, which is another thing that I was taught instead of something useful.

Here's what makes me mad. I was never taught my human rights. And we have 30 of them! 30!! I was always told what was a violation of human rights, but never told which rights. Some are expected, but others aren't. I never knew that I had the right to no unfair detainment, or freedom of thought (which where I'm from the religion that surrounds me demands I think a certain way), and right to privacy (which the whole "school can moniter what I do on their computers" completely takes away), the right to play, and most importantly, the human right that says no one can take away my human rights. That was just a few! Why was I never taught these?

So all I'm saying is that there are soooo much more useful things I could be taught, instead of Huck Finn or the Romanov dynasty.

Please go check out boyinaband. He's amazing and has wonderful music.

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