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5 Valid Reasons Why We Hate School

February 24, 2016 By Toby Isaacson Leave a Comment

Freaking school, am I right? You can try telling a student whatever you like in hopes of you might just be able to elevate the educational system in their eyes, but I can guarantee it won’t work. “Hey, kid, in ten years you’re going to be a tax payer and you’ll struggle to manage a full time job that you hate, with domestic arguments over who forgot to walk the dog today.” Nope, school still sucks. Whatever’s up ahead can’t be that bad. “You know, high school years are the most amazing years, you make tons of new friends that last a lifetime!” Yeah, try telling that to the real life Nelson Muntz, who just shoved my head in the toilet. It’s basically a lost hope. But no matter how much various cranky baby boomers and generation X representatives love to brush it off as teenagers today simply being lazy and whiny, it’s not like that. There is a good reason why most students would rather fling themselves into the boiling depths of a volcano than have to go to school, because there are 5 Scientifically Proven Reasons Why We Hate School.

1. Factory Design

Reasons Why We Hate School - Factory Design

Even if you’ve never been to a factory, I’m guessing you can assume how things work there. Let’s say we’re talking about a factory that produces trashcan plastic bags (I don’t know, okay?). There are thousands of these bags exiting its doors on a daily basis, which means that everything there is mass-produced on a large scale. It’s basically a process of “one bag done, next, another bag done, next.” This is how the educational system was designed over a hundred years ago.

In 1890, ten people sat at a table and decided that schools shouldn’t be allowed to each choose its own methods of teaching, and settled on implementing a standardized educational plan for all schools. This is how we arrived to the grade system we know and hate today. You spend one year sitting your desk, then – boom – you advance to a higher grade. Try to imagine if this is what happened when cooking. Instead of having muffins bake and grow based on ingredients, they grow depending on how many hours you spend in front of the oven staring at them. Yeah, this is basically it.

2. Standardized Testing

Standardized Testing - Reasons Why We Hate School

The absolute archenemy of American students: standardized testing. Through their primary and secondary school years, students of the U.S. have to take a total of 113 tests, all thanks to the Cold War. Did you hear that right? Well, yes. Many of the advances and drastic changes in America happened during a time when the USA and the Soviets spent most of their time sling-shotting rotten eggs over each other’s fences.

In the 80’s, someone filed a report where he basically complained that the educational system was failing and that they needed to enslave their students, robotize them and use them to laugh in USSR’s face. That’s not what was written there, but given the results, I think it’s close enough. So, this is how the American system came to implement one of its most loathed features. The funniest thing, though, is that it completely backfired. Education in the USA has been stagnant for the most years, whereas countries like Finland, where students take a grand total of one exam at the end of the years, have one of the highest ranking educational systems in the world.

3. Benefits Of The Wealthy

Benefits Of The Wealthy Represent One Of The Reasons Why We Hate School

This isn’t even about college tuition fees, but about how much the government invests in its schools. Believe it or not, it invests a lot. In fact, USA has one of the biggest budgets allowed for education in the world. As an unfortunate paradox, many public schools aren’t doing that great. And by “aren’t doing that great,” I mean that some are about to completely crumble to a pile of dust.

We can attribute this to a vicious cycle of founding. The majority of the money pumped in schools come from taxes that are typically collected from real estate. Long story short, neighborhoods with rich people have more money to direct towards taxes, and therefore they have better schools, with the opposite applying to poor neighborhoods.

4. Calculator Monopoly

Reasons Why We Hate School Include The Calculator Monopoly

This is a lot more specific, but you probably know that you are now allowed to bring a calculator with you to your math exams. That sounds like a good thing, right? Well, yeah, in theory. The actual problem is the fact that you are banned from bringing any other type of calculator, with the exception of the Texas Instruments calculator, which is insanely expensive. How expensive? About $100, that’s how.

So many questions are raised from this concept that it’s difficult to find a starting point. Why does it matter what brand of calculator you’re bringing? Why can’t it be a phone? Why is it so expensive, to begin with? It looks like a bad prototype reject from the 70’s. Then again, it could be because some come with an included game of Snake. Yeah, that totally justifies it.

5. Everyone Ignores Student Opinions

Student Opinions Being Ignored Makes One Of The Reasons Why We Hate School

And all of the problems converge to one common point: we can complain about all the wrong things with schools all we want, no one is going to pay attention to them. Go ahead and write a fifty page essay, with coherent and researched arguments and backup from Nobel winners, it still won’t convince officials that anything other than their opinion matters.

What early stage education really needs is to take a page from the college system, and ask for students’ opinions at the end of semesters. Many would say this is pointless, but studies have shown that the most reliable way to grade a teacher’s performance is through the eyes of the students. All that needs to happen is for prejudices and stereotypes to be dropped. Contrary to popular belief, students don’t thumbs up every teacher who idly sits by and does nothing. A good teacher will be able to grab and hold your attention and carry a class that’s so entertaining, you won’t even care about the homework due tomorrow.

With all that being said, America has been pleading for a change in the educational system for a while now. While many European countries manage to make steps forward by encouraging unique and practical learning experiences for students, the USA stagnates and harms its youth in the process. These were 5 Valid Reasons Why We Hate School, which we hope will disappear in the nearest future.

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Filed Under: fun Tagged With: american education, education, educational system, school

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

August 20, 2015 By Theresa Carrion Leave a Comment

We all know it’s hard to refrain yourself from buying stuff you already have. And it’s equally hard to say no to school supplies that no one really needs. Including you. You know you’re not going to use half of the stuff you buy before school starts in August. And if you’re wondering about the use of the other half, that’s just supplies you already have. We inevitably get sucked in by the flashy ads. And, of course, there’s peer pressure, the consumerist society we live in tapping into our subconscious, resulting in the irresistible urge to buy all the stuff. That got very dark very fast. Let’s just jump into shiny useless school supplies.

1. The pencil broom

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

Buy this if you want your grandma (or even your mom or dad) go “Back in my day…” And they’re right! Even nowadays this is utterly useless and a waste of good materials. Unless you want to use it for cleaning your laptop’s keyboard, this one should stay on Target’s shelves and not come back home with you.

2. The cup clip

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

I get very nervous just by looking at this photo and imagining all the scalding scenarios that could happen involving some pipping hot coffee and a bare foot. Why make things awkward and unnerving when you could just simply place your cup on the desk, like the rest of us?

3. The school lunch erasers

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

I used to have a drawer full of school lunch erasers. And toy car erasers. Then there were the Pokemon erasers and then the animal erasers. Which smelled like lavender and stained your page purple. So better steer away from erasers that are shaped in any other way than an eraser should be shaped: square.

4. The vitamin highlighters

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

Unless you’re three, you don’t need these. And even then, you wouldn’t be allowed to use them because they’re a chocking hazard, read the label! And before you start arguing they’ll help you highlight things on your textbooks and you’ll be able to remember stuff faster, and you’ll get better grades and get into the uni you want, stop kidding yourself. No one can hold these microscopic things.

5. Nose Pencil Sharpener

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

Let’s put it like this: if you want to make friends, don’t buy this. If you want to have a date for prom, don’t buy this. If you want to ever have someone give you their homework, don’t buy this. If you want to have a shot at a decent high school life, do not, I repeat, do not buy this!

6. The Mini Shopping Cart Organizer

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

What happened with regular organizers? No one used those either, but at least you never had a doubt about their purpose in life. Kids nowadays are all about repurposing, reenvisioning and reconstructing. You couldn’t fit anything in it anyway, you might as well keep your pens all scattered on your desk.

7. The Wind-Up Paper Shredder

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

Leaving aside the fact that this “shredder” couldn’t handle a square of toilet paper, my bigger question is why would you need this in the first place? If you need to shred paper on a daily basis, you probably have an automatic device taking care of destroying evidence. So stick to that and don’t give in to the need to buy more unnecessary stuff.

8. The Catapult Pencil

School Supplies That No One Really Needs

This one is actually cool. It’s so cool, it will probably get in you detention from the first day of school. That’s the main reason that should keep you from buying this. But if you feel adventurous, and you can justify spending $7 on it, think of your fellow students who use improvised devices for pranking colleagues. A moment of silence.

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Filed Under: fun Tagged With: highlighters, school, supplies

Back To School Mistakes We All Did

August 14, 2015 By Theresa Carrion Leave a Comment

As much as I loved summer break, I’ll go ahead and admit I also liked starting school again. It wasn’t because I got to learn new things, or study for test papers or start thinking about what I wanted to do with my life. Nope! It was all about the stickers, the stationery, the colored highlighters, the backpacks, the new clothes and the smell of new books. Who’s with me? Preparations usually started a couple of weeks before school and it involved running up and down to find the notebook that would strike the perfect balance between an ingenious design, functionality and a unique touch that would make it stand apart. From all these, I have learned lots of back to school mistakes we all did. And, to be frank, still do, even though we don’t get ready for school anymore.

Back To School Mistakes We All Did

I’m pretty sure everyone had one of these at some point. They looked so cool in the store. They were unique and just coming out on the market, they were clear, we just had to have them! And then you’d get home and realize everyone could see everything you put in them. Every-thing! Not so functional in the end, but still cool, to this day.

Back To School Mistakes We All Did

Let’s be honest here, the stickers mania is still going strong and not only for students. And how could you dislike a pokemon sticker, or an Adidas logo? How could you refrain from sticking Donald Duck’s face on your English notebook? I used to stock up on stickers like crazy. Of course I needed one square foot of butterfly stickers, I intended to take biology classes. And how could you say no to those Paris stickers? I used to day dream about visiting the Eiffel Tower every day during math classes.

Back To School Mistakes We All Did

But mom, I need that 400$ leather, hand made folder. How am I supposed to be able to study and get good grades and get into a good university and become a successful doctor and have a happy life without it? In retrospective, we all know we never used it much, it was way simpler to shove handouts in random books and forget them there.

Back To School Mistakes We All Did

Oh, the fashion magazines were a must before starting school. How were you supposed to know what colors matched your hazel eyes and what belt style you should go for? And of course, one magazine was never enough, you had to have multiple points of view in order to form an accurate opinion about the latest fashion tendencies. Which translates into me buying at least seven of them. Just to make sure what color to paint my nails on the first day of school.

Back To School Mistakes We All Did

It was all about colors back then. Everything had to be as colorful as possible. You could feel instantly happy just by looking at a pink highlighter. Oh, good times! By the way, remember pencil grips? Now I can’t help but go “eww!” from all their geekiness, but back then they were all the rage. It was the only way you could have both a nice penmanship and keep your fingers from getting sore.

Back To School Mistakes We All Did

What else did kids with braces do before the first day of school besides flossing even more religiously and washing their teeth eight times a day? Choose the perfect braces color, of course. And man, the struggle was real! Should I go tutti frutti or keep it classy, mono color, and go all blue? Come to think of it, green goes better with those new sandals, I should stick to green. Oh, the purples ones sure look nice. Needless to say, I ended up wearing the clear ones.

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Filed Under: fun Tagged With: back to school, school, stationery

5 Tips To Ensure You’re Ready For Back To School [Infographic]

August 25, 2011 By Fred Mitchell 1 Comment

Back to school is in full swing and everyone is preparing for it. Parents are scouring the mall and and outlets to find good deals so they can get more for their dollar, and kids are ready to get back together with their friends. We came across this infographic created by our good friends over at High-Schools and thought it would be appropriate time to share with our readers. Some of the things featured in this infographics are pretty basic, such as getting enough sleep. However, you would be surprised to know that 85% of teens don’t get enough sleep.

As far as design goes, this infographic definitely has a visual appeal. It catches your eye and demands some attention. On the flip side, it does seem to be a bit weak when it comes to providing information. A bit more research and data would have definitely made this stand out among the rest that are floating on the web. Nevertheless, it is a good resource to have some of the data shown here are things I didn’t know about.

Here are a few interesting things to read before you dive into this fun infographic:

  1. The average family spends about $600 each school year per kid
  2. Bully prevention programs actually work and it has resulted in 50% less bullying
  3. The average cost of school meal is between $2.70 and $3.10
  4. You probably already knew this but 85% of teens don’t get enough sleep
  5. Two out of six kids who are bullied become bullies

Check out the infographic for more fun facts and tidbits after the jump. [Read more…]

Filed Under: infographic Tagged With: back to school, infographics, school

Water prank

September 1, 2009 By ThisBlogRules 3 Comments

waterprank1Yes, first picture is very boring but when you see the whole sequence it’s not so boring anymore [Read more…]

Filed Under: fun Tagged With: humor, prank, school

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