When I was younger I used to think that going to school was boring and hard work. I felt unappreciated by the teachers I had in school. I often heard students’ complaining that going to school is boring and they insulted the teachers. Some people just don’t appreciate schooling and teachers. When the students don’t appreciate the so-called bad teachers in school, they find going to school is tough and boring. I think some students feel unappreciated by the so-called bad teachers because they think they lack the experience to teach and are giving tremendous amounts of homework. I believe that students aren’t motivated to do the work in school mostly because of their teachers. The students would probably blame the teachers for failing them and giving them an unfair grade for doing the work.
I know there are some teachers out there that just can’t teach and only care about their paycheck. I think it’s unfair to the students who are trying to learn if the teachers only care about their paycheck. I would say these kinds of teachers only cause the students to learn more slowly. I don’t think anyone would like teachers who don’t care whether or not students fail; it only proves that they shouldn’t have a teaching career. I say this because they’re really not helping out any student improve their skills in learning. They are making students do worse in school for not guiding them in the right way.
When I was in junior high school, I had a math teacher who took the time and effort to teach his students with math. Every morning at seven before school even started, he would use that time to tutor students who wanted to learn math. He would use problems from the homework and carefully explaining how to solve each of the problems. I appreciated him a lot for taking so much time and effort to help the students instead of just receiving a paycheck and misleading students in the wrong way. He was the one who changed my thinking about math and helped me improve. If I had given up the opportunity to help myself then I would have never succeeded.
Why do some people always say school sucks?
By tvbpug - Posted on November 2nd, 2009
For some people, school simply isn't challenging enough.
I had to miss a lot of school during my first 2 years of high school because of medical issues. I'd be gone for a week, get back and be caught up by the end of the day or the next day at the latest; I made A's in everything except the math courses and I took AP classes (in everything except math). When I could catch up that quickly with everything that had gone on over the course of the week and do really well... having to waste a week covering the material when I was there was pure torture.
I eventually started an independent type study program from home and loved it. I worked at my own pace, didn't have to wait for the rest of the class, and was able to study subjects more in depth as a result. It made school interesting again.
Schools tend to take a one size fits all approach to education and it's just not that simple. Kids are too challenged or not challenged enough. And when that's the case, it can be boring. It's hard to appreciate something when you don't feel you're learning and are instead, wasting time.
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"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." - Dana
"We live as if the world were as it should be to show others what it can be." -Angel
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Going off what Fallon said... I very rarely missed class. I learn the best by listening to the lectures. That being said, senior year in high school I took a calculus class. It wasn't the highest class offered at our school, it was one step down (I wanted to take biology instead of the highest level math), but I read novels in class all the time, and still managed to get 100% in the class, a 5 on my AP exam, and a 7 on my IB exam (7 being the highest you can get, and very rare. After two classes of IB students in our school, only one had managed a 7 on any subject).
I get bored easily, and am pretty sure I have at least mild ADHD, but I deal with it. I think school does suck sometimes, especially if you don't have a very engaging or likeable teacher. But all life is going to be like that. Deal with it and move on.
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albeit slowly, it remains a big problem that modern is focused more on abstract and unrealistic things like grades and exams, instead of actual learning. fallon mentioned independent studying at home - there is an increasing trend towards homeschooling and a more independent and student guided learning structure these days. as a high school grad myself i can say it was extremely frustrating knowing that i could be learning a lot more than I was in school, and most of that valuable time was being lost in pursuit of meaningless grades.
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I disagree that things are changing for the better, at least in public schools (where most kids will still have to go, as not everyone can send their kids to a private school or homeschool them). There is certainly a growing trend toward homeschooling, alternative learning schools (such as Montessori schools), and charter schools, the public schools aren't getting better. In fact, they're getting worse and it's likely they'll continue to get worse unless something is done to completely overhaul the public school system.
There's a pretty huge debate between parents, teachers, and schools over the amount of homework students (particularly elementary school students, but even high schoolers are getting overwhelmed) are getting. Children should not be sent home with a backpack that weighs nearly as much as they do, with enough homework to suck away their entire evening hours after they've sat in school for 6-8 hours, especially when the vast majority of that homework is busywork.
Also, in this economy, many schools lack the funding for extracurricular activities. Some schools are even cutting things like music and art classes (classes proven to enhance learning in math and science), to divert funding to math, reading, and science, so that they can stay afloat with the NCLB regulations.
With fewer students in the classroom (because of the trend toward other learning setups), schools get funding cuts, which only hurts the students in the long run.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
I also felt my high school was not challenging enough. I took Advanced Placement English classes for my junior and senior year, and finally felt like the subjects weren't being dumbed down. The only subjects I struggled with were Math and occassionally the sciences, but for everything else I felt we weren't needing to try hard. I breezed through school. I know others had troubles, but sometimes that was simply because of a lack of interest. Some teachers though, can make anything interesting. Those are great people who can make students learn a subject they normally wouldn't be interested in and get good grades.
I had one of those teachers. He was awesome. He would break out the old school dance moves and wear insane costumes. His class was hysterical. And then his wife slept with a student at the school she taught at and he quit teaching. It was the saddest. I *still* hope he went back to teaching somewhere. Students desperately need more of him in the classroom.
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"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth." - Dana
"We live as if the world were as it should be to show others what it can be." -Angel
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Wow. Harsh. That's one way to go...
One of my teachers that I really liked at the time was in 9th grade Environmental Science. We had a local celebrity, our very own weatherman from Channel 16, as our teacher. Cameras came in one day to film the class and everything. His teaching style was wacky, just like he did the weather. He'd draw cartoons on our worksheets and had an easy to get grading system. THe way he taught, everyone did well in the class.
Then, approximately 3 weeks after the school year started, he told us he was leaving us to go back to just doing the weather. Channel 16 offered him more money to abandon us.
For the rest of the quarter, we were stuck with substitute after substitute and morons who didn't know anything about science. They ended up quizzing us on parts of the periodic table because they needed to get grades in the books.
Yeah. That was not a good time in the land of Academia.
We had a class like that in my high school. They couldn't get a qualified teacher to teach that math section (the few qualified ones were already booked at that time), so the kids that were in it ended up with a substitute that was so underqualified, that the students knew more than she did (which is saying a lot, considering it was an Applied math class, which is more or less geared toward those who struggle in the Academic level class, it's not like these were AP-level students).
We also lost our Shop class because of something similar. The former Shop teacher left for some reason, and they could only get a substitute that wasn't qualified to run the machinery or supervise us (we had a decent shop, too, it was like a smaller version of the New Yankee Workshop), so we spent half the semester sitting in the classroom, doing stupid worksheets or playing on the old computer that was there.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge
In addition to the reasons I've mentioned above, schools have lowered the bar, in part to get funding through things like No Child Left Behind. They spend more time teaching to the test (because funding from NCLB is contingent on getting certain scores on the standardized tests), than they do teaching for understanding. Teachers also have very little freedom to teach how they want and to teach in a way that's effective for their students.
I'm one of those students that absolutely hated school, because it was a waste of my time. I was lucky that I went to a smaller school, so my teachers knew me and understood that I knew the material, so I could do whatever I wanted during the classes as long as I didn't disrupt the other students. While my Physics teacher was teaching Relativity, I was reading about String Theory and black holes in Scientific American. I typically did my homework for that class as it was being collected. The only classes I didn't do that in were my AP English class (the only AP class the school even offered, let alone what would fit into my schedule) and my Electronics VoTech class (because Electronics was actually engaging to me and I was actually learning something new and challenging). The rest of my classes were spent reading, writing, or drawing in order to save my sanity.
My little brother is actually in danger of not graduating on time because he skipped so much school so that he could go to work, which he found more interesting. He works for a research and development company, building and testing batteries for electric cars. School was so boring to him that he'd rather fail, drop out, and work at his job.
The biggest problem is that schools are catering to the lowest common denominator, instead of allowing for real differences in class levels and more specialized teaching methods. The result is that barely the minimum is being taught, and dropout rates are rising as more people find school to be a pointless waste of their time.
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. ~D. Dale Gulledge