The System

Don't panic guys. This isn't an anti-conformist fuck the man speech. Though it may turn out that way if things get heated. Anyway, recently, myself and http://everydayimramblin.blogspot.co.uk/ had one of our always entertaining conversations with a particularly easy going teacher. The plot line of the conversation went something like this:
We're all tired.
Education is tiring.
Education shouldn't be this tiring.
Let's go home.
It's true, education is necessary to get top careers in the scary new planet called the "real world". Don't get me wrong, the education we get is great and we are totes, blates, obvs, lucks to get it. However. There are aspects of education that were just better before everything got all 'elite'.
Teachers take note - students react worse when you speak to them as if they were a toddler who just crapped themselves. Writing as a student who... has had a ... fair share ...of ... teacher confrontation, things go a lot smoother when 15, 16 year olds are spoken to with the same level of maturity as is expected of them.
Now that that's sorted out. Head teachers take note - teachers can't be constantly pushing. While we appreciate that in that place we spoke of before (the real world), the best jobs and uni places will go to those with the highest possible grades - there is no break. Teachers and students just feel totes burnt out after a good 7 years of intense secondary education - with exams at the end of every year since the age of 11. That's why students don't give a shizz - they gave a shizz in year 7 when they rolled up with new stationary and optimism, but now all the shizz that they gave has been worn down - there is no more shizz in the world ladies and gentleman.We have teacher support to back this claim up - so yeah... go do head teacher-y stuff - work out attendance percentages or something...
Everything's just way too narrow. In this educational world you either survive the years and come out with the best grades, or you go under and drown. Not actually drown - that would imply that the best education is done at sea - and that would be silly. How would you write? Unless you were on a boat - but then the sharks might go all 'Jaws' on you and start munching on your mate while all the blood comes out his mouth. So basically - the moral of the story here is... don't drown? I can't remember - like i said earlier - I'M TOO TIRED. So yeah - my opinion on education is that everyone should just chill maybe - and i know i'm no role model for chill - but school should be. Chill like a mother bitch.

BYE