Thursday, December 19, 2013

Education and It's Interminable Qualities

Unlike all the other students around my area, I still haven't been released for Christmas Break yet and it's just killing me. Some of the other people I know have been out for a week now and I still have another day left to go. Admittedly, my education system has a much longer break than it did in previous years but it's still not good enough. In my opinion, everyday of this last week has seemed like Friday. It's a horrible feeling to think it is the last day before but instead, jokes! you still have four more days left to go before you are released from this prison. And to go along with this, all the classes are still working but are just backing off enough that it feels like it should end and you can go have Christmas Break after the day ends but then you actually have to come back and repeat that horrible process for four more days.
I would have written on this subject earlier but I wanted to stay positive and thought that maybe the days would pass faster if I looked at it without a negative mindset. I know what you're thinking, cleaver right? Well, I guess I'm too smart for myself because it totally didn't work. And to reinforce that excruciating painful slowness my History class has been focusing on looking at the defending cases for slavery in the United States. And after one of the presentation on the five people we were asked to think of some major change to our country that would just seem ridiculous and almost be inconceivable. Granted some people thought of pretty good ones. For example there was getting rid of all cars (electric and gas powered), making it illegal to eat meat or take out all the meat processing companies and shutdown any related services, completely cutting off all use to fossil fuels, but I felt those just weren't good enough. So I raised my hand to share my idea of a huge country changing move and it was the following; all the public and private education would be abolished and parents would teach children. I thought it was a pretty good idea, not applying to the ridiculous part of the exercise but definitely unimaginable. Since I have never had the experience of homeschooling I have no idea how it feels to adjust your schooling schedule to the rest of your life so it seems pretty significantly different to have this happen. What are your ideas on this and if this did happen, how would you react to it? Of course this relates in the way that it made the week seem even longer when I thought about the possibility of no more school. But no matter, I am to the end and will finish happily knowing that Christmas is close by. I wish you guys happy holidays and safe traveling since that seems to be what people always do these days during vacation and holiday seasons.

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