After editing, I realized that it’s important to note that 2-3 rich subdivisions went to my district. With that being said, their rich people taxes funded the school. This is my experience going to a RICH SCHOOL. I literally cannot imagine going to a poorly funded school due to the area you live in. I saw a video of someone saying they didn’t even LEARN about Malcom X, let alone a demonized version of him. What I’m saying in this video is from one of the BETTER case scenarios. That should be very alarming.
Oh god, going to school in my old town, there was sooo much poverty. Luckily the teachers loved their jobs so we had mostly good but not PE and we didn’t have health class. There were no “first, second, third, ect” periods. Home room was for most of our classes and we only left for art, music, and PE
Ok this might sound ranty and like “poor me” boo hoo but the school system seriously fucked me over. I have severe adhd and odd and as a kid they hopped me up on drugs so I wouldn’t act out. I was the top of my class and a quick learner. Would read instead of eat lunch and play outside. Really everything looked good on the outside but i was actually a zombie. A little girl 7-12 who ate one meal a day (crackers and cheese), lived on 3 hours of sleep, and had no friends (but a plethora of bullies). I was so anxious that not getting my homework done or not getting a problem right would give me a panic attack. I was lonely and emotional-less and no one fucking helped. I would fall asleep in class and be called lazy and a slacker when my grades went down. I’m so happy my wonderful mother took me off the drugs but the school system permanently scared me. I can barely remember my childhood during that point.
This isn’t “poor me boohoo” 🥺 it’s your real, valid experience. We need to share these experiences more so people understand the negative effects on different types of folks.
I think the fact that you feel that sharing your experience is just you whining about something small is something that society does to gaslight people - especially marginalized people, including neurodivergent folks - into staying quiet and complacent under our oppression. "Stop complaining, it's not that bad, other people have it worse!" They're always trying to tell us our trauma, the abuse we suffered, didn't really happen because it was mental, not necessarily physical. They're wrong. They want you to just shut up, sit down, and take it, but you don't have to. Your trauma is trauma, full stop. It doesn't matter how or where it happened.
Bri Hill as someone who has been abused, absolutely. i don't talk about it a lot for this exact reason: because it feels like i'm seeking attention. even writing that feels wrong but it makes me upset when i see someone going through the same as me. i digress; the reality is: if it hurt you, IT HURT YOU. everyone feels pain differently at different things. any pain or distress is VALID. i'm so sorry you had to go through that OP; i hope that you're doing much better now, and i wish you a smooth recovery. but it boils down to the fact that you're by far not the only one who had experienced this, and that's fucked up. education reform needs to be talked about much more than it is, and actual action needs to take place.
ShArInG sToRy tImE- When I was younger I was pushed to the expectation of being better than I was able to be. That led to me believing that I was never going to be good enough and now I’m left with an inferiority complex. I felt isolated because any friends that I would make eventually left me. That led to my maladaptive daydreaming [MaDD] When we would weight ourselves for the Fitness Gram, I would always starve myself a week earlier because I didn’t want the coaches to see me differently. However, on the outside I started mastering being okay. That little girl that barely slept, that had way too much stress for her age, that barely ate one meal a day..looked healthy..looked *smart* The school system screwed me over so bad. I had so many mental issues that I wouldn’t have had if I wasn’t pushed to unreal expectations, or stressed because of that one test on Friday Morning. [theres my sob story :p]
[ d a y d r e a m e r ] since you say had, it sounds like you've begun the recovery process/are currently recovering. and i'm proud of you!! its so wrong that you had to feel that way; please know that you are loved, you are indeed good enough, and if you ever need someone to talk to don't be afraid to ask anyone here (and that goes for everyone, as long as you're comfortable with it!)❤️
I don’t know, it’s kind of like a mix of both. On one hand the schools brainwash you to do their bidding, but on the other hand like the fire nation they also make you worship their nation.
Notice how he never once said that we should get RID of schooling, just that it is flawed and needs to be dismantled and reassembled in a healthier way.
@@thescarytransperson that’s the point this commenter is trying to make. They’re trying to show to the people who disagree with it when we say that schools are fucked and try to claim that we just want schools gone and say we still need to learn somehow so obviously our whole point is wrong that the goal isn’t to get rid of schools, it’s to fix them
what annoys me a lot about schools is that many people even as young as twelve speak up about the issues you brought up and that the people in power don't listen to us because we're 'too young' and 'don't know anything'. We know enough to try and get them to listen.
Had an argument with my English teacher a few years ago about this (was great since we were learning how to debate lol) and her final point was more or less "your to young so you don't understand"
I am 12 and I hate school. The only thing it's good for to me is finding friends. I know that so far I have learned better sex ed from my friends and youtubers than actual school will teach me. I've learned more important things from my friends than my teachers overall. I hate the incorrect things I've been taught in school. If a 3rd grader can tell you that blood is not blue when it's in your body despite being told otherwise there's something wrong. They got a BASIC fact wrong and had the audacity to tell me that I was wrong. I could go on but that would be too long and this is already an essay but I hate being told that my feelings are not my feelings.
Nicholas Black this stuff is force fed to us at the ages of 4/5-18 and unless you seek to educate yourself on real history and the world then you’ll never learn it that is a big problem we need education reform like soon
IK this is much later than the original comment, but I feel like writing it anyway - Once I had this (bad) science teacher who had been informed that I have a medical condition where I randomly need to go to the bathroom right then, and he still said no when I asked him. (I went anyway)
My middle school had a bathroom system where you were given three tickets each semester. You had to give the teacher a ticket if you had to use the restroom during class. If you ran out of them and had to go, then you get points taken from your participation grade. It was awful and a couple cool teachers refused to use it
I was being sexually harassed to the point my friends stepped in when the school didn't, I told the school and all they did was bring him into the office and say stop, no warnings, no consequence, nothing. Just... Stop
I'm at least happy that you have good friends to help you, but they really shouldn't have HAD to step in. It should've been the school and responsible adults, so I'm sorry that they just let that disgusting behavior slide. Hope you're doing better now, have a good day!
If you dont want to read this dont click read more cause its long There was a kid named Jaden in my 5th grade class (keep in mind, that means I would've been 10/11), I always knew he was a jerk. He would always make dumb, rude comments. Including body-shaming and saying slurs like "faggot", or "r****d". I always chose to ignore because I was always taught to stay in line, focus, mind your own business. Around the time I was figuring out my sexuality so I was doing MAD research. I came across several informative articles, including the fact the POC's, Lgbtq+'s, etc, were still not getting fair treatment. I was surprised, because figuring out that i like girls, now apparently couldn't get married to one. I decided to keep everything to myself, because I was taught that way, to be a "good child". (Let's be honest, revolutions, protests and rebellions are the only way this world will have any change, peaceful or not) I was coming into my pre-pubescent years, meaning I was feeling the need to explore more. Anyways, not the point, one day I was peacefully working on a short-story under a tree. my group of friends were a couple feet away kicking a volleyball around. This kid, Jaden, came up to them. I'd only noticed because the mood had completely changed. My friend group was now silent, and they were shifting uncomfortably. The kid, Jaden, was just watching them. My friend, Jack, threw the ball to my cousin. My cousin accidentally kicked it off from the goal post. He said in response to my cousin missing, "You suck! Go back to mexico, you immigrant!" We all got upset, but we didn't say anything because we were taught that way. And at one point my friend was tempted to throw the ball at him, but he controlled himself. They continued playing, and the kid continued sliding in racist "jokes". And racist slurs. At this point I was pissed. I'd decided to finally do something, so I called him out. He laughed at me and said my opinion didn't matter because I'm a girl. My black friend stepped in and demanded him to leave, thats when Jaden said, "You scared, n*" After that my friend left, but I was so pissed off, I grabbed the ball and chucked it at him. He was holding in tears and decided to back off. the next day he continued, this time instead of resorting to violence i went to the principal. His punishment? Apologizing. I got in trouble also because while I was telling the story I chose to be completely honest and tell her about me throwing the ball at him. I remember going him and crying for hours. Anyways my friends and I ended up "protesting". In our minds it was the most bad-ass thing but basically I didn't go to the detention hall and decided to refuse to go. Anyways thanks for listening Ig. Sorry it was long
Honestly is the concept of "learning" 14+ subjects at the same time even possible? Like, idk but my math teachers make poor grammar errors all the time, my biology teacher despises history and so on... Why are WE supposed to know all?
Getting a basis on all of them is necessary, but it becomes unnecessary, especially towards high school. I really did not need to learn pre-calculus. But you’re right! There should be a focus on only a few subjects at a time.
I kinda get the concept for early education. When we're young we don't know what we like. So every kid tries everything out. But I definitely think failure in certain subjects should be more acceptable, as well as individualizing education at younger ages.
It takes people like three years of college studying one subject to become a teacher but when a student can't remember all that along with many other subjects their failures. Most of the subjects are important but they make them so hard to learn.
@@oliviawoloshyn5824 I don't get it as well! Of course in university there is a lot more reading, researching and stuff but mostly all of the chosen subjects are necessary to our future career. Goddammit, I'm still trying to understand why I need to know physical chemistry in order to pass the admission exam to (guess what?) history university. That absolutely freaks me out.
damn i wish my fury could be used to get out of school early. Science: “people, especially growing children, need 8-9 hours of sleep” Schools: “WE RIDE AT D A W N.” (i didn’t make this up just thought it was funny) also half the reason that fellow anxious gen z kids make jokes (read: plans) about overthrowing the government is so they can change the school system.
The school system is so fucked up and ran by people who want money. Why the fuck does standardized testing exist? Why created a standard for a large group of people? Not objects. People. People are versatile and learn differently. It’s almost like you set it up for students to fail and when they fail, you make money. Fuck the U.S school system.
We are still using the same system as we did teaching kids to work in factories, do not talk back, you’re day is controlled by bells, this was when we were training kids to spend their days in dangerous conditions. We need education that we can use in our day-to-day lives. We don’t work in factories unless we’re rich anymore.
Schools really do need to teach life skills. "that's a job for your parents" nah most people's parents are too busy for that... and it leaves us blind as to how to live on our own.
I wrote my ACT essay off what you said, I got a high “grade” for it but it made me sad that I had to comment on the ways students of day or being taught the ways of yesterday. Glad I graduated high school but honestly if I could have skipped out on high school and middle school all together I would be a happier person today.
when i was in 6th grade a girl i knew got dragged to the principles office for ‘being dramatic’ and ‘disturbing students learning’. she was having a mental breakdown.
I learned to cry silently in 5th grade since I knew drawing attention to myself during a breakdown wouldn't bring anything other than harm. I'd get made fun of, and my teacher would ignore it. She also blamed higher rates of anxiety and depression on screen time, and said me being trans was a mental illness, so there's also that. She ruined my mental state.
“The adhd and autistic kids who cannot comply with these standards.” Me: thinks about all the time I spent in the office due to mental illness... yeah it’s really alienating not being able to comply with these standards and feeling like a bad kid cause you have to receive special treatment, when your 5th grade class is the only one with a TA because if you have an anxiety attack, which is perceived as a tantrum the teacher can’t leave the class to calm you down. I always felt inferior during elementary, I think I only made it through jr. High and high school due to meds and therapy and even then the opportunities I was given seem to have been less than others. I wasn’t allowed to stay in or join clubs as all the club leaders thought I was kinda weird.
I feel you. I still get anxiety attacks during tests and try to hide it because ive learned that when it's obvious, I'm gonna get sent to the office for disrupting the class smh....
Bro i missed out on like half a year of 8th grade, almost every month i was out for a week straight because i could barely find the will to eat let alone get up at 4:30am on an hour and a half of sleep and haul my ass to school to get yelled at by teachers for “not doing my homework because im lazy.”
Shoutout to that one time we had to color code a picture in biology and when the colorblind guy mentioned he was colorblind and couldn't match the colors correctly, he was disregarded and got a lower grade.
As an atheist going to a school in a mainly Christian school, not to mention a right-wing, conservative school in Kentucky at that, I get so tired of my teachers and speakers telling me to pray to jesus and the lord and everything will be fine. Also being a smarter student with good grades doesn't help because standards are just so high for me and some friend like me. The school system is corrupted and it is destroying my and other's mental health very quickly.
I'm also a "smarter" student with good grades in the school I'm currently in. However, in a different state that I used to go to school in, i was failing almost every class. Each state has its own education standard which makes for overall unequal education
On the subject of pedophiles: One of my male coaches in P. E. in middle school would walk around as the girls were doing our exercises and, especially during push-ups, look at our butts. Due to me always wearing something covering he paid zero attention to me but those who were wearing the school clothes for Strength and Conditioning he would mainly walk around them. Every. Single. Time. And every girl was uncomfortable around him
The American (public, dont know if this makes a difference) school system was created by a guy (i dont remeber his name) that wanted to allow people to make a living. This was during a time when working in a factory was the best thing to do. So, because of this, the school system is focused around preparing children to work in a factory to make a living. Times have changed drastically and needing to know how to work in a factory is severely outdated. Instead of tearing down the outdated system, people try and put a bandaid on the grand canyon size cracks we have. No one has the balls to tear down the system entirely and make a new, better system. Obviously, it would be messy, but better in the long run. And some of the bandaids put in the canyon, dont work (i.e no tolerance).
The ableism, the treatment, the AUDACITY makes me honestly hate every special ed teacher who isn't anti-school. Like, existing school. It's one thing to be complacent, but it's another thing to be complacent in the standing abuse and trauma of neurodivergent and ill students. I've seen verbal abuse, environmental disturbances, such as throwing and slamming things, poor situation management. I got the tailend, because I was scared into masking and labelled as a 'model quiet girl'. But still, the AUDACITY, my classmates deserved better. So much better than just one primary gifted-behavioral class in the school board. Better than either coughing up the information, or being dragged along in the dirt by the curriculum.
Yeah some of the worst/most abusive teachers I've had were teaching aids and special ed teachers. The special ed teacher who I stayed in the room of for most of the day in the 4th and 5th grade was particularly awful to the point of traumatizing because she allowed kids _younger than me_ to bully me and the times I was in the rest of the student body I was with her teaching aid who was just as awful, it caused those grades to be a massive struggle for me and the introduction to 6th grade was one of the best things that happened for me last decade despite how awful the bullying I ended up going through in 6th grade was. Elementary school should not have been that way, 6th and 7th grade should not have been that way, the only reason 8th grade wasn't painful was because I was in distance learning and my IEP manager was not involved when bullying was reported. Oh boy this This comment was a doozy :'l
I'm physically disabled. I have been blocked by a teacher from using the elevator because at the time I wasn't visibly disabled, there's been construction blocking main routes and forcing me to do the equivalent of walking half a mile to get to class, and until I got a doctor's note for gym they were forcing me to run the mile because they didn't believe I was chronically ill. Even then they placed me in a gym class and the teacher there forced me to do something every day, not understanding that my pain levels differ and that I only show up to school for attendance reasons. I feel like a bother going to the nurse for a rest because the nurse (bless her) is horrified that I'm struggling so much and just sends me home anyway. I am at school 2-3 times a week but the school can't bother to give me access to tutors from home or let me stay home twice a week as an official part of my schedule (instead of having my mom call me in sick every time). The counselor wouldn't let us set up a 504 plan because it's "essentially the same as a health plan" because a 504 plan would make the school legally accountable for their actions. I went through a really extreme dissociative episode in the middle of class because of a medication that worsened my dissociative disorder, and I had to explain what that was to the people who were supposed to help me. TLDR; School fucks over those who are both mentally and physically disabled, and it's pretty fucking shitty of them.
@@NicholasBlack Thank you! That's why I decided to add my perspective a bit, I definitely know other schools have it worse than mine and it's just another way the system needs to change.
I hate to the US school system so much. The bulling is horrendous I was bullied all throughout Middle School because I was different and when I went to go tell the teacher they brushed It Off. I went to the principal the principal didn't care. they talked all that about how they don't allow bullying yet it still happens and they don't stop it.
That’s another point that I forgot to add. The schools don’t do shit about bullying except turn it into a joke with their PSAs. They never get to the root of the issue nor do they follow up on their obvious virtue signaling.
I still get bullied and not once has the school system helped me i was bullied for 4 years because i wasn't skinny i wasn't smart i didn't learn like everybody else I was treated like the problem child I was less than the dirt that I walked on I pulled all-nighters to study for tests but I still didn't get it my mom would stay up with me trying to teach me until I got it sometimes I wouldn't even get enough sleep so I would be out of it the next day and the teachers would yell at me saying that I need to start paying attention I'm being left behind I have liked several assignments that I'm behind on it was a nightmare I was put in a mental institution for a week because it destroyed my mental health
LITERALLY this. The only people who get something done to them by schools when they're bullied are the "normal" ones because somebody got dirt on them or some shit
agreed. i just took health in summer school and for the final, the teacher had a question that said to make a plan or a way of discipline to help kids with mental illnesses. you CANNOT discipline the mental illness out of a kid. so that was fun :)
What??? The fuck??? Yeah, lemme just write down a schedule and sprinkle in some punishments/reinforcements and my serotonin will just go “oppsie!!! My bad!!! I did a fucky wucky :(“ and start going again. Health class is the worst with misinformation.
@@NicholasBlack lmaooo my summer health class had abstinence-only sex ed with no kind of instruction for genital care, and you STILL could opt out. A parent could decide that their kid could not have to even HEAR the word "sex"
@@NicholasBlack EXACTLY! I have ADHD and my 5th grade math teacher was pissed that I literally COULD NOT pay attention, so she told me that every time she saw me "slacking off" she would give me detention, and it would start to pile up. I was terrified the rest of the year, and I had to force myself to pay attention and scold myself whenever I started not to. I was exhausted by the end of math class every day and I thought it was normal.
Discipline is not a friend to people with mental illnesses. That's like my friend getting a detention for not being able to focus cuz of ADHD and dyslexia and being to scared to ask for help because the adults in her life make her feel like she isn't worth anything. That's messed up
I love the fact that someone from a rich school, who graduated early, is saying this, because then maybe people will actually listen. I've seen way too many people, who said the same things you said (maybe not exactly, and not the same way you worded it, but you know), but they were not taken seriously because they dropped from high school, or were in a poorly funded school. Ps. Sorry if my grammar/spelling is wrong, english is not my first language...
Your grammar is actually spectacular! The only problem i saw is, in this context, it should be too many people, rather than to many people Edit: Your, not You’re
I went to wealthy public schools and my education was even worse than his. I never heard of Malcolm X before reading it in this comments section and I'm a grown adult... I would attribute almost none of my education that has any value to school. Most of it is from the internet. I've learned exponentially more in a fraction of the time by educating myself online than I ever did in school.
The mental health should *always* be a priority, yet, when I had a really bad anxiety attack (because I was new to the school), I went to the counselor to calm down. After that she walked me to my next class and told my teacher why I was late, when she left my teacher told me "your classes are more important, don't you dare use an excuse like this again to miss class". I hate it here
Speaking of the play to learn: My school thinks that 'Play to learn' means looking at a picture in a book or having the subject on a 40 years old poster on a wall and can't be read from anymore for how washed out by the sun it is
My friends school ID had the national suicide preventions phone number on the back, like sis if you need to put it there maybe you need to check yourself
School: why are teens killing themselves? Kids:HMM I WONDER School: social media and other kids! Definitely not stress and a need to be better than everyone
@@starrynight1165 don't forget that some parent are pretty ignorant and just blame friends and video games and everything except school. I had a friend with parents like that once....
This video literally has me tearing up. The only thing school has taught me is that I'm not talented and that I can't be shit without a diploma. I don't even feel like I deserved to graduate...
I feel you. I completely gave up trying to be a scientist because my grade were shit and nobody tried to help. I'm going to going into auto mechanics which is fun but I'm always gonna be sad that i could get to where I wanted..... I hope everything work out for you. You do deserve to graduate!
I wouldn’t know anything about Malcom X if I didn’t get involved in Black Lives Matter and leave my indoctrination. I’m a literal child and I know more about economics, social justice, and historical figures like Malcom X that actual adults. I am 14 fucking years old and I can win a debate with an *adult* about economics (I consider winning the point where they start to gaslight me and pull the “you’re just a child” like because it means I’ve outsmarted them and this is their last resort) because I educated myself on things the school system never taught us.
also, i don't know if this has been said, the "special needs" kids are separated from the rest of their grade, and are treated like sh*t. my cousin has adhd, and has to be homeschooled because his last school force-fed him adhd medication, to the point where he was sick a lot. and when my aunt found out, the wonderful woman she is, she took it to court, and i'm just glad that my cousin is doing better now
Ugh this is all true. I was also considered one of those “gifted kids” for a long time and it’s so horrible. It’s supposed to make the kids feel rewarded but all it did was make me feel like absolute shit. It made me feel guilty for the kids who were struggling. And my god the schools are so underfunded. And at my middle school (i’m in high school now) they had so many disgusting habits in terms of food. There was rumors that they fed us horse meat. They had these buckets to put the milk and juice that you didn’t drink into. All the drinks would mix together and make this nasty liquid. Then they would pour it in the toilets. Read that again. THE TOILETS. The rags they used to clean the tables smelled disgusting and were permanently stained. The milk was watery. It was all so gross. Also, the teachers are so underpaid. It’s ridiculous. The teachers literally went on strike to get a raise in pay. And shoutout to my perverse seventh grade english teacher that I am still suffering trauma from even though he didn’t do anything to me. He was never fired. He touched girl’s legs, smoked in school, and gave the creepiest compliments. They weren’t like normal compliments. It would make your skin crawl if you heard it. He is the reason that now, I start physically shaking when I have to talk to teachers now. You know when you look at someone and you get that gut feeling to RUN THE FUCK AWAY? That’s the feeling I got from him. You wouldn’t want to be in the same room as him alone. One of my friends messed up a test in his class but didn’t retake it because she didn’t want to be alone with him. And I agree the dress code is very sexist. It’s also disrespectful to the boys, just assuming that they can’t keep it in their pants when most of them probably can. You’re right, it teaches girls that their body is viewed as an object by others. That’s honestly so fucked up. And don’t even get me started on group punishment. Holy fucking SHIT I hate this. One person acts out in class and the whole entire class isn’t allowed to go to lunch. One person argues with the teacher and the whole class gets detention. One time in my 8th grade science class, my teacher thought we all cheated on the test because everyone in the class got the same answer wrong. Like you dumb ass, the reason we all got it wrong was because you didn’t teach us that particular topic. And she berated us and forced us to take a new pop quiz or she would call our parents. and the history lessons are so fucking biased. I was always taught the “martin luther king good, malcolm x bad” narrative. We went over the american revolution more times than I could keep track of, but we only went over the civil war once. We also went over ww1 only once. They always told us that america won the Vietnam War or it was a tie. Stonewall? Don’t know her. They never taught us about stonewall, even though we had a whole unit about the 1950s and 1960s back in 8th grade. I never learned about the Tulsa race riots either. Back in the 1800s when we were unnecessarily attacking native american people? We learned about that for less than a class period. Like, they kind of just mentioned it and then continued on. They like to skim over embarrassing defeats in american history and focus on the stuff that makes the country look good. America isn’t this great country with good morals like we were always taught. And sex ed is shit too. It’s always about ABSTINENCE ABSTINENCE ABSTINENCE. Teenagers are going to have sex whether you like it or not, and it’s better to just teach them how to do it safely. And LGBTQ+ sex ed? Literally nonexistent. Oh and the zero tolerance shit! You get bullied relentlessly and nobody gives a flying shit! Then when you finally snap and hit back at the bully, you fucking get in trouble. I dont even need to explain this it just makes me so fucking mad. Luckily I wasnt bullied, but so many people have been and it’s just terrible Sorry for this essay and sorry for this being a huge rant honestly
Hi, im 16 and relate to and agree with every single thing you said, and i'm not even from the US, I'm from Argentina (Latinoamerica) a third world country, and i cannot believe the US school system is so awful taking in count that It's a first world country
Yeah, I agree. The sex ed thing really bugs me, I've already been forced through 3 of those and all where the same. Not once was anything lgbtq+ mentioned. I live in a rural-ish area on the conservative side, so teaching about lgbtq+ would probably make a huge difference and clear up so much confusion. It's depressing to see any part of the U.S. education can be picked apart so easily, things seem only to be getting worse with distance learning too. I get that this isn't what my middle school teachers meant when they said high school would be harder, but I still feel cheated. They kept saying it'll be difficult and we'll have a lot more homework and be prepared, but never prepared us. In elementary I was known for always having a smile, now every other day I lay face down on my floor for 30 minutes. And the anthem, just, no words. It seems ridiculous that these problems are a drop in the bucket that is the U.S. education system. The fuck america?
Honestly most education systems are shite. I’m only going into 3rd year in secondary school in northern ireland, and I agree with you, i’ve become a completely different person, my mental health is nonexistent and i relate to your story a lot
I’ve heard so many stories across the world about shit education systems. This definitely isn’t just a US problem. This seems to be an international problem.
Nicholas Black Even my dad, who is the principal of my primary school, agrees that you shouldn’t be forcing teenagers to get up early, spend all day at school, do homework and sleep, repeat. If he was a secondary school principal he would change the hours or the amount of homework. Unfortunately he can’t, but his primary school is amazing, the hours are still 9am-3pm but very little homework
Same, and I’m only going into 5th grade, in kindergarten, I was so happy to learn, but by 2nd grade, I absolutely didn’t give a single fuck about school.
I "thrived" in school and I cannot even begin to describe how much better my mental health is now that I'm both out of highschool and taking a break from college. I was always led to believe that going to school and getting a "good job" (whatever that means) was just as necessary as eating and sleeping. My grades were always fine but I was a sensitive kid and school amplified my anxiety to a crippling degree. Public school had me constantly panicked and exhausted trying to get good grades and college just took that and added being broke and starving. And I signed up to add on that extra stress for the small price of $10,000 a semester at the wise old age of 17. You know, when I still had to ask to go to the bathroom and I had to wait patiently to be dismissed from class by an adult? Sorry for the semi-unrelated ramble lol I just hate the education system so much.
love how this is a massive component on why I'm a depressed mess and my mom blames it on my phone and computer (the only thing that keeps me distracted from troubling thoughts), and takes those away instead of realizing their kid is struggling
oh.my.god. me though. i told my perents my online friend literally died and i was depressed about it and they grounded me from seeing the rest of my.. Alive online friends. that did not go over very well i'm still messed up about it to this day 8)))
As someone who experienced both the Vietnamese and American education systems, I do agree that they are very stifling. In the case of Vietnam, it’s even worse because its education system utilizes corporal punishment and it places a massive importance on test results as those can determine your future trajectory
After being labeled as "gifted" and "advanced" I felt like no other part of me was important. Everyone would praise me for my intelligence without acknowledging my other qualities. I felt like the only part of me that mattered was being smart. I felt extra pressured to take multiple APs, get good grades, and try to make it into a prestigious college to the point I forgot to even focus on myself. During my sophomore year of high school, I realized that I had no idea who I really was. Instead of developing my individualism, I was trying to meet the standards everyone was setting for me. I wasn't happy, and I often had mental breakdowns due to the stress. Now I'm trying to focus on myself more. I've been slacking a bit in my classes but I'm way happier. School tore me and my mental health to shreds. That's not what school should be doing to children... Anyways fuck the American school system.
I'm one of those kids who is "the smart one" and gets alot of school rewards, but the whole giving a medal to someone who got good grades thing makes me feel sad. They never make me happy, they make me scared and I feel like I am being put on a pedestal above others
@@NicholasBlack It never made sense to me. All it does is make me feel bad for my friends who struggle to learn in school's hellscape while I get rewarded for working not that hard. I just remembered things in class and I taught things myself with outside sources
@@ladylunatic6549 I felt the same in school. I got good grades but I never thought of myself as "smart person", instead I think a lot of my classmates were smarter and cooler than me, that's why it felt awkward for me to receive awards and it also made me feel kind of bad for my friends.
The thing is, you can't win in the American school system. Either you have huge expectations put onto you because you "learn better" and therefore are smarter because of a letter grade, or you're cast aside and told that you're a lost cause. No one comes out of the system healthy and happy because there's no way for anyone to be such.
throwback to the time when my teacher asked all of us how long we spent on hw each night, some ppl said 30 mins, some ppl said 3 hours. he gave us hw that would take an hour and a half b/c "you guys said you didnt have much homework".
See, I’ve always been considered a “gifted” or “smart” student, but I don’t believe I deserve those titles. It’s just because I am able to learn in the horrible American school system while a lot of my classmates could not. Don’t even get me *started* on when There were only like, 3 kids who did the homework (I was usually one of them) so the teacher makes the rest of the kids stay inside to do it while the 3 kids get to go to recess. It was always HUMILIATING to be one of the only kids to go outside because I could just feel everyone’s anger and jealousy pointed towards me. It sucked and didn’t have many friends outside of my class, so I usually didn’t have any fun out there, anyways. I hope that made sense, I’m not very good with words sometimes. I really just wanted to express my frustrations of being a “gifted” student in the American school system.
Cordelia Jackson yeah, my only motivation was band, band is the only reason I want to go to school, but it’s slowly fading, because I’m a short person, but I play the tuba, and let’s say people aren’t that supportive and laugh
I feel like a lot of the younger generations realize just how faulty the system is but when it comes to bringing such concerns, they always fall on deaf ears. So everyone is basically stuck in said situation until someone in power decides to do something about it. And I feel it safe to say they won't so...
I've gone to the guidance offices so many times for mental health issues, and every single time, no matter who it is (and I've met at least 5 counselors), they always say "oh, well at least your grades are good." I've been in the brittle aftermath of a panic attack, and they really want to point out my grades???
It's kind of funny how a teacher who is ever-so-slightly relatable, enjoyable, or in any way pleasant to their classroom will be known as the school-wide favorite teacher. Just the smallest hint that an adult understands you and cares about you makes you attach to them by default because there is no competition for someone who treats students well.
I remember my teacher assigning us Lies My Teacher Told Me for summer reading and it blew my mind. Basically all of what they teach in school is bullshit, and when it comes to learning history, it’s more of a setback then anything
Especially in America, I’m pretty sure we don’t learn every major thing (since we are expected to know it) that happened in America’s history. And apparently they are telling Columbus asked the Native Americans to let them live here. Which is just indirect racism (I think).
Eva Ticket They also don’t teach anything about Africa besides Ancient Egypt. They really only touch on ancient Northern Africa. I remember we skipped an entire section on Africa in my World History class.
Eva Ticket they treat Columbus like he was a hero. He was legit one of the worst people. The things he did to the Natives was terrible. When I heard what he did from UA-cam, I legit wanted to cry
focusing so much on studying that you ignore your needs (especially during testing season) has been so normalized and it is TERRIFYING Suffering at school is normalized and even seen as a sign of "success" when the student's grades are good.
I used to buy Gatorade from the school store to give away to poor “kids” but they soon banned me from doing that and one day I opened a candy business and other kids opened their candy business but one day when mine got successful the school gave me detention when I just gave a piece of candy to someone for free even though someone sold their stuff in front of them ,
When I was younger my stepfather worked at a bakery and would take leftovers home sometimes. I would give them to the less financially stable kids because the schools offered lunches were a sandwich with only ham on it, a cheesestring and a paper cup to fill with water from the fountains, sometimes if they were lucky there would be a plain yogurt tube. The school was not happy, how dare a student care about others!
"They destroyed my love for learning." S A M E. When I was younger I did Khan Academy for fun. Then I got to high school. And after that I just... I couldn't handle it anymore.
Reminder that I, as a person with C-PTSD, diagnosed and in therapy, with notes and letters being sent in every week from a licenced medical professionals, asked to be put in a separate room during my literal flashbacks to the worst events of my life, and the school sent out an email to my teachers essentially saying "Send her to the guidance office only if she stops responding, don't go easy on her." (A direct quote, mind you). I only knew this because I was lucky enough to have a particularly kind English teacher who showed me the email because she cared enough about her students to make sure they weren't actively wanting to commit suicide. I have been sexually harassed more than three times, and I only reported it once, because they disregarded me and called me a liar, and word got around so now guys have the confidence to say whatever they want to me. Just public school things!!!
And to add on to that if you don’t Finish your three hours of homework you get more when you get to school plus me with my five after school activities it’s really hard to finish everything and I still managed to be a top of the class student
"But you have to go!" I dont want to. I know I have to. I dont know how I get a's. Its a hell, really. I hate it. I hate the standards too. Its like I never had a free will, and im not gonna until Im like 18.
What I’ve been taught in school, pretty much my entire life, and even outside of school is that I can not just be passionate. I have been taught that anything I am able to do must become a job in the future, and therefore have been unable to actually form healthy, normal hobbies. I used to love math and science and writing, I would focus in class and had all A’s. I would write entire worlds and build and I was so creative. Until I started to get older. I started gaining memories, teachers got stricter. Science wasn’t as colorful and beautiful anymore, writing bored me and became a chore, and I started failing in math because I wasn’t able to do division and multiplication as well as others and no one wanted to help me. I fell into despair, I would force myself to throw up so I could call in sick and I would scribble out any story of mine that contained anything that school wouldn’t approve of. I had wonderful ideas that I wish I could go back to, but I wasn’t allowed to because of the people around me calling it horrible. Calling it inappropriate that I wanted to write a story about a little boy feeling insecure instead of a little girl because boys are strong. I have been pressured to turn everything I love into a job or it is worthless, I have been taught that if I do not have a 8+ year degree I am a shadow of a person, and I have been taught that if I want to be myself then I should just leave this goddamn country. But then.. ohhhh then if I say I want to move to another country, or if I DARE learn German I am called a Nazi, told that I am Hitler reincarnate and that I deserve to DIE for not wanting to be in America. By adults and children alike.
I've a lot of my teachers that I'd rather drop dead than make it to high school. two of them laughed at me and said I was overreacting. one told me to show them my wrists/arms. but they never did anything, ever. I'm currently doing summer school because I failed 8th grade and it's torture.
I can relate to this to some degree when I was in the eighth grade I often felt depressed and burned out due to the heavy work load and now with this pandemic out I'm stuck in this shit hole all over again. School is great huh!😃👍
I completely agree, school has practically butchered my will to do virtually anything, never mind learn and actively retain information. I've struggled with perfectionism which borders on neurotic for as long as I can remember, and school has, in my experience, done nothing but fuel it. The overwhelming amount of pressure to do everything in a perfect fashion is incredibly damaging and unhealthy, and it's pushed onto children from such a young age, it's horrible. For me, it's gotten to the point where anything remotely related to school that is graded, which is pretty much everything, scares and stresses me endlessly to the point of panic attacks (which are then shunned and ignored by school) usually over relatively inconsequential tests (I'm 14, in S2). I know this sounds somewhat hyperbolised but school has had a terrible effect on my mental wellbeing and life in general, and I know what you mean. This has turned into more of a vent than a comment, but it was nice to get out of my system, thanks.
I relate to struggling with perfectionism 100% and everything you said is how I've felt for years!! I'm 16, grade 11. Since school started this year I haven't gone a day without crying myself to sleep from stress and uncontrollable bouts of anger from being overwhelmed.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! EDUCATE US NICK! I had these amazing Civics teachers last year. They didn’t care about a letter grade, they cared if you internalized the information they gave you, and more importantly, cared about you and your mental health. When I struggle on some days and think no one would care if I died or that no one cared about me, that they did. When I told them I was struggling with mental health, they excused the missing assignments I had and told me to focus on taking care of myself. They mocked the shitty presentations about mental health that the school provided and how you just needed to “talk to someone” (and gave much better advice about it too) My mom refuses to take me to therapy, the school counselors are shit, I love my friends but they already have shit on their plate that they’re dealing with, who the fuck am I going to talk to? The school viewed us as statistics. Cookie cutter. We aren’t individuals, we’re dollar signs. Standardized testing only exists to make money off of failing students. Standardized testing is greed based. I could go on about how trivialized the experiences with shitty issues students had and how school destroys mental health but I’ll continue about my Awesome Civics teachers. They didn’t shove the information down your throat. They presented it in a PowerPoint or something similar and actively explained it to you, they didn’t shame anyone for not understanding, and anyone who did was immediately shut down. (Actually there was this one kid, Faris, who would pull that shit all the time but my civics teachers would put a stop to that immediately.) If they noticed other teachers were assigning too much homework or overworking their students, they would lower the amount of assignments that week or lower the difficulty to allow their students to breathe. They taught you things that weren’t necessary to the curriculum but were important nonetheless. They especially liked my class because of the smaller number of lazy people in it.They just didn’t like laziness. Like actual laziness and not the kind that most teachers assign the meaning to. Anyway I love them and they are the best teachers I’ve had ever. Only teachers that I’ve had encouraged a love of learning. They also taught us like actually history. And they were almost totally unbiased. They knew America was a very shitty country and they told us so and wanted us to learn this shit so we could fix it.
When I was in elementary school (and even now as a middle schooler) I was considered “gifted”. Class was and is usually me getting lost in my own head then figuring out things later (I have inattentive adhd) , which causes panic attacks and a LOT of anxiety. I was never learning or even challenged because of this whole one size fits all mentality and I really hate it and I think it messes up so many peoples creativity. And my parents say that its how they did school. Like I’m sorry sweetie but we’re two different people.
schools drown kids in work and expect them to get it all done in a few weeks, and if they dont they're seen as "lazy" or "disrespectful" one of my teachers keeps saying "YoU'rE yOunG AdUlTs" to try and make a point that we should be more responsible (by responsible she means "time management," being "respectful," being able to write essays constantly, and turning in assignments, etc etc) we're not young adults, literally all of us are 13 or 12 like??? yes some of us are maturing quick but we havent even hit late adolescense yet please stop-
Y'all remember that study about how in high school students in 2013 had the same anxiety levels as patients in insane asylums in the 1950s? I think about that a lot as well
sorry for bothering you, but do you remember the name of the study? It sounds really interesting and it may be useful for a future college project of mine!
they also need to fix the stigma around “special education” kids. kids with different learning needs and the need for an IEP (individualized learning plan) are often seen as disobedient, snarky, disrespectful, or difficult because without their proper learning needs met they are forced to suffer through the classes that don’t work for them.
I just hope that when generation z grows up, we will all have intelligence to throw this education system down the gutter into a sewer system, where it belongs (even if that's an insult to all sewer systems).
@Gail Green i think so. i think trying to make video educating others or talking with friends and family can help. really expressing your opinion honestly. and then when your an adult you can try and vote on as many things as possible and just really make sure (even if it doesn't always work) to let your voice be heard.
I just recently learned that the US makes kids chant a pledge of allegiance everyday. We used to do that in my country decades ago, when we were under a violent dictatorship. So much for a free country... Not to mention the dress codes. We don't have that either
throwback to when a teacher in 5th grade yelled at me so hard that i cried in front of my entire school because i wasn’t doing the pledge of allegiance (i was trying to do the pledge but it took a minute because i was having trouble figuring out which hand was my left and right so i could do it correctly LMAOO also i go to a super religious and conservative school so not doing the pledge was like the equivalent to fist fighting a baby to them lolol)
There are so many kids in gen z that are so fed up with the way things are, that I do have hope that things will change. For me, at least, the sex ed system riles me fucking up, I’m going to literally try and fix it.
The bias in my elementary school was so bad that I didn’t even learn who Malcom X *was*. I had to figure it out when I read books about POC that mentioned him. If that isn’t biased I don’t know what is.
I honestly still don't know who he is really. I'll have to look it up on my own -- I've been out of high school close to five years now... Didn't learn shit there.
I'm starting highschool this year. Never even knew who he was until I watched an Adam Ruins Everything clip and they mentioned him so I researched him. They've never even said their name, they tell the basic of MLK, like two years ago talking to a kid in my grade and he didn't even know who Rosa Parks was. It's so bad.
evestitu_ I learned about her in a Drunk History video! Never even mentioned her. They also teach that we don’t know the exact reason she didn’t want to give up her seat (was it protest or was she tired? Maybe both?) and I was just like No! We do know! She planned to do this because she active in the civil right movement! But of course I was brushed off... They teach such white washed history and it bothers me so much.
East Asian students: crying, almost evryone is suicidal, 1/3 trying to commit suicidal. Americans: Yeah let’s do that, they get good grades Tbh after school activities are pretty weird concept for me because they also influence university admition. Didn’t some state also make them inherently religious as well? I believe some state propose “in god we believe” or something like that be engraved on every school. Edit: the statement was "in God we trust" South dekota have already signed the bill here is the article I read: www.npr.org/2019/07/25/744909500/south-dakota-public-schools-add-in-god-we-trust-signs-to-walls?t=1594379697073 And here is the article about kentucky: www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/12/in-god-we-trust-display-in-kentucky-schools-marks-effort-to-mix-church-and-state And louisiana: www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/louisiana-public-schools-display-god-trust-beginning-school/story%3fid=64947756
In my school they’re 100% optional. I personally was part of my school’s International Dance Club which was basically just like 12 kids who liked Kpop learned a popular dance and got to perform it at the end of the year. It was the only thing that kept me going in high school. Legit going to that teacher’s class after school and seeing those people once a week held me over and kept me going. I don’t think they should be mandatory, but I definitely think they should be encouraged
I mean, I'm pretty sure every school kid has to say/at least hear the pledge of allegiance every single day, and that has blatant Christian language in it. Not sure that's quite the same thing, but still
@@theowild2524 I added some sources to the in God we trust thingy and sure it's not in every state but goddamn is pretty fucked up when church and state is supposed to be separate. And the pledge of allegiance is really shooking for me as a non american.
@@scarykloky519 Thanks! I love being disappointed by the country I live in! One of these days people will remember that we're supposed to have a seperation of church and state. Or The Handmaid's Tale will come true in some way. but seriously, thanks for the sources. If nothing else it's nice to be informed.
I honestly used to love learning and reading but as I've progressed through school, I've just become more and more worn down. My adhd made all of this worse, along with the schools refusal to do anything about the kids that constantly tormented me in middle school for daring to be anything but normal. School has screwed me over, and made sure that I would be scared to ask anyone for help.
multiple times i have been yelled at and yelled at for things that DEFINITELY didn't deserve it, and every time i would try to stand up for myself (and friends, as well) it would be "talking back" or "disrespectful" and when i would argue with their BS points i would either get sent to the office or have to fill out these dumb slips my school had. math is STILL my worst subject but when i would have trouble or space out (i have ADHD) i wouldn't get the help from teachers i was promised, but i was ridiculed and told it was my fault rather than the teachers for not teaching correctly. anyways this has been my "school is bad" talk, thanks.
I feel like the education system is changing, but slowly and only in younger grades like preschool, kindergarten, and first (I'm planning on being a teacher for those grades) and new teachers are learning about how to let them learn in interactive and hands on fun ways and we're learning developmental theories and learning about what children at that age need. But then again, that could just be my school system
I totally agree that there are changes happening. You teachers are really the forefront of that movement. I have a lot of respect for you guys, especially the ones dedicated to real education.
What pisses me off is that they're doing it in my country as well but only in the most expensive private schools. In public schools, however, hundreds of kids attend classes exclusively in order to have the only meal of the day.
The school system is too slow to keep up with the rapidly changing world. My school is considered “great.” However, just last school year, they started scratching the bare minimum of LGBT issues. This was in my literature class. We also touched the bare minimum of POC issues as well. However, these bare minimums were just footnotes brought up in conversation, rarely in lessons. My school pretty much just virtue signals about these issues. They don’t actually care. They are still teaching bias history. And again, my school is considered “great.”
The school system was the first system that made me realize "wait, this is awful... I could have done better. Anyone could have. Why doesn't anyone change this?" And from there I realized that about a lot of things. As a kid I loved to learn but school stamped that out of me. Now I can't stand to be in school and when I'm out, I hope I can change it for everyone else. Also, school re-teaches things so many times. It felt like there was a constant loop of information in social studies and science, ela wasn't even a loop it was just the same thing over and over. Math at least was new things all the time but I don't remember any of it. Maybe time should actually be spent teaching things the first time?
Exactly! A basis in these concepts is important, but at some point it becomes monotonous and unnecessary. So much valuable time is wasted with repeats.
Yeah, I don't need to learn how to do multiplication more than once, I'm pretty good at it too, if I may say... I also have only heard of Vietnam, we haven't been taught yet, I'm going into seventh, but I've learned about the wars we 'won'(I say 'won' like that because so many lost their lives)I wish my teachers would understand that we need to learn this, to stop the past from repeating itself...
Not to mention the lack of any lgbt history in history and English classes, along with the lack of lgbt related issues in health classes. Throughout my entire K-12 experience I only have two memories of anything lgbt related being taught- one was the mention of Stonewall in AP US history and the other was a documentary about AIDs shown in health class...which was the only time anything lgbt related was discussed.
i'm currently in 8th grade, and so far the most i've heard of lgbt from the school itself is this one time i checked out a book in 5th grade and the librarian literally warned me, yes, *warned me,* about the fact that the plot was the main character's favorite uncle and role model getting married to another man. and guess what? later that day my mom saw the book and told me to take it back because i was "too young" to read it. i don't know if that was because of her own opinion or my dad's, but good god did that experience not help me in any way. edit: this makes me think, if i was to check out the book now that i'm older, what would my mom say? maybe that would be a good way to test her tolerance of lgbtq and how safe it'd be for me to come out
The U.S School system is so bad that someone told me Martin Luther King Jr was our first back president, I think it was my history teacher and, I had to find out the hard way, that it was a lie and I've never felt so embarrassed in my life. I can't remember what grade, but it was elementary school and, I didn't find out until 8th grade.😭
I was called ‘gifted’ from a very young age. I’m in the highest classes I can be in for my school. I’m the quote unquote poster child for what the school system wants children to be. I’m intelligent by their standards, I’m a good test taker, I’m well versed in the arts. School has always come easy to me. I’m lucky for being that way. I also have severe anxiety. I am mentally incapable of getting anything below an 85 on any given assignment. I failed one test in my math class this past year and I was horrible mentally. I hated myself, I was irritable. It’s one of the reasons my friends and I got into such big fights and why half of my old friends secretly hate me. I know it’s my fault, but it’s also the education’s system for fostering my issues. I’m applauded because I ‘care so much about school’, but I don’t. I don’t study, I don’t try. I never have. I’m setting myself up to fail, basically. I have a whole life plan that is going to wreck myself because I have been taught that in order to be successful, I must be the best. My mother’s a teacher, and she is a damn good one. I know quite a bit about the flaws of the education system because I have the advantage of seeing the teacher’s side. I get the system’s favor because I am smart and amiable and I know teachers. Another thing about the education system is that a C is considered passing. So, tell me, why is every child expected to get an A every day, every assignment? I have three best friends. Two of them are not benefitted by the system. They are in all of the same classes as me, but they are constantly reprimanded by their parents, by everyone because they have stopped trying because of the toxic aspects of this cultish system. My other best friend is a lot like me, but she does research. She’s the smartest person I know, apart from myself because I have been told I am better than everyone else because I am smart from a very young age, so my self esteem is either what society calls vain, or absolutely horrible because I hate myself because of one grade. She does research on history and knows a lot, and I have learned more about that subject from her than anyone else. Sorry for the rant, I get extremely heated about education.
i feel this way too like i’ve never had to try to be at the top of my class cause i can memorize things very well and i get rewarded for something that comes easily to me and when i dont understand something my teachers (not all of them) look like i’ve offended them when i ask a “dumb question” which give me anxiety when i need to ask more questions. to top it off my school is VERY athletic and sports heavy and i’m forced to do a sport which adds even more stress and i don’t even enjoy sports.
Same, I have also always been called “so smart” and I think that plays a part in how now, when I do as small a mistake as get one question wrong or do more pages then I’m supposed to, I burst out into a flurry of me saying “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” Because I’ve always felt as if my self worth is only deserved if I get everything right and am still considered “so smart”...
I’m like you, I would love to learn if school hadn’t made it so complicated and stressful. I love to read, and now I barely can because I have no time and I need to always be studying. I’m terrible at math, and I could be so better at it if school hasn’t ruined it for me. Also to note my district doesn’t let high schoolers and middle schoolers have breaks, like no recess. We only have lunch as a break.
@@marenquaranta2134 no, just lunch, and locker passing periods. in the morning we have to wait a little and we can talk and stuff but not during the day. we used to have breaks until they removed them off of our schedules.
For me it got to the point where I was planning my death, but did the teachers care NO! And it’s so messed up, and then this girl tried to tickle me (I get violent when people tickle me and she knew this) so when she tried I grab her hand and since my nails were long, I left an indent of my nail( it went away 2 seconds later) and she told the teachers, and I got a write up for “hurting another student” when she was chasing others down and tickling them!!!
Chase Evans I’m only here because of this one friend, she always helped me even when I was scared to tell what was wrong, and here name is Jane, Jane if you are seeing this, thank you so much, you have no idea how much you helped
yo, fifth grader here- going into sixth grade this september. i feel you. and im scared. very scared for my future of 12 more years of torment. i'm skipping out on college.
I’ve had one teacher, one, who told us that if we didn’t want to we didn’t have to stand or say the pledge of allegiance if we didn’t want to. It came to a point where only like 6 out of 32 kids in my class said it, we all now this system is fucked we need to change it.
Adrian Spade You’re in luck! I actually found my old essay, although it specifically focuses on the history of standardized testing. docs.google.com/document/d/14wBp9QGtg0ouawlxxUWb_2DuiI9J2aOwCMAwN6HLFU4/edit Hopefully this explains a good amount!
Adrian Spade Thank you. I live to serve. Besides what am I going to do with my essay about the failures of our education system other than feel sh*tty that I have to participate.
New DSM mental health diagnosis: ED SYS. Syndrome Criteria: Loss of Innate Joy for Learning Loss of Free Will of thinking Loss of Love of Life experiences Treatment: take two N.Black videos daily
im a bit late watching this but, the original school system was meant to produce good factory workers. it was meant to make everyone the same and squash individuality. and the worst part is, the ciriculum hasn't changed since those days. if thats not fucked up, i don't know what is
In ERC class last year, we were told to make our dream school system. I and 7 other students created a system that took every bodies needs into account in most of the ways that you pointed out in the video, on top of being able to make your own schedule along with the necessary subjects such as Math, French, English and History. The rest of your day could be done doing and learning about anything else that you are interested in. My group was told "It's a nice thought but it's not realistic because no one will be able to learn like that". This teacher was also a Psychology teacher
School is really messing me up, my mom can't seem to understand that, I'd rather die then make it to 7th grade Edit: I just saw this part, I stopped saying the pledge of allegiance because I felt uncomfortable, most kids in my kindergarten class would mumble it, and we got in big trouble for that, I have met only 4 teacher that cared about their students mental health, my My old science, Social studies, English, and P.E. teachers
Please don't die. Survive on spite if you have to, go feral and collect shiny things to make you happy. I don't care. Just live. You clearly have good taste and youtubers and we need more people with taste. Perhaps you exaggerating and I'm overreacting. But I'm 22 and I've had too many quiet discussions with friends about the times they attempted or thought about it. Also congratulations on resisting the propaganda. Keep doing that.
@@ellelongacre3723 I have talk with my oldest sister, she is trying to help me, she didn't make it to the 1st year of high school, thank you, I appreciate your kindness
My grade had to memorize part of the Declaration of Independence after we said the pledge everyday we droned like this “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stand one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by the creator certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.and the fact that I didn’t need to google this. sometimes I wonder what the founding fathers think of our country now..
@@feat_cielI pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, Then we had this thing to say but everyone including the teachers forgot it
I used to read all the time , I loved reading. But I was so forced to it's hard to find a book to genuinely enjoy. I kinda hate reading now. Thank you so much school for again destroying yet another thing I love
One of the few things I like about California is that Planned Parenthood taught our sex education unit, which included LGBT education and other topics other than sex too which is epic. I'm trans btw, but when I was in kindergarten or first grade I got in trouble for wearing a spaghetti strap tank top. Literally, what the hell?!
Same. They mostly preached abstinence as the "only 100% way to not get an STI/STD" and only taught a little about actual protection. They did mention LGBTQ+ but not much, also the dress code is stupid as feck. In health class they did similar tactics, basically trying to scare children into being healthy by showing them what bad foods do to your body, and like, sure, that can definitely be true, but instead of traumatizing kids try teaching us what's ACTUALLY HEALTHY. Godamnit, US, why do you fail so bad??
@@Josephine_de_Beauharnais1763 Funny how teaching abstinence has been proven to not reduce sexual risk yet there are still so many sed classes that teach it. I don't understand.
My school will always talk about how everyone is different and all brains work differently, but go on to give us tons of homework that make us stay up all night to get them done. When we come back tired they will say we should focus more on our mental health and about how important it is. And no one is talking about how damaging this is
Heck I exist within the school system! It makes it hard for me to want to continue drawing as a hobby and just completely drop it since school is overwhelming. (I say this as a fifth grader)
@@completelyunoriginal838 ye gods, that's sad. As someone who just graduated high school, I wanna say to you: no matter how much school beats you down, if you can, hold onto art and the things that bring you joy. If I didn't have art or sewing or my other interests during school, I probably would've lost all hope. Art gives life meaning, and it is a treasure. Good luck out there! (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
Every child in the US education system we hate it we resent it I have seen so many children that when they get to school they immediately want to go home like they don't want to be there hell I don't want to be there and I'm only a freshman
When I talked about very similar problematics with my teachers (I’m from Italy) they all answered the same: “what do you know about what’s best for you? You’re just a child/things are more complicated than that”. So it’s not an “America” problem. There’s a core stagnation at the base of the school system in general
When COVID first hit and our middle school was cancelled for 6 weeks, every single person in the class cheered and some threw pencils because they were getting a break. That’s the second I knew how fucked our education system was.
I used to prefer school over holidays just because I had no friends(this was in elementary school. I didn't learn anything at the time and my classmates treated me in a way that I'm still not sure whether constitutes bullying(it was not physical). Now I dread going to school even though my classmates are okay and I'm not nearly as bored.
I could go on for years about how the education system ruined my life. But heres a small one. My sister was in honors and put all her value in her intelligence. I was special needs but didn’t receive any of the help i needed and was instead punished for not being able to learn and haveing bad hand writing. She was praised for reading. I struggled to read and was made fun of. Now she barely reads for herself and i can barely read.
Middle school is the point in a bad movie where youre like "damn, theres still an hour left" And high school is like "only 15 minutes left of the movie" and its the worst 15 minutes of the last month
I loved learning SO FUCKING MUCH when I was a kid, but my creativity, willpower, and motivation has been completely broken tbh. And I can't talk to my parents about this because my father, a history teacher, has complete faith in the education system, and though I have breakdowns daily during the school year, he still wants me to be taking harder classes that I know for a FACT I'm not going to be able to handle. And there's absolutely NO room or time to take care of mental health when you're taking the highest level of classes and are expected to get only the highest grades. Also they don't teach us ANYTHING about mental health other than the fact that some people commit suicide; adults don't care at all about our mental health. And it feels like there's no time for the things I actually love. I don't even read for fun anymore, even during the summer when I have so much time to do so. In elementary school, I was SO excited to go to school, then in middle school I started to fake being sick, and now I'm scared to get sick at all because I might miss too much work and not be able to catch up. The whole system is just PASS THE GODDAMN TEST and then DONE. It just- god, I fucking hate school.
THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING UP ABOUT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE MANDATED IN CLASSES!!! I immigrated to America when I was 7, not knowing a single word of English, and the first thing I forced myself to learn (PRIOR TO EVEN SPELLING MY OWN NAME) was the pledge of allegiance. I went to a public elementary school and the first thing we did in class was the pledge. Now, I was coming from South Korea, and as an elementary kid there (in SK), the students also had to pledge to the Korean flag. I didn't really have questions about this because I was Korean and I was pledging to my country. Didn't see a problem with that. But in America, where I WAS NOT AN AMERICAN AT THAT AGE -- I WAS A COMPLETE FOREIGNER, I couldn't understand why I was FORCED and peer pressured to pledge to the American flag. This continued until I went to a private high school and never had to pledge again.
You know what really terrifies me about being an American? I have never gone to public school or any school where you're forced to do the pledge of allegiance, and yet I still know the chant word for word. How the HELL do I know the pledge of allegiance if I've never said it a day in my life?
After editing, I realized that it’s important to note that 2-3 rich subdivisions went to my district. With that being said, their rich people taxes funded the school. This is my experience going to a RICH SCHOOL. I literally cannot imagine going to a poorly funded school due to the area you live in. I saw a video of someone saying they didn’t even LEARN about Malcom X, let alone a demonized version of him. What I’m saying in this video is from one of the BETTER case scenarios. That should be very alarming.
God Bless
Oh god, going to school in my old town, there was sooo much poverty. Luckily the teachers loved their jobs so we had mostly good but not PE and we didn’t have health class. There were no “first, second, third, ect” periods. Home room was for most of our classes and we only left for art, music, and PE
My school is poor, lots of roaches
‘ Ghostie Vibin ‘ lol, at my middle, a teacher is super abusive to his child and beats her, he is still employed (and I’m at a rich public school)
Strawberry Goldfiish oh my god
This is why gen z as a general are depressed. School is mentally debilitating
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Gen Z? Every generation went to school
Ok this might sound ranty and like “poor me” boo hoo but the school system seriously fucked me over. I have severe adhd and odd and as a kid they hopped me up on drugs so I wouldn’t act out. I was the top of my class and a quick learner. Would read instead of eat lunch and play outside. Really everything looked good on the outside but i was actually a zombie. A little girl 7-12 who ate one meal a day (crackers and cheese), lived on 3 hours of sleep, and had no friends (but a plethora of bullies). I was so anxious that not getting my homework done or not getting a problem right would give me a panic attack. I was lonely and emotional-less and no one fucking helped. I would fall asleep in class and be called lazy and a slacker when my grades went down. I’m so happy my wonderful mother took me off the drugs but the school system permanently scared me. I can barely remember my childhood during that point.
This isn’t “poor me boohoo” 🥺 it’s your real, valid experience. We need to share these experiences more so people understand the negative effects on different types of folks.
I think the fact that you feel that sharing your experience is just you whining about something small is something that society does to gaslight people - especially marginalized people, including neurodivergent folks - into staying quiet and complacent under our oppression. "Stop complaining, it's not that bad, other people have it worse!" They're always trying to tell us our trauma, the abuse we suffered, didn't really happen because it was mental, not necessarily physical. They're wrong. They want you to just shut up, sit down, and take it, but you don't have to. Your trauma is trauma, full stop. It doesn't matter how or where it happened.
Bri Hill as someone who has been abused, absolutely. i don't talk about it a lot for this exact reason: because it feels like i'm seeking attention. even writing that feels wrong but it makes me upset when i see someone going through the same as me.
i digress; the reality is: if it hurt you, IT HURT YOU. everyone feels pain differently at different things. any pain or distress is VALID. i'm so sorry you had to go through that OP; i hope that you're doing much better now, and i wish you a smooth recovery. but it boils down to the fact that you're by far not the only one who had experienced this, and that's fucked up. education reform needs to be talked about much more than it is, and actual action needs to take place.
ShArInG sToRy tImE-
When I was younger I was pushed to the expectation of being better than I was able to be. That led to me believing that I was never going to be good enough and now I’m left with an inferiority complex.
I felt isolated because any friends that I would make eventually left me. That led to my maladaptive daydreaming [MaDD]
When we would weight ourselves for the Fitness Gram, I would always starve myself a week earlier because I didn’t want the coaches to see me differently.
However, on the outside I started mastering being okay. That little girl that barely slept, that had way too much stress for her age, that barely ate one meal a day..looked healthy..looked *smart*
The school system screwed me over so bad.
I had so many mental issues that I wouldn’t have had if I wasn’t pushed to unreal expectations, or stressed because of that one test on Friday Morning.
[theres my sob story :p]
[ d a y d r e a m e r ] since you say had, it sounds like you've begun the recovery process/are currently recovering. and i'm proud of you!! its so wrong that you had to feel that way; please know that you are loved, you are indeed good enough, and if you ever need someone to talk to don't be afraid to ask anyone here (and that goes for everyone, as long as you're comfortable with it!)❤️
The American school system gives me mad fire nation vibes ngl
Same. But more like ba sing se vibes
I don’t know, it’s kind of like a mix of both. On one hand the schools brainwash you to do their bidding, but on the other hand like the fire nation they also make you worship their nation.
whats that one zuko quote about how the war isn't about sharing the firenations greatness everyone else just fears them now
@@catmayor3522*There is no war in Ba Sing Se!!!* 🤡
@@catmayor3522 u know what that's a good shout too tbh
Notice how he never once said that we should get RID of schooling, just that it is flawed and needs to be dismantled and reassembled in a healthier way.
we have to learn somehow???? just not in this way????
@@thescarytransperson that’s the point this commenter is trying to make. They’re trying to show to the people who disagree with it when we say that schools are fucked and try to claim that we just want schools gone and say we still need to learn somehow so obviously our whole point is wrong that the goal isn’t to get rid of schools, it’s to fix them
We don’t need to remove school we need to reform it
Ok and
it’s about passing, not learning.
^^^This
what annoys me a lot about schools is that many people even as young as twelve speak up about the issues you brought up and that the people in power don't listen to us because we're 'too young' and 'don't know anything'. We know enough to try and get them to listen.
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Had an argument with my English teacher a few years ago about this (was great since we were learning how to debate lol) and her final point was more or less "your to young so you don't understand"
Yes! WE know what WE are going through smh
I am 12 and I hate school. The only thing it's good for to me is finding friends. I know that so far I have learned better sex ed from my friends and youtubers than actual school will teach me. I've learned more important things from my friends than my teachers overall. I hate the incorrect things I've been taught in school. If a 3rd grader can tell you that blood is not blue when it's in your body despite being told otherwise there's something wrong. They got a BASIC fact wrong and had the audacity to tell me that I was wrong. I could go on but that would be too long and this is already an essay but I hate being told that my feelings are not my feelings.
I'm 10 and I get stressed out from school.
This is what I’ve been telling people since 6th grade
I wrote a whole paper on this ON MY OWN because I was fed up
Me too dude. Even middle schoolers see the problem, yet these adults don’t. It’s so fucked.
EXACTLY!! the same with me
Nicholas Black this stuff is force fed to us at the ages of 4/5-18 and unless you seek to educate yourself on real history and the world then you’ll never learn it that is a big problem we need education reform like soon
Amess honestly you are an absolute legend for doing that
Dude... do y’all remember asking to go to the bathroom, and sometimes being told NO.
IK this is much later than the original comment, but I feel like writing it anyway - Once I had this (bad) science teacher who had been informed that I have a medical condition where I randomly need to go to the bathroom right then, and he still said no when I asked him. (I went anyway)
The fact that you even have to ask though, like my god-
when i asked and the teacher said no, everyone told me to just leave and that's how I got in trouble for peeing
@@nox8600 oh that sucks >:(
Hate teachers like that.
My middle school had a bathroom system where you were given three tickets each semester. You had to give the teacher a ticket if you had to use the restroom during class. If you ran out of them and had to go, then you get points taken from your participation grade. It was awful and a couple cool teachers refused to use it
I was being sexually harassed to the point my friends stepped in when the school didn't, I told the school and all they did was bring him into the office and say stop, no warnings, no consequence, nothing. Just... Stop
I'm at least happy that you have good friends to help you, but they really shouldn't have HAD to step in. It should've been the school and responsible adults, so I'm sorry that they just let that disgusting behavior slide. Hope you're doing better now, have a good day!
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There was a kid named Jaden in my 5th grade class (keep in mind, that means I would've been 10/11), I always knew he was a jerk. He would always make dumb, rude comments. Including body-shaming and saying slurs like "faggot", or "r****d". I always chose to ignore because I was always taught to stay in line, focus, mind your own business. Around the time I was figuring out my sexuality so I was doing MAD research. I came across several informative articles, including the fact the POC's, Lgbtq+'s, etc, were still not getting fair treatment. I was surprised, because figuring out that i like girls, now apparently couldn't get married to one. I decided to keep everything to myself, because I was taught that way, to be a "good child". (Let's be honest, revolutions, protests and rebellions are the only way this world will have any change, peaceful or not) I was coming into my pre-pubescent years, meaning I was feeling the need to explore more. Anyways, not the point, one day I was peacefully working on a short-story under a tree. my group of friends were a couple feet away kicking a volleyball around. This kid, Jaden, came up to them. I'd only noticed because the mood had completely changed. My friend group was now silent, and they were shifting uncomfortably. The kid, Jaden, was just watching them. My friend, Jack, threw the ball to my cousin. My cousin accidentally kicked it off from the goal post. He said in response to my cousin missing, "You suck! Go back to mexico, you immigrant!" We all got upset, but we didn't say anything because we were taught that way. And at one point my friend was tempted to throw the ball at him, but he controlled himself. They continued playing, and the kid continued sliding in racist "jokes". And racist slurs. At this point I was pissed. I'd decided to finally do something, so I called him out. He laughed at me and said my opinion didn't matter because I'm a girl. My black friend stepped in and demanded him to leave, thats when Jaden said, "You scared, n*" After that my friend left, but I was so pissed off, I grabbed the ball and chucked it at him. He was holding in tears and decided to back off. the next day he continued, this time instead of resorting to violence i went to the principal. His punishment? Apologizing. I got in trouble also because while I was telling the story I chose to be completely honest and tell her about me throwing the ball at him. I remember going him and crying for hours. Anyways my friends and I ended up "protesting". In our minds it was the most bad-ass thing but basically I didn't go to the detention hall and decided to refuse to go. Anyways thanks for listening Ig. Sorry it was long
Honestly is the concept of "learning" 14+ subjects at the same time even possible? Like, idk but my math teachers make poor grammar errors all the time, my biology teacher despises history and so on... Why are WE supposed to know all?
Getting a basis on all of them is necessary, but it becomes unnecessary, especially towards high school. I really did not need to learn pre-calculus.
But you’re right! There should be a focus on only a few subjects at a time.
I kinda get the concept for early education. When we're young we don't know what we like. So every kid tries everything out. But I definitely think failure in certain subjects should be more acceptable, as well as individualizing education at younger ages.
Like the teachers don't even the know or care about the other subjects
It takes people like three years of college studying one subject to become a teacher but when a student can't remember all that along with many other subjects their failures. Most of the subjects are important but they make them so hard to learn.
@@oliviawoloshyn5824 I don't get it as well! Of course in university there is a lot more reading, researching and stuff but mostly all of the chosen subjects are necessary to our future career. Goddammit, I'm still trying to understand why I need to know physical chemistry in order to pass the admission exam to (guess what?) history university. That absolutely freaks me out.
damn i wish my fury could be used to get out of school early.
Science: “people, especially growing children, need 8-9 hours of sleep”
Schools: “WE RIDE AT D A W N.”
(i didn’t make this up just thought it was funny)
also half the reason that fellow anxious gen z kids make jokes (read: plans) about overthrowing the government is so they can change the school system.
i mean, as an anxious gen z kid that is part of it, obviously among other things
@@ceruleanhearts7604 yeah there are so many things we need to fix the school system is one of the big ones tho
The school system is so fucked up and ran by people who want money. Why the fuck does standardized testing exist? Why created a standard for a large group of people? Not objects. People. People are versatile and learn differently. It’s almost like you set it up for students to fail and when they fail, you make money. Fuck the U.S school system.
istg we would run it better than those clowns in charge
As a zoomer, yes. Also to probably abolish the two party system to stop stupid people from getting funding just because they're on the "right side"
We are still using the same system as we did teaching kids to work in factories, do not talk back, you’re day is controlled by bells, this was when we were training kids to spend their days in dangerous conditions. We need education that we can use in our day-to-day lives. We don’t work in factories unless we’re rich anymore.
Schools really do need to teach life skills. "that's a job for your parents" nah most people's parents are too busy for that... and it leaves us blind as to how to live on our own.
I wrote my ACT essay off what you said, I got a high “grade” for it but it made me sad that I had to comment on the ways students of day or being taught the ways of yesterday. Glad I graduated high school but honestly if I could have skipped out on high school and middle school all together I would be a happier person today.
when i was in 6th grade a girl i knew got dragged to the principles office for ‘being dramatic’ and ‘disturbing students learning’. she was having a mental breakdown.
I learned to cry silently in 5th grade since I knew drawing attention to myself during a breakdown wouldn't bring anything other than harm. I'd get made fun of, and my teacher would ignore it.
She also blamed higher rates of anxiety and depression on screen time, and said me being trans was a mental illness, so there's also that. She ruined my mental state.
@@charlieandhisantics9954 I did that 5-10 times until grade 6
“The adhd and autistic kids who cannot comply with these standards.” Me: thinks about all the time I spent in the office due to mental illness... yeah it’s really alienating not being able to comply with these standards and feeling like a bad kid cause you have to receive special treatment, when your 5th grade class is the only one with a TA because if you have an anxiety attack, which is perceived as a tantrum the teacher can’t leave the class to calm you down. I always felt inferior during elementary, I think I only made it through jr. High and high school due to meds and therapy and even then the opportunities I was given seem to have been less than others. I wasn’t allowed to stay in or join clubs as all the club leaders thought I was kinda weird.
I feel you. I still get anxiety attacks during tests and try to hide it because ive learned that when it's obvious, I'm gonna get sent to the office for disrupting the class smh....
Jesus Christ.… would hopefully not stand for this.
Bro i missed out on like half a year of 8th grade, almost every month i was out for a week straight because i could barely find the will to eat let alone get up at 4:30am on an hour and a half of sleep and haul my ass to school to get yelled at by teachers for “not doing my homework because im lazy.”
Tantrum? Tantrum? Tantrum?
Imagine if they treated mental things like psychical ones
I do not know how to respond
That is horrible and really needs to be changed, you didn't deserve any of that
Shoutout to that one time we had to color code a picture in biology and when the colorblind guy mentioned he was colorblind and couldn't match the colors correctly, he was disregarded and got a lower grade.
I feel like I'm really lucky, most of my teachers would've found a way to help him do it without colors
...I’m livid. What the actual fuck?????
@@ashleybaragona1427 yeah, when he first told us we thought he didn't tell the teacher he was colorblind. but apparently she just didn't care.
Wow that's one shit teacher.
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As an atheist going to a school in a mainly Christian school, not to mention a right-wing, conservative school in Kentucky at that, I get so tired of my teachers and speakers telling me to pray to jesus and the lord and everything will be fine. Also being a smarter student with good grades doesn't help because standards are just so high for me and some friend like me. The school system is corrupted and it is destroying my and other's mental health very quickly.
Fr I try so hard to care but every year they beat the effort to try out of me. I can’t tell if it’s my fault or not.
I went to a Catholic school in Canada, and no teacher would dare try to get away with that shit..
Same
I would get told to pray to god ( which at the time I hated that entity? Can you even can’t that?)
I'm also a "smarter" student with good grades in the school I'm currently in. However, in a different state that I used to go to school in, i was failing almost every class. Each state has its own education standard which makes for overall unequal education
On the subject of pedophiles: One of my male coaches in P. E. in middle school would walk around as the girls were doing our exercises and, especially during push-ups, look at our butts. Due to me always wearing something covering he paid zero attention to me but those who were wearing the school clothes for Strength and Conditioning he would mainly walk around them. Every. Single. Time. And every girl was uncomfortable around him
What. The. Fuck.
I’m a freshman right now, and last year, the gym teacher was fired for molesting girls
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you should tell someone this is sickening
same but with my elementary teacher. he would touch my shoulders randomly and stuff like that but idk
The American (public, dont know if this makes a difference) school system was created by a guy (i dont remeber his name) that wanted to allow people to make a living. This was during a time when working in a factory was the best thing to do. So, because of this, the school system is focused around preparing children to work in a factory to make a living. Times have changed drastically and needing to know how to work in a factory is severely outdated. Instead of tearing down the outdated system, people try and put a bandaid on the grand canyon size cracks we have. No one has the balls to tear down the system entirely and make a new, better system. Obviously, it would be messy, but better in the long run. And some of the bandaids put in the canyon, dont work (i.e no tolerance).
Did you catch that one guy who spoke in all rhymes
I remember learning about him from history class. The guy's name was Horace Mann
@@nicolettefrattellone2130 fuck Horace Mann
all my homies hate Horace Mann
The ableism, the treatment, the AUDACITY makes me honestly hate every special ed teacher who isn't anti-school. Like, existing school. It's one thing to be complacent, but it's another thing to be complacent in the standing abuse and trauma of neurodivergent and ill students. I've seen verbal abuse, environmental disturbances, such as throwing and slamming things, poor situation management. I got the tailend, because I was scared into masking and labelled as a 'model quiet girl'. But still, the AUDACITY, my classmates deserved better. So much better than just one primary gifted-behavioral class in the school board. Better than either coughing up the information, or being dragged along in the dirt by the curriculum.
Yeah some of the worst/most abusive teachers I've had were teaching aids and special ed teachers.
The special ed teacher who I stayed in the room of for most of the day in the 4th and 5th grade was particularly awful to the point of traumatizing because she allowed kids _younger than me_ to bully me and the times I was in the rest of the student body I was with her teaching aid who was just as awful, it caused those grades to be a massive struggle for me and the introduction to 6th grade was one of the best things that happened for me last decade despite how awful the bullying I ended up going through in 6th grade was.
Elementary school should not have been that way, 6th and 7th grade should not have been that way, the only reason 8th grade wasn't painful was because I was in distance learning and my IEP manager was not involved when bullying was reported.
Oh boy this
This comment was a doozy :'l
I'm physically disabled. I have been blocked by a teacher from using the elevator because at the time I wasn't visibly disabled, there's been construction blocking main routes and forcing me to do the equivalent of walking half a mile to get to class, and until I got a doctor's note for gym they were forcing me to run the mile because they didn't believe I was chronically ill. Even then they placed me in a gym class and the teacher there forced me to do something every day, not understanding that my pain levels differ and that I only show up to school for attendance reasons. I feel like a bother going to the nurse for a rest because the nurse (bless her) is horrified that I'm struggling so much and just sends me home anyway.
I am at school 2-3 times a week but the school can't bother to give me access to tutors from home or let me stay home twice a week as an official part of my schedule (instead of having my mom call me in sick every time). The counselor wouldn't let us set up a 504 plan because it's "essentially the same as a health plan" because a 504 plan would make the school legally accountable for their actions.
I went through a really extreme dissociative episode in the middle of class because of a medication that worsened my dissociative disorder, and I had to explain what that was to the people who were supposed to help me.
TLDR; School fucks over those who are both mentally and physically disabled, and it's pretty fucking shitty of them.
Bro :(( Fuck them, you deserved better than that. I didn’t even get into physical ableism, so this anecdote is really important to acknowledge.
@@NicholasBlack Thank you! That's why I decided to add my perspective a bit, I definitely know other schools have it worse than mine and it's just another way the system needs to change.
I hate to the US school system so much. The bulling is horrendous I was bullied all throughout Middle School because I was different and when I went to go tell the teacher they brushed It Off. I went to the principal the principal didn't care. they talked all that about how they don't allow bullying yet it still happens and they don't stop it.
That’s another point that I forgot to add. The schools don’t do shit about bullying except turn it into a joke with their PSAs. They never get to the root of the issue nor do they follow up on their obvious virtue signaling.
I still get bullied and not once has the school system helped me i was bullied for 4 years because i wasn't skinny i wasn't smart i didn't learn like everybody else I was treated like the problem child I was less than the dirt that I walked on I pulled all-nighters to study for tests but I still didn't get it my mom would stay up with me trying to teach me until I got it sometimes I wouldn't even get enough sleep so I would be out of it the next day and the teachers would yell at me saying that I need to start paying attention I'm being left behind I have liked several assignments that I'm behind on it was a nightmare I was put in a mental institution for a week because it destroyed my mental health
Graysi Castillo 🥺 hang in there. The second after you graduate it feels like a bad dream. You’re so strong.
@@NicholasBlack thank you i'm trying my best but i'm on the edge of a mental breakdown
LITERALLY this. The only people who get something done to them by schools when they're bullied are the "normal" ones because somebody got dirt on them or some shit
agreed. i just took health in summer school and for the final, the teacher had a question that said to make a plan or a way of discipline to help kids with mental illnesses. you CANNOT discipline the mental illness out of a kid. so that was fun :)
What??? The fuck??? Yeah, lemme just write down a schedule and sprinkle in some punishments/reinforcements and my serotonin will just go “oppsie!!! My bad!!! I did a fucky wucky :(“ and start going again. Health class is the worst with misinformation.
@@NicholasBlack lmaooo my summer health class had abstinence-only sex ed with no kind of instruction for genital care, and you STILL could opt out. A parent could decide that their kid could not have to even HEAR the word "sex"
@@NicholasBlack EXACTLY! I have ADHD and my 5th grade math teacher was pissed that I literally COULD NOT pay attention, so she told me that every time she saw me "slacking off" she would give me detention, and it would start to pile up. I was terrified the rest of the year, and I had to force myself to pay attention and scold myself whenever I started not to. I was exhausted by the end of math class every day and I thought it was normal.
They did what? Thats like the “pray it away” argument. It doesn’t work
Discipline is not a friend to people with mental illnesses. That's like my friend getting a detention for not being able to focus cuz of ADHD and dyslexia and being to scared to ask for help because the adults in her life make her feel like she isn't worth anything. That's messed up
I love the fact that someone from a rich school, who graduated early, is saying this, because then maybe people will actually listen.
I've seen way too many people, who said the same things you said (maybe not exactly, and not the same way you worded it, but you know), but they were not taken seriously because they dropped from high school, or were in a poorly funded school.
Ps. Sorry if my grammar/spelling is wrong, english is not my first language...
Your grammar is actually spectacular! The only problem i saw is, in this context, it should be too many people, rather than to many people
Edit: Your, not You’re
@@benedictdwyer2608 Thank you, I'll correct it
@@benedictdwyer2608 *your* grammar.
See, natives make mistakes, to.
@@azuregriffin1116 oh, Sorry! Thanks for the heads-up!
I went to wealthy public schools and my education was even worse than his. I never heard of Malcolm X before reading it in this comments section and I'm a grown adult... I would attribute almost none of my education that has any value to school. Most of it is from the internet. I've learned exponentially more in a fraction of the time by educating myself online than I ever did in school.
The mental health should *always* be a priority, yet, when I had a really bad anxiety attack (because I was new to the school), I went to the counselor to calm down. After that she walked me to my next class and told my teacher why I was late, when she left my teacher told me "your classes are more important, don't you dare use an excuse like this again to miss class". I hate it here
Speaking of the play to learn: My school thinks that 'Play to learn' means looking at a picture in a book or having the subject on a 40 years old poster on a wall and can't be read from anymore for how washed out by the sun it is
My friends school ID had the national suicide preventions phone number on the back, like sis if you need to put it there maybe you need to check yourself
At our school all our ids have it printed on the back
same
School: why are teens killing themselves?
Kids:HMM I WONDER
School: social media and other kids! Definitely not stress and a need to be better than everyone
@@starrynight1165 don't forget that some parent are pretty ignorant and just blame friends and video games and everything except school. I had a friend with parents like that once....
Same lmaoo 😤😤
This video literally has me tearing up. The only thing school has taught me is that I'm not talented and that I can't be shit without a diploma. I don't even feel like I deserved to graduate...
i_heart_ymir I know this won’t help, but you deserve a diploma just for doing the bare minimum (getting through k-12)
I feel you. I completely gave up trying to be a scientist because my grade were shit and nobody tried to help.
I'm going to going into auto mechanics which is fun but I'm always gonna be sad that i could get to where I wanted.....
I hope everything work out for you. You do deserve to graduate!
You went through that hell hole, and the diploma is you reward, you deserve that!!!
also with the whole mlk example I WASNT AWARE MALCOM X EXISTED UNTIL HIGH SCHOOL. *HIGH SCHOOL*
I wouldn’t know anything about Malcom X if I didn’t get involved in Black Lives Matter and leave my indoctrination. I’m a literal child and I know more about economics, social justice, and historical figures like Malcom X that actual adults. I am 14 fucking years old and I can win a debate with an *adult* about economics (I consider winning the point where they start to gaslight me and pull the “you’re just a child” like because it means I’ve outsmarted them and this is their last resort) because I educated myself on things the school system never taught us.
I HAD TO LEARN ABOUT HIM ON MY OWN I DIDN"t EVEN KNOW HE FUCKING EXISTED
I’m a 7th grader and I have no idea who that is
I didn’t learn about him until now
And i’ve was told America never lost a war-
@ZESHA UDDIN EXACTLY-
I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES I LEARNED ABOUT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION-
also, i don't know if this has been said, the "special needs" kids are separated from the rest of their grade, and are treated like sh*t. my cousin has adhd, and has to be homeschooled because his last school force-fed him adhd medication, to the point where he was sick a lot. and when my aunt found out, the wonderful woman she is, she took it to court, and i'm just glad that my cousin is doing better now
Um excuse me, Your aunt dropped this 👑
not even in america but i can 100% sign off on this one
Same.
Same
The American school system wrecked me.
Same.
I’m from the uk but a lot of what he says applies to this English system as well I think
Ugh this is all true. I was also considered one of those “gifted kids” for a long time and it’s so horrible. It’s supposed to make the kids feel rewarded but all it did was make me feel like absolute shit. It made me feel guilty for the kids who were struggling.
And my god the schools are so underfunded. And at my middle school (i’m in high school now) they had so many disgusting habits in terms of food. There was rumors that they fed us horse meat. They had these buckets to put the milk and juice that you didn’t drink into. All the drinks would mix together and make this nasty liquid. Then they would pour it in the toilets. Read that again. THE TOILETS. The rags they used to clean the tables smelled disgusting and were permanently stained. The milk was watery. It was all so gross.
Also, the teachers are so underpaid. It’s ridiculous. The teachers literally went on strike to get a raise in pay.
And shoutout to my perverse seventh grade english teacher that I am still suffering trauma from even though he didn’t do anything to me. He was never fired. He touched girl’s legs, smoked in school, and gave the creepiest compliments. They weren’t like normal compliments. It would make your skin crawl if you heard it. He is the reason that now, I start physically shaking when I have to talk to teachers now. You know when you look at someone and you get that gut feeling to RUN THE FUCK AWAY? That’s the feeling I got from him. You wouldn’t want to be in the same room as him alone. One of my friends messed up a test in his class but didn’t retake it because she didn’t want to be alone with him.
And I agree the dress code is very sexist. It’s also disrespectful to the boys, just assuming that they can’t keep it in their pants when most of them probably can. You’re right, it teaches girls that their body is viewed as an object by others. That’s honestly so fucked up.
And don’t even get me started on group punishment. Holy fucking SHIT I hate this. One person acts out in class and the whole entire class isn’t allowed to go to lunch. One person argues with the teacher and the whole class gets detention. One time in my 8th grade science class, my teacher thought we all cheated on the test because everyone in the class got the same answer wrong. Like you dumb ass, the reason we all got it wrong was because you didn’t teach us that particular topic. And she berated us and forced us to take a new pop quiz or she would call our parents.
and the history lessons are so fucking biased. I was always taught the “martin luther king good, malcolm x bad” narrative. We went over the american revolution more times than I could keep track of, but we only went over the civil war once. We also went over ww1 only once. They always told us that america won the Vietnam War or it was a tie. Stonewall? Don’t know her. They never taught us about stonewall, even though we had a whole unit about the 1950s and 1960s back in 8th grade. I never learned about the Tulsa race riots either. Back in the 1800s when we were unnecessarily attacking native american people? We learned about that for less than a class period. Like, they kind of just mentioned it and then continued on. They like to skim over embarrassing defeats in american history and focus on the stuff that makes the country look good. America isn’t this great country with good morals like we were always taught.
And sex ed is shit too. It’s always about ABSTINENCE ABSTINENCE ABSTINENCE. Teenagers are going to have sex whether you like it or not, and it’s better to just teach them how to do it safely. And LGBTQ+ sex ed? Literally nonexistent.
Oh and the zero tolerance shit! You get bullied relentlessly and nobody gives a flying shit! Then when you finally snap and hit back at the bully, you fucking get in trouble. I dont even need to explain this it just makes me so fucking mad. Luckily I wasnt bullied, but so many people have been and it’s just terrible
Sorry for this essay and sorry for this being a huge rant honestly
i relate and agree with all of this.
Hi, im 16 and relate to and agree with every single thing you said, and i'm not even from the US, I'm from Argentina (Latinoamerica) a third world country, and i cannot believe the US school system is so awful taking in count that It's a first world country
Yeah, I agree. The sex ed thing really bugs me, I've already been forced through 3 of those and all where the same. Not once was anything lgbtq+ mentioned. I live in a rural-ish area on the conservative side, so teaching about lgbtq+ would probably make a huge difference and clear up so much confusion. It's depressing to see any part of the U.S. education can be picked apart so easily, things seem only to be getting worse with distance learning too.
I get that this isn't what my middle school teachers meant when they said high school would be harder, but I still feel cheated. They kept saying it'll be difficult and we'll have a lot more homework and be prepared, but never prepared us. In elementary I was known for always having a smile, now every other day I lay face down on my floor for 30 minutes.
And the anthem, just, no words.
It seems ridiculous that these problems are a drop in the bucket that is the U.S. education system.
The fuck america?
@@flowerditzi my wise friend once told me that America is just a third world country pretending to be a first world country
I love this comment
Honestly most education systems are shite. I’m only going into 3rd year in secondary school in northern ireland, and I agree with you, i’ve become a completely different person, my mental health is nonexistent and i relate to your story a lot
I’ve heard so many stories across the world about shit education systems. This definitely isn’t just a US problem. This seems to be an international problem.
Nicholas Black Even my dad, who is the principal of my primary school, agrees that you shouldn’t be forcing teenagers to get up early, spend all day at school, do homework and sleep, repeat. If he was a secondary school principal he would change the hours or the amount of homework. Unfortunately he can’t, but his primary school is amazing, the hours are still 9am-3pm but very little homework
Dearbhla Dudz these systems need to be uprooted and rewrote entirely. It’s so wild how deeply flawed it is.
Same for me in Britain, me and many of my friends have been depressed for long periods of time during or just after our school years
Same, and I’m only going into 5th grade, in kindergarten, I was so happy to learn, but by 2nd grade, I absolutely didn’t give a single fuck about school.
I "thrived" in school and I cannot even begin to describe how much better my mental health is now that I'm both out of highschool and taking a break from college. I was always led to believe that going to school and getting a "good job" (whatever that means) was just as necessary as eating and sleeping. My grades were always fine but I was a sensitive kid and school amplified my anxiety to a crippling degree. Public school had me constantly panicked and exhausted trying to get good grades and college just took that and added being broke and starving. And I signed up to add on that extra stress for the small price of $10,000 a semester at the wise old age of 17. You know, when I still had to ask to go to the bathroom and I had to wait patiently to be dismissed from class by an adult? Sorry for the semi-unrelated ramble lol I just hate the education system so much.
love how this is a massive component on why I'm a depressed mess and my mom blames it on my phone and computer (the only thing that keeps me distracted from troubling thoughts), and takes those away instead of realizing their kid is struggling
oh.my.god. me though. i told my perents my online friend literally died and i was depressed about it and they grounded me from seeing the rest of my.. Alive online friends. that did not go over very well i'm still messed up about it to this day 8)))
@@2cat4life The hell? Did they think you killed them or something?
@@charlieandhisantics9954 no they really thought i was taking it too seriously
@@2cat4life what the fuck
@@2cat4life W h a t
SOME ONE YOU KNEW LITERALLY DIED WHAT-
As someone who experienced both the Vietnamese and American education systems, I do agree that they are very stifling. In the case of Vietnam, it’s even worse because its education system utilizes corporal punishment and it places a massive importance on test results as those can determine your future trajectory
This really is an international problem, huh. How did the entire world fuck this up so badly?
I recommend watching this video
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I forgot to mention, but at least for the elementary kids, if you stay for the majority of the day, you do get naps in the afternoon
@@JimmyTVu where I am, my elementary school never gave us naps
Jimmy T. Vu I think that only in a select amount of schools, mine never did.
After being labeled as "gifted" and "advanced" I felt like no other part of me was important. Everyone would praise me for my intelligence without acknowledging my other qualities. I felt like the only part of me that mattered was being smart. I felt extra pressured to take multiple APs, get good grades, and try to make it into a prestigious college to the point I forgot to even focus on myself. During my sophomore year of high school, I realized that I had no idea who I really was. Instead of developing my individualism, I was trying to meet the standards everyone was setting for me. I wasn't happy, and I often had mental breakdowns due to the stress.
Now I'm trying to focus on myself more. I've been slacking a bit in my classes but I'm way happier. School tore me and my mental health to shreds. That's not what school should be doing to children... Anyways fuck the American school system.
I'm one of those kids who is "the smart one" and gets alot of school rewards, but the whole giving a medal to someone who got good grades thing makes me feel sad. They never make me happy, they make me scared and I feel like I am being put on a pedestal above others
I also got a medal for it when I graduated. Yet I didn’t learn shit. It really doesn’t make sense.
@@NicholasBlack It never made sense to me. All it does is make me feel bad for my friends who struggle to learn in school's hellscape while I get rewarded for working not that hard. I just remembered things in class and I taught things myself with outside sources
@@ladylunatic6549 I felt the same in school. I got good grades but I never thought of myself as "smart person", instead I think a lot of my classmates were smarter and cooler than me, that's why it felt awkward for me to receive awards and it also made me feel kind of bad for my friends.
Same
Same. It also just put a lot of pressure on me to not mess up or let these people down. That alone is an incredibly unhealthy mindset.
It’s crazy that only as an adult did I realize that we were in school for 8 hours a day. It’s like you have a full time job from the time you’re 6!
And you don't get paid. Lol.
Thanks for sharing this link .
And by the time you’re in sophomore or junior year you’re expected to get a part time job on top of it.
The thing is, you can't win in the American school system. Either you have huge expectations put onto you because you "learn better" and therefore are smarter because of a letter grade, or you're cast aside and told that you're a lost cause. No one comes out of the system healthy and happy because there's no way for anyone to be such.
throwback to the time when my teacher asked all of us how long we spent on hw each night, some ppl said 30 mins, some ppl said 3 hours. he gave us hw that would take an hour and a half b/c "you guys said you didnt have much homework".
👁👄👁 that teacher is receiving my bad vibes as we speak wtf
See, I’ve always been considered a “gifted” or “smart” student, but I don’t believe I deserve those titles. It’s just because I am able to learn in the horrible American school system while a lot of my classmates could not.
Don’t even get me *started* on when There were only like, 3 kids who did the homework (I was usually one of them) so the teacher makes the rest of the kids stay inside to do it while the 3 kids get to go to recess. It was always HUMILIATING to be one of the only kids to go outside because I could just feel everyone’s anger and jealousy pointed towards me. It sucked and didn’t have many friends outside of my class, so I usually didn’t have any fun out there, anyways.
I hope that made sense, I’m not very good with words sometimes. I really just wanted to express my frustrations of being a “gifted” student in the American school system.
You put it into words quite well! I definitely felt it.
Nicholas Black Alright, thanks!
human rat Exactly!
Even the so called “smart kids” who had “privileges” still suffered due to isolation and expectations much to high.
Cordelia Jackson yeah, my only motivation was band, band is the only reason I want to go to school, but it’s slowly fading, because I’m a short person, but I play the tuba, and let’s say people aren’t that supportive and laugh
I feel like a lot of the younger generations realize just how faulty the system is but when it comes to bringing such concerns, they always fall on deaf ears. So everyone is basically stuck in said situation until someone in power decides to do something about it. And I feel it safe to say they won't so...
I've gone to the guidance offices so many times for mental health issues, and every single time, no matter who it is (and I've met at least 5 counselors), they always say "oh, well at least your grades are good." I've been in the brittle aftermath of a panic attack, and they really want to point out my grades???
I remember staying up past my bedtime reading dozens of books. Now i can barely read a book cover to cover without losing all motivation.
It's kind of funny how a teacher who is ever-so-slightly relatable, enjoyable, or in any way pleasant to their classroom will be known as the school-wide favorite teacher.
Just the smallest hint that an adult understands you and cares about you makes you attach to them by default because there is no competition for someone who treats students well.
I remember my teacher assigning us Lies My Teacher Told Me for summer reading and it blew my mind. Basically all of what they teach in school is bullshit, and when it comes to learning history, it’s more of a setback then anything
Especially in America, I’m pretty sure we don’t learn every major thing (since we are expected to know it) that happened in America’s history. And apparently they are telling Columbus asked the Native Americans to let them live here. Which is just indirect racism (I think).
Eva Ticket They also don’t teach anything about Africa besides Ancient Egypt. They really only touch on ancient Northern Africa. I remember we skipped an entire section on Africa in my World History class.
I barely know anything about Africa... I should learn about it cause I don’t know what’s happened in a literal continent
Eva Ticket they treat Columbus like he was a hero. He was legit one of the worst people. The things he did to the Natives was terrible. When I heard what he did from UA-cam, I legit wanted to cry
focusing so much on studying that you ignore your needs (especially during testing season) has been so normalized and it is TERRIFYING
Suffering at school is normalized and even seen as a sign of "success" when the student's grades are good.
“You are making them malleable puppets to the system”
The school system: yeah, that’s like, the whole point
I used to buy Gatorade from the school store to give away to poor “kids” but they soon banned me from doing that and one day I opened a candy business and other kids opened their candy business but one day when mine got successful the school gave me detention when I just gave a piece of candy to someone for free even though someone sold their stuff in front of them ,
When I was younger my stepfather worked at a bakery and would take leftovers home sometimes. I would give them to the less financially stable kids because the schools offered lunches were a sandwich with only ham on it, a cheesestring and a paper cup to fill with water from the fountains, sometimes if they were lucky there would be a plain yogurt tube. The school was not happy, how dare a student care about others!
"They destroyed my love for learning." S A M E. When I was younger I did Khan Academy for fun. Then I got to high school. And after that I just... I couldn't handle it anymore.
Khione same, and I just got through 4th grade
Reminder that I, as a person with C-PTSD, diagnosed and in therapy, with notes and letters being sent in every week from a licenced medical professionals, asked to be put in a separate room during my literal flashbacks to the worst events of my life, and the school sent out an email to my teachers essentially saying "Send her to the guidance office only if she stops responding, don't go easy on her." (A direct quote, mind you). I only knew this because I was lucky enough to have a particularly kind English teacher who showed me the email because she cared enough about her students to make sure they weren't actively wanting to commit suicide. I have been sexually harassed more than three times, and I only reported it once, because they disregarded me and called me a liar, and word got around so now guys have the confidence to say whatever they want to me. Just public school things!!!
DUDE SAME! LIKE, ALL OF THAT WTF
Oh gosh, I hope you're at least a little better now ❤️ But yes. Public school is literally the worst thing.
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry thst you got messed up by the school system, hopefully you can recover from that toxic environment! Stay safe and have a good day :]
... WTF .
School is honestly like a cult that our parents send us to
exactly, they promise better for you, then break you apart and build you according to their fucked it standards.
And to add on to that if you don’t Finish your three hours of homework you get more when you get to school plus me with my five after school activities it’s really hard to finish everything and I still managed to be a top of the class student
"But you have to go!"
I dont want to. I know I have to. I dont know how I get a's. Its a hell, really. I hate it. I hate the standards too. Its like I never had a free will, and im not gonna until Im like 18.
Maybe not as bad as a cult but certainly veryyyy close. Too close
What I’ve been taught in school, pretty much my entire life, and even outside of school is that I can not just be passionate. I have been taught that anything I am able to do must become a job in the future, and therefore have been unable to actually form healthy, normal hobbies.
I used to love math and science and writing, I would focus in class and had all A’s. I would write entire worlds and build and I was so creative. Until I started to get older.
I started gaining memories, teachers got stricter. Science wasn’t as colorful and beautiful anymore, writing bored me and became a chore, and I started failing in math because I wasn’t able to do division and multiplication as well as others and no one wanted to help me.
I fell into despair, I would force myself to throw up so I could call in sick and I would scribble out any story of mine that contained anything that school wouldn’t approve of.
I had wonderful ideas that I wish I could go back to, but I wasn’t allowed to because of the people around me calling it horrible. Calling it inappropriate that I wanted to write a story about a little boy feeling insecure instead of a little girl because boys are strong.
I have been pressured to turn everything I love into a job or it is worthless, I have been taught that if I do not have a 8+ year degree I am a shadow of a person, and I have been taught that if I want to be myself then I should just leave this goddamn country.
But then.. ohhhh then if I say I want to move to another country, or if I DARE learn German I am called a Nazi, told that I am Hitler reincarnate and that I deserve to DIE for not wanting to be in America. By adults and children alike.
I've a lot of my teachers that I'd rather drop dead than make it to high school. two of them laughed at me and said I was overreacting. one told me to show them my wrists/arms. but they never did anything, ever. I'm currently doing summer school because I failed 8th grade and it's torture.
🥺 I promise you once you graduate it’ll feel like a bad dream. You can do it. I believe in you ❤️
I can relate to this to some degree when I was in the eighth grade I often felt depressed and burned out due to the heavy work load and now with this pandemic out I'm stuck in this shit hole all over again. School is great huh!😃👍
I completely agree, school has practically butchered my will to do virtually anything, never mind learn and actively retain information. I've struggled with perfectionism which borders on neurotic for as long as I can remember, and school has, in my experience, done nothing but fuel it. The overwhelming amount of pressure to do everything in a perfect fashion is incredibly damaging and unhealthy, and it's pushed onto children from such a young age, it's horrible. For me, it's gotten to the point where anything remotely related to school that is graded, which is pretty much everything, scares and stresses me endlessly to the point of panic attacks (which are then shunned and ignored by school) usually over relatively inconsequential tests (I'm 14, in S2). I know this sounds somewhat hyperbolised but school has had a terrible effect on my mental wellbeing and life in general, and I know what you mean. This has turned into more of a vent than a comment, but it was nice to get out of my system, thanks.
I relate to struggling with perfectionism 100% and everything you said is how I've felt for years!! I'm 16, grade 11. Since school started this year I haven't gone a day without crying myself to sleep from stress and uncontrollable bouts of anger from being overwhelmed.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! EDUCATE US NICK!
I had these amazing Civics teachers last year. They didn’t care about a letter grade, they cared if you internalized the information they gave you, and more importantly, cared about you and your mental health.
When I struggle on some days and think no one would care if I died or that no one cared about me, that they did. When I told them I was struggling with mental health, they excused the missing assignments I had and told me to focus on taking care of myself. They mocked the shitty presentations about mental health that the school provided and how you just needed to “talk to someone” (and gave much better advice about it too) My mom refuses to take me to therapy, the school counselors are shit, I love my friends but they already have shit on their plate that they’re dealing with, who the fuck am I going to talk to?
The school viewed us as statistics. Cookie cutter. We aren’t individuals, we’re dollar signs. Standardized testing only exists to make money off of failing students. Standardized testing is greed based. I could go on about how trivialized the experiences with shitty issues students had and how school destroys mental health but I’ll continue about my Awesome Civics teachers.
They didn’t shove the information down your throat. They presented it in a PowerPoint or something similar and actively explained it to you, they didn’t shame anyone for not understanding, and anyone who did was immediately shut down. (Actually there was this one kid, Faris, who would pull that shit all the time but my civics teachers would put a stop to that immediately.)
If they noticed other teachers were assigning too much homework or overworking their students, they would lower the amount of assignments that week or lower the difficulty to allow their students to breathe.
They taught you things that weren’t necessary to the curriculum but were important nonetheless. They especially liked my class because of the smaller number of lazy people in it.They just didn’t like laziness. Like actual laziness and not the kind that most teachers assign the meaning to. Anyway I love them and they are the best teachers I’ve had ever.
Only teachers that I’ve had encouraged a love of learning.
They also taught us like actually history. And they were almost totally unbiased. They knew America was a very shitty country and they told us so and wanted us to learn this shit so we could fix it.
When I was in elementary school (and even now as a middle schooler) I was considered “gifted”. Class was and is usually me getting lost in my own head then figuring out things later (I have inattentive adhd) , which causes panic attacks and a LOT of anxiety. I was never learning or even challenged because of this whole one size fits all mentality and I really hate it and I think it messes up so many peoples creativity. And my parents say that its how they did school. Like I’m sorry sweetie but we’re two different people.
schools drown kids in work and expect them to get it all done in a few weeks, and if they dont they're seen as "lazy" or "disrespectful"
one of my teachers keeps saying "YoU'rE yOunG AdUlTs" to try and make a point that we should be more responsible (by responsible she means "time management," being "respectful," being able to write essays constantly, and turning in assignments, etc etc)
we're not young adults, literally all of us are 13 or 12 like??? yes some of us are maturing quick but we havent even hit late adolescense yet please stop-
Y'all remember that study about how in high school students in 2013 had the same anxiety levels as patients in insane asylums in the 1950s? I think about that a lot as well
Wait seriously???? Holy shit.
😀
sorry for bothering you, but do you remember the name of the study? It sounds really interesting and it may be useful for a future college project of mine!
How do you favourite a comment-
they also need to fix the stigma around “special education” kids. kids with different learning needs and the need for an IEP (individualized learning plan) are often seen as disobedient, snarky, disrespectful, or difficult because without their proper learning needs met they are forced to suffer through the classes that don’t work for them.
wait ive been called all of that
sometimes in the same sentence wtf
I just hope that when generation z grows up, we will all have intelligence to throw this education system down the gutter into a sewer system, where it belongs (even if that's an insult to all sewer systems).
get flamed, school!
As the schools should 😌
I say 12 a.m. because we're all always up at around that time
@Gail Green lets hope not. But i can see something like that happening
@Gail Green i think so. i think trying to make video educating others or talking with friends and family can help. really expressing your opinion honestly. and then when your an adult you can try and vote on as many things as possible and just really make sure (even if it doesn't always work) to let your voice be heard.
I just recently learned that the US makes kids chant a pledge of allegiance everyday. We used to do that in my country decades ago, when we were under a violent dictatorship. So much for a free country... Not to mention the dress codes. We don't have that either
They’re not supposed to force you to (not that they don’t). I always face the wrong way and never say the pledge.
I legitimately can't believe that's an actual thing. There is no way schools actually make kids do that. I refuse to believe it. It's outrageous.
Lmao once I slept through the pledge and I was escorted out of my class by a security guard.
throwback to when a teacher in 5th grade yelled at me so hard that i cried in front of my entire school because i wasn’t doing the pledge of allegiance (i was trying to do the pledge but it took a minute because i was having trouble figuring out which hand was my left and right so i could do it correctly LMAOO also i go to a super religious and conservative school so not doing the pledge was like the equivalent to fist fighting a baby to them lolol)
@@nox8600 I always sit down and ignore it and a couple times my Chinese teacher has yelled at me for it
There are so many kids in gen z that are so fed up with the way things are, that I do have hope that things will change. For me, at least, the sex ed system riles me fucking up, I’m going to literally try and fix it.
The bias in my elementary school was so bad that I didn’t even learn who Malcom X *was*. I had to figure it out when I read books about POC that mentioned him. If that isn’t biased I don’t know what is.
I mentioned that in the pinned comment. I got LUCKY with my school which is so fucking concerning. The fact that it’s worse in other places...yikes
I honestly still don't know who he is really. I'll have to look it up on my own -- I've been out of high school close to five years now... Didn't learn shit there.
I'm starting highschool this year. Never even knew who he was until I watched an Adam Ruins Everything clip and they mentioned him so I researched him. They've never even said their name, they tell the basic of MLK, like two years ago talking to a kid in my grade and he didn't even know who Rosa Parks was. It's so bad.
evestitu_ I learned about her in a Drunk History video! Never even mentioned her. They also teach that we don’t know the exact reason she didn’t want to give up her seat (was it protest or was she tired? Maybe both?) and I was just like No! We do know! She planned to do this because she active in the civil right movement! But of course I was brushed off... They teach such white washed history and it bothers me so much.
@@evestitu_7378 same, tbh tiktok has taught me more than school has
East Asian students: crying, almost evryone is suicidal, 1/3 trying to commit suicidal.
Americans: Yeah let’s do that, they get good grades
Tbh after school activities are pretty weird concept for me because they also influence university admition. Didn’t some state also make them inherently religious as well? I believe some state propose “in god we believe” or something like that be engraved on every school.
Edit: the statement was "in God we trust" South dekota have already signed the bill here is the article I read: www.npr.org/2019/07/25/744909500/south-dakota-public-schools-add-in-god-we-trust-signs-to-walls?t=1594379697073
And here is the article about kentucky:
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/12/in-god-we-trust-display-in-kentucky-schools-marks-effort-to-mix-church-and-state
And louisiana:
www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/louisiana-public-schools-display-god-trust-beginning-school/story%3fid=64947756
In my school they’re 100% optional. I personally was part of my school’s International Dance Club which was basically just like 12 kids who liked Kpop learned a popular dance and got to perform it at the end of the year. It was the only thing that kept me going in high school. Legit going to that teacher’s class after school and seeing those people once a week held me over and kept me going. I don’t think they should be mandatory, but I definitely think they should be encouraged
I mean, I'm pretty sure every school kid has to say/at least hear the pledge of allegiance every single day, and that has blatant Christian language in it. Not sure that's quite the same thing, but still
@@theowild2524 I added some sources to the in God we trust thingy and sure it's not in every state but goddamn is pretty fucked up when church and state is supposed to be separate. And the pledge of allegiance is really shooking for me as a non american.
@@scarykloky519 Thanks! I love being disappointed by the country I live in! One of these days people will remember that we're supposed to have a seperation of church and state. Or The Handmaid's Tale will come true in some way.
but seriously, thanks for the sources. If nothing else it's nice to be informed.
@@theowild2524 That's true, fucking crazy how religious US is
I honestly used to love learning and reading but as I've progressed through school, I've just become more and more worn down. My adhd made all of this worse, along with the schools refusal to do anything about the kids that constantly tormented me in middle school for daring to be anything but normal.
School has screwed me over, and made sure that I would be scared to ask anyone for help.
multiple times i have been yelled at and yelled at for things that DEFINITELY didn't deserve it, and every time i would try to stand up for myself (and friends, as well) it would be "talking back" or "disrespectful" and when i would argue with their BS points i would either get sent to the office or have to fill out these dumb slips my school had. math is STILL my worst subject but when i would have trouble or space out (i have ADHD) i wouldn't get the help from teachers i was promised, but i was ridiculed and told it was my fault rather than the teachers for not teaching correctly. anyways this has been my "school is bad" talk, thanks.
"The US Education System is Deeply Flawed"
Ah yes, the floor is made from floor.
I feel like the education system is changing, but slowly and only in younger grades like preschool, kindergarten, and first (I'm planning on being a teacher for those grades) and new teachers are learning about how to let them learn in interactive and hands on fun ways and we're learning developmental theories and learning about what children at that age need. But then again, that could just be my school system
I totally agree that there are changes happening. You teachers are really the forefront of that movement. I have a lot of respect for you guys, especially the ones dedicated to real education.
What pisses me off is that they're doing it in my country as well but only in the most expensive private schools. In public schools, however, hundreds of kids attend classes exclusively in order to have the only meal of the day.
The school system is too slow to keep up with the rapidly changing world. My school is considered “great.” However, just last school year, they started scratching the bare minimum of LGBT issues. This was in my literature class. We also touched the bare minimum of POC issues as well. However, these bare minimums were just footnotes brought up in conversation, rarely in lessons. My school pretty much just virtue signals about these issues. They don’t actually care. They are still teaching bias history. And again, my school is considered “great.”
The school system was the first system that made me realize "wait, this is awful... I could have done better. Anyone could have. Why doesn't anyone change this?" And from there I realized that about a lot of things. As a kid I loved to learn but school stamped that out of me. Now I can't stand to be in school and when I'm out, I hope I can change it for everyone else.
Also, school re-teaches things so many times. It felt like there was a constant loop of information in social studies and science, ela wasn't even a loop it was just the same thing over and over. Math at least was new things all the time but I don't remember any of it. Maybe time should actually be spent teaching things the first time?
Exactly! A basis in these concepts is important, but at some point it becomes monotonous and unnecessary. So much valuable time is wasted with repeats.
Yeah, I don't need to learn how to do multiplication more than once, I'm pretty good at it too, if I may say... I also have only heard of Vietnam, we haven't been taught yet, I'm going into seventh, but I've learned about the wars we 'won'(I say 'won' like that because so many lost their lives)I wish my teachers would understand that we need to learn this, to stop the past from repeating itself...
“And da plant is organism that make own food” did u know dat????
Not to mention the lack of any lgbt history in history and English classes, along with the lack of lgbt related issues in health classes. Throughout my entire K-12 experience I only have two memories of anything lgbt related being taught- one was the mention of Stonewall in AP US history and the other was a documentary about AIDs shown in health class...which was the only time anything lgbt related was discussed.
i'm currently in 8th grade, and so far the most i've heard of lgbt from the school itself is this one time i checked out a book in 5th grade and the librarian literally warned me, yes, *warned me,* about the fact that the plot was the main character's favorite uncle and role model getting married to another man. and guess what? later that day my mom saw the book and told me to take it back because i was "too young" to read it. i don't know if that was because of her own opinion or my dad's, but good god did that experience not help me in any way.
edit: this makes me think, if i was to check out the book now that i'm older, what would my mom say? maybe that would be a good way to test her tolerance of lgbtq and how safe it'd be for me to come out
literally all the LGBT education my school has given is saying that gay people and trans people exist in health class once
Haha, my school has told us time and time again that “it’s not school appropriate” to talk about queer people.
The worst part for me is the time.
I'm extremely photosensitive, so having to be up and out in the morning is physically painful
The U.S School system is so bad that someone told me Martin Luther King Jr was our first back president, I think it was my history teacher and, I had to find out the hard way, that it was a lie and I've never felt so embarrassed in my life. I can't remember what grade, but it was elementary school and, I didn't find out until 8th grade.😭
I was called ‘gifted’ from a very young age. I’m in the highest classes I can be in for my school. I’m the quote unquote poster child for what the school system wants children to be. I’m intelligent by their standards, I’m a good test taker, I’m well versed in the arts. School has always come easy to me. I’m lucky for being that way. I also have severe anxiety. I am mentally incapable of getting anything below an 85 on any given assignment. I failed one test in my math class this past year and I was horrible mentally. I hated myself, I was irritable. It’s one of the reasons my friends and I got into such big fights and why half of my old friends secretly hate me. I know it’s my fault, but it’s also the education’s system for fostering my issues. I’m applauded because I ‘care so much about school’, but I don’t. I don’t study, I don’t try. I never have. I’m setting myself up to fail, basically. I have a whole life plan that is going to wreck myself because I have been taught that in order to be successful, I must be the best. My mother’s a teacher, and she is a damn good one. I know quite a bit about the flaws of the education system because I have the advantage of seeing the teacher’s side. I get the system’s favor because I am smart and amiable and I know teachers. Another thing about the education system is that a C is considered passing. So, tell me, why is every child expected to get an A every day, every assignment? I have three best friends. Two of them are not benefitted by the system. They are in all of the same classes as me, but they are constantly reprimanded by their parents, by everyone because they have stopped trying because of the toxic aspects of this cultish system. My other best friend is a lot like me, but she does research. She’s the smartest person I know, apart from myself because I have been told I am better than everyone else because I am smart from a very young age, so my self esteem is either what society calls vain, or absolutely horrible because I hate myself because of one grade. She does research on history and knows a lot, and I have learned more about that subject from her than anyone else. Sorry for the rant, I get extremely heated about education.
i feel this way too like i’ve never had to try to be at the top of my class cause i can memorize things very well and i get rewarded for something that comes easily to me and when i dont understand something my teachers (not all of them) look like i’ve offended them when i ask a “dumb question” which give me anxiety when i need to ask more questions. to top it off my school is VERY athletic and sports heavy and i’m forced to do a sport which adds even more stress and i don’t even enjoy sports.
Same, I have also always been called “so smart” and I think that plays a part in how now, when I do as small a mistake as get one question wrong or do more pages then I’m supposed to, I burst out into a flurry of me saying “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” Because I’ve always felt as if my self worth is only deserved if I get everything right and am still considered “so smart”...
I’m like you, I would love to learn if school hadn’t made it so complicated and stressful. I love to read, and now I barely can because I have no time and I need to always be studying. I’m terrible at math, and I could be so better at it if school hasn’t ruined it for me. Also to note my district doesn’t let high schoolers and middle schoolers have breaks, like no recess. We only have lunch as a break.
Wait, do any junior high schools or high schools let you have breaks? I thought that was normal.
@@marenquaranta2134 no, just lunch, and locker passing periods. in the morning we have to wait a little and we can talk and stuff but not during the day. we used to have breaks until they removed them off of our schedules.
Were we supposed to have breaks because if so, I’m hella pissed
Alkora C we did. But they thought that oh we’re not stressed at all, so let’s pile more work!
elyysiian that is an oof. Jeez...
The American school system made me lose my will to live in the 4th grade
For me it got to the point where I was planning my death, but did the teachers care NO! And it’s so messed up, and then this girl tried to tickle me (I get violent when people tickle me and she knew this) so when she tried I grab her hand and since my nails were long, I left an indent of my nail( it went away 2 seconds later) and she told the teachers, and I got a write up for “hurting another student” when she was chasing others down and tickling them!!!
Very true
Chase Evans I’m only here because of this one friend, she always helped me even when I was scared to tell what was wrong, and here name is Jane, Jane if you are seeing this, thank you so much, you have no idea how much you helped
yo, fifth grader here- going into sixth grade this september. i feel you. and im scared. very scared for my future of 12 more years of torment. i'm skipping out on college.
@@emilymonahan5232 I'm an eighth grader. It only gets harder.
I’ve had one teacher, one, who told us that if we didn’t want to we didn’t have to stand or say the pledge of allegiance if we didn’t want to. It came to a point where only like 6 out of 32 kids in my class said it, we all now this system is fucked we need to change it.
I HAVE SO MUCH HOMEWORK RIGHT NOW, MY BRAIN STOPPED WORKING AND IM ABOUT TO LOSE IT
Dang I wrote an AP report on how f^cked up the United States education system is. Excited to hear your takes!
Adrian Spade Dang I wish I could, but it was a group project and I can’t take full credit for it. I can send our sources though.
Adrian Spade You’re in luck! I actually found my old essay, although it specifically focuses on the history of standardized testing.
docs.google.com/document/d/14wBp9QGtg0ouawlxxUWb_2DuiI9J2aOwCMAwN6HLFU4/edit
Hopefully this explains a good amount!
Adrian Spade Thank you. I live to serve. Besides what am I going to do with my essay about the failures of our education system other than feel sh*tty that I have to participate.
i may not have learned MORE from the internet than school, but i definitely remember and cherish the things i learned more than i did at school
New DSM mental health diagnosis:
ED SYS. Syndrome
Criteria:
Loss of Innate Joy for Learning
Loss of Free Will of thinking
Loss of Love of Life experiences
Treatment: take two N.Black videos daily
im a bit late watching this but,
the original school system was meant to produce good factory workers. it was meant to make everyone the same and squash individuality. and the worst part is, the ciriculum hasn't changed since those days.
if thats not fucked up, i don't know what is
In ERC class last year, we were told to make our dream school system. I and 7 other students created a system that took every bodies needs into account in most of the ways that you pointed out in the video, on top of being able to make your own schedule along with the necessary subjects such as Math, French, English and History. The rest of your day could be done doing and learning about anything else that you are interested in. My group was told "It's a nice thought but it's not realistic because no one will be able to learn like that". This teacher was also a Psychology teacher
What the fck my ideal school system is not shoving big projects every day down my brain.
School is really messing me up, my mom can't seem to understand that, I'd rather die then make it to 7th grade
Edit: I just saw this part, I stopped saying the pledge of allegiance because I felt uncomfortable, most kids in my kindergarten class would mumble it, and we got in big trouble for that, I have met only 4 teacher that cared about their students mental health, my My old science, Social studies, English, and P.E. teachers
Please don't die. Survive on spite if you have to, go feral and collect shiny things to make you happy. I don't care. Just live. You clearly have good taste and youtubers and we need more people with taste. Perhaps you exaggerating and I'm overreacting. But I'm 22 and I've had too many quiet discussions with friends about the times they attempted or thought about it.
Also congratulations on resisting the propaganda. Keep doing that.
@@ellelongacre3723 I have talk with my oldest sister, she is trying to help me, she didn't make it to the 1st year of high school, thank you, I appreciate your kindness
At my school no one says the pledge.
My grade had to memorize part of the Declaration of Independence after we said the pledge everyday we droned like this “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stand one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by the creator certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.and the fact that I didn’t need to google this. sometimes I wonder what the founding fathers think of our country now..
@@feat_cielI pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,
Then we had this thing to say but everyone including the teachers forgot it
I used to read all the time , I loved reading. But I was so forced to it's hard to find a book to genuinely enjoy. I kinda hate reading now. Thank you so much school for again destroying yet another thing I love
roaringcandle 76 same
One of the few things I like about California is that Planned Parenthood taught our sex education unit, which included LGBT education and other topics other than sex too which is epic. I'm trans btw, but when I was in kindergarten or first grade I got in trouble for wearing a spaghetti strap tank top. Literally, what the hell?!
teachers really are like *gestures at small child* "LOOK AT THE WHORE"
Same. They mostly preached abstinence as the "only 100% way to not get an STI/STD" and only taught a little about actual protection. They did mention LGBTQ+ but not much, also the dress code is stupid as feck. In health class they did similar tactics, basically trying to scare children into being healthy by showing them what bad foods do to your body, and like, sure, that can definitely be true, but instead of traumatizing kids try teaching us what's ACTUALLY HEALTHY. Godamnit, US, why do you fail so bad??
@@Josephine_de_Beauharnais1763 Funny how teaching abstinence has been proven to not reduce sexual risk yet there are still so many sed classes that teach it. I don't understand.
My school will always talk about how everyone is different and all brains work differently, but go on to give us tons of homework that make us stay up all night to get them done. When we come back tired they will say we should focus more on our mental health and about how important it is. And no one is talking about how damaging this is
Me : *watches* ....*says nothing but agrees*
Me : *checks in* Woah.. Thanks? Yeah. Thanks for the likes.
Heck I exist within the school system! It makes it hard for me to want to continue drawing as a hobby and just completely drop it since school is overwhelming. (I say this as a fifth grader)
@@completelyunoriginal838 ye gods, that's sad. As someone who just graduated high school, I wanna say to you: no matter how much school beats you down, if you can, hold onto art and the things that bring you joy. If I didn't have art or sewing or my other interests during school, I probably would've lost all hope. Art gives life meaning, and it is a treasure. Good luck out there! (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
Venus and Bluebells Thank you! I’ll keep that in mind.
Every child in the US education system we hate it we resent it I have seen so many children that when they get to school they immediately want to go home like they don't want to be there hell I don't want to be there and I'm only a freshman
When I talked about very similar problematics with my teachers (I’m from Italy) they all answered the same: “what do you know about what’s best for you? You’re just a child/things are more complicated than that”. So it’s not an “America” problem. There’s a core stagnation at the base of the school system in general
That’s a definite theme. This is a huge international issue. The entire world is failing it’s children.
When COVID first hit and our middle school was cancelled for 6 weeks, every single person in the class cheered and some threw pencils because they were getting a break. That’s the second I knew how fucked our education system was.
I used to prefer school over holidays just because I had no friends(this was in elementary school. I didn't learn anything at the time and my classmates treated me in a way that I'm still not sure whether constitutes bullying(it was not physical). Now I dread going to school even though my classmates are okay and I'm not nearly as bored.
I could go on for years about how the education system ruined my life. But heres a small one. My sister was in honors and put all her value in her intelligence. I was special needs but didn’t receive any of the help i needed and was instead punished for not being able to learn and haveing bad hand writing. She was praised for reading. I struggled to read and was made fun of. Now she barely reads for herself and i can barely read.
I have like 7 years of U.K school left so pray for me ya’ll
*yeehaw*
You poor soul
I have high school, grade 8 AND University . . . God help me
I’m so sorry, i’ve only been through 2 and i’ve stopped doing homework and started crying myself to sleep
rinku josan praying for you sis
@@friendusesthisaccountnocom9928 I'm a male, but thank you my friend
Middle school is the point in a bad movie where youre like "damn, theres still an hour left"
And high school is like "only 15 minutes left of the movie" and its the worst 15 minutes of the last month
Right
I loved learning SO FUCKING MUCH when I was a kid, but my creativity, willpower, and motivation has been completely broken tbh. And I can't talk to my parents about this because my father, a history teacher, has complete faith in the education system, and though I have breakdowns daily during the school year, he still wants me to be taking harder classes that I know for a FACT I'm not going to be able to handle. And there's absolutely NO room or time to take care of mental health when you're taking the highest level of classes and are expected to get only the highest grades. Also they don't teach us ANYTHING about mental health other than the fact that some people commit suicide; adults don't care at all about our mental health. And it feels like there's no time for the things I actually love. I don't even read for fun anymore, even during the summer when I have so much time to do so. In elementary school, I was SO excited to go to school, then in middle school I started to fake being sick, and now I'm scared to get sick at all because I might miss too much work and not be able to catch up. The whole system is just PASS THE GODDAMN TEST and then DONE. It just- god, I fucking hate school.
My aunt is a teacher in Orange County and her friend almost got fired for not standing up to say the pledge of allegiance a few years ago.
THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING UP ABOUT THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE MANDATED IN CLASSES!!! I immigrated to America when I was 7, not knowing a single word of English, and the first thing I forced myself to learn (PRIOR TO EVEN SPELLING MY OWN NAME) was the pledge of allegiance. I went to a public elementary school and the first thing we did in class was the pledge. Now, I was coming from South Korea, and as an elementary kid there (in SK), the students also had to pledge to the Korean flag. I didn't really have questions about this because I was Korean and I was pledging to my country. Didn't see a problem with that. But in America, where I WAS NOT AN AMERICAN AT THAT AGE -- I WAS A COMPLETE FOREIGNER, I couldn't understand why I was FORCED and peer pressured to pledge to the American flag. This continued until I went to a private high school and never had to pledge again.
You know what really terrifies me about being an American? I have never gone to public school or any school where you're forced to do the pledge of allegiance, and yet I still know the chant word for word.
How the HELL do I know the pledge of allegiance if I've never said it a day in my life?
In my Spanish class, we said the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish too!
i wish i lived in in finland