Tag: school

inkskinned:

when adults tell teenagers that the dull ache of high school is just a survivable mess that they’re making up to be worse than it is, i think of this:

when i was in sophomore year, i was in an accident and the left side of my face was hit. i sat in the emergency room with a clearly broken nose and blood coming out of a laceration on my cheek. and i did my homework. i did my homework with a black eye swelling up, with little red fingerprints on it. 

and he told me to redo it. that it wasn’t good enough. the assignment itself was worth maybe five points out of a hundred. he wouldn’t forgive me for it. when i explained about my concussion, he told me to do it somewhere dark.

we don’t make it up. the value of our lives becomes almost nothing at all. the quality of living that is allowed is so low that students learn to apply it to themselves. they are useless, unimportant, a machine to figure out problems without any food, sleep, family time. nothing. we call teenagers moody because something in them breaks a little. we don’t say: they are stressed beyond measure and they believe their own physical health is less important than the quality of the product they’re forced to produce. we don’t say: wouldn’t you be moody too?

the american high school experience

jaysketchin:

im-not-okay-im-a-fangirl:

  • million-dollar gyms but bathroom stalls with no doors
  • speaking of bathrooms, shit sayings on the walls, mostly along the lines of “fuck this shit”
  • stressed out anxiety-prone teens running on 3 hours of sleep and a shit ton of coffee
  • the Pacer
  • teachers saying “this isn’t middle school anymore”
  • broken air conditioning 
  • classrooms that either feel like the arctic tundra or the pits of hell
  • “wikipedia isn’t a reliable source”
  • a shit ton of standardized tests
  • “if someone dies during the final, everyone gets an A, so who’s gonna take one for the team?”
  • “if the teacher is fifteen minutes late we can leave.”
  • jeopardy
  • quizlet
  • the cha-cha slide
  • “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”
  • kahoot
  • substitute teachers that are either loved immensely or are so old their phone numbers were one number
  • “this is a college-level essay/class/quiz/test/assignment”
  • MLA format
  • school version of memes
  • art classroom floors that are always wet
  • “Good morning.” silence “…GOOD MORNING.” every voice replies ‘good morning’ in the same monotonous voice at the same time
  • “let’s start by introducing ourselves by saying your name and one thing that makes you interesting”
  • “are you the sub?”
  • morning announcements
  • screaming outside the classroom
  • “please stand for the pledge”

maherissey:

shoutout to all the kids who

– grew up smart and lost it when they got to high school and dont know what happened

– are so bright but just cant focus academically

– are told their effort isnt good enough when in reality they just dont understand

– are too shy to ask for help and go without it and therefore dont reach the potential they know they have

– are brilliant in class but underperform in exams

– have to pretend that they dont care about their grades because they constantly underperform and dont want to look stupid

religiousmom:

School just really sucks cause they take this wonderful concept of learning and discovering new things and just completely ruin it with the atmosphere of judgement and suppression of creativity and strict deadlines and basing your intelligence on a letter and wow you ruined it nice job