Texas high school student hates packets

I could not agree more with this kid.

In school, I always did better when the teacher was up front and interacted with the class. If they don't grab your attention and just hand you papers to read, you're not going to get anything out of it.

wow, kid was pretty dead on.

it does make a different when the teacher actually teaches, instead of packets and busy work.

That's the man right there.

Wooo go get that lazy ass teacher, thinkin' she can just come in and hand out knowledge in script form! My Whole time spent in school was like this. Our text books were from the 70's, 80% of the stuff in the science books were outdated. History class said pearl harbor was from complete left field. Columbus discovered america. Thanksgiving was a happy holiday. We were taught improper science about the universe. Teachers couldn't even elaborate more on a subject than was written in their teacher's version of the texts books. They had been handing out the same crap year after year for 20+ years and collecting a paycheck. Hell to be fair, The end of grade tests were the same way. It was the whole damn county! Not to mention we were in a 130 year old building (since been destroyed to build a new school).

All School is today is Memory. How well you can memorize what the bitch said 4 months ago. Remember it, Recite it, you will pass. Even if you do have a "Good teacher" Half their students fail because they cant adjust to new methods.

How are you suppossed to expect children to remember the answers to tests when all they want to do is be anywhere else but that damn classroom? You put them on Brain chemical blocking drugs while they are developing into adults so they are a crazy lunatic by the time they are 21! Perfect!

I Support this kid and stand by him, but I'm out of this thread before I have an aneurism.

I was an advanced student. For history, science, and spelling/language, I was in advanced classes from third grade on. Math I had trouble with. I was a very hyper active kid, both mentally and physically. Not the "I CAN'T SIT STILL, I HAD TOO MUCH SUGAR!!!" hyper active, but "my brain is thinking about too many things at once, stimulate me or don't expect to have my full attention". the regular teachers didn't get this. I'd fly through the work I understood, then get in trouble for disrupting the class because I'd pull out things such as magazines or whatever to entertain myself.. Or would talk to whoever was around. When you've given me the same worksheet five times as busy work, yeah, it's only going to take me about 3 minutes to finish it. And my math class was especially a mess in middle school, because it was 5th & 6th grade together.. So not only did I do the same things over and over in 5th grade.. I did the same things and learned the same things again in 6th.. Then they wondered why I had trouble adapting to algebra in high school.

To this day, I work best when I'm multi tasking. right now, I have no less than 7 windows open on my computer and I'm watching an MMA show too. It's just how I work best. I need to be very stimulated, or I grow bored and destructive. And I'm not the only one. The way that public schools are, where everyone needs to be exactly the same, "no child left behind".. It's promoting stupidity, not helping the kids who need additional help. Because with "no child left behind" all it's doing is dumbing down the curriculum for everyone, not centralizing and focusing on students that need additional help and letting the kids who can do the stuff, and understand it, grow and improve. They're stuck "left behind" and waiting for the slower kids to get it, while the slower kids are getting no special attention. They're getting the same worksheets and packets and crap thrown to them day and day, and not actually learning anything.

This isn't bitterness, either. It's hindsight. I've been out of high school since 2004, because I finished my junior and senior years from home and got my GED the year before I would've graduated usually. And I really half assed it. I'd get up, do the hour or two of course work that I needed to accomplish, then mostly just get on here and do whatever creative writing I was submersing myself in. Or go elsewhere on the internet and entertain myself. In 06, I spent most of my time spending time with the neighbor girl. I know that the system is flawed and that there's nothing that's going to be done to fix it..