Why is school the way it is?

To start off.

Thank you for deciding to read my blog, I'm not big on here but I'm trying to get topics I find important off my mind. I might not talk about everything that I mention below.

(PLEASE NOTE THAT I'M REFERRING TO MY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM, THIS MAY OR MAY NOT RELATE TO YOU)

I usually don't like to blog about more, in my opinion, serious topics. At least out of the very few blogs that I have. But I feel like this is a more serious topic that needs to be talked about. 

School. The place where you learn, meet new friends, and make memories. Unfortunately, for a lot of people this is not the case. To a lot of teenagers school is stressful, their least favorite part of the day and just overall draining. From what I am aware of, school is a factor of a lot of teenagers mental health. Some report that it's a cycle, somethings that's never ending. In many cases, I agree. 

What is school for anymore?

I feel like this is a stupid question sometime, but I couldn't care less. Are we going to school to learn or are we going to school to pass a grade and put a good picture on said school? Every year, every class, semester blah blah blah, all I hear is, "You need to prepare for testing! You need to prepare for state testing!" I understand, exams, test, and quiz's are important since it can show what you have and haven't learnt. The thing is, I'm confused on why this is all I hear ALL OF THE TIME, EVERYDAY AT SCHOOL. Another thing, multiple of my teachers now and in the past have shrugged off certain topics or important factors because, "Its not in state testing, so we don't need to know." Which concerns me, we should know?? If its our history, if its something that I'm going to need to know for next year or for BASIC HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. This is very unacceptable behavior. We shouldn't not be teaching kids something just because it's not going to be on a exam. I also feel like all kinds of teachers are ignoring certain topics as a whole. My chorus teacher for example. I feel ashamed as someone who truthfully enjoys to sing that I don't know how to read sheet music. Sometimes I feel stupid because I need to be reminded of something I learnt this year or the year before.

It almost feels like a trap for bullying.

(Lets start off by saying, I don't think that school systems have any intention towards bullying or support it) 

As someone who can be considered Alt in a way, or just not in the Norm. I feel like every-time I walk into school there's someone talking behind my back calling me something homophobic, or something that is used as an "offensive" term. The words that's kids use to make fun of people are also rather weird. Not all ALT people are apart of the LGBTQ+ community, as a alt straight person myself. So why are people in the ALT community called gay as something offensive? What's wrong with people who ARE LGBTQ+? Its usually popular kids that wear and listen to the exact same thing everyone else is listening to and wearing. I have been teased before, not mediocre bullying but something that is....in attempt to hurt me. Unfortunately, this bullying did in fact affect me and I started to try and dress like everyone else, hide my music, and find almost everything I do embarrassing. I did not report it, so I don't exactly have personal experience with what I'm about to bring up. I feel that schools do very little to try and stop bullying. From what my friends have told me, adults often say, "Ignore it." I feel its more complicated than that. Bullying is something deeper, than some other thing that you can just ignore. Bullying at my school is pretty bad, I have a friend who's cried almost every day this week due to someone bullying her or even barely teasing her. The thing is, with her, she has been bullied since 2nd grade from what she has brought me to become aware of. Unlike me, she has reported her issue with bullying and is still trying. School has done NOTHING about it, and that shocks me. If you are so against bullying, why are you doing nothing or so little? Putting a kid in a quiet secluded area for a few days isn't going to teach them a lesson, nor will sending them home and scolding them like they're a puppy that's still being potty trained. I also believe that school systems have very little understanding of what bullying can be. To slot of bully's in my school, you can bully another kid by saying your friends with them or acting like you are friends. I also feel like taking advantage of kids can be considered bullying too. One time, this kid that, I definitely don't like, asked me if I could do these extra credit cards for him. I said, "Maybe." As a joke, but the next day he was super pushy and almost threatening about the situation. I wish I could have realized how stupid I was for that, ever since he's been trying to take advantage of me but he gave up after a while of me saying, "No." This same kid threw a pencil at my friend. The same friend from earlier. This doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but number one, we should not be throwing things at people. It's disrespectful. Number two, my friend ended up crying because she felt hurt. I would have to assume she developed more sensitivity because of her past of bullying. The thing is, no aduly did anything about it. AT ALL. The substitute teacher we had probably watched, heard my friend crying, and still dismissed it.

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