My hatred of the United States school system has come full circle, as of 4:00 PM today.
Here is why:
1. Too much emphasis on the GPA
Holy shit. I have spent a good 3/4 of my life in school, just now completing the 11th year of said education. Elementary school was great, your teacher was personal, direct. You had a reason to do things on time, to participate in school clubs and activities. Middle school was the same, for me at least. But when I got into High School, I saw a dramatic change. Kids my age were taking 7 classes a day, leaving themselves barely enough time to sleep, let alone live. Everyone in my area is after the all precious GPA fairy, waiting for that magical day when it falls from the heavens and grants them acceptance into the real world. At my school in particular, there is an actual fight as to what your GPA will be. Kids invoke the wrath of their parents into the mess. They bitch at the teachers to give the student good grades, so that kid can go to Yale and do something with his life. Its fucking madness. And the U.C. system isn't helping either. They willingly throw out applicants with real life experience over that Asian kid that did physics in sophomore year (no offense Asians).
2. Extra Curricular activities make you smarter?
of the 3000 kids at my school, I would say 90% of them are in a club not because they like it, but because the system tells them they should. Its mostly a puppet game to get the upper hand in an already flawed system.
3. More students, less openings in Colleges across the Nation.
U.C. Schools has cut its admissions quota by 20% for the next few years. That means that when 20,000 people apply for UCLA next year, only 1,600 will get in, and a good percentage of those kids don't even deserve to be there. You know your fucked when Daddy can write Jimmy a check, and hes in.
Thats the main things I have noticed.
I've been denied to countless schools across this nation because of my grades. I mean, its no importance that I scored in the top 1% of ALL my standardized tests since the 3rd grade, That I received a 100% on 2 SAT Subject tests, and 1900 on the SAT itself. They take a fucking one digit number (GPA) to justify a lifetime of hard work in school.
Thieving deceiving lying cheating bastard-faced monkey-raping unclefuckers. The lot of them.
Here is why:
1. Too much emphasis on the GPA
Holy shit. I have spent a good 3/4 of my life in school, just now completing the 11th year of said education. Elementary school was great, your teacher was personal, direct. You had a reason to do things on time, to participate in school clubs and activities. Middle school was the same, for me at least. But when I got into High School, I saw a dramatic change. Kids my age were taking 7 classes a day, leaving themselves barely enough time to sleep, let alone live. Everyone in my area is after the all precious GPA fairy, waiting for that magical day when it falls from the heavens and grants them acceptance into the real world. At my school in particular, there is an actual fight as to what your GPA will be. Kids invoke the wrath of their parents into the mess. They bitch at the teachers to give the student good grades, so that kid can go to Yale and do something with his life. Its fucking madness. And the U.C. system isn't helping either. They willingly throw out applicants with real life experience over that Asian kid that did physics in sophomore year (no offense Asians).
2. Extra Curricular activities make you smarter?
of the 3000 kids at my school, I would say 90% of them are in a club not because they like it, but because the system tells them they should. Its mostly a puppet game to get the upper hand in an already flawed system.
3. More students, less openings in Colleges across the Nation.
U.C. Schools has cut its admissions quota by 20% for the next few years. That means that when 20,000 people apply for UCLA next year, only 1,600 will get in, and a good percentage of those kids don't even deserve to be there. You know your fucked when Daddy can write Jimmy a check, and hes in.
Thats the main things I have noticed.
I've been denied to countless schools across this nation because of my grades. I mean, its no importance that I scored in the top 1% of ALL my standardized tests since the 3rd grade, That I received a 100% on 2 SAT Subject tests, and 1900 on the SAT itself. They take a fucking one digit number (GPA) to justify a lifetime of hard work in school.
Thieving deceiving lying cheating bastard-faced monkey-raping unclefuckers. The lot of them.
