Assignment #6 - Andrea Dubon - I deeply hate school

i don't like school, i could go on for years as to why most of it's practices are outdated and why higher education is an elitist scam for the public's money but that would take too long so i'm going to just list some points. I realized this on multiple occasions but the first time it sunk in how useless all the tasks we were being made to do was in near the 8th grade, we were in english class and we were collecting our "writing portfolios". Up until this moment it had been ingrained into us that in every class we had we were going to write some sort of piece for it, i had to write multiple essays in orchestra and even gym both of which i signed up for not to have to do this assignment. So you can see why it came as such a surprise when my english teacher handed me what would've been dozens of hours worth of writing and tell me that high schools and colleges don't want them anymore. Clearly i was angry and so was my teacher so they had to give me the long conversation of how the U.S focus in education had shifted from english and literature to stem, engineering, and mathematics. Why? because the U.S had been underscoring in these areas nationally, as if the drastic shift into jobs in the technological field wasn't hint enough this change only occurred through desire for higher scores. Out of all the possible tips the U.S could've taken from other countries; shorter school hours from Sweden, mid week breaks from France, No standardized testing from Finland, we managed to only take the focusing into engineering from all the other changes these successful countries have taken. 

Stepping away from preliminary education and onto college, the price of colleges in the united states has inflated so drastically throughout the past century that the rate of debt of the country's youth population increases rapidly and continues due to the unnecessary add ons from college campus's, professors, and educational sourcing companies. The fact that on top of the thousands of dollars that students pay to go to college they have to pay hundreds more for fees on things like student parking, housing, and textbook fees from the  "required books" that their professors have written and assigned has been made a cultural norm is insane. With all of this in mind it's no wonder why other countries have revolutionized against educational institutions resembling the U.S's. Chilean activists burning student loan debt receipts is a premonition of what could be the U.S if some serious changes aren't made to how schools are founded and how higher education is acquired. As students ( and one parent) i'm sure y'all have and will experience the very things i'm talking about and hopefully by then things have changed if not then just know i'm still going to college but i'm stealing all the deserts from the meal hall cause i mean i paid for them.