When I was in high school, I had one goal. Get into a good college so that I can get a good job and support myself in the future. But now as I have finished my bachelor’s degree I am looking back on what decisions led me to decide to go to a traditional university; however, that’s the weird bit. I don’t remember making any decisions about my future…. Almost as if going to college was the only option and was what was expected. But was it the best option? And have other people in my life had the same experiences? And why has going to a traditional four year university become the only acceptable option after high school? Stress of STEMI am a liberal arts kid all the way, but I do understand that in our current society and world that STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) programs are incredibly important, but I do not approve of what I have experienced because of this stress on STEM. When I was in high school (2010-2014) was when the STEM surge first occurred. But I went to…
If you can read this, you're not living in a dystopia! You know how teenagers end up so negative, depressed, and pessimistic? Maybe it's because we shove gloom and doom down their throats as part of their required reading. In the United States, George Orwell's mid-20th-century dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is heavily picked by teachers as required reading for students, and the blues don't end there. Here is a list of required reading titles for American high schools, let's see how negative these works are…
The Catcher in the Rye - Young boy rants about "phony" society, rages at the world.
Lord of the Flies - Group of stranded boys descends into homicidal savagery.
Animal Farm - Political revolution on a farm turns into dystopia for the animals.
Fahrenheit 451 - Dystopian society burns books because they're for smart people.
1984 - World has taken over by totalitarian regime just for the evil LULZ.
Brave New World - See the previous novel, filtered through Elon…
https://pixabay.com/photos/back-to-school-home-of-apple-4373777/ I pulled my son out of public school As my son showed signs of being unable to emotionally cope with the bullying in his elementary school and lack of support from the staff, I pulled him out of public school. Terrified by all of the myths about home-schooling and the children that come from home-schooling, I had to plug forward for the sake of my baby. The myths can terrify any parent who is not a teacher. This is understandable but don't give up hope or write off home-schooling as an option for your child. The benefits I will offer will shine a new light no the subject. Terrified of messing up my child's education, chances for college, loss of social interaction, the list goes on forever. I began researching everything immediately because the decision was made in one day. I had no time to prepare. Everyone I talked to had nothing nice to say about home-schooling They kept reinforcing my fears asking how I could do this to my…
This may well be the year when the American people learn to appreciate street smarts over book smarts. Because kids right now can learn important lessons about how badly the adult world has lost it right now. We have Betsy
DeVos in charge of the Department of Education, which is like putting a fox in charge of the henhouse. We have the
"demon seed" lady replacing Dr. Fauci as our national pandemic expert. The US is heading into the
worst peaks of COVID-19 infection while the rest of the world is recovering. We've had a whole eight months now to come up with a plan for back-to-school this year… and we
just don't have one! It might be too late for most of you already, but parents, please understand that the US public school system is not the police. They can't enforce doodly squat. You are the parent, and in the absence of any safety measures to protect your child, you are well within your right to demand the schools enact those measures or just pull your kid out and home-school. …
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