School nowadays consists of having forced to study stuff you'll never-ever need in your life, and humiliating you if you don't do so. If you're not good enough, you're forced to repeat the year, essentially shortening your life's meaningful part by an entire year. It also takes up way too much of your day, and thanks to homework and tests, even leaks into your free-time.
How the system should be improved:
1) Have less school per day
How the system should be improved:
1) Have less school per day
8 hours of school is way too much, and some make it even longer. School shouldn't take up more time than ~5 hours of your day, so you can leave at noon-early afternoon and spend the rest of the day hanging out with friends or at home.
2) Have less shit you have to study
Of course, if they make school time shorter, they can't teach you as much stuff. But that's alright, because they don't need to. Most of the stuff you learn in school is just to survive it. It's not like you'll remember most of it a day after the tests. They should cut the unnecessary stuff and only teach what you should really know.
3) Make tests easier, but not too easy
There's too much shit in one test, and there are people who can't study as easily and others, and have to spend way too much time to even have a chance. Tests should be less stressful and should contain less stuff as well; they should be easy enough so they don't take up too much of your time, but not too easy, so people who don't study anything will still fail.
4) Make studying fun/Employ better teachers
Have you ever seen videos from Kurzgesagt or Life Noggin? They are great at explaining stuff and easy to understand. Why can't (most) teachers be like that? A teacher like that is a real gem. I've sadly only had one or two like that in my life. Once, I've even had a teacher who forbid us from taking notes in class, so you had to study everything at home (unless you had really good memory).
5) Fuck homework and home studying
Written homework should not be a thing. School should not leak into your personal life/free time. Not only teachers love to assign written homework, there are usually a lot of it. And the more teachers, the more piled up homework. It's not like they talk about how much they assign on a given day. It just comes. Sometimes it's not that much, sometimes it's a fuckton. And for people who don't have much time at afternoon anyway (like people who do sports or live a long way from their school), this makes their life even worse.
Oh, and this ties in with 2), as there should not be as much shit you have to study. As I've said, for some people it's very difficult to study and this too takes up a lot of their free time. Leave kids alone, for crying out loud!
Oh, and this ties in with 2), as there should not be as much shit you have to study. As I've said, for some people it's very difficult to study and this too takes up a lot of their free time. Leave kids alone, for crying out loud!
