Which particular ideology are you being pushed into by your biology and geography classes? |
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My situation is this: I am a sophomore enrolled in an average high school, and to make things clear I am not somebody who just wants to avoid getting work done. I have a problem with the way things work in what after some research seems to be most if not all public schools. I'm tired of wasting the days away listening to (and memorizing) what the same 6 people have to say 5 days a week for 40 weeks. The entire process of the "learning" that is going on in schools is really just an outdated and dumbed down form of indoctrination, and I want no part in it any longer. Some of you may think I am complaining, and I agree with you, but that is not the point. I want to know if anybody has some advice for what to do. I feel like a sheep being herded by those in control of this society. |
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Which particular ideology are you being pushed into by your biology and geography classes? |
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It's not much the information from each class subject, but the worthless method of teaching that is being used to convey information to the student. For example, today my biology teacher spent the class period talking about harry potter in hopes of teaching us about genetics and traits being passed down from parent to offspring. Maybe I'm just not the kind of person who likes to mix fantasy stories and facts, but that's just me. |
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I suggest pursuing your own education. Perhaps you can find an alternative high school for this. I certainly don't recommend dropping out of high school, you'd be shooting yourself in the foot. But you'd probably learn a lot more without school to impede you. A GED is one possibility, most importantly you should try and free yourself from the workload as quickly as possible so it doesn't waste any more of the time you could spend educating yourself. Also, you probably don't have the right mind for a standard college either so I'd look into alternative higher education systems as well. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
you could always look into homeschooling options if it's that bad. |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
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Yeah. That "homework" was likely assigned because it would serve as a stepping stone. Not very many people would have watched a documentary, but they'd be more than willing to watch a Hollywood movie. They watch it, it captures their imaginations/interests, then they're more gung-ho about watching historical documentaries and reading reports. Diving straight into the "boring" stuff doesn't work for the majority, not at that age. |
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Last edited by melanieb; 03-13-2013 at 03:15 AM. Reason: Keeping an eye on Gavin
I don't really see how it's 'indoctrination'; more like lousy teaching. And yeah, the teachers have their reasons; most of your classmates probably have the attention span of a gnat and require a Hollywood movie as a stepping stone to try to get them engaged with a new subject. Have some sympathy. |
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Thanks for the advice, everyone. I'll do what I can to deal with this without doing anything drastic. |
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It is always like that, a teacher has to teach everyone in the class. At least they are trying to make things interesting. I don't think the watching movie thing is that bad since there are a lot of movies that are pretty accurate. I assume and I hope that the ones that made her list are ones that are very accurate, otherwise they wouldn't be on the list. As for the Harry Potter thing, if you are going to talk about "Generic person A" and "generic person B" and how genes are passed down, there is no harm at all in using examples from a book if most of the students are aware of it. In fact people are probably more likely to remember the subject if it is related to something else. |
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