adults are always talking about how βkids will do anything to get out of schoolβ and okay, first of all thatβs not true, butΒ I think we really need to askΒ why that idea holds so much sway.
childrenβs brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.
couple things here:
multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
Iβm 32
couple more things:
Little kids really arenβt equipped to work full time without damaging their physical, mental, and emotional development and health, and when you play the βbut adults work all day!β card you sound like a nineteenth century textile baron.
Highschoolers can easily be βworkingβ 40+ hours a week, between school, homework, and extracurriculars and/or part-time work, and still hear this smug β:/ wait til you get to the real world sweatyβ rhetoric all the time.
The original claim here wasnβt even βschool is too hard,β it was βschool is failing to perform its most basic function,β which is different.
from an adult point of view:
- When my work day is done, itβs done. I donβt need to spend hours each night to study or do homework.Β
- I donβt have tests and exams.
- I MAKE MONEY.Β
Sometimes Iβll be at home and start freaking out that I havenβt done any homework yet before I realize βWait Iβm 30.β
Or Iβll be asleep dreaming that Iβm at school but suddenly realize at the end of the semester that Iβve missed all my classes and donβt know whatβs going on
School/homework has to be a stressful thing if it gives people anxiety and nightmares over a decade after graduation.
On a serious note: I agree with all of this.
On another note βyou sound like a 19th century textile baronβ is my new fave insult.
