School really isn't as glamorous as it seems...

School shouldn’t be a place of ridicule, a place of misery. It should be a place in which everyone has the right to be educated. They should become educated without actually realising it. Not only academically, but socially. They should be subtly socialised into the norms and values of society, in a way that they don’t actually realise that it is happening. They shouldn’t wish to retaliate, and wish to be deviant.

People don’t always realise the importance of school and education. They don’t realise that without school you wouldn’t be the person that you are today. Teachers may annoy you and may make you feel like a failure at times; but, at the end of the day, they are getting paid. So, why should they care? Personally, I find this viewpoint disgusting... if you don’t want to see students be successful, and you cannot be bothered to put the effort in... then those students WILL fail.

Is that really what you want?

There is so much pressure put on the students of today, that it can sometimes be the reason for their failure.  They work day in, day out and believe me, it doesn’t always pay off. Students put blood, sweat and tears into achieving their goals - and sometimes... it really isn't worth it. To me, this is horrific, it is evidence that meritocracy can be a complete and utter myth.

However, I do not believe that this should be the case.

I believe that students should be assessed throughout two years, from the moment they start year 12, until the moment that they finish year 13. Education should NOT be assessed based on academia alone, it should be based on attitude – on work ethic and on resilience.

Students only seem to get into university based on their grades. So, how about if a student is caring, generous, well-behaved, hard-working... they could work every single day for two years .... but just not quite get the grades that universities request. So, they just don’t get into university? Yet, there will be rude, arrogant, lazy students that just about scrape the grades and get in? This education system is completely unfair.

It really is about time that it was changed.

Students face stress every single day of their lives; sacrificing necessities such as sleep, in order to finish a piece of homework that their teacher will never even ask for. They cry on a regular basis, because the stress of school and a part-time job has just got too much... they suffer often just because a teacher has decided to make a joke about them... why? Why is it that teachers can ridicule students, but students cannot ridicule teachers? Yes... 'respect your elders'... but seriously... it's borderline cruel!?!

So, I am asking you – what is the point? Really? What is it?