DEAR FUCKING GODS DOES THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM NEED AN OVERHAUL!
Little background on this shit. From the time we are about 5 to the time we are about 18 in America, we are forced to go to school. Teaches us basic things about life.
Sometimes, anyway.
They teach us basic language, reading, writing, math, science, and art, and world knowledge in elementary school (6 years), with obligatory standardized testing smattered throughout. Middle school (or Junior High as we used to call it)(3 years) expands on those concepts, adding in Algebra and other more advanced forms of what we had already been doing. And more testing. High school rolls around. Four years left until either college (which is unaffordable for most in America without taking on some SERIOUS debts). You would think that, at this point, we've covered the basics so now it's time to begin exploring our talents and possible career options so we don't hit our 40's hating ourselves as much as we did in middle school, as well as learning basic adult things like bills, banking, taxes, filling out job apps, writing resumes, cooking, cleaning, sowing, and general household maintenance, right?
NOPE IT'S JUST MORE OF THE FUCKING SAME, ONLY HARDER AND MORE SOUL-CRUSHING THIS TIME AROUND
HIGHER-LEVEL MATHEMATICS, SCIENCES, AND READING/WRITING COURSES ABOUND
ALL THAT IMPORTANT SHIT THAT TEACHES US WHAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE ON AN ACTUAL FUCKING JOB SITE?
THEY CALL THOSE "ELECTIVES" AND ARE TOTALLY FUCKING OPTIONAL, AND NONE OF IT TEACHES US HOW TO ADULT EVEN THEN
AND THEN THERE'S EVEN MORE FUCKING STANDARDIZED TESTS
I knew pretty well that the school system wasn't preparing us for jack shit when I was still stuck in it, filling our time with busy work that got us nowhere, and our mind with information we'll never use.
And now that I'm out here in the real world,
I'M CONVINCED THAT I UNDERESTIMATED JUST HOW FUCKING FUTILE MOST OF WHAT THEY TAUGHT US IS
I UNDERESTIMATED JUST HOW UNPREPARED IT MAKES US FOR LIFE
I CAN'T EVEN DO HALF OF THE THINGS I NEED TO IN ORDER TO SURVIVE WITHOUT MAJOR ASSISTANCE FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY
IT'S FUCKING BULLSHIT