April 6th 2015
Today was filled with so many new and interesting experiences. I started school at the Spokane Community College, found out that most of my classes are easy with the exception of my one programming class. After years of taking programming I have learned on thing, NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE COURSE. Sure at the beginning the class will be nice and simple but then out of the blue, the teacher will throw a question out in your face that you won't be able to solve. What I am looking forward to is solving math problems using the C programming language. That is what I am looking forward to the teacher teaching me in this class.
It seems as if the education system in total has been destroyed by stupidity and ignorance. Seeing the difference between the four year university systems and comparing that to the education at a two year, I can see why people spend most of their time building their skillset at the Community College. I honest to God believe that it is a mistake to create a society based upon the concept of forcing the youth into the four year universities. This is due to many reasons that I would love to go over but I'm only going to go over a few.
1) Teachers getting Cocky
Teachers in general not just in the four year institutions are getting cocky. Cocky in the sense that they are covered in their seperate unions with the concept of Tenure. Tenure is a horrible concept and here is why. For those of you who watch sports, how would you like instead of your team selecting players based upon their skills but rather on how much they worked on the team itself? Fantasy football would never be the same again after something so stupid. What America in general is lacking is a sense of QUALITY. We have lost that sense and have given into the concept that more means better rather than the quality of the product. When the product is our children's education you would think that people would give a **** but they honestly don't care. If Americans really did care about their education why are we placed in 36 for Math and in the mid 20s for Reading compared to the rest of the world? Because Americans don't give a rats ass about the quality of education that is given as long as they get a useless piece of paper denoting some form of skill that was acquired over the course of four years.
2) Life Skills Aren't Taught at the remedial level
By this I mean that people aren't being taught how to do their taxes, how to manage their life if they are going out to the world at age 18 they better know the skills to manage themselves rather than living in some stupid bubble of a dorm. For those of you readers who didn't fuck up cooking popcorn and caused the fire alarm to go off at 3 am, understand what that is like. It's a nightmare putting 18 year old adults in one place. It makes no sense but the schools are still able to do it. If your my age 22, and can't do your taxes, cook your own food, or pay your bills on time (which is quite difficult in this economy) then you will get eaten up. Why aren't these skills taught because people expect the parents to do so they won't because they rely upon the teacher to do so, and the teacher can only do some much. By gaining the right mentorship one can excel at life, after all we are products of our environment.
3) Expensive
Why the hell does it cost me over 12 grand for one year of college when my parents paid the community college rate? Why does it seem that my 12 grand is only going toward the sports team rather than development of the student population itself? These are the questions that I have been asking all my professors. I've gotten feed up with hearing from a teacher who's on tenure, 50% of you are going to fail my class. Then why am I required to take your class and listen to your fatass then? What am I paying you for apparently nothing.
Well that's all I am going to get into but at the end of the day the world has many issues that can be simply solved if we actually cared about the quality of what we do in our daily lives. It drives me nuts when I come across an individual who has so much potential but isn't given the tools to succeed due to certain circumstances. That's not what life is about after all, I'm in the Land of the Free?
It seems as if the education system in total has been destroyed by stupidity and ignorance. Seeing the difference between the four year university systems and comparing that to the education at a two year, I can see why people spend most of their time building their skillset at the Community College. I honest to God believe that it is a mistake to create a society based upon the concept of forcing the youth into the four year universities. This is due to many reasons that I would love to go over but I'm only going to go over a few.
1) Teachers getting Cocky
Teachers in general not just in the four year institutions are getting cocky. Cocky in the sense that they are covered in their seperate unions with the concept of Tenure. Tenure is a horrible concept and here is why. For those of you who watch sports, how would you like instead of your team selecting players based upon their skills but rather on how much they worked on the team itself? Fantasy football would never be the same again after something so stupid. What America in general is lacking is a sense of QUALITY. We have lost that sense and have given into the concept that more means better rather than the quality of the product. When the product is our children's education you would think that people would give a **** but they honestly don't care. If Americans really did care about their education why are we placed in 36 for Math and in the mid 20s for Reading compared to the rest of the world? Because Americans don't give a rats ass about the quality of education that is given as long as they get a useless piece of paper denoting some form of skill that was acquired over the course of four years.
2) Life Skills Aren't Taught at the remedial level
By this I mean that people aren't being taught how to do their taxes, how to manage their life if they are going out to the world at age 18 they better know the skills to manage themselves rather than living in some stupid bubble of a dorm. For those of you readers who didn't fuck up cooking popcorn and caused the fire alarm to go off at 3 am, understand what that is like. It's a nightmare putting 18 year old adults in one place. It makes no sense but the schools are still able to do it. If your my age 22, and can't do your taxes, cook your own food, or pay your bills on time (which is quite difficult in this economy) then you will get eaten up. Why aren't these skills taught because people expect the parents to do so they won't because they rely upon the teacher to do so, and the teacher can only do some much. By gaining the right mentorship one can excel at life, after all we are products of our environment.
3) Expensive
Why the hell does it cost me over 12 grand for one year of college when my parents paid the community college rate? Why does it seem that my 12 grand is only going toward the sports team rather than development of the student population itself? These are the questions that I have been asking all my professors. I've gotten feed up with hearing from a teacher who's on tenure, 50% of you are going to fail my class. Then why am I required to take your class and listen to your fatass then? What am I paying you for apparently nothing.
Well that's all I am going to get into but at the end of the day the world has many issues that can be simply solved if we actually cared about the quality of what we do in our daily lives. It drives me nuts when I come across an individual who has so much potential but isn't given the tools to succeed due to certain circumstances. That's not what life is about after all, I'm in the Land of the Free?
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