Schools make everything so structured and you have to do this and you have to do that, it feels like there is little freedom.
All we have been taught throughout high school is to obey. Whether it is the teachers who tells you what to study, how to do math problems or how to behave, to your peers who ultimately decide what decisions you make socially. When are we supposed to learn how to think for ourselves? Our parents are doing their job when they tell us what to do, but sometimes when we attempt to make a decisions and they are the wrong ones, we face the consequences, but this is how we learn. We get shunned at school for doing something everyone else does not approve of. We get yelled at for speaking our mind in class by the teacher. Rather than being open-minded and optimistic, we become robots controlled by those who surround us, giving them the authority to determine our decisions. Whenever we make a choice of our own, we cower and just wait for it to explode and we wait to get in trouble for doing so. However, out of all of this, we are supposed to become free thinkers of our own? You think you are going to decide what college you want to go to? Think again. Oh wait, we cannot do that by ourselves yet, let me raise my hand first.
It doesn't make sense that we are supposed to figure out what we want to do with our lives but yet we are rarely allowed to speak our minds inside the class room. We are taught all of these things we will most likely never use in our lives again, but yet we are forced to do all of this homework and take multiple tests, giving us a GPA of basically how well we listen or can cram study, but what is this teaches us? How is this valuable to our futures? This isn’t going to teach us how to prepare for college, throughout high school you just remember things long enough to take the test, there’s nothing long term about it.
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