School vs. You

        Children are sent to school at a young age and taught the necessities of life. They spend five days a week for ten months a year in a classroom from the time they are three or four to the time they are 17 or 18. Then they go off to Collage or University to complete the necessary education for whatever they plan to do until retirement. 

        The system allows little room for enjoyment, and students end up hating school and learning before they even get to fully experience it. What people learn from kindergarten to grade 12 is interesting but it can also be boring, and it seems to be getting harder and harder to distinguish the two. There is little focus on teaching kids that learning is good, and more focus on teaching pointless things. Things that people will generally not remember when their third grader is asking them for help. 

        I believe that learning is very important, it is just hard when somethings that I have to learn are not tailored to me as an individual, and more tailored to the class as a whole. For instance, in grade nine and ten English I had to do poetry. I am terrible at poetry, and although I do not hate reading it, I detest writing it. I love writing, but not poetry or essays. Although it is important to know how to write in those formats, by the time that I am in grade 12 I think that I should not have to write in those styles. 

        To improve letting student be assessed by their own interests in an English setting, teachers should give topics and let students decided how they should be assessed. For example, say a teacher shares a heart warming story about a boy saving his dog and in response the students have to write how they feel after hearing the story. The students should be given the option to write their responses however they see fit. They should be allowed to write it in poetry, as an essay, as a interview, or any format acceptable for the class content. This way an individual student interested poetry can write a poem about how they feel, where as a student interested in journalism can write their response as an interview. 

        I think that if the content that children learn in school was more tailored to their interests, it would be easier and more enjoyable for them to learn. I also believe that it would make them as adults more content with their employment. A society where children are excited to go to school and learn is something that should be a goal for every school system.