I hate school so bad, that I am desperate to throw my ass in the friggin river and sleep with the fish.
I don't have time to do freaking dill weed, I hate these stupid crappy finals that expect us to know every mundane ideological idea taught in the whole year. You get a written test, a final project, and a lovely eye stabbing 5 paragraph essay on stuff that is so insignificant and annoying, that you start to hear voices and funky crap that makes you go nuts. Between the freaking 4 freaking hours of doing homework that is so annoying that every thought you get is a master plan how you are gonna commit suicide. I literally gagged when I seen the question on my Literature final "What is the theory of knowledge?" What the crappy crap shit on twig is this? I just want to freaking die. And I don't even have time to do that.

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Thanks for who ever moved this topic.

They strike because of low pay. Well, they get three months off during the summer! More more more money. Did you know that the National Teachers Union is the largest, most influential union in the U.S.? So I pay them (in taxes) to teach their fascist opinionated political viewpoints. They teach kids "their" ethnics that are totally immoral, and irrelevant to what should be the focus of their lives. I gotta admit that since 90% of all teens attend a public school, that this is a heavily tempting target to influence. The public school has a monopoly (which is illegal BTW) Why? Because if you choose to send your child to a private school then not only do you have to pay tuition, but your property tax to the fascist public school system.
I am gonna try to dig up an extensive, letter I composed to my school, exposing their bias ways of teaching through irrefutable evidence with the sources highlighted to back it up. I'll post it in this topic when I find that bad boy. Funny, I almost got suspended for this. When they said this I said.
"Okay that's cool, In that period I will hand this letter out to parents and organizations, sweet! Between doing hours of mumbe-licious nonsense essays and other ridiculous pieces, I didn't have time to do this."
They said,
"Well I guess I'll have to reconsider this then, don't want that happening."
Yeah, if it wasn't true, and was all lies, they would counter it with evidence that disproves it. They asked, "to keep the peace" not to share it with anybody, I said "hell no!?"

Tabs, I know some of these uneducated morons and I find that they can be the smartest people in the world in different perspectives, because their natural way of thinking isn't plagued by the schools. Education is vital, but an bias impure education is worthless in the light of the truth.
There is no competition at all. Even though children who are home schooled come out smarter then the public school student.

Well, I must compliment the Dutch educative system then, because they didn't push me into any (important) biases. When it came to sensitive matters, I was taught about alternatives and nuances. For instance, although I attended a 'Christian school', part of our obligatory subject matter was a thorough unbiased representation of world religions (such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc). Never were we silenced or hindered in speaking our minds here, either. At the time, I stated my thoughts as openly as I do now and discussion was stimulated sooner than dismissed. There were in fact some (metal fan) Satanists who wore upturned crosses, pentagrams and even corpse-paint in my school, and they weren't reprimanded. (Sometimes mocked, but to be fair: they were idiots, regardless of their statement)
I didn't enjoy every minute of school, but I was aware of what they offered me, and I was grateful for the way they provided structured, high quality education at a relatively low price.

The average Joe simply won't learn jack shit about history, culture, language(s), physics etc, if they are not stimulated or even obliged to, judging by the way everyone seems to hate going to school no matter where they live or what they're taught.
This is not about Finding Answers, this is about having some base level of knowledge to work with. Kids don't want to learn, they want to play. And play they should - but not exclusively, because then they'll be subject to idiotisms throughout their lives. Even if the parents would take over the current tasks of public schools, the danger for biases and low quality education becomes bigger. The majority of people will not be inventors of important things or make great discoveries - the majority will be people you have to work with and live around.

Surveys show that hideous percentages of (the European) population have no idea about our solar system (about 30+% either doesn't know whether the earth revolves around (a point close to) the sun or not, or think it's the other way around. Many more would be unable to write a simple letter if their lives depended on it.  Millions have no clue when it comes to the basics of worldwide topography. I'm sure there's more examples to think of than these.

If a few make the mistake of assuming everything mr. Teacher says is correct, it becomes a tough dilemma, at least. To ignore the good things that are stimulated in school just because people are easily brainwashed is also a bit unfair. In any case, it's a bit odd to consider schools and universities as little more than brainwashing facilities. If things are so bad over there that this view is closer to the truth than anything else, I fear for the States any which way.

(I add this because I do not know what public schools are like over there, not to pretend superiority of Europe (etc), before anyone jumps to that conclusion)

it depends where you goto school, the school i went to was awesome. most of the teachers there fund alot of things out of their own pockets because they dont have enough money given to them from the school(as in school budget, something that gets cut every year). Think about it this way, ONE sports superstar makes about as much as, oh say, 25-30 teachers? anyone else see whats wrong with that? now, im not saying ANYBODY should be payed that much, nor am i saying we need to go all communist and spread everything around. im basically saying that teachers have been getting the shit end of the stick for a job that MOST of america DOESNT want to do, and the good majority of them LOVE THEIR JOB. but for anyone to suggest that they "DONT NEED" a pay raise, is absolutely rediculous. at least a good 3/4 of my teachers have passed up higher paying jobs because they LIKE TEACHING.

you all whine about them shoving their opinions down your throat, then do something about it! if they are doing that then they shouldnt be teaching and ESPECIALLY in todays day and age its easy as hell to get a teacher in trouble(whether they really deserve it or not).

Im also not saying that ALL teachers are awesome and great, but doesnt that go for every profession? theres always going to a few bad apples in the bunch and you have to deal with it. Unfortunately, todays modern media(or should i just say entertainment? the news isnt even news anymore.. but thats a seperate discussion) likes to only show the bad and horrible things teachers do.

Teachers on large, are underpaid for what they do(hmm, what other job is like that? the military perhaps?), and if we'd all just take our heads out of the bubble of TV, sports and soap operas for 5 minutes, our kids would be infinitely smarter than they are now.

The schools here in sweden usually works very good overall the swedish population is quite educated so i wont complain that much tho there where certain things i did not like with the school but i guess u can't like everything

Did you know that many years ago, the majority of parents would participate in school board meetings? Now you are lucky to get 3 or 4 showing up. Parents should be active in their school, finding out what children are being taught, and cleansing the curriculum if there are issues. You don't see that anymore, because the world is corrupted to think that they can do what they want.
"Do what you want." - first verse of the Satanic Bible