What's the deal with school?

SOURCE: salon.com

The modern day American education system is a complete disaster and we’ve been dealing with it for far too long. It sees like with every new generation of students  comes the same old complaints , “ I don’t want to do my homework”, “i'm tired”, “I don’t want to go to school its boring”. These are some of the things that parents have been hearing for the past hundred years, with revision to our current education system all these things can be fixed. [Write argument here]

According to Salon, a national magazine, If one sits down and finds the best thing to compare a modern day high school too, the closest comparison you’ll find is prison. Peter Gray says, “ But what if the real problem is school itself? The unfortunate fact is that one of our most cherished institutions is, by its very nature, failing our children and our society.”

Teachers and parents roll their eyes and turn the other way when we complain but we have a big list of reasons to do so. We aren’t talking about little kids that aren’t capable of taking care of themselves or making the best decisions, I’m talking about high schoolers, we live under a set of rules that should belong to a preschool not a building of young adults. We have cameras on us , security guards surrounding the building, and even legal adults (18 year olds) still have to ask permission to use the bathroom or get a drink. The public is expecting us to be independent and live on our own in a few years and your training us by locking us in a building, teaching us things we won’t use in everyday life and treating us like were incapable of being mature. The rules we follow  and content we learn are unrealistic to everyday life in a number of ways. And we need to revise the system to benefit us, While i know a great deal  about thermonuclear dynamics, the rock cycle and the pythagorean theorem. I don’t know how to do my taxes, maintain a good credit score, fix a flat tire, or make a cover letter/ resume. We are doing a great dis-service to every new generation that goes through our education system and we need to fix it.

Future Research Question: How are school systems similar to factory production lines?