The school system is beyond frustrating. Feeling the heat, especially during finals week, I find it ludicrous how our 20+ weeks of hard work depends so heavily on an assignment or test given to us at the end of the semester. It's hard to maintain straight A's throughout the semester, and having one large assignment at the end of it that can determine whether you get an A or B is difficult to cope with.
Another fact that scares me is how well we do in these few years of our teenage lives will reflect on what the rest of our lives could possibly be like. If we don't perform top notch during high school in this day and age, it's nearly impossible to compete with those who do when college application time comes.
I wish school was about genuinely learning new things and discovering yourself. But of course, we don't live in a perfect world so that's not the case. School is so heavily depended on numbers, memorization, scores, and exams that we forget the true meaning of school. I'm not saying that all we do is pointless and a waste of time, but more of that is going on than it should be.
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