Difference in age

          At 7 years old you love school and you can’t wait to get up in the mornings to go to school. A regular seven year old will tell you this when you ask them their opinion of school, “I love school and all my teachers and all my friends and I can write my own name and, and, and, and...”

          At 17 you hate it you can’t wait to leave school. You have “better” things to do. You try your best to be “sick” at home or in the boarding hostel. You attempt to bunk classes but you hate of not getting caught just to get away from a teacher that has been bugging you for ages. If you get caught it makes a good plan turn worse. You are quick to imagine up another one of those lame excuses that make teachers say, “I’m not as stupid as you think!” Regardless of how perfect your fib sounded they still send you to detention.

 Morning Wake-up

          Don’t you just dread the 6 o’clock wake up call? My roommate wakes me up every morning and I hate her for it! My first words in the morning are, “not another day of SCHOOL!” Just to make it worse your subconscious tells you to stop being negative and get out of bed. Well it’s easier said than done. I prefer to stay up late at night and be in bed half the day. That’s just how I am but I love it.  School swaps my natural habits upside down and expects me to like them. I don’t but there’s nothing you can do about it! It’s only for a few years of your life then you’re let free in the big bad world to do as you please.

 Learning

          Hey wait a minute, what about the learning. I know some of the stuff we learn in school seems pretty useless but you never know when we might need it. We might not be able to follow our preferred carrier choice and have to opt for something else, but if you don’t know a thing about another field how will you survive? Besides no one has ever died from learning, not that I know of anyways! I personally think we are young and should have inquisitive minds. Lets leave the exploration for another stage in our lives when we can fully enjoy it.

          You know how a 4 year old asks you why, you answer and they ask why again and again and again? Well I sometimes get like that and all my friends think I’m mad. I do this because I have adopted a new way of thinking. I’m thinking about my future and I want to know as much as possible so as not too shock my system when I pop out of school. I feel if you don’t ask you’ll never know!

          Now the homework situation.  I know, I know, nobody likes it. Not even I like this horrific thing that teachers invented. They make us work in class throughout the whole morning and most of the afternoon and then expect us to work some more at home. Isn’t it just a shame? I can basically find three types of teachers that give out homework. The first are the ones that are blind and cannot see that us, teenagers have enough on our plates. They dish out tons upon tons of homework and expect it to be done within a short space of time. There is absolutely nothing that can be done about these teachers. The next type of teacher falls in the middle of the three types. They are the kind of person who is kind and prefers not to give us too much but other teachers and parents, which are into the idea that we do not have enough work, heavily influence them. So they will hand out very little but every now and then will drop an ocean of work down on you. The last type of teacher is the one that is extremely kind (in our eyes) and take the teenagers point of view into consideration. They hand out only as much as is required, which is very little in their case. Now after mentioning all these types of teachers, trust me that there is not much that you can do to change them. Sure complaining to the principle or other teachers might help a bit since teachers do talk. And then there’s the complaining parent issue, which also might put conditions in your favor but remember that all teachers are different. They each have their own unique style of teaching and this is extremely hard to break. My advice to you is to just accept what you get given and make the best of it. Keep in mind that complaining doesn’t always help!

          So by keeping these guidelines in mind and going out with a positive attitude, you can achieve a vast amount more than others. I know you have heard this expression hundreds of times but I’ll say it again, the sky’s the limit!

Cat