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Before my rant, personal view of school pretty much coincide with this video.



Now my rant :>

Fuck math, the science curriculum, and state/entrance exams (like SAT).

First, public schools give absolutely no fucks about there students. You can go through public school being suicidal, go to administration about it, and they won't give a shit because they don't want trouble. Guidance counselors aren't actually counselors, they don't give a fuck about you as much as the school doesn't give a fuck about you. All guidance counselors care about is putting you in 'safe' classes so that the public school will be ranked well in comparison to other schools, so that their school will get more funding, and they get paid more. They don't care about challenging you, expanding your perception about subjects/intellect/knowledge.

Math/Science Curriculums
Absolute shit. All they have you do is memorize shit and regurgitate it. All busy work in class.

That's not what math and science are Math and science are very theoretical, they are about exploring the world around us and drawing some sense from the chaos.
Heres the basic progression of math during public schooling:
Students learn addition/subtraction
2-2 = 0
3 + 2 = 5
etc.
Student asks "What if we subtract a larger number from a smaller one"
- the class laughs, while the teacher shortly explains that's impossible and you don't have to worry about it.
The start of next year is when you're introduced to negative numbers.

What I'm getting at here, is that the way Mathematics in school is currently taught is through creating a sense of confidence in something, and then absolutely contradicting the rules and methods you learned previously. You have to keep relearning shit, and can't trust the subject because the way it's taught is inherently flawed. This results in students not learning the 'logic' in mathematics; rather they just brainlessly memorize formulas, what to do in what situation, random shit so that they can get the right answer. They know that if they find some logic in the madness it's going to be broken apart the next year, anyway.

But that doesn't make sense, because math IS logic. It's fucking mathematics. Logic is the fucking basis, so it makes no fucking sense mathematics is taught that way.

One of the first courses taught in highschool should be a logic course, not fucking Algebra. At my public school, I didn't even know what logic was until I took my first Comp Sci course, and from there I realized that "hey, if i apply the same methodology in comp sci to math, it works!" and suddenly mathematics became a helluva lot easier.

Mathematics should be taught from more of a theoretical perspective. IE more like a philosophy course. Basically, more of the way it's taught in college. Once students can fully understand the theory, they can form their own theorems, come up with hypotheses, with their teachers help. THAT makes sense, that's not memorization, that's a course based on logic.
(clearly, if math was taught this way, i'd have to explain it/it would have to be better planned than what I just wrote)

As a consequence of shitty math skills students struggle in the sciences because things like Chemistry and Physics can be math heavy.

Bio just sucks cause bio sucks. fucking treehuggers.

/s

Spoiler:

then the private school kids get into all the good schools because their parents have the money to send them to a school with a good curriculum.

Whatevs, least I have social skills

Spoiler:

all the private school kids I know are very sexually frustrated, and don't know how to interact with the other gender
probs cause the only ones I know went to a one-sex school, but, that's just my experience.