#a diploma doesnt make you qualified for shit. you sat in a classroom for 8 hours a day for 12 years of your life so your parents could work | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

caffeinatedopossum · 2 years ago

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Sometimes I wonder if being raised in a cult gave me a unique ability to spot bullshit. Like at some point, I had to learn that everything I believed and everything that everyone around me believed was utter bullhsit. And the reasons for us needing to believe those things were almost worse.

But then once I left, I realized so were many of the beliefs that everyone else has. Supposed 'opposing' beliefs were never actually that different from one another. There's no reason for a lot of the stuff people do and even more bad reasons for doing other things. Like why is school the way that it is? There's so many problems with it and a lot of people recognize this yet dropping out is still seen as an awful, terrible thing to do- something that will set you up for a life of failure- even though that hardly reflects reality.

I could go on about this for hours but I'm sick and I feel like this thought still needs to microwave in my brain a little longer

#like the main purposes of school are free childcare and to control the knowledge that youre given and also to encourage uniformity i think #but then i was homeschooled and taught that it was the superior education #even though i was dealing with the same shit #my parents controlled what i learned and tried to mold me into something specific and harmful in the same way #everything useful i learned ive had to teach myself or seek out teachers that i trust myself #i dropped out. i failed grades. i dont have a diploma or GED #and thats not to say its good or that it isnt harder for me because of that. but maybe we should question #why it has been purposely made harder for people *without diplomas* rather than people who arent qualified #a diploma doesnt make you qualified for shit. you sat in a classroom for 8 hours a day for 12 years of your life so your parents could work #not so you could actually be successful #its fucked up and we should all know it by now #also this is rather disjointed for a tags ramble but i just want to add #this is an appreciation post for teachers in the public school systems who are underpaid and overworked #yet still care deeply and passionately about actually helping kids #yall are the real mvps <3 #(looking at you 9th grade english teacher and science teacher from when i was actually in public school)

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