LostintheCycle
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Let's talk about the ways which we'd want to change the education system, because the education system will always suck and there'll always be something to complain about. Remember that some of what we say may be country-specific. Also nothing about politics or agenda please.
- Give teachers some freedom in the classroom. The way teachers are forced to teach only what the curriculum says puts a noticeable strangle on classes.
- Lessen the influence of exam preparation on classes. Most classes end up teaching the bare minimum to get past as well as 'exam tricks'. Why do we need exam tricks at all? That's stupid shit to learn. When there's exams breathing down your neck and then any class that tries to be different is bogus because the only thing you're in school for is the magic number you get from doing your exams, so then doing anything else feels pointless.
- Basic and relevant medical education in younger kids classes, so that kids can understand what's normal and what's not health-wise, have some awareness of what ways people with some conditions are affected by them, etc.
- Read more essays! We wrote so many essays but did not read a single one in class. I think that is why most people's essays are so clumsy and directionless. Reading essays would help broaden the student's idea of what an essay could be, and get more students to understand the true purpose of essay writing to refine their approach to them.
- Get rid of our financial incentive for schools to push students into university. Australian schools get paid based on how many kids they force into uni straight after school, so schools end up fear-mongering a bit. It is a rare type of kid who knows what they want while in high school, so it's stupid for them to think they have to go into it straight away. It doesn't lock you out or benefit you to go straight after school.
- Australia's Department of Education needs to stop funding private schools. Enough said.
- Every school is meant to have Australian "literature" and we wind up reading shitty novels that make you want to throw up, written in the last five years by hacks. Not once do we ever encounter Henry Lawson, one of the greatest Australian literary figures, of which there are very few of! This is more of a school-by-school thing I guess, but I went to two different schools and it had the same thing. It's fucking bollocks!
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