I interviewed 15 students, 1 graduate and 1 teacher. When asked the same set of questions each of them had a different reply and a different voice of opinions.
Question:
What do you think about your school and the system your teachers use?
Is this system effective?
How does it affect you?
Person 1: "I think school could be better and I could get better grades but the way my school is, everything messes with my brain but at the same time I understand it. I wanna go to school and I wanna learn, but my teachers are crap."
Person 2: "Its alright, like I'm learning but the way the teachers are teaching, it isn't effective. School is stressful but I'm grateful for it because it creates opportunities."
Person 3: "It's ok but it needs improvement. It needs more interactive classes because personally, I learn better working with a partner. I can learn more if classes were fun."
Person 4: "This school sucks ****. The teachers are rude and they have no respect and they talk to people like dirt and they don't acknowledge you and they have no sensitivity and they can't teach. I'm pissed and I'm tired of this crap! It needs a change."
Person 5: "Teachers don't care and they don't listen. Teach yourself, it could be way better."
Person 6: "School is terrible. Teachers don't know what they're doing so I don't know what I'm doing. It just wastes 8 hours of my day."
Person 7: "School is good and teachers are smart. I want a good job so I have to go to school but still, #BallIsLife."
Person 8: "It's organized I guess, the exams I just had were stupid but I don't care."
Person 9: "Yes it's ok, you learn a lot when you pay attention and I'm grateful for it."
Person 10: "School depends on the teacher. I mean some have complex methods, others have good methods and the rest have methods which suck. I just don't understand and I care, but I just wanna get through his year and leave."
Person 11: "School is boring, garbage, stupid. It isn't fun and the teachers are dumb and when I go home I don't know what the hell I'm doing and I don't know what the hell I gotta do."
Persons 12 - 14: "School is a good thing, some people learn in different ways than others and some retain information better than others. Going home and researching the topic because you don't understand is not the teachers fault. It's always best to research the topic before hand."
Person 15: "It's not the school and it's not the teachers, it's the children that don't pay attention and don't know what to do. School doesn't bother me, I'm chilled."
Graduate: "School was cool, it was full of learning and drama. Some teachers were ratchet as hell but without some of them I wouldn't even finish some of my courses. It made me realize that even though I was lazy during my academic years it really pays off in the end."
Teacher: "Some students learn really well and others need to be pushed and told what to do. When students want to learn they will but with no cooperation they will fail. I believe it can affect them positively and negatively depending on their general well being and whether they have support at home or not or whether they are mentally challenged or stressed."
Personally, I believe that when you put your mind to something anything is possible. So to me, school isn’t a problem. Over the years our education system has improved so why is this generation complaining? Long before this generation came about, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, all the doctors in the United States, all the dentists in the Caribbean, all the successful business owners in the world all went to school, graduated and became something. They did something with their lives and they didn’t complain about their teaching. Why are we?
Can our education system use improvement? Yes, but so can our attitudes towards it.
“Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
– Albert Einstein
Good Vibes &' Nonchalant Times 