School…Blegh
“School becomes increasingly annoying, students outraged at sudden rush of busy work and useless assignments, next on WORG News, Channel 42.”
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“We’re back! I’m Erik the Red with WORG News. Now I’ll pass it on to our reporter in the field, Crusty Eyelid. Crusty?”
“Thanks, Erik. I’m here live at The Unnecessarily Big Campus of Schools, in Cave Creek, Arizona with the education report. Students have become increasingly bored with their classes lately, claims local Brett Epps. Here’s a clip of my chat with him Sunday.”
[Roll Clip]
“So, what do you find most boring about school?”
“Everything. The teachers give out occasional interesting assignments, but most everything lately has been easy or busy work. I barely see a point in even going to school anymore.”
“Could you give us some examples?”
“In geometry, we do 10-15 homework problems nightly. The problem is, all but one or two take less than 30 seconds to complete. I wish the teacher would have us do five or six of the harder problems rather than so many uselessly easy ones.”
“Anything else?”
“In social studies, we just do outlines and questions on chapters in the textbook. That’s about all it amounts to. In biology, things are worse. Today, for instance, we did a “lab” where all we did was count letter strings and answer repetitive questions on gathered data. This was not only stupid, it barely had anything to do with what we were studying.”
[End Clip]
“Obviously, this is a growing problem in Arizona schools. We can only ask ourselves, ‘Are students really being challenged? Are we doing enough to provide accelerated learning programs at the high school level? Could we be doing something productive for three weeks of every school year rather than standardized tests that students remember the answers to because they are the same every year?’ Only time will tell.”
“I’m Crusty Eyelid, WORG News.”
“Thanks for that report, Crusty. And now on to weather…”