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NGL, it’s really f*cking depressing when you give students 30m to create something of their own imagination, and they do it in the first minute with chatGPT and spend the other 29m playing games the phone and asking to “go to the bathroom” whenever they notice someone in the hallway.
The excuses you hear when you do something so oppressive as to request they keep their phones in their own backpacks for the duration of the task.
I was uninterested in school because nothing was ever done to make me interested, even at home.
Later in life I was diagnosed with ADHD and now I’m a software developer. Sadly school isn’t for everybody and I just thought I was stupid and lazy, it turns out I was fine I just needed the right help.
Edit: Votes don’t matter but I’d love to know the reasoning for the 5 downvotes on this. Like why don’t you put across your opposition.
Well it's not like you had a choice in the matter and that's why they don't care how interested you are. You and the rest of your batch just need to sit still for an hour and a half until you get a break walking to the next boredom session.
I find it quite incredible that I spent 14 years of 40 hours weeks listening to people talk about stuff I did not care about under the assumption that if I didn't I'd end up homeless so they never tried to make me care.
Fortunately we had a computer at home to learn about the stuff I actually cared about.
I find it crushing that they're still making students sit and listen about this boring useless shit when they can just ask their phones about whatever they'd be trying to do if they weren't listening to a course plan from the 1800s about completely obsolete and irrelevant things.
How can this incredibly important phase of life be so hopelessly poisoned by school for absolutely no reasons at all.
Chris Crawford was talking about this problem in 1992 and we still haven't learned anything
The Dragon Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074
I couldn't find a transcription, and it covers a lot more than education, but it's a good speech. The relevant part starts at ~12:45
Thanks I'll check that out
For me it is
"Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED"
which is the first result if you search youtube for "ted talk education"
He doesn't really have a solution of mass manufactured education but he does highlight the problem real good
Actually, someone made a drawing version of this talk and it's really good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
awesome, I'll check that out