How The Simpsons Exposes the Problem With the School System
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"Bart Gets an 'F'" is the first episode of the second season of The Simpsons. In this episode, Bart Simpson fails four consecutive history exams, and the school psychiatrist recommends he repeat the fourth grade." - Wikipedia
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A movie I highly recommend: The Gospel According to Matthew (starring a very animated and engaging acting performance by Bruce Marchiano, who plays Jesus). This is a word-for-word adaptation that has a unique take on the body language and charisma of Jesus, and also makes it easier to understand and quicker to read the story. I am hopeful that this movie gives you peace, love, hope, security, comfort, and answers, as it did me, and continues to do to this day. God bless you.
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Hey guys, if you have a different opinion that’s cool! It creates discussion. However, I do ask that you keep the comments respectful as that’s one the most important lessons to take away from this video.
I also want to make a point that my messages in my videos can easily be misinterpreted. Don’t take “grades don’t mean anything” too literally. Celebrate your hard work, obviously if they get you somewhere then it counts for something. Just don’t let them define your self worth.
The issues with the education system and college are a lot deeper than just obsessing over grades. But great video nonetheless.
Wasn’t it a Rockefeller who began the education system in America and has a very ominous and infamous quote about wanting a nation of workers not thinkers? The elites don’t want free thinkers, they want obedient slaves to keep turning the cogs in their machine, called the United States corporation with its unconstitutional federal reserve, IRS taxing us into oblivion and endless wars. Everything from our birth certificate to our zip code, is designed to mark us like a commodity. The founding of America and the constitutional republic was meant to break free from this mental, spiritual and physical slavery. But after we won the war for our independence, we’ve been infiltrated by Marxist’s and communists for decades, undoing and eroding our values from within because as Lincoln once said, America will never be taken from the outside by force with a war.
The royal elites and banking families consider themselves a race above humans, been that way for thousands of years and America has always been an affront to that belief. They and their secret societies and handshakes developed and created communism and its many forms, to sell it to suckers gullible enough to buy into it so they can create that chasm between the haves and have nots again. The Pharaohs and their slaves(they have an obsession with ancient Egypt too btw, that’s why pyramids and the eye of ra are everywhere, from Katy Perry music videos to the dollar Bill printed by the Fed Reserve).
We are owned the moment we are born. Jordan Maxwell and Santos Bonacci go deep into this look them up I’m sure their videos are still on RUclips.
Movies like Office Space along with a slew of others in the 90s painting this picture of corporate America and how working a high paying job in some booth or working your ass off 40+ hours a week only to earn enough to go back out and do it again day in and day out until you’re physically unable to and retire with whatever scraps you’ve accumulated over the years, is NOT how humans beings are supposed to live on this earth. Money is an ancient Sumerian invention used by its priest class to enslave it’s common folk and seperate them into classes. The priest class are today’s bankers and elite families. If you understand that, then you know something is definitely wrong here. You feel it the moment you’re forced into school and have ridiculous expectations placed on you as a child.
It’s a botched backwards system designed to imprison us into servitude and slavery, with enough distractions like consumerism and modern day bread and circuses like sports and travel destinations to make us think we are actually free and this is how it should be. It isn’t.
Michael Tellinger dives deep into the origins of money and what it’s true function is. Look him up as well. That’s 3 names so far who’s videos you should watch. I encourage you to do so.
I like this message. Grades shouldn't be the only thing that defines us, or the only thing that defines our intelligence for that matter.
96% of that stuff you will never use. It's nice to know but you likely will never use it.
To be honest: my parents where not obsessive about my grades but more aboit my development in the way that I would get a somewhat decent job
I wish my parents would understand English better, because I would love to show them this.
During the time where my little sister went to school, they pressured her a lot. Down to the max where she constantly got sick and ill health-ed from just anxiety. Because she didn't want to fail their expectations and due to teachers telling her that these grades are what matters to society.
Screw Society on that one.
My Dad never learned IT, but works and repairs computers better than an actual IT studied Employee.
My big sister advanced in Architecture, but nowadays works in Expense Management for one of the biggest Household Hardware Companies in Germany.
I learned Web Design and schooled myself in Retail. Now I work in a Print Shop that develops Website Banners, T-Shirts, Concert Flyers and Car Prints. And the four languages I can speak and understand, I taught most of this myself.
I was just about average in school on everything that wasn't Art related. Heck I even learned how to play 7 different instruments without ever knowing how to read Note Sheets.
To anyone thinking that these Numbers and letters on your school degree mean anything of value. No, they don't. If you got a talent and you can show it in any way, do so. School degrees are just there for the governments of your countries to evaluate the average IQ quota, which is just another can of BS in the school system.
Conversation a kid had with my teacher:
“How is this useful”
“It is”
“When will I ever use this information”
“You will”
“Okay but when”
“You will”
“But when”
“You will”
“But when”
“YOU WILL”
Yea, like 95% of that "important, useful" crap they shoved into my brain I haven't used in the 21 years since I graduated.
Meanwhile, random "useless" information I've learned from RUclips videos and other "entertainment" sites have been far more useful and relevant to my daily life.
I remember whispering "How will writing a diary everyday when you don't want to write is gonna help?" In 4th grade and one of the students heard it and shouted it. I was so embarrassed 🗿🔫
I once asked about a certain topic and how it was useful
The best my teacher could come up with was:
"Well, you might use it in a trivia quiz or as a conversation piece"
Yep, I wanted to ask my teachers this, but I knew they didn't have the answer for me
Some of these things you will use quite often, the problem is there aren't enough licensed teachers, so you get some pretty dumb ones.
Something I wish I knew when I was a kid: School is not a measure of your intelligence, it is a test of your obedience.
The US school system was based on the Prussian school model and introduced by Henry Ford. It was a model used to prepare children to factory work and Ford saw an opportunity in that. The Prussian model was influenced itself by Martin Luthers idea to use a system set up by the state to indoctrinate and keep people in religion.
yeah, same especially for me. My parents always wanted me to get high grades, if I don't they're disappointed and started scolding me and telling me that I'm not gonna be successful. As a 10th grader now, I'm mentally tired and mostly procrastinate on schoolworks. Not just our school forced us to learn by ourselves using modules but also the lack of my interest in learning. I love to learn but learning from school is sooooo boring now. Like most of the things doesn't even apply in real life, it's just full of "space filllers". I don't care about my parents getting disappointed at me, I only can give them what I can. But my grades is still acceptable tho but not as high as my parents standards.
@Brennan Walsh I agree with you. My friend also told me that grades doesn't matter, only matter is that you learn something
Yeah. I used to hate myself and cry when j realized I got an f or d in middle school. I fell asleep in class. Not because i stayed up late! I just didn't find it interesting. History of random countries is boring as HELL. Amerocan hostory was a bit better for me, but then again, the teacher was also pretty funny.
If only school cut out the crap I don’t need to know. However much the US wants it nobody NEEDS to learn about Chinese philosophy for 3 MONTHS(please help me it’s still only week 1 of an entire quarter on Chinese philosophy)
Edit: Also, I forgot to mention, schools need to take into account the needs of the people they are meant to teach. If class goes into a subject and everybody collectively groans, you can probably find a class that’s more useful. And in addition, the zero-tolerance policy is the worst idea ever implemented into school. Even tornado drills(which possibly caused chronic knee problems for me)can’t top the mental trauma of the zero-tolerance policy’s ability to mentally manipulate victims into thinking they either deserved it or it’s their fault they got bullied. I once wrote a fake lawsuit against a teacher in class and got sent to the office. I was... kinda expecting that. But what’s really awful and messed up is that I got one of my classmates to sign their signature as witness/judge(I don’t remember), and they tried to PUNISH HIM TOO. I had to literally grab a pencil and scribble out his name before somebody could stop me to help him out of something he didn’t deserve.
I had a math teacher in college, Greek guy. He always complained that the American School system was "too much testing, not enough teaching".
He is the only teacher who knows how to teach in America nowadays
This was my experience exactly. I got good grades primarily because my parents and older brother valued education, and taught me tons of things from an early age. Despite not paying attention in class, and never really studying until high school, I always did well and made honors. In the eyes of the school, this made me "smart", but I never really felt that I was "smarter" than anyone as much as I felt that I was simply given advantages that others did not have. Combine this with the Pygmalion effect of reinforcement, and those deemed "failures" underperform while those deemed "gifted" receive more guidance and over-perform.
SOMEBODY GIVE THAT TEACHER AN AWARD FOR POINTING OUT ALL OF AMERICAS EDUCATION SYSTEM PROBLEMS
I'm greek too lol
Is he wrong tho
If a student is stressed or literally crying over a bad grade, then something is really fucked up about this system
No, it means you care. I remember working hard in college one semester, and then the next I barely showed up. I pretended not to care until I got my report card and it made me cry to see that because I couldn't be bothered going to school, I failed.
or the student cares a bit too much about a letter or numbers
Yeah, you’re gonna have a hard time explaining that in Asia. Their suicide rates are sky diving high because of the pressure to conform.
@@RandomFurry07 because school makes you. the entire point of the video
@@1qulitxys635 It's not just school. Life makes you do things that aren't fun but are necessary. Get a job. It's not fun but I need to buy food. Bart, like many students, only focused when he learned that there were consequences to failing again. It is much easier and more effective to study a little each day than cram the night before.
Kids need to learn to start early and work consistently when they are young. This way, they will get a job young and they are less likely to be living in their parent's basement playing video games until they are 30 without ever holding a job.
When Bart said “This is as good as I can do, and I still failed” a tear rolled down my eye. That hit me hard.
Same here
gotta love it when you do your best to study, you think you did pretty well on the test, you fuck it up anyway and then you get told to maybe study more....
Honestly my life in a nutshell.
Fuck the education system
@@Error-mn4el relatable
I hate that people call this "learning". Things you learn usually stick with you for the rest of your life, like drawing for example. You study stuff for a test and then forget about it.
Well kids do learn some things, just not those schools are expecting. Everyone remembers how school made them feel
True, I don't even remember most of 2019
Exactly, I forgot everything we learned the last 3 years in biology and music after the test.
who the hell will ever need prime and composite numbers
Yup, a good example of this is dance and music. People with dementia can remember a dance or a song even when they can’t remember anything else. Heck my grandma remembered how to do a scale but couldn’t remember anything she learned in science class.
*"If you judge a fish by his ability to climb a tree the fish would think he cant do anything" -Einstein*
@Mafilovy 🦋 who knows he could mean if someone said that it means your are or smthing (dont r/woosh me or smthing)
‘Every Einstein quote is fake’ -Einstein
Mudskipper: "I'm going to be the best fish ever!"
Also mudskipper: _Tries their best and even ended up climbing trees. But since they're not a monkey, they still get an F._
@@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking oh no it’s a paradox
Wait that means the quote saying it's fake is fake making it not fake but also fa-@@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking
You know the school system is bad when students are happy when they get sick
If you think those kids are happy they're out, you should see their teachers. They're probably uncorking champagne.
The moment when someone's crying because of a single math problem, you know something's wrong
i cried over two pages of math problems, something *is* wrong.
I've had a time in 6th grade where I straight up started bawling because I was so exhausted that merely existing was like super painful and I couldn't think anymore no matter how hard I tried and I couldn't work anymore, I felt super dissociated from the world around me and just was so out of it, despite needing it done before school the next day. And struggling to get out the words past hyperventilating because I knew I couldn't stop, but my brain wasn't letting me work anymore.
To be fair, I barely slept back then due to not wanting to sleep, since sleep meant waking up, often without dreams in between the two, and waking up meant school. Sometimes I'd lay there crying and wishing I'd never wake up.
I was 12 at the time of the latter story. And very much suicidal, as well as hitting myself, despite being a "good" kid in terms of grades. I had to start homeshchooling from 9-12, I'm 17 now. I have not fully recovered from the trauma that school gave me. Not to mention the trauma from other schools, one event happening at the ripe time of 2nd grade, aka I was 6-7. Fun.
I still cry over physics and calculus problems in college :(
I'm in yr 8 and i cry about math or get mad about it because its the only subject i suck at.
I'm in 10th grade and i always tear up when i can't complete chemistry homework. I used to cry over math homework too, but when my class got better math teacher this year it stopped. The teachers is very resonable, whenever someone says that they don't understand, she just responds with honest "that's great!" and then explain this to them until they get it. In contrary, my chemistry teacher just responds with "we had this in 9th grade" or "look into the books", and gets mad when students are struggling with questions. I think it kinda shows that how teacher acts matters deeply.
"There's a difference between people who are smart, and people who score better." - Prince EA
Prince *EA*
There everywhere.......
EVERYWHERE
One of the few things hes said that wasnt bullshit
lol don't take anything else Prince EA seriously, this is one of the few things he's said is true.
@@crippledcow2235 i agree
I failed so much in school as a kid.
Years later it turned out it wasn't my fault.
The teachers were teaching the subject by just having us read from a book then test us on what we "learned."
What no teacher or parent ever taught me was how to "study" effectively.
Once someone who I met in the military showed me his techniques I went from thinking I was stupid to thinking I was smart.
I quit the military, went to college and university and made mostly "A's" in all my courses.
I'm going to be sure to pass on these techniques to my son when he starts school.
share? Got my exam period coming up in uni and i still dont know and PRSTQ or whatever just seems like suuuuuuuch a slog
@@OneSlavBoi anything not math or science related you start by reading the material, and for every name of a person you find in the reading you also answer (Who (their name) what (what they did or are known for) where (where they were when they did this notable thing and why, why did they do this notable thing)
Then you learn to write the whole story out in paragraph form over and over until you can recite it without trouble.
Do this for EVERY name you come across in your reading.
For science and math it all comes down to repatirion. Make flash cards for scientific names or principles and flip through them until you can define every term without thought.
Math is harder, it's just write the formula over and over until you memorized it then do practice equations to really solidify your learning.
Finally, try to find practice exams online that can give you insight on the kinds of questions you'll be asked.
Good luck!
@@mr.mediocregamer9653 Lovely advice thanks.
@@OneSlavBoi I hope some helps. Good luck!
Your teachers were really messed up if they didn't give you proper help to do better in the future. Shame on them.
Thing is, Bart is actually real smart. Dude learnt French and Mandarin in like, a week each.
And he learned fluent Spanish in one plane ride to Brazil. Then he finds out that Brazil doesn’t speak much Spanish.
@@Mangaka_MkAy caramba que mujer tonta!
Note: I am Brazilian, and I find that episode hilarious
He ain't smart according to the school
@@acedelta12 yea thats what the entire video is about my guy
Well it is just a cartoon
Teacher: "Class, why do you think students cheat on tests"
*the class, all of whom cheat in one way or another*:"Because in 10 years my employer will only see what grade I got, not what I know" A 70 year old joke from my country, still holds up
70 ? Wow. School is even worse than I thought.
@@alexursu4403 well ex communist county, dont know how it is in other places
@@comradesam3382 Well it's the same deal here.
Cheating is seen as a bad thing, that people who aren’t smart do so they can get good grades despite not being smart.
Smart kids cheat because it saves them time energy and strain and gives them a better shot at a future than working their assess off learning useless information.
Ive been telling myself this since I was like 12. I’ve been cheating that long and my parents are convinced I’m the reincarnation of Albert Einstein. This is how you know the system is fucked and needs to change.
@@EvanNeedsTherapy while since being told my whole life that "cheating is wrong" and "you are stupid if you need to cheat" and since when I was younger the work was easier and cheating was unnecessary I started to fall behind and my grades got lower and I started to think I was just stupid and couldn't do anything right and that I was a disappointment so thank you school for teaching me that the work I give you isn't enough and that its always my fault and not the schools for being bad at teaching me🙃
I got several "C" grades in my college writing class, but then I started emulating my professor's favorite author and my grades suddenly went up to "A". Sometimes it really is the teachers' fault.
Truly
Genius strategy
yeah. so my drama teacher hated me, and no matter how hard i tried, how many sleepless nights of rehersing, she would still beat me down till i was nothing. i gathered up all my evidence of this and got her fired. turned out she did this to other students depending on their looks, guess she thought i was ugly
That makes me extremely angry....
@@viskaserk yeah drama teachers are super bs
This is a perfect representation of ADHD. I feel like most school systems needs to aknowledge that everyone is different and needs specific programs to strive.
Then why isn't Bart in some class for kids with special needs like ADHD?
@@suspense_comix3237 Undiagnosed ADHD makes it a bitch to get into special needs classes. But even then, the special needs classes are usually.. crappy.
I remember as a 3d grader I was always getting in trouble because I didn’t tolerate the way they tried to shame me to do work. I would refuse to do it all the time. The only thing that really motivated me to do work was the fear of repeating the grade.
Funny enough, that's what an IEP (Individualized Education Program) is.
@@ethanpease5936 Usually, when in place however, there's a lot of teachers who blatantly ignore details from it. An example I remember hearing about was a college professor of all people ignoring a dyslexic student's IEP requirement to use technology for note taking.
As someone who was always an A and B student, I agree with this so much. I remember when I got an F and I was so scared because I always did well in school. I’m an advanced student and it’s generally difficult because everyone (ex. teachers, parents, classmates, etc.) excepts something that’s extraordinary from you. But when you give them something that doesn’t meet their expectations, you get called a failure and people question how you’re advanced. It really sucks because then, you get all these high expectations of yourself because you were always given the upper hand just because you were “brighter” and “smarter” than everyone else. And when you don’t reach those expectations, you beat yourself up for it because you’re not used to failure. The education system doesn’t care about your health or mental health, they only care about your grade and that is what’s harming students. The system doesn’t care and that’s the issue. If you bring it up they will look at you like you’re crazy and just say, “Oh, don’t be silly. Just study more. Do your homework.” But that won’t help. To sum it up, the education system needs to change for the better, not for the worst.
I was once a A and B student but during the pandemic, I branched into coding and politics. I studied science and history. In middle school, I got low grades because I didn‘t need notes. I felt sadder than I have ever felt. I still feel the same way. Like I failed my life
@@forestria_gaming That's also how I feel as well, I was disappointed in myself when I ended every quarter with A's and B's, it was like no matter how much work I did, I'd still get a B. And since my parents really care about school, I get scared and nervous whenever my grade drops to a C or lower, it really sucks being the "smart one" in the family.
I'm sure you're boss would react the same way if you mess something up too.
Thebiggest irony is that adults use academia as a moral compass fpr kids yet adults cannot even remember what they learned in school, not do they tolerate academic discussiom.
Adults dont respect academia excpet as a tool to keep kids out of their hair.
Also, most academically gifted smyouths emd up stuck in dead end jobs and worldly-deprived, which makes them fall behind in maturation
It took me halfway through college to realize that grades and testing (the way we go about it currently) are counterproductive to learning. I have learned so much more under laid-back teachers and professors than hardass ones. I learned so much just from teaching myself outside of school going at my own pace. The whole world just needs to overhaul how we go about education as well as how we perceive intelligence, the individual, and competence.
I know plenty of people, myself included, that learn how to speak languages to the point of fluency or getting close to it just by interacting and various methods that you can't find in the class room, plus you won't get an F for failing to speak coherently with someone in another language as you learn. Speaking of languages, how many of us been to a language class that had students that already speak the language in it just because it's an easy A? That shows that schools have students too focused on a grade rather than learning out of intrinsic interest.
Fun fact, Einstein hated school. He was extremely critical of it
If one of the smartest people in history flunks and hates school
There is something seriously wrong with the system
@@toothpick124 he didnt flunk school that's been debunked as a myth.
@@toothpick124 myth to make people feel good about them selves not a good point against school
he left in 6th grade i think
He actually was homeschooled in the end
Albert Einstein once said, “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.”
So true. Ridiculous how society makes people spend the first 18-20 ish years of their lives having their happiness and mental state determined by a fucking number or letter.
@@flashlightning6742 only to find out most of what they learned doesn’t matter in the real world
To quote Ben Franklin: "The king's cheese is 9/10 wasted. But no matter: it's made from the PEOPLE'S milk."
@@SovereignStatesman Sorry But I don't understand that quote. What does it mean?
@@victorcarlsson1415 Government spending is 90% waste.
Bart’s reaction to the F resonated with me so much when I saw this episode as a kid. I started crying too because I felt the exact same way back when I was in elementary. The worst was the teachers who made me feel like I was an idiot and just a bad kid. I was rarely given any encouragement, just constant scolding and PTA’s. When I got a good teacher who made me care about learning I was a great student but sadly I can only remember one or two of them. I’ve completed high school but I refuse to go back to college again because I know I’ll lose my mind as I did the first time. I took journalism and I too thought I was a good writer, everyone in my life had told me I was. My professors though? Gave me 60’s because I wasn’t writing in the exact specific way they were teaching. I dropped out and I started writing stuff on my own then sharing it with people online. The people I showed my work to loved it and said I was a good writer. So forget what college says man. I know I’m a good writer, I don’t need the validation of some out of touch professors in a dying field. I wish the education system wasn’t about beating a kid down until they fit the mold of an obedient office worker with no individuality.
I can confirm that you are a good writer
I take it that you heard of the business college student who submitted an idea for a business for his final project? An overnight delivery service to anywhere. The professor gave him a C and told him he needed to think of something that would be feasible in the real world.
That project became Federal Express.
The biggest reason why most of the children are obsessed with keeping up with the whole school was out of fear they'll be left behind,many parents would always traumatize they're child of how being the only oldest of a school you're classmates have left would be a shame and embarrassing
I get yelled at for not caring about my grades. I mean they ”define if I’m gonna have a good and steady future” but I think my mental health right at the moment is more important than numbers. I’m not gonna have a future if I’m 15 years old and already ready to jump off a roof.
i wish i could tell my dad this. he keeps talking about my future, but i cant have one if im dead.
mood
For real. I wish someone had told me when I was in school that some random letter wasn't nearly as important as the school system made it out to be, maybe I'd have been more motivated to pursue my passions and interests and not be stuck in a dead end job. My below average grades (in subjects I had zero interest in) made me feel like I wasn't good enough for anything and would never succeed so I never bothered to try for fear of failing.
@@Dargonhuman God I feel you so much. I also have really low numbers on subjects that I have no interest in. Sometimes the teacher is the problem, I’ve had many teachers yell at me for not doing great. Like ok sorry that anyone can’t be a A+ student Karen.
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My moms told me “School isn’t about the education anymore, it’s a game now. You play the game, and you will be fine”
EDIT: I call my mom (singular) “moms”, like people call there father “pops”. I have only one mother lmao
yes, you really do have smart moms
Much smarter than my mom, who asked me: Goddamnit Nicholas, what the f***, why do you have an C- in english? When I was 12
Very smart mother
you have a GALAXYBRAIN moms
Worst. Game. Ever
I love this episode because it showcases that Bart is an actual kid with actual relatable problems, and not just a prankster.
Edit: oh my, that’s a lot of likes…wasn’t expecting that
Bart is a prankster with a heart
Also enjoy your 200th like
Thank you
I was a teacher up until recently and I would always tell my students, I'm looking for progression not perfection. Furthermore, I would tell them that I only gave them homework and tests because it was a school requirement, but it didn't mean much to me because what they do in the real world is what really shows me they've learned.
My math teacher is like this too. She never tells us the class average because it's doesn't represent you or your grades. What she does is show a bar graph of how many people got within a certain range I. For example we would see something like 2 people got 90 and over, 8 people got in between 80 and 90, 6 people got in between 70 and 80 etc. In November she gave us our test back and showed the graph. She showed us that more people were getting in the higher grades and told us that all of us are improving as the graph shows.
The school system is terrible. Kids are literally killing themselves because of a letter, and when they hold memorial assemblies they know why that kid ended their life and choose to do nothing about it. The US school system sucks.
It might seem like a joke, but I legit get some sort of ptsd when looking at 60s in everyday life. It just makes me sad and anxious looking at them
I almost committed suicide myself because of my adhd keeping me from doing all my work. I feel like some pressure is needed to be better, but not so much that people fucking break under it like I did
@demonic builds that’s an even worse school
British system: *allow us to introduce ourselves*
@@spoonerismstuff i have the same reaction but with anything that mentions the school subject math i start to experience difficulty breathing and memories of my mom yelling at me for not understanding a question or being to slow to answer the question and i get stressed but school also made me lose interest in my passions, hobbies and the subjects i actually enjoy.
Teachers at assembly: everyone is unique and that’s what makes us amazing!
Teachers in class: why can’t all of you be quiet but know when to answer questions I’ve asked you? Why can’t all of you study every night and also eat well, exercise and rest? Why can’t you pass a test on a topic you were taught last week?
It sounds like the reason you can't pass a test is because you were talking in class instead of participating. This video makes a lot of good points, but there's an awful lot of entitlement that I can see among American students today. Yes, school should engage your curiosity and make you want to learn about and discover new things rather than make you memorize a list of facts from a book, but is it really our job to *also* keep you entertained 100% of the time? There are certain things people have to know how to do, to be functional adults in society. If more people paid attention in American History class, they probably wouldn't have been induced into trying to overthrow the government a month ago.
What expectation do you actually have of teachers, if you don't think they should be able to ask you questions or assign you homework or test whether you have mastered the unit's skills and content?
@@SRosenberg203 It was not actually overthrowing, it was protesting and occupation of the building. That was Antifa causing trouble at the event, with several members getting arrested after the 'riots' as the media claims. Other than that, though some of what you say is true, much of what school is quickly becomes more memory practice and information downloading rather than figuring things out all on your own.
@@magatsu6811 Illegally entering the Capitol building with the goal of obstructing the lawfully elected government from performing their Constitutionally mandated duty to certify the electoral votes is, in fact, a Felony. These insurrectionists (all of whom have a clear history of hardcore Trump support expressed in their digital profiles so far) wouldn't have such hilarious Surprised Pikachu faces when the FBI comes for them, if they had been paying more attention in school. They might have learned that you don't get to push past barriers and shatter windows to force your way into a building to stop American voters from having their will recognized, when you are butthurt because your guy lost.
@@magatsu6811 In terms of your point on education; teachers are often handcuffed by the districts. I would love to use ONLY primary sources for analysis in my classes, and never even crack a textbook, but if I did so my students wouldn't be able to pass the NY State Regents tests that they have to pass in order to graduate. I would absolutely LOVE for that not the be the sole benchmark by which they are judged, but that decision isn't left up to classroom teachers.
@@SRosenberg203 that is quite sad.
10% of school is learning
40% of school is testing, quizzing, and grading
And 50% of school is getting stressed, studying, crying on a bad grade, and getting depressed
That adds up to 110% tho…
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1000% hellish
Worst part is that I struggle to stay focused In school and I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was younger, however relating to family issues some people in my family think that “you need to focus more” is a good enough response to me failing my classes.
idk if i have adhd but i do know i've had a short attention span for a long time. i can barely focus in most of my classes and it's stressing me out about my grades.
Schools is legit all about grades now and it’s sad how they enforce it
I agree.
Same here too in the Philippines to test our mind
damn dude you're in every comment section
It's because the schools themselves get rated on the grades
I suspect this is an inevitable result of any evaluation system, and as academic grading is likely necessary, there probably isn't a way to change this. I don't think the significance of grades will ever change, but peoples' reactions to them could, but this for the moment is a task for the individual (family).
The worst part is when you study so hard for a test and you got a bad grade, and even your parents dont believe you even tried. :/
It's the worst feeling in the world. Just.. pure stress, anger and frustration.
Every single time my parents lecture me about homework, they just say "Just try. Make an effort." Nothing is more painful than hearing those words after sulking over a single math problem for hours on end.
Unless you frequently do bad things. They seriously affect your thinking and learning
That's why I used to study in front of them
@@amongusztav655 I would do that but they always just sit there and distract me and always have the TV on and my little sister is always making weird noises or screaming or trying to argue with me for no reason, it sucks
Also I am still virtual to clarify
This episode made me cry when I first watched it a few years back. High school was really hard for me. It broke my heart to see Bart trying so hard and still failing, because, DANG, I knew what that was like. To have your very best efforts still not be good enough is the worst feeling in the world. I wanted to hug this kid so badly, which was an unexpected reaction for me watching The Simpsons.
I absolutely understood this episode. I was having trouble with school when this was on the air... and I felt like Bart. It's extremely hard to focus on studying despite the fact you try. Books? Yeah I suck at reading and reading books to make book reports shouldn't be a thing anymore.
Also, I had to repeat the 6th grade. It sucked, but I was in a class that taught both 6 and 7 grade knowledge. It was hard to keep up.
"I suck at math and math tests shouldn't be a thing anymore."
We have a teacher that tells us to buy a 30$ book every few months and read it in 3 weeks, then make a 2-page report on it. This has happened thrice, never has she ever collected the reports
I think encouraging thinking deeper on things is a good thing to teach, and books are a good avenue to do so as they're a more static thing to examine. I know I didn't like needing to take notes after movies on what happened. I was busy watching the movie, I didn't know what I was supposed to remember!
Anyway, if reading didn't click I think that's more an issue on how reading was approached. I know there's a condition some have that makes it so they can't envision things in their mind, which can potentially mean reading isn't as engaging as it is for others since you flat out can't imagine what the words are describing, so understandably you wouldn't get much out of it. Or maybe you're dyslexic so it's just plain physically difficult for you to read.
In either case adults are likely to assume you just don't want to bother with school work than consider anything else as potentially why you struggle with this specific task. Not to mention teachers being unable to provide appropriate substitutes. Maybe you'd be more engaged if the story was done up as a play, so you could still see and examine the character interactions without needing to imagine or read them happening. But that's a lot to ask for just one or two student's needs, and who's to say the play itself would even be engaging! Not an enviable position, though one that should regardless still be given tools to fix such problems.
Educated =/= Intelligence and I wish that more people would understand that.
I can understand that because I have a college degree
@@dominator9710 Yeah
@@xextrasinsx8027 what?
@@theirishpotato6588 🤷♀️
Fr, some people who never went to college or passed high school are much smarter and more humble people than their college counterparts
"People are harming themselves because of an alphabet letter" that hits too close too home for me...
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@@--Ave-- :3
You ok?
You good?
Are you okay bud?
What's worse that some one with Autism, ADHD, or any other disorders may flunk the school system because of their disadvantages, but then again special classes exist, but unfortunately, some states in the US, can't handle the meltdown, especially at elementary schools which can lead to brutal punishments. The brutal punishments are either physical, or mental consequences, which most of them are outdated.
Special classes in the us exist so that they can say they’re doing something
@@tbnrrenagade9507special classes do nothing to actually help, they just use you as a janitor for the school
I’m a straight A student, but i’ve known from the beginning that the school system is really f*cked up, and that grades meant literally nothing to me.
then why do you keep doing school? You know it's not really important but why do you keep doing it? Why do you keep doing it for other people? What's that gonna do for you 10 years from now?
It's amazing how schools see students saying "fuck school" and "this was hell" and think that they've done nothing wrong
@Brennan Walsh fr man.
I constantly say that my school board (and the whole school system) is incompetent and I will stand by that no matter what.
@@Wynnie1121 Totally agree They don't care for you at all. They make you do things completely irrelevant to anything and if you fail to do it They make sure you feel as bad as possible.
@@gameplaysh6135 for real
Not dimissing your point entirely but after a work out everyone thinks its hell aswell however they know its for the best. Its worth considering
@@gameaccount7142 You serious? Working out may be for the best or whatever, but that's 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺. School is basically hell, yes, and for children no less. And it's not voluntary. You think it's normal or right to have kids suffering from depression because of grades, bullies, all kinds of school related things? Just a thought.
The irony is: Bart is always labelled as "low intellect" by the Simpsons creators, but he's actually extremely bright and gifted - just not academically. He successfully pulls advanced pranks all the time, he's a gifted skateboarder, he's learnt several martial arts with minimal training, became a musician of equal skill to his sister and even learnt conversational Spanish on a 12 hour flight to Brazil (then, on finding out that Brazilians speak Portuguese, "unlearnt" it by hitting himself in the head 😂). All the marks of a gifted polymath.
i have never realized that
damn what episode he learns martial arts
@@itsDjjayy The one where he becomes a ninja to hang door adverts, lol!
and when he was 10 he rap battled in front of a huge crowd with no prior practice
And he has also learnt French and Japanese
The craziest part is, even my parents agreed that the system is messed up, being locked up in a classroom for 7 hours straight with useless facts being crammed in your head. It just absolutely sucks. And I'm mesmerized at how nobody's doing anything to change this system
This video made me cry
Throughout school I always got bad grades and always got told I was wasting my potential
But knowing that there is someone out there who believes that that doesnt matter and it's okay that I'm not doing well in school makes me happy
imagine having a rating system A-F and not introducing S,SS,SSS ranks
Yeah, the ± system doesn't make sense. Either introduce more letters or don't bother.
@@charliekahn4205 None of my schools have ever used + or - , it has only been a number 0-100.
SMOOOOOKIN' SEXY STYLE!!
Yokai watch reference? Maybe?
@@_DMNO_ same here!
School would be a lot better if people didn’t feel as pressured as they did about grades. If school took away the value of grades and instead decided to help/educate people based on their interests the world would simply be a better place. But of course school can’t go through every single student and teach them stuff about what they like/want to learn, so they take the easy route and “teach” everyone the same thing and get annoyed when someone doesn’t do it the same exact way they do it.
The thing is after your learn basic reading, writing, math and history you really don't need much else like the school system acts as if you need. You don't need everyone to learn chemistry, biology, algebra, music theory, art, theater, etc. You are pretty much set with knowledge needed before you even get into middle school to do anything you want to pursue. If you want to pursue biology for example you will learn the required things anyways because without that knowledge you would reach a ceiling quite quickly. For me I hated math and felt algebra and geometry to be useless at the time, until I started pursuing programing and video game development and realized alot of that is pretty useful to know when pursuing those things. Schools actively discourage you from pursuing what you want, even if yours interests may unknowingly line up with the material they are teaching.
The problem is that standardized testing and a lack of teachers means that schools have to follow a simple formula, where all they can do is hope they get a good grade from the state.
@@dhgmrz17 ive been an artist for pretty much my whole life and i love making art. its a great passion of mine but when im forced to make art i feel fucking miserable.
@@CandyCat182 You hit the nail on the head, pretty sure that's the same reason why I think so many people come out of school and don't see reading as a form of entertainment, since from the very beginning we are forced to read only certain books that schools deem worthy of being read.
Me: Hey, I like chemistry, astronomy, world languages and aviation, can i learn some cool stuff about that?
Schools: best I can do is Shakespearean poetry
I was diagnosed with brain cancer 2 weeks before my 10th birthday, and epilepsy when I was 16. This video hits hard. I had to drop out of college towards the end of my freshman year, mainly because my epilepsy prescription's side effects were too much to deal with along with what I perceived (and still perceive) as letters and numbers.
Where I work now, there is little of what I was forced to learn in school, particularly high school, that has been relevant.
I dropped school in 2013 and it was very good for my mental health, no more stress, no more of suffering the bullying
Fun fact: our education system was modeled after factory work. Thats why the dont care if you actually have learned, they just need you to regurgitate information without really thinking
And learn how to sit still at a desk for hours upon hours upon hours on end doing the same thing over and over and over.
i want digital art teaching in school dang it, not about blizzards. I live in Michigan, sure, but why the heck do I have to study them when I can read them ON MY OWN
Interesting, cause I work in a factory and it's mostly standing in one spot for hours. Other than memorizing certain things there's a bit of basic math involved and that's about it.
@@jharris3110 both my parents used to work in a fish factory for years because they dropped out of college and couldn't find any other jobs, from the stories I heard as a kid it's hell. Doing the same fine, repeated movements, standing on one spot, aching muscles yet still supervisors screaming at you to hurry the hell up for 12 hours on end, all for a terrible salary that ensures you are given no opportunity to quit because there's simply nothing to back you up financially.
I don't think people realise how big an opportunity the education system is before they whine about it, sure it has it's flaws and it could be better but it's the biggest chance you have of avoiding the closest thing this earth has to hell, so seriously, think twice before taking it for granted, and definitely think twice before ripping into it like it's the biggest thing to ever wrong you.
@@gabrielam.7681 And think that all of those things you've described are the things that we are training our children to do, completely disheartening
I'm no longer in school, and I can tell you right now, for the 12 years I was in school I don't remember a damn thing I was taught after the 4th grade. Because it was useless to me, and hardly anything I learned in school aside from basic math is anything I actually use at all.
You can't expect kids to want to learn when they KNOW majority of what they are learning is completely useless.
I'm sorry to bother you but Hi I love your youtube channel :))
Mostly History,History is useless 99% of the time
@@lamb6276 unless ya wanna be a historian
Yeah good point
@@lamb6276 lol
I used to completely fail junior high because of how hard it was to understand and mainly the distractions and my own mental health. Kids would be screaming in the hallways, whipping each other with cords, saying some of the most racist shit ever, lying flat on table and counters, and our teachers never did anything. While I was at the school my mental health dropped quickly. I got to the point where I would feel absolute dread when I was near school and if I was at school for less than 30 minutes I would get suicidal thoughts. The counselors never did anything and would often say things like “I’m sorry” and “it could be worse” which wouldn’t do anything except make me feel guilty for being this way. I left that school to go to an alternative one instead. It turned out a bit better. Students would still misbehave but the teacher and the work they gave out greatly improved. I could understand what they wanted from me for once. After that school year I found out that I was autistic. Recently I have gotten a 504 ( a kind of mental health plan) for school and things have been better. My mental health is still shit but my grades are good and my parents support me. So I think I’ll be alright
Mental health update?
I started to tear up a little about how relatable this is. I feel so stupid but I just can’t bring myself to care about certain subjects, I want to do good and make my parents proud but it’s so hard
The saddest part is: Everytime I get a bad grade I feel horrible. Everytime I get a good grade I feel... indifferent. Even though I usually work my ass off for it.
yeah becouse that is expected from you, you get no reward for it, you have no use for it but it s bad if you don t know it ... that mentality of teachers and parents can be sometimes like wtf ... it takes 5 minutes to understand that teachers and parents are often wrong about school but it s ego, traditions, mentality, expectations and stuff that keeps teachers and parents blind ... i personally don t understand how THEY can t understand it
same
I got a really bad score on my math research paper, and I had a mental breakdown while blaming myself for not knowing how to improve it despite never getting any meaningful feedback from my teacher despite asking him for help. He basically refused to read my rough draft and just skimmed it.
@@kaitlyncortez3216 @Kaitlyn Cortez I feel you .. but it s okey .. in the end nothing has a purpose so don t even bother being sad :D i know exactly that feel and it s terrible but I am over it, You just have to realize that it doesn t mean anything ... you don t have to be good at math, you don t need to blame yourself, it really is okey ... nobody's perfect, that teacher is probably not the best person either ... school is not your life, grades don t change your future ... you can have completed 5 schools and still be an idiot ... also educating system is bad and bla bla bla ... just keep calm and f*** school 👌
That's called loss aversion, we all do it. It's kinda like when you lose 5 bucks in a vending machine and you find 5 bucks on the ground later, but you still feel bitter about the vending machine.
I feel that many students nowadays, myself included, are more concerned about getting a decent grade than actually learning. I nearly failed my first semester in my math class during my senior year. I have literally never been more anxious in my entire life, and literally no one cared except one of my teachers. She was cool. I like her.
I almost failed high school because of my math grades, i just dont click with it and i hated that about myself, my math teacher passed me with a D- so i could graduate i will forever love jim for that
I failed the 1st semester in middle school
Welp no me I always tried to learn like if I for real understand and never could get good grades
I am failing and sometimes I just wish for everything to end. I want to be a rock if that's possible. A rock with no emotions or problems. I am so anxious about school I would do anything for it to stop.
@@kirito-kun4178 please stay alive
Its crazy that our education system is about rewarding perfection and punishing mistakes, when mistakes are essential for perfection. Every time you see someone accomplish something, remember that they did it 100 times before they got it right once.
The schooling system gave me my anxiety. I was diagnosed with extreme anxiety and it ruined me for everything. The grading, students and even teachers pressured me into getting a A or be stupid.
To quote my friend who took Spanish for all 4 years in High School, and then two more years in College, he said "I don't know how to speak f*cking Spanish, I know how to pass a class."
Exactly how my Spanish experience is going
Taking my last year of French rn and the only things I have retained are how to say hello, goodbye, and I don’t know. Fun fact: everyone in my class the past few years has needed to use google translate many times to pass the damned thing.
I never learnt english in school, fuck that, I learnt from internet, I literally never learnt how to speak english in school
@@thebepisman8924 I got one thing to say, and it is simple: you could learn french in literally less than a year with proper education and ways to teach it, but according to what I've seen, the way people are actually taught, it disappoints me
HA that's relatable. Had French classes for 6 years and the only thing I'm confident about is bonjour. I don't remember anyyything I learned
I hate the questions like "Others excel but you struggle, why is that"
Because how the hell are you supposed to respond to that? Its the "What do you think you did" of the education system.
yea man i dont remember where but theres a place where they let the kids play most of the time and bearly get any homework and the same for the teens AND THE GET GREAT GRADES AND THEY CHOOSE WHAT THEY WANT TO DO i wish i was there but i dont remember where
They act like we aren’t all different individuals they expect us to all be the same it’s disgusting we are not obligated to reach someones expectations
@@mattheec4408 I think that's Finland.
That question always hit hard for me.
It like sting do you know what you got wrong as soon as you get the assignment or test back and you don't know what you did wrong.
I can relate to the teacher asking “why are you like this” and Bart freaking out. Everyone asks me why I behave like I do and I don’t fucking know. Don’t ask me.
Fun fact: school as we know it today was made to teach kids how to work in factories and make them obedient
I always hated the idea of Bart growing up to be an unemployed failure, which is shown in some episodes that take place in the future, but that’s a good representation of how flawed the school system is. I know some people that did poorly in school and are now unemployed.
I remember a lot of episodes set in the future point to the idea of bart eventually moving to a career in law, with him eventually ending up Chief Justice of the supreme court, that being said i haven't seen new episodes in like a decade so maybe they stopped building on that.
Need I remind you, that there are many cases where the class child prodigy will be unemployed anyway?
@@veronicapiccinini7956 that is true they might be the best at school but at they end there a nobody living of past glorys
@@veronicapiccinini7956 tbh you are better off as a dropout then a prodigy. The biggest mistake anyone can make is thinking you have to go to college or it’s even the best option. If you aren’t being anything like a doctor a diploma is practically useless. Someone who is a dropout but is still willing to work would be looking for opportunities for areas that don’t require book smarts but hard work and being likeable. Prodigies who never had to study go to college eventually fail because they legitimately don’t know how to study ( because this is the first time they have had to) and fail and then they have student loans and have no idea what to do next.
yes. like I heard a story about someone who did bad in most if not all of their classes but they were a genius at languages, they could've helped companies translate stuff but since he didnt pass school he can't
I can’t believe it but I’m actually jealous of Bart. His parents are still nice to him when he gets bad grades.
Yep u can study 10 days get bad grades your parents know u study your ass off but they say bs
My mum when I was in elementary or primary school got so angry when I didn't get a good score in a spelling test
Yeah honestly I envy him in that regard
@@phoenix0814 yeah my mom once have me a bruise 4 getting 20/40 on a spelling in gr 1
Yeah, it's actually pretty sad not many people have parents like that.
Top 3 best things that ever happened to me :
1- being kicked from school at 2nd grade
2- failing high school twice
3- dropping out of university
i'm not kidding those are really the best things that ever happened to me
even tho i spent the first 20 years of my life believing i'm a failure
but being on this road helped me form my character ;)
Some time ago I heard the quote "Don't let your education influence your learning", I think it's really good at showing that education is a systematic form of instilling knowledge into students and learning is an enjoyable thing, everyone learns, may it just be the information of what's next in your schedule, exploring a new country in your holidays etc. I can really understand how students can hate schools (as a student myself).
I personally enjoy school a lot, like I had to work really hard to get into my current school, and I will continue to work hard to get into a good university. I think that if you have a general thirst for knowledge of the world, most subjects that teach you common-knowledge are your friends.
Teachers: “You won’t have a calculator with you everyday.”
Smart Phones: “The square root of 69 is shut the hell up.”
They don't let students use smartphones where I live
Another thing is that it’s just handy to carry around a calculator. People should know how to do things without one, but even without smartphones there’s literally NOTHING stopping you from carrying a small calculator around with you everywhere. Especially if you have a bag of some kind or very large pockets.
Honestly, my math and geometry teachers stopped saying that when I was around middle school because at that point EVERYONE had a smartphone so they do, in fact, have a calculator with them all the time and saying otherwise would simply ask to be roasted; they just push us to learn the formulas now so that we know what information to put on the calculator and stuff, specially since we are on online school
teachers: you guys need to get in touch with the new-a-days tech;
also teachers: thow shalt port a calculator - a daily-use machine - during exams.
@@charmaine7781 that’s not what they meant lol
*school isnt about knowing, it's all about remembering*
That's actually true..
Yes? But don't you need to remember that? You remember grammar didn't you? You remember how to multiply didn't you? You even remember things that you didn't know you remember because you use them every day and you don't eve notice.
@@sexyyeyo "remembering" and "knowing" represent relatively different characteristics of memory as well as reflect different ways of using memory. ... Knowing simply reflects the familiarity of an item without recollection. Knowing utilizes semantic memory that requires perceptually based, data-driven processing. There is a difference between both of them and in school knowing and remembering are two totally different things. We have to know a certain thing, for example, you should know what 1+1 is, not remember it. it depends on the type of perspective you take it into. You can say "you remember how to multiply?" or "you know how to multiply?" taking that into perspective both ways have a different meaning to it. knowing is something you already have known and remembering is remembering something that you have learned or saw in the past. One thing I saw from reddit was this: "Remembering is the knowledge you gained from past personal experiences. Knowledge does not have to be from personal experiences." remembering implies explicit recall of a fact or event, knowing does not.
@@DumbassUsername And where did you learn that?School?
@@sexyyeyo can you please stop with this stupid argument, we all know I am clearly right
Growing up with ADHD I understand Bart. It's so damn hard to concentrate on anything when your brain wants to think of something else, not even 5 seconds later. Not only that, but I always hated seeing those stupid letters on my grade. I always thought of myself as stupid because I didn't do well in school. Overtime though I realized that I'm not stupid, I just was never well educated because of the school system.
I literally cried watching this idk🥹😂
When Bart said “I’m dumb” I almost started crying it hit that close
Actually he is not, but those letters make him think so. I believe that everyone is different and unique. Even Bart can be so.
It reminded me of what I said to my parents when they screamed at me for failing a test lol
Except... They kept screaming, instead of feeling bad for me.
Its because most people follow others advices in doing things like for example if you want to become humourous you go ahead and search a video on How to cut jokes or be funny etc . But you won't be able to achieve your goal because that's not your way of doing things that's just someone else's way. If you want to be good at something you have to look for your own way of doing it cause that way your brain starts to learn to do things instead of putting up with something you're forced to do
@@beanoptodon same bro... they were like "ur not smart? Kinda cringe" like dude help me I'm 6
I'ma be honest, childhood depression is the only reason I got straight A's throughout high school. I didn't know shit about myself, not what I liked to do, not what my sexuality was, not even my own emotions, so it was easy to work yourself to death when you're basically a robot. I never had extracurriculars, friends, or clubs, so I spent all my time on homework or other school-related tasks. My only purpose was to do this work. I have such a big memory gap from elementary school to junior year of high school too, and I feel as if I've been robbed of a childhood. I can't blame anyone for not wanting to sacrifice their humanity and childhood for an A.
I feel you, although I fell off later on, I hope you can heal from that, take care, take your time, you’re amazing as you’re ✨✨✨
i swear to goddd i feel like i ghost wrote this! dude same here, you're not alone. i got straight a's pretty easily before because it was all i thought i was good for.
It's rare I ever give a comment a thumbs up, but you deserve it. Keep spittin out the truth! :)
And if you start to actually get out of that shell, you instantly start drowning in school. You now feel the sadness and fear when you didn't feel it before. You start to want to feel no emotions again, but it would have to be at an extreme instead of what it was before. You feel like you wasted yourself, as you were in gifted classes and getting good grades but now aren't getting all A's. You could just be getting a few B's but still feel horrible...
Although you may already are, try nowadays to be in tuned with your inner child, give yourself the childhood you never had, meet people, go on walks, go to places you enjoy, Hell, buy toys, trust me, as somebody slightly in tuned with their inner childhood and never had a very good/had a childhood it makes a difference, I hope it'll help nowadays
Bart’s family cheering him on and hanging his test on the fridge made me cry. I’ve gotten high/straight A honor roll many times before and my family never hung my report card on the fridge. I’d just get a simple “good job”. Maybe it was because it happened so often, they accepted it as the “norm”?
And side note, while I do get good grades, I did have friends around me who obsess over their grades like money, and if they get one 89% on a test, they cry. I ended up wondering why I couldn’t care about my future as much as them (I’ve started off the sem with D’s before, and usually get B’s and B-‘s on my tests, but I didn’t really mind.) I ended up beating myself over it, like Bart.
There’s always going to be those people who are better than you, and it’s difficult to learn that in an environment that pressures kids so much.
The current school system is pointless at best, and downright catastrophic at worse. It isn't designed to produce happy & healthy independent individuals, it is designed to produce factory workers which is currently one of the lowest demanding jobs right now. You could be talented, smart and hard working; and still fail school all because you learn differently or cannot cope having your head shoved into a book all day.
I truly learnt this when I did a business certificate at another college. The way it was set up was so much more different and allowed for more independence and freedom. There wasn't A, B, C, D or E (in Australia we have E not F), it was just Competent and Not Yet Competent. If you didn't pass, that's okay you could do another shot at it and you can take as long as you need, and you'll be helped personally if needed if you don't quite understand. It was a truly more unique way of learning and I wish the rest of my schooling experience was like this.
I hated school and I struggled, still mostly passed but struggled. I love learning but the way the school system was set up just made me feel like I had to hate learning, and my creativity was not only just unappreciated, it was treated as downright criminal. I learnt more about science on youtube in my free time than any science class could ever even attempt to. When we're conditioned to be anti-social, uninspired and not creative robots, we start to act like it even outside of school. No wonder why I find it hard to be motivated in life or until recently; make friends. I was essentially programmed to.
My experience in school is similar to many others, arguably better than many others and I still lost in the long run from it. School just made me a more tired, sick, anti-social and demotivated person and it only got better once I got a job and started to live my life outside of school more, as these environments were nothing like school and gave me some fresh air.
"You can't grade writing. It's an art."
Art teachers: 👁👄👁
Honestly sometimes that's why I hate taking art cause all our pieces are good or bad depending on the person who sees it.
@@ellemurano6276 don't most art classed grade on technique?
@@sebaschan-uwu they should be
Ya... art has its own way..
Its natural and you cant judge nature...
@@sebaschan-uwu to be honest I'm not sure about the rubric they use for where I live. The reason I say it's subjective is because they mark one year really hard but the upper year is marked so lightly. Our teacher even showed us an example. He literally said 'you can still see the sketch lightly right? This got an 1 (best mark). In your previous year it would've gotten a 2 or 3.' It's wack.
“You can’t grade writing because it’s art.”
me literally getting grades in my art school: *Well yes, but actually no.*
Me: *throws a bunch of paint and crayons at the floor*
Me: ITS ART... APPRECIATE IT!!!
Me: ... APPRECIATE HARDER!!!
Place urinal at a 90 degree angle.
Art!
"You're not skilled enough to draw from imagination"
~My Art Teacher
"Okay, but what if we don't want to draw hyper-realistic stuff, Demonic Female Anti-Bob Ross?"
~Me, silently, in my head
When I wa in 5th we had art. If we did the work then we would get a 100 . We just had to do the work and we got a 100.
@@superroach3397 *bruh* I wish it was that easy..
It's even harder when you actually do have a developmental or learning disability. Because you also have to deal with people not understanding you or your disability, calling you lazy, saying you're not trying hard enough. And no matter how hard you try, your disorder, something you have absolutely no control over, will always be there, making things so much harder...making you have to work twice as hard as the average person just to get a decent grade. I have ADHD and public school was AWFUL for me because of it and in highschool, a newly appearing physical disability as well that I didn't know I had until after I graduated highschool.
As someone going through the U.S. school system rn, I can say that even for someone who gets consistent A’s getting a B feels like the world crumbling down around you. And one aspect of schools that isn’t talked about nearly enough is that when you get a bad test grade, your whole grade for that class suffers even when it isn’t your fault, on top of the sadness and feelings of worthlessness, also comes an awful amount of tests to bounce back to a good grade again, “You can fail one test and spend the next two months retesting to get you back to where you were before” -my younger sister after getting an 82 on a math assignment.
The school system is flawed and won’t change unless we demand of it, to anyone who reads this and is still going through the hell, go from class to class, get as many people as you can, recruit. Then when the time feels right, protest, don’t go into the school, protest loudly outside of it, eventually enough people join and the school can’t work anymore due to not having enough students being taught
my school got rid of Ds because they want a "if you arent passing, your failing" mentallity. it completelly screws with our gpas and our over all morale
Mine added E's lol. They're still an F but a "nice" F according to teachers.
My school did that too, and we get an automatic fail if we miss one assignment now.
Bro wtf??? Why would they do that wtff
@@bayza7955 idk man getting a fucking E would hurt quite a bit
@@auggiemain is that for online school??
Not so fun fact: this school system was just made to train children into future factory workers, shows how old-school this system is
hah pun
@@Icarus_72 ohhhh I just realized lmao
What factory?? Half of American factory is overseas only weapons
@@user-ri5oc5rw5b during the industrial revolution most people in school became factory workers as they were the only jobs and of you were rich you’d have different education and inherit the business. So the lessons taught in school were: unabashed obedience, don’t think creatively and dream small. This system hasn’t changed.
@@sonnyfox60 a dark past mhm
Meanwhile in Finland:
Everyone can learn whatever they want to accomplish, and NO CHILD will get left behind (never fail).
And at their own pace?
Yes. No standardized testing and grades either. You are actually allowed to develop your skills and abilities. Also schools don’t compete but collaborate and students are taught to collaborate and not compete
(Not from Finland btw but saying what ik of the education system there).
@@fathimathnabeela6247ehh.. i'd say almost everything depends on the school you go to, in my school there is different "skill level classes" in certain subjects (only math, and finnish for foreign students) so i'd say it could definitely be improved (yes im finnish, 8th grade)
@@abdulazimnaushadwhat do you mean by "standardized" tests?
This is so relatable as a person who is failing every one of my classes in highschool. The grading system is terrible and it can really traumatize you and cause you to develop many fears. It makes you feel like you aren't smart, but you actually are.
I feel like school would be so much better without the grading system because it is putting so much kids in depression and stress. And for kids with mental illnesses, it makes it even harder.
I have ADHD myself and it feels like the schools don't care about it and don't want to 'help out in every way they can' as they always say.
This school system is crap and I feel as if the schools would never listen to us no matter how many times we complain about it.
If you are ever depressed that you aren't smart enough for school, always remember that everyone has their weaknesses and strengths in a subject and you are capable of learning anything. Grades don't and will never tell you how smart you are, so don't take a bad grade to heart and think you are dumb because of it.
If you ever feel stuck in the pit of failure, remember to try hard and you will get somewhere. Use the things you are good at to your advantage and turn your negative words into positive :]
The school system is explicitly designed to make things easy for the people at the top when it should be designed to cater to the individual the best it can.
Also, to further your point on grades not saying how smart you are, I failed all but one of my GCSEs and my teachers all said I was one of the smartest students they’d ever taught. Grades are nothing more than applying pressure in the hopes it’ll make you do better.
Bart hitting himself while trying to focus hits way too close to home...
Le ADHD has arrived (for me)
@BROTHERHOOD WHAT IFS yeah I was in that situation but for like an hour or more if I’m lucky I forget
I know. Even though I get good grades I have to beat myself up to do it. It has caused so much anxiety and pain over the most trivial of things.
All that scene taught me was that that type of behaviour to gain sympathy from people was okay. It’s not. Re-watching that scene only makes me sad.
Agreed, I used to do the same thing all the time
“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.”
Said by Einstein the fraud
"Sun Tzu said that!"
fish can’t climb
@@volareviaa That's the point. Everyone has things they can do and things they can't. If you judge someone on things they can't do instead of things they can do then they will feel terrible. The fish is good at swimming, the spider is good at climbing. Switch their positions and they will both feel stupid
@@celestial_boon8078 big brain
Regurgitation vs. Retention is important. Parroting and memorizing for a test only to forget it over a summer is not learning. Most of the info I have retained came from life experience, PBS, and RUclips.
My last year of highschool was literally a repeat of everything I learned the previous four years, including tests, which I remembered most of the answers of. My classmates were completely and totally blowing off everything, and the teachers, with massive disrespect. Eventually I snapped and went on a rant, and the teachers excused me from class and I was allowed to take a few days off, because I was 100% correct and their nicest and best student. I consider myself an educated failure.
i feel bad for the teachers that genuinely want their kids to succeed, but are forced to think of them in grades and numbers.
I'm just mesmerized by that succubus
That's how school system works. I mean why the school system don't let the students do what they want in the future, they just focused on what school system want to.
@@NotOrdinaryTofu you gotta feel bad for most teachers for 1 thing they dont get paid well and 2 there just doing there job so yes they are forced to just look at us that way it's pretty sad
I didn't know Mari had drip
@@indianathe3rd742 tf
I remember a classmate having the same outburst in class. “I’m just dumb! Stupid! Worthless!”... imagine this is what a 12 year old was saying right before lunchtime ended.
That's horrible
Probably the same thing.
I hate the whole school system.
Crazy story i was just like that 12 year old, i kept getting my tests back and same result so i was like i have no purpose, no point of being here, and I’ll never achieve anything as an adult so i tried to kill my self 30 minutes later and i was saved by my English teacher
@@BigpurrEli are you ok?did you tell anyone about why you did it
I struggled through my first few years of college, mostly with classes that had very little to do with my degree. It really wasn't until I moved to the UK that I actually started doing well in my classes, and I attribute it to just being more involved and not a scam to buy single-use textbooks. I actually feel like I'm learning things that will help me in my career and in life. The education system in America is just awful, and it really shows.
I did pretty well at school, but it was so stressful to stay on top of everything. I would constantly have nightmares about forgetting an essay or test and having my whole grade go down. After I graduated, I stopped getting those dreams, thankfully
99% of children in america hate school:
Teachers: Oh they are just ungrateful
teachers don't know shiiiii-
That just isn't true.
Teachers are severely underpaid and schools dont get adequet fundings. They say school is very important but then go one to make a mockery of it by cutting budgets, selling out to predatory companies, and upholding outdated and innefective teaching models. I lost all faith in the schooling system when I hit 4th grade and got by on the bare minimim.
@@helium-379I agree that teachers are underpaid but imo I'm not interested in paying teachers more currently for teaching the way they have to no, I think schools themselves and teaching needs to be completely changed and the school system does as well, there needs to be different things put in place to help the different types of kids, and most certainly we need more teachers who actually care
@@professionalfangster1510 “you know kids in other countries have to pay to go to school. You should consider yourself lucky”
I almost cried when Bart started crying and this shows everyone that school is bad for someones (not everyones) mental health, for example I have anger issues and I can't focus well so when I have to focus and try I just get frustrated and start crying, people just keep saying that school is good for you but it just gives little kids stress, in my opinion kids shouldn't stress that much to the point where they start crying, yelling, hitting themselves and even having suicidal thoughts, like schools have to understand us and just chill
Dont forget the destruction of self esteem, due to the tought of getting a bad grade it means you are a "failure" and that sucks,i tell by my experience.
yeah, yeah.
I hit myself a lot when ever I lost focused or got behind on notes
And everytime I failed a test or got a bad grade on a assignment, I hated myself and even in college, let myself complete fall apart all because of a bad grade
When Bart cried, I cried too. I hate school so much, it gives me so much stress. Waking up is hard, smiling too. But when it's weekend I get so excited. School messed me up so much and still does, it feels like I have never time.
*When you cry over a fictional character who looks like a broom*
"All that matters is that you find joy in what you're creating" I like that.
6:51 This is enough to make a grown man cry.
I also hate teachers that say "I want you to care about this topic". Like, how am I supposed to care about this one cool thing I learned when I'm forced to focus on 100 different things for a test next week?
That's college. I graduated 2 years ago and that shit annoyed me
and don't forget quizzes, projects, presentations, essays. Pretty much everything
Like I've learned more things in video games and sports than in school, teamwork, history, measurements and timing all come from them
Also I think Lisa getting so obsessed over a B+ while not as relatable is still completely understandable and another good reason why the system is trash, even the smart kids get overstressed about grades
I used to have straight a’s but after awhile my mental health went down, I got a b in math. And I can’t stress enough the amount of spiraling depression that put me through. And the more I thought about it the less I tried and my math grade went down to an f. My others grades dropped and I began thinking I was trash and stupid. I have a cry counter on the last page of my math notebook, the teacher found it and sent me to the counselor to talk about it. So honestly I can relate to that and it’s quite sad.
me. i used to be one of em bc i already knew everything i was being taught (i was bored as fuck so i ended up "dIsTrAcTiNg" the class alot lul) so yeh. also io have autism
It’s relatable to me. Your future depends on your GCSE and A-Level results (idk what it is in America) so when you get a slightly lower score it crushes you as if this continues it could effect your whole life trajectory.
@@sonnyfox60 tbh as long as i have a decent grade im fine
I always get pissed off when I see friends getting sad about a B when I’m working so damn hard to change from being a “D & F student” who used to be lucky to even get a C
One time I was really sick, like glued to my bed sick. And the first thing my mom cared about was my grades.
I was put out of school at 8 and was homeschooled and tutored because of the racism I was experiencing, I also had a bad attention span so that was another problem, I’m glad I never let school ruin me.
if i show this to my parents they will say something like "ThIs iS wAhT tHe mEdEiA SaYs So ThEy CaN bRaINwAsH yOu"
OMG YES. i told my parents how the school system sucks and they said, "is this people in TikTak gettin to ya brain?"
they dismiss it as "teenager angwy and angsty"
@@idontownagoldfish yep
It's why modern parents are complete failures.
Same
I was never exposed to school as “you’re here to get good grades,” I was exposed to it as “you’re in school to learn how to deal with people you have no choice but to work with. That’s what you’ll do as an adult.” And that actually made school a lot easier for me. School is a lot like a boring desk job; do enough work to avoid trouble, befriend coworkers that don’t annoy you, don’t piss off the boss, and you get by.
Which is what school, especially high school, is supposed to be about considering most jobs don't care as long as you can read, write and use a calculator properly. They don't care if you can regurgitate a text book on the French civil war or something similar. Schools should encourage life skill and interpersonal skills over textbook knowledge you will never use outside of a classroom or if you get a very specific job.
my school didn't teach me that shit
That was my take-away also. The fact that you aren't enjoying what you are doing 24/7. The fact that no is going to hold your hand and spoon-feed you information. The fact that you (I'm sorry, this episode of the Simpsons shows it) can't cheat your way through life. All those things are what school is about. If school was solely about learning how to read and write and do math, that can be done at home. School is about learning to get along in the world with people you may not like (but you still can't punch them) and actually figuring things out for yourself (which is why no one ever came out and said, this is what your life will be like if you get a desk job folks).
I feel like you're saying Bart and his family were right in thinking he was fine and the teachers and school system were wrong. He didn't read a book for a book report (and I'm sure the teacher didn't give him a single night to do it and generally book reports books are chosen by the student... which means, he picked a book and decided it was boring and didn't read it - let that sink in) and then he cheated on a test. If he was an adult and tried that at a job (faking his way through a presentation and then lying and cheating to get around his boss) he'd likely be fired. That's life. Get over it.
I agree and I kinda view this as practisae for future jobs,but man its pain in the ass
@@kitsu1379 The problem is that a lot of other jobs, more as time goes on, actually want the employee to be able to think for themselves, be able to take risks, not need a manager 24/7 babysitting them, to be able to speak for themselves and add value to the company, to be invested in the well being of the company and to be able to add new ideas to the team.
Some employers have to reeducate their new employees to be their own persons again before they are productive, the reason of this is that for having a braindead person doing a meaningless job, computers do exist, now if you want a human resource you want to squeeze that resource of their plusses of being human and not a computer program as much as you can.
Why hire for years 10 office workers to do a thing that you could pay me one time to automate? Because those office workers could adapt, could think for themselves, could add new ideas that may maximize productivity and profitability, etc.
There is literally no point in training the next generation to be mindless robots when we actually have actual "robots" that do not need a paycheck, nor benefits, and can work 24/7.
hey, in middle school right now. Got a lot on my plate, (I play electric base, double bass, violin, wrestling, swimming, rock climbing, tai kwan do, and boy scouts)and its really irritating to attempt to cram that all in in the last 40% of the day, (leaving school at 3:30) and be faced with the choice of shoving my face into my studies for my hour of free time, or enjoying myself. Furthermore, I've gotten only A's since I was 5, and now an A- is something I get lectured about, and a b+ is equivalent to death. I want to be a doctor, a surgeon, ad I just don't see how any of this is conducive to the field I want to enter. All this turns most of the school year into a slog, where all I feel is bad about myself. I don't get congratulated for good grades anymore, at this point its the expected result, and nothing special. So anyway, school should change toooo
A. Conform to the mind of individuals better.
B. Focus more on skills we might need for common jobs, like teamwork
C. Put way less stock into a letter I've typed a ton in this paragraph.
As someone who rather frequently gets A's this statement is still completly true. I used to get grades like e's and c's but and i wasn't that sad about it. But now that i frequently get good grades, when i get a bad grade the dissapointment is very big even thou I know that im still better than i used to be. The same grade hits way worse.
I got my _first ever_ grade below a B last quarter in my stats class, and lost my $3000 scholarships because of it. I find it absolutely ridiculous that I am being held to the standards of these scholarships _(3.0 GPA & 12 Credit minimum)_ that were *designed for normal schooling,* _not_ for students who are trying to _survive_ a worldwide pandemic and economic collapse!
...Just more proof that colleges aren't much better than public schools.. 🤔
That is why I made up my mind that once I'm finished with highschool, I'm just gonna wander the States for a while. Pack a bag and just walk off in one direction to see how far it takes me. My entire life I had thought that going to college was the most important thing but last year taught me it doesn't even matter.
@@_DMNO_
I mean, having a degree can be a valuable asset. A sad truth about our country is that even in professions where a college degree is not required, a person with one will usually land the job over somebody who doesn't.
This is especially true for people of color, having that degree can be a clutch asset for getting a good job!
But yeah, best of luck to you! I'm kinda envious of your plans, right now I'm stuck taking online courses. x_x
@@HobbesHobbiton For me the only ways I could ever see myself going these past few years is to the military or just trying to experience life where it matters to me. I don't really care about money, its too temporary and fragile in this world. Happiness is all I really want.
Best of luck to you in your pursuits my friend. I know you can push through all of it better than I can haha.
Heyyyy my GPA dropped by 1.7 too
@@HobbesHobbiton You said it, "it can be a valuable asset", but it's not mandatory. I have one, but I know that all my abilities and knowledge (which have landed me good jobs and contracts, even teaching at some colleges) didn't come out of my journey through college, but out of working my ass off learning them on my own. And that little piece of paper is just that, paper, something to keep society of my back, but was a total waste of time, money and effort.
School isn’t about learning, it’s about memorizing.
This is too true
I mean, Isnt that technically what learning is? Like if I’m learning a language, I’m just memorizing the words and rules of the language
@@baconbot62 Learning is understanding or achieving a new skill, that's not memorisation
@@baconbot62 np
"What do you remember after reading the 5000 word text in page 54 a week ago at 10:34 AM that had no indication that this would be relevant?"
Just like a quote from one of my teachers: “I really hate grades, I wish we didn’t have to use them”