I wonder how they will feel when they get out into the working world? It's going to be a massive shock to them
Imagine thinking your A levels matter that much.
I always hated how the exam difficulty level was based on a wave graph, where they'd make it easier/harder depending on how many people passed/failed. If you're lucky you get it just after they made it easier.
We should drain the souls of these kids and turn them into worthless peons as soon as possible. That'll make appreciating the banality of life much easier for them.
That's why you pray to the god of bellcurve and hope its in your favour
Imagine having your entire life in front of you, and being constantly told that if you don't ace some piece of paper you're going to throw all your life's joy away and grind your entire life for a loaf of bread.
That's no reason at all to get anxious.
The working world is arguably a lot less stressful, depending on the job of course.
Why is it somehow a good thing to you that the "working world" you talk of can do worse than reduce someone to tears? Jesus fucking Christ.
yes because i'm sure it has nothing at all to do with growing up and putting perspective on anything.
personally i would gladly give up a 40-60 hour work weeks to chill in school all day with friends and study. because we all know that the bestest grades in school equate to the bestest possible job in the adult world where everyone gets exactly what they want.
fuk what even is hindsight
The fuck is this Michael Gove guy on about? Removing necessary coursework and making the tests full of those everything is sort of right but one is more right questions doesn't produce better graduates.
Did you forget about homework and other assignments, etc, that take up pretty much all your free time outside of school? You have less free time than someone with a fulltime job.
If you think exams are "chill in school all day" you are mistaken.
The changes were triggered by former education secretary Michael Gove
following research showing British pupils were falling behind peers in
other countries.
Employers have long complained that youngsters do not leave school
with the right skills and campaigners have pointed to a ‘dumbing down’
of the curriculum under the previous Labour government.'
How fucking detached from reality do you need to be to think tougher tests are gonna solve any of this, lmao.
There's really a balance to be set between academic life and personal life. During HS and College I didn't shoot for A's I shot for solid B's and I'll be damned if that didn't save me a good chunk of sanity.
This isn't really a fair comparison, you'll of course have deadlines (depending upon your job). But for say engineering jobs (I'm an EE), you'll really just need to have some amount of foresight, second pairs of eyes for sanity checks and good time management to really succeed. Yea there'll be crunches once in a blue moon, but atleast you'll be doing stuff that's relevant to your interests and not staying up till oh-god-thirty studying for some random ass history class that isn't particularly your strong suit.
TBH that really wasn't the case for my school, I gave zero shits. You could make up not doing homework easily with tests, and many classes straight up let me just bring my laptop and play emulated games.
it's michael gove, he's in an entirely different fucking universe
I don't know, my last year of secondary, with study leave and everything around 2014 was just a giant doss, me and my friends would use the "study leave" to just go back to mine and write songs and practice music, which had literally nothing to do with what we wanted to do.
problem is its how you use it, most people I know who came out of secondary with the best GCSE's either fucked them all off, and went to work in a office 9/5, went to college and later uni, or just became kinda weird because of the stress they went through to get them (which imo is the worst part of it)
Im a fairly chilled person, I knew I was going to fuck up my maths exam, so I just did the best I could, didn't revise much either as personally revising/studying too hard is as bad as doing non at all (you end up stressing more because you can't hold all that information in at once)
My advice for kids nowadays is just don't stress about it too much and do as best as you can, I know shit tons of people that have lied on their CV's what grades they got for certain subjects. People just don't take them super seriously when their employing 19-20 year olds...
Another thing that urks me is the idea that when you leave secondary you must either A: work towards uni or B: work towards a career. No one ever mentions that its also a good idea to get a job somewhere shitty for a few months to teach you the basics of pay and working an actual job, I remember people crying over the fact that they might have to work in Tesco or something, even though thats not necessarily a bad thing in the short term, hell you gotta do that kind of thing if you go to uni anyway, money has always gotta come from somewhere
I think people just need to learn both sides of their career, the money side of it and then the passion. My passion career is photography/filmmaking, I have had a pretty successful career so far with it, especially being at uni and already having shit tons of experience, but that wouldn't have happened if I didn't have the income, especially from a low wage job in retail...
We should just grind them down into being paper pushers with no souls
genuinely there is no reason why the US work culture is as bad as it is. you're only trying to keep your own abuse continuing for no reason.
Ah sorry, see i thought the pressure of keeping a job for 40-50 years of your life so you don't end up homeless and broke was the stressful part. my bad, obviously students who aren't out of their parents houses yet understand permanence better than anyone out of high school.
I had a maths teacher who used to say every class should give you an hour of homework every day. When it was pointed out to her that we had 8-9 classes a day and we'd have like 4 hours to sleep she just shrugged and left the room.
I've been at uni for 2 years and it's been the most stressful time of my life. I'm actually taking a year out to work so that I can relax for a bit.
I dunno man... I find that work is 10x easier than education. Funnily enough, the hours are better too. And you get paid.
I really hate the idea that everything non job related at university is somehow bs. University was never supposed to be a job credential vendor, it's supposed to be a centre for higher learning.
Also at least within America, at the undergrad level stuff like gender studies are almost always minors. Something fun you throw into your schedule to fill 12-15 hours of electives. You still pair it with a more general degree.
People are always condescending philosophy and history courses as well, even though that's ALL UNIVERSITY USED TO BE
That's exactly what they need to do. I train a lot of new people who are just starting out their first career job post college. And about 3/4 of no practical skills related to their profession what so ever.
Great, except there's a big difference between "supposed to be" and "actually is."
"But why are suicide rates so high?"
Mate I went from school to hospitality in an understaffed restaurant and I'd pick that over going back to school any day of the week. School is dog shit and I can't say I really got anything out of it beyond pain and misery
Even in a field that I took post-secondary school for, I still think High School was harder than the life and job I have now.
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