The High School Experience

I measure out my life with periods of success and failure. My failures I don't care to ever relive, my successes I welcome with open arms, and the in between is where high school lies.
School is said to be pertinent to your success in life. Many people directly correlate the words school and education and this is completely accurate. When you show up for class teachers have this whole lesson plan set up for that day, whether you be learned bout grammar, or learn to say me gusta ir a la escuela , or sometimes you even get to be taught about sex, our favorite subject! All of this information may be of some value to you, but it's not like we are wild animals incapable of teaching ourselves. No. No, even animals can teach themselves how to thrive.

Most people are just caught up on the idea of institutional education. We sit in a classroom all day and learn about the outside world. We are punished when we bring personal items such as i-pods, cellphones, cards, gum, short-skirts, and cleavage to class. All of these are very popular in the REAL world, and some can even be useful. R-rated movie do exist. Drugs are everywhere around us. Ignoring them does not help us to become better educated. Nonetheless, we are taught that they are not appropriate for school, the very thing that is trying to prep us for the real world.

So why not skip school and head out into the real world? It's because we are all scared. we are scared this will not do us any good in the long run. Or perhaps we "know" this won't do us any good. It's all a matter of what you have been taught. And we sit in the classroom every day and take notes. And when we are writing or just playing around we brush our knees up against the several pieces of gum stuck to the underside of the desk. We sit there contemplating. The quiet rebellion is fun, but it hasn't gotten us anywhere. A more drastic measure needs to be taken. I think I should go pursue my own dreams, do the things I want to do, when I want to do them. But that is where the idea dies. You realize you want to be with your friends or your boyfriend/girlfriend. And so for some their school-free education began when they turned 16, for others it will be summer of 2009, and for the "lucky" ones, theirs won't end until after college. Whether we like it or not school defines us all, for now anyway.