This isn't so much a political poll as it is my rant...
So my English teach wanted me to write a narrative essay about some event in my life. I wanted to be original, so I had the great idea of writing my paper on writing the paper (a paradox :}). By doing that I also joked about how I did that because I could not think of anything important in my life because of my sleep deprivation, which was basically my commentary on how the way our school forces us to wake up at 5:30 am everyday is unhealthy and a violation of our rights to have reasonable access to life's requirements, sleep being one of them. I also refer to the assignment, when writing about how I'm writing it, as "worthless and pathetic", which it is. It has no educationaly merit whatsoever. Its nothing more than busy work. In fact, although my paper has a somewhat humorous topic being a paradox and all, it has a lot of commentary on how schools violate the rights of students on a regular basis and how schools aren't made for education, but rather propganda camps for our government. Well my English teacher thinks that I need counciling now, because she implied from my statement that I couldn't remember anything worth writing about in my life (which was part of the joke anyway) as me thinking my life is worthless. She also got mad because I pointed out the stupidity of her assignment. She got even more mad when I pointed out to her that that is just shooting the messenger. So my poll question is, are schools just fascist indoctrination camps in which children are taught to give up their rights, accept punishment for originality, and learn to never question authority no matter how wrong that authority is?
So my English teach wanted me to write a narrative essay about some event in my life. I wanted to be original, so I had the great idea of writing my paper on writing the paper (a paradox :}). By doing that I also joked about how I did that because I could not think of anything important in my life because of my sleep deprivation, which was basically my commentary on how the way our school forces us to wake up at 5:30 am everyday is unhealthy and a violation of our rights to have reasonable access to life's requirements, sleep being one of them. I also refer to the assignment, when writing about how I'm writing it, as "worthless and pathetic", which it is. It has no educationaly merit whatsoever. Its nothing more than busy work. In fact, although my paper has a somewhat humorous topic being a paradox and all, it has a lot of commentary on how schools violate the rights of students on a regular basis and how schools aren't made for education, but rather propganda camps for our government. Well my English teacher thinks that I need counciling now, because she implied from my statement that I couldn't remember anything worth writing about in my life (which was part of the joke anyway) as me thinking my life is worthless. She also got mad because I pointed out the stupidity of her assignment. She got even more mad when I pointed out to her that that is just shooting the messenger. So my poll question is, are schools just fascist indoctrination camps in which children are taught to give up their rights, accept punishment for originality, and learn to never question authority no matter how wrong that authority is?