I am putting off homework. Right now. I should be doing page 295 problems 1 to 39 multiples of three and page 298 problems 5 to 21 odd numbers only. Instead I am writing on my blog about how I should be doing it but how I'm busy writing about how I should be doing my homework. I really should start already... it just that... I don't want to.
Yes, I know it's a pathetic measly excuse but there it is.
I don't want to do thirty Pre-Algebra problems about things I will never use in real life.
Here's the gist of it:
School is great. It gives teenagers a purpose in life until they can embark on their real purpose in life (meaning life = sucky job, select best friends who love you and come to your wedding, and eventual marriage then inevitable death) because it's illegal to try and begin life before eighteen (unless your some kind of movie star or super genius who's parents let you drop out of school). It gives us delinquents a chance to exercise, wether it's our brains or our bodies. School makes us have a semblance of a schedule and a ounce of responsibility. School is good!
The only problem is that school stops teaching things you need to know after fifth grade. After that, it's all "teaching you how to learn" which is code for making us stay in a prison with no barb wire so they can teach us how to solve the formula for time travel (which is scientifically impossible but we'll teach you anyway because it will keep your minds busy). I have asked my Dad, so this is not just a grumpy fourteen year old talking, this is facts truer than the cases on Law and Order. Everything you learn after fifth grade is useless unless it somehow ties into the crappy job you will get dealt with in life.
For example, I want to become an author. History and English are useful to me, sometimes also Science though only because it helps bring realistic elements to my work. Having to know the formula for the speed of light and being able to solve a math equation with more letters than numbers IS NOT NEEDED! Tell me, oh wise adult who might be reading this, what do you remember beyond fifth grade that has nothing to do with your current job? And there's the fact that when you get a job, you have to relearn it their way anyway.
Sure, it looks good on a college application but the only reason I want to go to college anyway is because that's where you find the intelligent guys who don't slack off and drink beer all night... at least not at BYU Idaho (it being a church school and all) All this hard stuff you learn in high school is worthless unless you become a teacher teaching the subject. Sure, my Pre-Algebra teacher uses formulas every day but that's because she's a math teacher and therefore it is her job.
So... back to the crux of my problem... I should be doing homework but I don't see the point other than staying on the basketball team and being able to please my parents.
So. There it is. I just wasted a lot of time writing this when I should have been doing homework... great for me. Ha! Sometimes, i'm glad my parents don't read my blog... they'd be delightfuly furious if they read this...
Irish Princess (in my dreams)
Rabecca <3
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