What’s missing from education today?

The parent sits alone on the stage, working hard and earning money for their family, though constantly complaining about the unfairness of their pay, their job, their boss, the customers. Here enters the the child, excited for their first days of freedom through schooling, friends, and play, their very first experience with the real world.

Flash forward.

All of that negativity about work has taken a strain on the once excited child, who is now, unfortunately, in high school and hates everything from their teachers to their friends to the homework they have that night. Dinner conversation time with the family is taken up by constant complaining about parental work and student responsibilities that are ‘unfair’. Nowadays, we spend so much time being ungrateful for education and dismayed about the world we are going into that we have no time to look at a more positive picture.

Children and teens in other countries recieve no education. The way America used to be that you read about in textbooks, those tribes and ways of life that seem so old fashioned and far off, that’s how many teens across the country live today. The reality of it is, education is not common. The possibility of learning so much in so short of time should be exciting and a pleasant experience, even though it can admittedly be stressful.

But where does all the negativity come from? Is it from too much homework and too many hours in school? Or is it something much simpler to explain?
The parents are the cause. Notice students who live with adults who love their jobs and life tend to recieve better grades and enjoy themselves while in the school environment. However, students who constantly here about how terrible the real world is are too scared to love what they’re doing. If every student wanted to be in school, it would be a better experience and something children older than the age of six would look forward to.

You have one life and it may not be as long as you want it to be. That means we should spend time enjoying what we do, right? Because, let’s be honest, if you have to go to school, there’s a reason for it. And that reason is ruined and crushed when you count down the days to be out. All in all, education could use a push of effort, not for the statistics sake, but for our own happiness and content with the life we live.

Parents need to be much more careful with the picture they paint of the world to their children. It’s beginning to have a major impact on the parents of tomorrow, and that’s something I think we can all agree on.

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