School Vs. the Technology Age

A clash of titans, but who will win? The obvious answer is simply that Technology will overcome schools and they have the choice of changing to keep up, or being inevitably destroyed in the wake of our generation.

Everything that school has to be offered can be done over the Internet. Everything but human interaction, which is probably the only reason that schools will continue to survive if they choose to not catch up soon. The era of technological advancement is at hand, and failing to keep up is failing to stay alive.

Simply put, I don't think that there is a line where there will be too much technology in school. They'll be lucky if they can keep up with the curve.

A lot of the old ways still need to stay in place though. We need paper based literature, we just do. Without it, All generations will be doomed to the simplistic mindset that is our generation, and that is truly a scary thought. The fact that other generations could dooms themselves to a life of ignorance should scare anyone with half a mind. Without understanding the days of the old, we are only doomed to repeat them.

Another thing along the lines of my last point is that most students claim to use spark notes rather than reading books. Yes, I do see that spark notes has the potential to be a useful tool, but the fact that people are abusing such a great tool is infuriating. We read in school not because we are told to, but because we are attempting to grasp a higher meaning of life, or what things were like at one point in time, or even to what they could possibly be. We read to learn, but only after learning to read. That is something that will always, at least I hope will, be done without the aid of technology.

The fact that school board is threatened by spark notes is quite pathetic. They are so very many ways to deal with students who use these, but they find it a viable threat just saddens me.

There seems to be no need for me to go on any longer as much of what I would have to say about other things, well I've said them in previous blogs.

The Modern Pressure Cooker, Highschool

I would agree by the comment that small highschools in a one school town are most definitely pressure cookers in the sense that everyone is fairly close in the means of who they know and hang out. They're most likely a lot less open to change as a lot of small towns are on the conservative end of things, thus being the reason why they're still small. But let's not get on the subject of left and right wings.

The relationships would be far be the worst part among these small school. My school is a mediocre example as we do have our fair share of drama, but we're big enough to move between groups. I do see a fair amount of drama as I have made the mistake of associating myself with the less than bright people of my school and they're simply too stupid to get over the drama. Granted, the worst of the drama mostly does occur with the "Popular Cliques", the very people I avoid simply because of the mediocrity and hypocrisy, and the many other things that are ailing our generation.

But as a whole, I do agree with the fact that most small town schools are pressure cookers.

If I were to be in charge of the School Board.

In truth, I would never be stupid enough to end up being in charge of the current school system. It is too fractioned and distant from itself for it to be worth the hassle of running. It would need a total revamp of everything, in fact, it would need to be totally dismantled, and then rebuilt from the ashes to be run properly. but enough of my socialistic views on the current school board, I will get on to what the topic at hand is supposed to be.

Throwing away the idea of leading this school system, I would rather just have influential suggestions toward it.

Among the many of these suggestions, the most important to be would have to be the extreme lack of non-compulsory English classes. My school personally has a total of two of them, which is quite pathetic. Anyone like me who wants to pursue a career or life in literature, writing, or anything related, has to either switch schools, or face inevitable hardship in University, something that can easily be avoided by offering more classes.

As a whole, we should have a broader variety of courses in every subject area. Although, this does vary with schools, as a whole, our course selection still strains to attain the rank of pathetic. What it would qualify under this rank utterly scares me.