School System Chain

Schools say “you learn from your mistakes” then proceed to harshly punish mistakes. Therefore the system, at its very core, is anti-learning.

Another thing that wasn't mentioned was how much of it was based on being social, at least 50% of school has you working in a group, raising your hand for 5 hours while everyone stares into your soul, or calling out answers.

What I don't understand is how schools punish us for looking questions up on the internet, but encourage us to copy shit directly from the textbook; it's essentially the same thing. For some reason they would rather us regurgitate information from the textbook that we don't actually understand than look something up, learn more about it, and rephrase the answer you find it's extremely counterproductive

Homework was actually invented as a PUNISHMENT for students who misbehaved in class by an Italian immigrant who was a teacher in California around 1900. Then other teachers were like, “oh yeah, that punishment? That’s great, imma give that to everyone.”

As a Chinese person, I’m dying inside from 10 hour school days

the worse part about school for me was dealing with other kids especially with group projects. I don't like working with other people I prefer to fly solo. having to work with other people is just another way to potentially screw me over

I honestly learned more on the internet then I did in school. But honestly what makes a big difference is good teachers. I've always had nice teachers who weren't afraid to help me. I was quite into drawing in elementary, and in 3rd grade there was this one ruler I always liked to use while drawing. At the end of the school year my teacher let me take it home. I still have it today.

Been arguing this (to myself) ever since I left school for college. Then dropped out thanks to the pandemic and been unable to recover from the anxiety. The school system is directly set up to completely ruin the wellbeing towards students. Not to mention the bullying side of things. Should say something when places like KZfaq can teach so much more than what school could ever dare teach. The grading system even...They keep changing it! Not to mention the pressure to just get a C grade. Or Grade 4 (no reason it should've been changed so much!) just to "pass." Remember it changing 3 times when in the final year of school. If memory serves: not a single person in that very year passed. Not to mention the difficulty of each exam being ridiculous!

I feel like the whole point of the system was made to make you a robot. And it definitely shows.

The fact that you can learn a weeks worth of school teaching in a 10 minute KZfaq video is crazy ngl

There should be a mandatory life skills class Like we don’t need to know how to find the circumference of a circle, we need to know how to pay taxes

I hate school’s grading system. Like, in my school, teachers grade work on accuracy. So like, I would be getting a 65 even if I completed the assignment. I was trynna get my GPA up but it’s going up and down like a damn roller coaster.

Every time I'm confused about something I'm too scared to ask the teachers, because they'll always say things like, "You should listened so you could follow the directions." which discourages the student and harms their grades. If I can't have a good grade on a difficult assignment because I don't feel safe even asking my teacher a clarifying question, that goes completely against the education system. When you learn, you're supposed to feel encouraged to clarify things with your teachers, and ask if you can do X or if I was suppose to do Y or print Z. I know this isn't all teachers but this is something that gets on my nerves, so I'm venting here about it.

Fun fact: Homework was made to be a punishment for slacking or miss behaving students. But then schools everywhere made it mandatory.

The more I see how much screwed up the school system is, the more I am glad I do homeschool where I am my own teacher

In elementary school i was like YAYYY ANOTHER SCHOOL DAY! But when i got to middle school i was preying for school to be cancelled

School: be social, make friends! Also school: wtf?! You talking in my class?

I feel the older and more mature you get the more you realize how school just doesn't make sense.

With learning how to fix stuff in the house, this summer it was sure a good thing I taught myself the basics in plumbing or else my kitchen would’ve been a huge flooded mess after the kitchen faucet decided to explode inside the cabinet

as a person who is in school I can confirm that homework is the worst thing ever

I had a teacher who didn’t do the bare minimum of actually teaching us the information. Instead, she’d just be like, “Read this chapter in your history book.” or, “Copy these notes from the board.” and everyone would have to sit in silence the whole time.

I made the same comment about recorders and I had a few people mention that they're a relatively cheap way for some kids to find a love for music. If it makes music more accessible and opens a kids eyes to the possibility that other instruments could have then it's incredibly powerful

In university I had someone whose grading system was so specific it literally included ½% mark for using the teacher's specified margin width on a paper.

We all though school was a good place back in elementary school but as we got older we were starting to realise that school is a place full of mental suffering that you have to go to to "succeed" in life.

The school system is very outdates. We need more and better things to teach kids, and better ways for them to learn and retain information, not just pushing out robots meant to be mindless, creative-less work zombies.

Fr they think we could fix a flat tire knowing "ah yes, mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"

As a homeschooler, I see this as an absolute win,

One of my english teachers would always create the quizzes for the assigned reading based on the information that sparknotes doesn't cover. Another english teacher of mine accused me of using ai to write a story for me, which ended with me being required to write a new one with only a few days left in the trimester, getting 2 detentions (I had never gotten one before), and getting removed from national honor society. And when I tried to appeal it, it was a unanimous decision against me.

Back in July when I had my final English exam, I was SO unprepared that it was scary to be in my position. Luckily I came up with a genius strategy to be able to use chat GPT during the exam. So during the exam, I think heavily on how I'm gonna write paragraphs to a question (like "Explain how love is presented in act 1 scene 4 or romeo and juliet") So I ask for a bathroom break and hide in the toilets and quickly retain as much info as possible quickly. For Japanese it's the hardest. Occasionally, my teacher leaves the room, so I quickly use this feature on my phone where I take a photo of the japanese test and translate it into English, and copy down what I think is right. The adrenaline I get is very high and I beg you don't have to do what I do

The fact that for skipping school you get punished by having no school is the wierdest rule ever Edit: School is hardly teaching me anything i want to know. I want to do graphic design and video editing as a job when I'm older and I ain't learning any of that at school. I have to spend most my time learning and making videos at home

When i was in 7th grade I had this teacher Mrs zoot. She always was happy and that made us happy. She was very passionate about her job as a reading teacher and she actually helped me get better at reading. No one ever was unhappy in her class. She would hand out candy if u completed your work which made her class 10x better. She is definitely #1 on my best teacher list fs

The thing is you bring up very valid points. Such as school not teaching very important things that everyone will use at least once. And the school system is obviously at fault for many other things too, but the actual knowledge that you learn from school is invaluable to people who want to succeed in certain career paths. Lots of people tend to say that school teaches you things you will never need to use, but in reality some higher paying technical jobs do require you to know lots of those seemingly random facts to be done correctly. If you want to get involved with mechanical engineering or architecture there is lots of difficult math and stuff like trigonometry and graphs. It really matters what you want to do with your knowledge which is why I perfectly understand why it’s not for everyone, but I wish more people would realize that the knowledge school teaches you isn’t useless it just has to be applied properly to real world situations in order to make sense and that’s where a college education comes in.

During high school, I had a history teacher that was sooo bland and boring that I constantly fell asleep on a water bottle 😂

The only useful class is Anti-Depression-Class: "Just sit still and feel how your stress flies away."

The city I live in (and the surrounding ones as well) implemented a rule where every school is legally required to start at 8:30 ...which is only 30 minutes later and considering my school is a 30 minute drive away, doesn't change the fact that I gotta wake up at 6:50am And because of that, I'm really tired all the time, and my vision is impaired when I'm tired so I can't see half the shit that's being taught

I remember my IB program days in HS with multiple hours of homework every day. We even had a "theory of knowledge" class that made no sense, even to this day. It did prepare me well for the work required in college classes for an astronomy/physics degree though.

I was told that every high school had a curriculum that they choose classes and subjects from, i asked my guidance counselor /sister in law about it and she said, “what fucking curriculum?” 😭😭😭

We had recorder lessons during elementary school music class. At that same age, I took private piano lessons at home. Guess which one I actually use to entertain guests.

One time my home said "Real world problems!" as an attempt to sayvthere useful, but the questions where the most useless stuff! Why would I want to find out the volume of a laundry detergent box, the box is not the detergent! They even made it like they taught you stuff that would not happen in life! Why would I find the area of a finished room, they already built it!

2:16 as a carpenter to find the angles in stairs we need the pythagorean theorem. so trigonometry does come in handy, it just depends on how you use it. love the vids man keep up the good work. u deserve more subs that mrbeast and t series combined.

The teachers are literally just standing there talking to a brick wall for 7 hours a day lmao

So true! My 8th grade language arts and social studies teacher grades my papers like she’s in college! What kind of grading is that?! I’m like “You’re not it college, woman!”. 💀

1:07 ngl the “gacha” backgrounds just got me 😭

2:48 Career Paths Where you Can Use Trigonometry: 1. Architects 2. Surveyors 3. Astronauts 4. Physicists 5. Engineers 7. Crime scene investigators 8. Pilot 9. Military math teacher (measuring length of a fire and such) 10. Forensic scientist 11. Marine biologist 12. Radiologist 13. Navigator 14. Using CAT and MRI scanning to detect tumors (using sine and cosine) 15. Carpenter 16. Electricians 17. Welders 18. Plumbing

When there is a Vocaloid song about how bad the school systems are and the life every student is expected to live. That’s just how you know the school system is actually that bad

I know this will come as a shock to everyone but the Pythagorean theorem is actually useful outside of school but only if you're doing something that requires math like construction, i have to use it sometimes to figure out how long something needs to be As for trigonometry that stuff is useless unless you're doing a physics job

Dude thank you for quill bot and photomath, I’ve been struggling with math and I hate writing essays

When I heard my school had a cooking class I was like; “FINALLY A USEFUL ARTS CLASS”. In my school you have art classes, some useless ones are music, guided experience, and computers. Music is music, guided ex is like random career choices no one sticks with, and computers teaches us how to do stuff every 13 year old obviously would know. then there is tech ed and FCS, tech ed is work working amd FCS is cooking class basically.

This was the most accurate description of school ever

My math teacher doesn't teach us shit she just tells us how to do what ever we are learning and then gives us weeks of work without going over it again and then gives us like five tests a month. So many people in my class have 40s and 50s and the teacher says it their fault. If we need anything we have to come after school just so we can get a 50 on the test.

0:30 - Waking up that early especially when it’s winter & still dark out till 7am sucks making me feel even more tired . I only get 5 - 6 Hrs Of Sleep It sucks

Lucky, in middle school I had 8 WHOLE HOURS OF SITTING IN A DESK LISTENING TO THE SAME TEACHERS SPEAK AVERY DAY 6 HOURS IS A BLESSING

This world would be a much different place if schools actually taught useful information

1:53 is so literally me. If I have to make my own meal, my only choice is eggs because that’s the only thing I can cook. I want to learn to cook more meals, but I don’t trust myself to not start a fire and/or get 2nd-degree burns.

Preach! I can relate to this so much. Sadly I didn't have all those websites you mentioned at the end back then.

your channel is like a perfect blend of the Burdie editing style and the Wurdie editing style, love your content

idk if its like this all around Canada but in my high school we had cooking classes, mechanic/autobody classes, metalwork, and woodwork classes, it also started at 8:40

Photomath also shows the steps bro, real goat. I actually passed a test because on the homework I wrote down the steps it showed, and I just remembered that. W Photomath

Im in high school right know and I have a class where the teachers like "Oh, busy work sucks, you guys shouldn't have it at all" and then like 99.9% of the class is useless busy work, even though she doesn't agree with it. I've lost all faith in humanity at this point

10 minutes of the most relatable video anyone has ever seen on KZfaq. U tha 🐐

Bro really put me on with some w apps fr, appreciate it man 🙏

We just had state testing today and when I had to write an entire essay the explanation was “nature family explain” after I saw that i know I failed that test

I can't wait to learn what a plot chart is for the 100th time! English sure is a relevant and useful class for absolutely everyone after elementary!

One of my teachers was really good at teaching and I was able to actually learn the subject material. However, most of the class did not especially because the class was so “easy” that they were on their phones all day. Here’s the thing, one of the other teachers that taught the same class, taught in such a way I couldn’t understand the subject material. That class was more engaged. I don’t get it. It’s like one teacher actually liked to be there making what he taught easy to learn even if it was a snooze fest, while the other teacher was the opposite.

"Can't force someone to care" so true

I remember holding my breath while opening up my report card for high school. I thought I failed most of my classes, but thankfully I got out of it with straight A’s

So I am currently studying to get a stem degree so I do actually see why things like trig exists because a lot of my math classes that I have had to take needed that stuff as a foundation. Having said that this is where I think what boyinaband said about introducing but not forcing is good. Because most people won’t need that shit and students like me who are trying to get a stem degree a lot of us probably would have kept those classes because we find them interesting

The grading I hate the most is when they grade you on your fuckin notes. Like, they are MY notes why the hell do I have to do them how YOU want them to be done??? That literally makes it harder for me

5:47 the reason why you gotta raise your hand bc there are mfs out there wasting their time skipping class, making it harder for teachers to trust students, so thanks those assholes.

4:30 it’s by telling a story to make it memorable.

my school actually is so gay but atleast i can listen to your spotify podcast to get me thru it. love you and your content dude keep it up

I graduated with high honors and 4 gold stars on my patch...I didn't learn a damn thing. Every test was just me memorizing the information for that day.

In Canada, i wake up at 7:30 in Highschool, and I wasn't forced to go to music class or art, I personnaly chose robotics

Ayo Scandinavia got it different. Bro has like 5 hour school time, no detention(I think) , and they focus on collaboration, unlike us where we focus on competition.

When the teacher assigns a video, you already know it’s going straight to double speed.

I’m becoming a believer that I really don’t hate school, I just don’t like getting up for it

here in the czech republic it works like this: you start at 6:00 theres long and short days there are 2 long days which are 9 hours and 3 short days which are 5 hours there are 5 minute breaks between classes and one 10 minute break after lunch (on long days) the grades go from 1-5 one being the best and five being the worst there are also plus and minus grades which are between grades 1- for example is that its worse than a 1 but not as bad as a 2 and the plus grades for example 2+ are better than a 2 but worse than a 1- (but the plus grades are rarely used) most days you get around five a4 pages of home work and every test is not announced it just happens you dont know when its gonna happen they are at random most of the time there are around 2 tests a week but in the middle of the school year there are around 12 (yes we can have more than one test a day for the whole week)

1:01 THAT SHIT IS SO RELATABLE 💀💀💀 In my old high school, I woke up at 5:30 EVERY DAMN DAY, got to school at 7, and classes started at 7:30. And of course my ass had chorus class first thing in the morning. I did not feel like singing most of the time. When I got home I did what any reasonable person would do: take a nap.

School prepares you to go and teach the next kids dumb stuff.

Waking up at 5:00am and then going to school for 6 hours then knowing it is Monday so you have to repeat this till Friday is the worst feeling ever

I remember nearly failing Algebra the last semester of my Junior year and wanna know what I was learning? Trigonometry, Probability, and Statistics.

Jit that 7 hours feels like a day

Let’s also not forget to mention for English class. You were required to write or type the paper with times new Roman, and have double spacing with size 12 font, like why can’t we just write an essay in the font we want to use

I started a charter school this year and when I saw kids just take out snacks and start eating them in class my mind was blown.

I studied in a Federal Institute here in Brazil in highschool. We had to get up at 5 am, but the school had to provide breakfast for the students and there was no such law prohibiting us from eating, some teachers would excuse us to skip a few minutes of class to go eat something.

I'm pretty sure some people had mental breakdowns at school and when they got home, they say they never want to go to school again, never.

As a French person I can tell, our school system sucks too. Like we start at 8am and end at 6pm, and we still have homework we don’t even get grades off or we can get expelled. Like I remember in was 12 and after all those hours of school I still had 3h of homework that wouldn’t get grade, WTFFFFF ! Also, I was supposed to be in a private school with good quality teacher but one of my teacher was always drunk and even came in class with orange juice and wine…. LIKE IT WAS 9AM MAM I WANNA SLEEP IM 11 . Nah fr I could talk about those stupid things all day…. good luck my fellow student 😑

Pythagorean theorem, sign and cosign are used in electronics to get resistances of capacitors, inductors and resistors mixed into the same circuit under AC (wall power)

My SLA teacher was amazing, for tests she had open notes, and she wrote down all the notes on the board so that you could copy it.

School sucks in every country 😕

Fun fact: did you know that the school system hasn’t had a update In years

Now personally, as someone from Belgium (Europe) I see we learn a lot of the same things, like in maths, but the approach is very different. Here I’m in a Catholic school, and every class is standardised. We get held on a very high level for this stuff, but I see it as a good thing. They don’t completely tank your creativity (but it still does a little). Things like ChatGPT aren’t completely banned, more of a useful tool, and the times are significantly better. In my school, everyone has to be there from 8:30 for the start, then 2 lesson blocks of 50 minutes, after that a break for 10 minutes (recently lowered to allow us in later, and out earlier), then another 2 blocks of 50 minutes. Then lunch break from 12:05 to 13:05 (5th and 6th year can leave the school and eat around town then, if your parents agreed, and/or if you’re 18 years old). Finally 2 more blocks, another 10 min break, one last block and then you get to leave school at 15:45. Not too bad compared to your gruelling schedule in the USA I see.

2:47 Ya, im a game developer and I use trig... a lot like a good example is when I had to randomly generate logs for people to duck under in vr. You would be on a generated track system and I had to calculate at what distance away from the log would result in only the players head being caught if they didn't duck at a randomly generated angle. So you got the hypotenuse the distance from the ground extending up the log, your opposite angle. the players height in vr as well as the given angle and you had to figure out the adjacent so that you were ducking the same amount each time. So ya... I honestly think knowing at least basic trig is essential.

9:36 i thought it was a sponsor 💀

7:20 And this is why I do my homework in school (currently in 8th grade)

Fun fact: schools made the start times early so when parents drop their kids off, they can go to work without being late

3:07 why is this funny? XD

Also aint no way when i give an example of the useless shit we learn in school I literally use the same scenario with the flat tire lmao 💀

The worst part of school is being stressed out. Last year I got 75% for the School Average and this year I thought I was failing because of my Tests so I was overwhelmed but surprisingly I got around the Same Good Mark last year which made me panic somehow with joy