2 Kewl 4 Skool

A few weeks ago, before winter break, there was a lot of discussion in AP Lang about school, education, and about how and what we should be teaching to the youngsters. We talked about creativity and how it is put off to the side so as to let the "important" subjects like math and science get all of the attention. We do this because of the industrial revolution and because most jobs with good job security have to do with facts and figures, not as much imagination. I personally don't mind this system so much because I do fairly well in it. My only problem is that, now, I am not finding myself challenged anymore. I don't say this to sound smart or put myself on a pedestal, I'm saying this because I'm honestly disinterested in the majority of my classes. I've already taken bio and AP Bio and so now my area of interest has already been exploited. There are no further classes in that subject matter and now I'm left with courses that I don't really care about and on top of that are so easy I feel like my time is just being wasted. There are still some areas where I feel challenged, but my apathy for all of the meaningless classes occasionally gets in the way of my motivation for the ones that give me something to work towards. Of course, I'll go off to college in a few years and there there will be a massive range of difficult classes I can take and, at the same time, be interested in. I'm just fed up with coasting through school everyday feeling like I could have skipped the whole day and I would be just as knowledgeable as if I had gone. If only there were some way to get out of high school and take college classes early. I realize that we can't make specialized high schools with a thousand different, specific classes for what only a few people want to do because not everybody know (and also that's incredibly impractical). But what we do have are colleges and universities; places were people have figured out, for the most part, what they are interested in. All that I propose is a system where unenthused high school students, like myself, could possibly venture out into maybe nearby community colleges and study further and harder about the things they are passionate about. Maybe this exists and I haven't looked hard enough, but as far as I know, I'm still stuck in high school learning the same thing day in and day out.