Life is a weird thing we watch it change daily without realising and to think when you started school you had no homework and would spend your evenings outside with your friends. I started school when I was 4 so that was in 2002, being in reception I have to admit I loved school there was something about it that made the days so enjoyable. However 13 years on I look at myself and see myself doing my AS levels and wondering what made me make this decision. At 16 in england you choose if you want to go to college to do a BTEC, do apprenticeship or stay on at a school and do your a levels and I am not going to lie I wish I did an apprenticeship because a levels are a type of torture I swear. I was never prepared for this and thinking that I no longer have spare time to relax and I am currently writing this in breaks of revision, it makes me wonder what the future of education is like.
Questions spring in my head and cause sleepless nights and makes me feel unprepared for anything. For example the question 'Will I get into next year?' this makes me lead to thoughts of if I don't then my life is over because I won't go to uni, so I won't get a decent job and my future family will be poor and upset because of my decisions now. I know that my life is unpredictable, so I could a have an amazing life without going to uni but when we are forced to do these exams I don't think people who are not doing them in this current day and age (i.e. parents, the government and teachers) don't realise whats going through our heads, they just push us to get better and better grades forgetting about all the other pressures you could be facing at moment in time or how you feel. When a teacher pushes me I think do they actually care about my grade or do they just care about the grades because their pay depends on it. The government wants us to do well because the grades of us students are used to reflect on the country. Then the parents do they actually want what is best or do they feel like they want us to do well so they can tell all their colleagues, family and friends and kind of show off about you. The question is who actually cares about you?
Us students need to stick together and help each other because even if we fail we need to tell each other our life is not over there is different options in life and they will make your life just as successful and happy then the way you originally planned so we need to keep our chin up and remember every person in your year feels the same, every person sitting an exam because we all have those questions in our head that cause sleepless nights. Just try and be encouraging to everyone you see because its going to help them, it shows them someone actually cares and is not just 'using' you.
The inspiration of this came from a video I saw on facebook this morning please check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mtJOu29qbQ
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