Forced Courses in Schools are Detrimental to a Student’s Learning It is not hard to find a student that claims to hate high school. Students may just dislike getting up before 10:00 four or five days out of the week and having to do mountains of homework, but there are also the students who hate high schools because of the lack of fine arts classes or the fact that they are forced to take classes on subjects they don’t need or want, as the subject will not be useful or pertain to that student’s chosen career path. When a child does not like and or do well in school, the student is labeled as disorderly, anti-social, lackluster, or even said to be “learning disabled”. Perhaps it is not that the student is simply apathetic toward learning or
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It is a test of obedience, not smarts or skill. So how does the student learn?
A common term used by students and even some adults is that “school is prison”. While one definition says “a building where people are kept as punishment for a crime”, the more common, general description for prison is worded as “any place of involuntary confinement and restriction of liberty”. Human beings, most commonly ages six to sixteen are required by law to spend a large portion of their time there, and while there, they are told what they must do, and the orders are generally enforced. These students have little or no voice in forming the rules they must …show more content…
To incarcerate an adult, it must be proved in a court of law that the person has committed a crime or is a serious threat to themselves or others, yet children are incarcerated in schools simply because of their age. It is the most blatant of the sins of forced education (Gray, "Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education").
If schools wish for their students to be proficient workers, they must first be sure that the students are happy with the work they must do. If a student is unhappy, then that student will not hand in good, motivated work. No one enjoys being forced to do things they do not want to do, so what makes it okay to force young children, whose most important years are spent in a sort of prison, to do things that will cause them to resent their everyday schedules and never wish to
It is a test of obedience, not smarts or skill. So how does the student learn?
A common term used by students and even some adults is that “school is prison”. While one definition says “a building where people are kept as punishment for a crime”, the more common, general description for prison is worded as “any place of involuntary confinement and restriction of liberty”. Human beings, most commonly ages six to sixteen are required by law to spend a large portion of their time there, and while there, they are told what they must do, and the orders are generally enforced. These students have little or no voice in forming the rules they must …show more content…
To incarcerate an adult, it must be proved in a court of law that the person has committed a crime or is a serious threat to themselves or others, yet children are incarcerated in schools simply because of their age. It is the most blatant of the sins of forced education (Gray, "Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education").
If schools wish for their students to be proficient workers, they must first be sure that the students are happy with the work they must do. If a student is unhappy, then that student will not hand in good, motivated work. No one enjoys being forced to do things they do not want to do, so what makes it okay to force young children, whose most important years are spent in a sort of prison, to do things that will cause them to resent their everyday schedules and never wish to