why is school so oppressive?

Answer 1

Your confusing discipline with oppression

Answer 2

What about school do you find oppressive? It is certainly true that the current schooling system does not suit the very best needs of everyone but it is up against A LOT of challenges: very low funding, over-crowded classrooms, students who are not adequately parented a home and have very poor behaviour and no work ethic (in many - not all cases), very poor pay for teachers meaning the best ones leave, and simply too much to teach you in such a small amount of time with so many people not making the most of their opportunities and preventing others from doing so. I don't know how old you are, but the older you get, the more choice you get in school and the more relevant it tends to become to you. Good luck.

Answer 3

It is not school which is oppressive but 1- the programs 2- the teachers. School is like a concentration camp with guards to punish the non-achievers !! The whole system is a complete failure. Kids should be happy to go to school BUT in the Western World, they dread it !!

Answer 4

Think of it this way. You're in training...for the real world. If you think school is oppressive, wait 'til you get into the real, work-a-day world!!

Answer 5

School is training for life. Life has many oppressive times in it as well as joyful times. If school were really a happy-happy no stress time, you'd commit suicide as soon as your boss frowned at you.

Answer 6

because they feel that it will help us.

for example, I think it's oppressive and stupid that in my school we need to wear our ID cards at all times. no one is accepted into the office without an ID and a pass. but they do it for security purposes.

Answer 7

It is the training ground for the you to keep you in line when you become an adult. This is the place they teach you to obey the man, and learn to report on your neighbor, and to make sure that the right doctrine of thought is placed in your puny brain. Thats' all. Now go be a good little communist.

Answer 8

What you mislabel as "oppressive" is nothing more than discipline. But, just for one moment, imagine yourself in front of a classroom with 32 students all talking at the same time as you're trying to say something, or imagine them walking in and out as they pleased and you're trying to say something... or, for that matter, imagine that you put your coat in a locker and someone else decides that he likes your coat and decides to "appropriate" it... simply because he feels that no one can stop him (or he'll say he's being oppressed).

Rules are instituted for reasons that escape you right now but which you WILL have a better understanding when you're older, I promise. Can you imagine what would happen if people chose not to obey traffic laws? The same thing as in a school, you'd have nothing but chaos.

Listen, believe me, what goes on in schools is not oppressive at all... consider that in some countries if you arrive late or if you do not know the answer to a question, the "teacher" can actually beat you with a stick! THAT is oppressive... but the kids do learn their lessons and do have their homework completed every single day! The kids do not talk back to teachers or disrespect one another. The kids do not have to be reminded to take off their hats or caps; they KNOW better than to have to be reminded! In fact, they know better than to dare use a cell 'phone or even give a teacher a bad look. That is something that YOU would certainly call "oppressive."

I still recall when we were not allowed to enter the school building in middle school if we (the boys) were not wearing a tie! Talk back to a teacher or not bring in our homework? Unheard of! Yes, and I attended elementary and middle school when teachers dispensed corporal punishment... a good old-fashioned whack with a ruler or yardstick! I still recall some kids getting slapped (when I was in elementary school) for whispering while on line in the hall!

Ask your grandparents what it was like going to school when they were children... you'd see exactly how LENIENT schools are today.

And, before I forget, let me tell you that those in charge of imposing the rules and regulations are only doing so for your best interest. They want to give you the best education possible but, you must admit, too many students are just wasting time and causing others to lose time away from their lessons... with the interruptions and misbehavior.

My suggestion is that you consider one thing: you go to school as a privilege and you should be the one trying to appreciate that the teachers are only trying to prepare you for adulthood. Look at it this way: your youth is only about 18 years but your adulthood is the rest of your life and that's a long time to be going around not knowing basic academic skills to enable you to secure employment to support yourself and a family... you REALLY don't expect to live off your parents for the rest of you life, do?

You don't have a good concept of time, yet. Listen, when you graduate high school, you'll be considered a young adult. Let us say you graduate by age 18; in another 18 years, you'll almost be middle aged! Can you imagine that if you sleep 8 hours a day or 1/3 of the day, and in 30 years you'll have slept 1/3 of your life, or 10 years? Look at your own photos of 5 years ago and how very young you looked... imagine yourself now in 5 years how much older you'll look! Or, compare someone who's 5 years younger than you with someone who's 5 years older than you... life doesn't stop changing and you don't either. What you consider "oppressive" will have a totally different perspective in a matter of 5 years, I promise. You'll also look back and say, "Sheesh, I was so foolish to think like that!"

You now have the means at your fingertips to become a leader or a follower. A solid education is being offered to you to learn, to read and build a foundation for future use. The more you read and explore the academic subjects given to you, the more ideas you'll have to draw upon. A good leader has ideas, can come up with solutions and resolve situations... does not necessarily dempend on others all the time. Do you want to be a follower all your life? Do you want to rely on what others say for the rest of your life? Has it occurred to you that that is precisely what many of the charlatan-elected officials rely on when they lie to the public, and that is how they get away with fooling the public... the public is too dumb and ignorant or lazy to read and confirm and verify... are you willing to become one of the sheep in a herd manipulated by others, or what?

Stop finding fault in your school system and try making the best of it like so many others have done before, and so many more will do after you. Good luck and best wishes. Today you have technology to help you learn so much more yet many of your schoolmates graduate high school and can't even fill out a job application, and many get fired for not knowing how to follow simple instructions! Make the best of it; you're not going to have your youth forever! Good luck and very best wishes.

Answer 9

It really is what you make it. If you enjoy it, it won't seem oppressive.

Answer 10

Sort of a paradox, isn't it? Freedom through education. Emancipation through restriction. Before the bell can ring it has to be heated in the forge.