Back to Kindergarten

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Back to Kindergarten

                I am currently enrolled in six AP classes, participate in marching band, have a decent social life, and have numerous other activities that don’t come to mind at the moment.  I’m generally not opposed to doing hard work, and can do it under stress and extremely limited time.  But for this reason, I have little patience for homework ‘projects’ that are basically art projects that the average second grader could construct.  They are a waste of my time, and I have yet to find any benefit that comes along with them. 

                For my AP Psychology class, I have to somehow build a model of the brain.  This isn’t totally useless, because it will probably make me think a little bit about the different parts of the brain and what not.  My problem with this assignment is that half of the points on the grading criteria are based on ‘creativity’ and ‘colorfulness.’  I will have you know that I successfully graduated from kindergarten in one year; isn’t that enough of this kind of nonsense to last me my whole life?  It is these kinds of major time-consuming projects that really get on my nerves.

                Another, more infuriating example of this kind of assignment that comes to mind was last year in my tenth grade language arts class, in which I had to make a giant collage of words and images cut out of magazine pages that I thought ‘described’ me.  If you can’t already tell, I have no tolerance for this crap, and my mom generously offered to do it for me.  I’m not going to turn down that great of an offer.  In contrast to the brain model project, this one truly had no purpose or benefit to me in any way. 

                In conclusion, I personally believe that I go to school to learn a few relevant facts, in addition to learning ‘how to learn’ in preparation for college and the rest of my life.  If I wanted to learn how to color, draw and be artistically creative, I would go to some kind of private art school.  However, since this isn’t what I desire, I just go to a normal public high school.  I would much appreciate if my homework were limited to things that have some use in my learning, and will be advantageous to me in the long run.