the thing about schools is that schools aren't there for learning
how it goes on: you get an assignment, you complete an assignment, and then you get graded
getting graded efficiently destroys the very foundation of studying and learning: fucking up, and fucking up royally at times
a bad grade is a punishment by itself, and depending on a kid's luck or lack of it, this punishment has further punishments attached to it, be so "no sweets for you" or getting beaten up to the point of getting into a hospital
therefore a child has no real reason for learning, only for memorising stuff for enough time to write a test and forget it forever if diligent, or just not giving a shit if normal or troubled
again, a student can also be diligent but not neurotypical enough to just memorize shit without attaching any meaning to it, resulting in a diligent student with bad grades
and this is the rotten system that makes the foundation of pretty much everything
b e a r d
@LukeAlmighty @tomie i took pride in having good grades in subjects i was interested in. things i wasn't interested in i didn't give a fuck what my grade was and i'd do the bare minimum needed to not get in trouble. all throughout elementary school i'd get in trouble for not doing my homework because i thought it was a waste of my time, literally just repeating answers to questions i already knew how to solve. i get that repetition is the mother of all knowledge, but i think for me at least that applies more to practical repetition rather than theoretical repetition. as in, actually applying concepts instead of just filling out boxes on a piece of paper.
my last year of high school, three of my 8 classes were music production, three of them were related to writing of some sort, and the other two were religious studies (which my parents forced me to take) and gym (which i was excused from doing anything in thankfully). and then after school i'd go to do more audio production stuff at the arts university.
that year i got perfect marks because i was actually doing stuff i wanted to do.
@mactonite my personal hack was always to be the second worst; that way you apply the least effort and draw the least attention: even if the worst performing person in the class draws enough ire and gets expelled or something, moving up to the second worst position again is easy
@tomie
100%
Also, it forces you to focus all of your time on the topic you hate the most, instead of allowing you to grow in topic you're phenomenal in.