Your analogies make no sense. This is not a place where we're forced to be by either law or parents. We're here out of free will. We keep to the rules as this is a service. School is a duty, in a way, and as Gil said:
Quote: "You can do your work, get good grades, and have fun at the same time, which is what I do. Some people (including some students) take school way too seriously, and spend every waking moment devoting their time to it or homework. I spend about 5 hours a day in school, about 2 of which I'm actually doing work, and I have good grades and GPA, and I enjoy school because I am not so uptight about it and can relax while still doing well. Schools purpose isn't (well, shouldn't be) just to "educate" people in what the government wants taught, it's to learn through experience, learn what you're interested in, and develop socially."
If someone needs more time at school, isn't it their responsibility to do that extra work? If someone is gaming and there's a lack of PC's for the seriously working ones, remove him/her from the PC. If everyone's gaming, why not? To develop a sense of anything, including your own responsibilities, you'll need to make mistakes. Not come to a screen saying: "This site is blocked by ReNet2.exe".
What, "improve"? Schools have what they need. All they
should be improving on is the teachers - that's practically the only thing people are complaining about. Most teachers have half of a burn-out, no idea what they're talking about, and appear to have been hired only because the school board itself knows even less about the subject. That doesn't take money, it takes normal sense and good screening. There's enough people wanting to become a teacher for other goals than making money.
Let me ask you: Do I seem uneducated to you? I, like 90% of my class, spent most of our time at school playing Age of Empires, Call of Duty and Starcraft. Why is that unfair? We had an absurd amount of hours between classes, and had too many school hours. What are we supposed to do with all that time? Be good and I don't know, read Shakespeare? Heck, those games probably learned us more than most classes did. Guess what the only classes were where it felt useful to be in class? The ones in which the teachers said: "People, do what you want, but be quiet". We'd do our work, turn on a PC, and game away. We'd have our test and if we failed it badly, of course they'd be a little more strict. That's a case of bad responsibility. Not a case of limitations.
It's good that you can laugh about my comments, yours are bringing me to the verge of getting angry. A perfect little world in which everyone keeps to the rules, eh? Everyone just follow in the tracks of society and stuff, and everything will be okay? I'm glad you didn't live back in Galileo's times, or at similar crucial points of history. You'll make a terrible game developer, to make a just as senseless analogy as you just did.
Imposing senseless limitations and expect young people to keep to them, yeah, right. No way. Senseless limitations shouldn't even be there. They're the result of the short-sightedness of the 'mature' world.
Let me hope for myself and try my best to avoid getting that way. I'm past that stage for a year or two now, but for now, I'm not yet forgetting what or who I was when I was young. Hopefully that'll make me more understanding for the youth.
Those adults are the worst, the ones asking for respect. Did it ever occur to any of those people that respect is to be earned? Your age doesn't make you 'respectable' nor superior. Your behaviour is what does, and if you need to enforce respect, you're probably quite bad in communicating with my 'peers'. Another nice one: those haven't been my peers for a year or 2, now. Another example of how in the worst contenders of that generation 'war', you're either with us or against us.
Or did that just drop me into your box of "respectless, lawbreaking youth"?
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