That is a GOOD thing. If you did only the easey things in life, you would never grow in learning. New htings should be hard in orger to chanllenge you. Enjoy it!! Wish I was in your shoes.

Its funny, everybody wants what they cant have. Kids dont want school, they want freedom. Finalday you said u wish you were in his shoes. Or like i want ten chocolate sundaes, or that my new puppy could go buy me cake and drive it home to me, but that puppy cant, he can just make messes all over the floor and not pick it up. And get pwned by my cat who wacked him over the head like an Eagle on a Starflier. The dog keeps going and going tho. It will lead to my downfall. The immenate destruction as of life as we no it. No where to run. No where to hide. You cant escape life. You can run, but it will catch up to you. It will overtake you. Your reserves and resources will be depleted. But it keeps coming and coming. No way to stop it. Like an eternal steamroller of doom. Dealing out reality leading to death as a blackjack dealer deals out cards. A crude but precise demise of our alternate reality. Reality is responsible for the global server being down. Debriving us of it as if depriving us of water, food, oxygen, slowly aphyxingating us into the horrible, primitive, savage void of destruction that is reality. Soleless minions will be Knocking at all our doors. We can lock the door, but they go thru the window. you bar the windows. They tunnel in. You lay concrete under all parts of your house, and they blow thru it with dinomite. Your reinforce it, and they parachute in. they cut thru the roof like a chainsaw thru paper. You reinforce your roof, and they put up ladders and blow thru walls. You reinforce the walls. But burn your house down. You do all the things uve done to ur previous house, and fireproof it. They poisoin your supplies, so you get new ones. But they cut off the route of supplies, slowly starving you. Its all over. It ends now. WHOA!!!!! THATS NOT SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN UNTIL FULL MOON!

@Zeta. Heh, sounds a bit like bad slam poetry or something.

@Flesh. Grats on the new school. And a scholarship to go with it too!

Sorry, i had to get the truth out. Like a steamroller of......

Zeta, your "Speech" makes no sense at all. Kids never apreciate what they have, only want out. My wishing to swap places, is for the chance to learn even more new things. Trying to say everyone wants to swap rather than having what the do, is silly. Its an effert by the older generation to get the younger motivated. This generation is a lot less motivated than mine was and even less than my parents generation. In the 60's your were expected to sit up in class and learn. You had no Ipods, computers, cell phones, or any other distractions. You cut up in class, you got sent to the principals office, possible paddled, your parents called, and possiply paddled by them as well. You were reminded you were in school to learn.

Edited by - Finalday on 8/14/2006 3:27:14 AM

Thanks everyone I will do my best and try to excel in my studies. By the way you probably think I'm going into college because of the scholarship but I'm only going into seventh grade.

Sorry, ur right, im wrong. I didnt mean always about swapping when i said what we cant have. Ill grant it. Ur right. All i meant, not said, i worded it wrong, was that people had a tendency to want some things they cant have. Sorry bout it. And ill grant i agree, we are in school to learn.

I dunno about all that... I tend to think that the lack of motivation in today's generation is more because everything in today's world is radically different from the world 40, 30, or even 20 years ago- but the education system is largely the same. If anything, the whole education system (public at least, I can't speak for private schools as I never went to any) up to the 12th grade is becoming increasingly dependent on memorization, parroting, and standardization. Few teachers actually make the effort to get students interested in the subjects they're teaching- and those that do are hampered by tightly regulated curriculums that mandate almost a third of all course-work be dedicated to (drumroll) standardized test preparation.

Now, I can't claim to be doing any better in terms of grades now that I'm in college- but I actually want to get up and go to classes. I can't remember a single day in high school or middle school when the same was true, even though I had a number of very good teachers over the years. School doesn't feel like work anymore; I don't come away from classes-even long 3 hour classes- feeling like I've wasted time (even on half days in HS, the whole point of most classes was waiting for the bell). I think that a huge part of the reason why is that college professors aren't limited by the huge bureaucratic morass that governs public grade-school curriculums, so they are free to do things that make students actually want to learn.

Another part of it is that most schools continue to force students to take most of their classes, instead of providing choices. I can understand that in middle school, but by the time you're in High School you've got a very clear idea of- at the very least- what sorts of courses you aren't in the least bit interested in. It's hard to become engaged and learn when you're being forced to do things you just haven't any interest in doing. I can't for the life of me figure out why everybody must learn pre-calc, or how to play football, or how to say "pardon me, I farted" in another language. As valuable as those things may be to some people, the cold fact is that a very large number of people are never in their entire life going to make use of that knowledge ever again. Couldn't that time be better spent taking more courses in areas that are actually interesting to you- and learning more that will aid you in life or bring you joy, instead of just taking up time and effort for nothing? As good as more knowledge might be, what good is that knowledge if it falls into disuse and is forgotten?

The education system is lagging way behind the times- that's why you see a lack of motivation, not because today's students don't want to learn. They do want to learn, it's just that they can't learn the way the system is currently set up. The current generation needs a more adaptive system, or interest in education will go right on down the drain.

[gets off soapbox

Sorry to rant, just something I feel rather strongly about.

i think it would have been more impressive if you stood on the soap box.

nah, its not ranting, i agree that way that an adaptive system would be pretty nice. Off topiced, you might not need to learn Football, and no matter how much kids hate PE or gym unless its a game, it is slightly nessacary they say so we dont turn into people playing video games all day. Truth be told, i do that, im fine. I have a big muscualr build with people unable to think of me as anything but a heartthrob. And im humble too! But the point is, the X and Y generations arent as lazy and die if they dont have quick internet acess as Dateline TV investigations shows.