Schooling

The public school system for kids in LA is 💩

They do their best, but how can multiple choice questions ever evolve a child’s curious brain for solving problems and finding answers through their own ways of thinking? They don’t even have time to think and are instantly being dumbed down extremely by seeing the correct answer without writing it down themselves. Subconsciously they are “entrusting” their answer to that little circular bubble with a pre-written sentence that they HAVE NOT thought about. They never have the chance to doubt the wording of their answer, the conscious choice of writing down a full sentence answer rather than mindlessly filling in bubbles to open their mind! Allowing them to think + begin to solve and find answers on their own.

When you grow into an adult, you are not given tailor-made answers with bubbles to fill in. I’ve tested this system out multiple times in my life and have come to realize how much I’ve been cheated. I earnestly feel like I’ve been robbed of my thinking potential so that now I have a “thinking deficit”. I wait for answers to be spoon-fed, when there aren’t any and I am left to “figure it out for myself”. Thank God I went to University, but still, that engrained neural pathway is forever making itself known (even in college) if I don’t exercise critical thinking everyday.