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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago (13 children)

The motivation problem isn't the school's fault, it's yours. You choose to not want to learn.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My district's got tablets for pretty much everything and the kids don't really know how to troubleshoot any problems with them and there's no time to teach them to troubleshoot those problems and it's all proprietary bullshit anyway. doomer

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[–] NaoPb@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Even before phones schools were like this. But they'd just put you in mandatory extra classes to fix your grades. Instead of, you know, talking to you. To get to know how you are doing and how you're feeling.

I've hated my school time and all it taught me is teachers are obsessed with having power over others. Maybe not all teachers, but a lot are like this. They won't listen to you, they just force their opinion on you. And if you don't do well in their pre-made lecturing framework then it's on you because you don't pay attention and you are lazy. It's never on them.

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

I think addressing low motivation levels is beyond the scope of the school's ability to affect things. When I was in high school I remember not caring about much of anything because I was convinced that even though I was almost certainly going to college, I would still just end up in a 'passionless bullshit make-work dead end job' like my parents, working long hours just to eke out a meager living, enough to keep getting back in the goddamn hamster wheel, and that really sapped my will to do anything productive. I ended up being completely right but I'm lucky enough to be living in this era of realization that work in the states is inherently bullshit, and that I make enough money to pursue passions outside of my 8-6.

[–] fleabomber@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Oh no, school sucks.

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