I wish that school was about learning skills that we can use in our future, rather than memorizing useless facts and regurgitating them back onto a scantron.

Ask any adult if they have used what the knowledge they learned from standardized testing, and I guarantee that the answer will be no. Let’s face it, they really aren’t helping anyone, and all they’re doing is stressing out every student to the point of breakdowns.

Imagine if school taught things that are essential in life, like balancing checkbooks, doing taxes, or buying a house. Imagine if we acquired valuable skills in school. Wow, imagine that!

A standardized test does nothing for anyone, and all it teaches is how to memorize and how to fill in a bubble with a number two pencil correctly. I mean, look at Sweden, which is the number one country in education, and their policies. They have dramatically less standardized testing than America, not to mention a lack of homework. Perhaps if we took a leaf out of their book…

Well, if America stopped being arrogant and insisting they’re the best at everything, it just might improve and have a future that holds people of a different kind of intelligence: useful vs. useless. What good is knowing the Pythagorean theorem if the only time we’ll use it is on a test?

I, for one, would prefer learning how to pay a bill rather than what year George Washington died.