Is society really doing their best in teaching their children?

 So I wasn’t too sure about what I would discuss today and decided to bring up an issue that has been on my mind for quite some time.  Every now and then I take a bit out of my busy schedule of work, school, furniture restoration, hobbies and other tasks I usually partake in on my weekdays and try to reflect on where I was a year from today, or two years, or five years etc. A lot has happened and most of it has been great. I have matured more in the last two years than any other time in my life. It took a lot of very bad circumstances and poor choices to get me here but now I am almost happy I was able to experience those circumstances, they have caused so much fear, hopeless, and heartache, but now life is a lot different.

 

    I still have those feelings every now and again but that’s okay, that’s how life is. I have always wanted everything in my life to be perfect, I had expectations, wants, and a very fantasy-like outlook on my future. Sadly most of my imagination has dissipated since I came to reality, I’m a “grown up” (damn). I have now come to accept the possibilities and the impossibilities that face me. I hope that again I can get a little more of that imagination I once had as it was always so comfortable and euphoric, but it usually takes me further away from reality and inhibits my chances of being successful and responsible. 

   I was always one of those kids with that ADHD label. I don’t know how much I buy into the ADHD label. I do match about 97% of the symptoms perfectly but most people do, joking aside, I do believe that if ADHD is a true illness I am very much affected by it. School was always such a downer, still is but I know that if I want to get a job that doesn’t involve putting couches over my head all day (furniture mover) for the rest of my life I need to accept it and try to tough it out. Well, I am defiantly toughing it out, I would rather be almost anywhere but in a classroom. I am by no means dumb or average, and please don’t take that as bragging, but I just wish there was some type of approach that someone like myself could have taken in my early years of life. I know there are many, many people that have the same story I have that could go places and because of the little knowledge we as humans have in our own neurology it’s difficult to know the right way to go about helping these people in their most influential stages of life . We have the basics down, know some neurotransmitters, behaviors, hormones and other  signs to better help mentally ill people, but lots of these mental illnesses and learning disabilities, in my opinion, aren’t “illnesses” or “disabilities” at all. Now don’t get me wrong, mental illnesses do exist and are major hardships for many people, but there is still so much we don’t know, so much we don’t seem to want to know and even unconsciously pretend we don’t know. The figures for the diagnosis of mental illnesses seems to rise each year, more and more children are getting prescribed some fairly serious medications for something that might really just be treatable with a new way of teaching, and a new way of raising kids in certain environments that can help them excel instead of sticking them with bunch of different children from different intelligence levels, thought processing skills, talents, interests, in a classroom setting. I might be going a bit overboard but I just know there are MUCH better methods to use for education that need to be researched and improved. It’s such a tragedy to see so many kids in almost a state of apathy, and disregard for other people and themselves. Getting into a good college in my state requires a HUGE commitment to academics, something that most kids are not ready to do when they are between the ages of 14-18. They don’t have good direction and seem to have some kind of negative view on society. It is frustrating and de-moralizing for many kids who just aren’t capable of everything asked of them. I know remember how school was and I remember the assignments, most of them were boring, seemed like busywork. Now how am I supposed to lean when I don’t have any interest whatsoever in the subject being taught. Now think about this; how is someone like myself who thinks it is boring, busywork and has no interest in it supposed to excel and score an A in the class? Well, sometime I did get that A, but did I learn much, nope. Did I cheat, nope. Now think about it this way; what if I was being taught a subject I was interested in. What if I was being taught a subject that I was interested in through an agenda that fit my type of personality, who knows what could happen. I will talk a lot more about this in later articles but for now I will stop here. Feel free to add comments; I would love to receive your input!