Intro:
A. Could you imagine going to school and being so bored and disinterested that teaching yourself would yield better results?
B. Talking about the boredom I felt throughout my education
C. School never hardly helped me academically, the only real use I’ve found from it is building bonds through social interactions.
Body Paragraph #1:
i. School never really felt useful to me, anything educational I could learn there I could teach myself better at home.
ii. I learn best from hands-on activities, but only 1 or 2 out of 5 teachers ever taught like that so I’d always end up falling behind due to lack of engagement.
iii. I would always end up doing better in my engineering or science classes than anything else, there might be the occasional one-off assignment in another class that required us to construct an object or was a research paper.
iv. That lack of focus and interest showed more than I would like to admit and the only thing that ever worked to mitigate or get rid of entirely was teaching myself
Body Paragraph #2:
i. School moved too slow for most of my classes to interest me in any real way.
ii. Classes were dangerously boring and moved at a pace I had grown too comfortable with, I would put in almost no effort and get decent grades so I stopped caring, up until I saw that I was on a track towards failure.
iii. One of my teachers would always come up to me and ask why I was falling behind because she knew I could do better, she had previously seen me get engaged and end just below the top of my class.
iv. I struggled to force myself to pass these lackluster classes so that I wouldn’t have to retake them, but that I just ended up in more of the same.
Body Paragraph #3
i. I did however meet some really great people throughout my past school years.
ii. I made some friends with students and teachers alike who have each helped me in various ways outside of school.
iii. A few of my teachers helped me get into one of my first jobs, as well as support me overall outside of school.
iv. This itself is probably what made school worth it in the end, but it definitely wasn’t enough to make up for the lack of use school served for me academically.
Conclusion:
A. School had next to no academic value to me, but it did help me meet some great people.
B. I always ended up learning the subjects on my own rather than in classes. The boredom I felt from the ease of the work was enough to demoralize me. I am however glad I made friends with a few of the people I went to school with.
C. After going over the pros and cons I honestly think they’re even, I’m still at the same standstill on whether or not it was worth it that I’ve always been in.
