The United States depresses me.

[butterfly]

The people I work with don't know what 'arbitrary' means. Or 'crone', even (I used 'crone' randomly the other day, and got confusion. I used 'arbitary' and was asked what it meant. And then was informed that about half of the things I say go over their heads, which I hadn't known. I just thought that they hadn't found my jokes funny, which, yeah, they didn't, but for a totally different reason than I thought.). This is a clear failure of U.S. public education systems.

Oh, I'm so looking forward to going to college again. Because... damn.

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[joshy.livejournal.com]

Eeek. That's scary. I had to explain to people at school a couple of days ago what "swine" and "obligatory" meant.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I had to explain to people at school a couple of days ago what "swine" and "obligatory" meant.

And I must repeat your words -- That's scary.

This country has its priorities screwed. In the words of our (oh, help me) leader, "Is our children learning?"

[joshy.livejournal.com]

George Bush said that? *prays for America*

And it's not just your country - I'm in England, and our education system is just as screwed up.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

He really did.

*sigh*

But yeah, the ways high schools are... they definitely feel more like prisons than places of possbility.