post 6- Annie Deitz

First of all, I just want to apologize. I didn't want to skip the week five and six blog posts. It was my friend, Procrastination. Sometimes he just randomly comes to my house and wants to color with me or watch Netflix or randomly reorganize my closet. I can't help it, I'll tell him "I need to be doing things for Mr. Logdson right now." He just doesn't care, he forces me to do those things- completely against my will! Also, none of the things I say in the rest of my blog post refer to you, Mr. Logsdon, you happen to be one of the few bright spots in the darkness that I call school.

Back to last week's prompt. My three questions:
1.) Why do people become so attached to fictional characters? They aren't real. Why do we want them to get together? Why do we cry when they die? Why do we think that they are "my literal son" when they are 30 year old men from a completely fictional universe?
2.) Describe why the American education system sucks.
3.) If you could create one new AP class (it can be over ANYTHING AT ALL), what would it be? Why?

On my list of the most problematic things in America, the education system is third, beaten only by homophobia and the fact that because we do not operate under the Articles of Confederation, Canada cannot become a state whenever it wants.

On the list of things I like to complain about most, the American education system is the first seventeen.

Not all schools in American suck at everything they try to do. Some actually sound really awesome and succeed in teaching their students. The Fayette County Public School System has no schools that can even be considered to be included with those. FCPS is the pistachio ice cream of the school world. The crocs of the school world. The Dolores Umbridge (you shut your mouth, the situation has surpassed that level of seriousness. I am right and you know it).

Where do I even begin? With the fact that my mom comes home from her SBDM meetings wordlessly frustrated over the idiots that think they can rezone the school districts to segregate people of different socioeconomic statuses? Or maybe the problem with peanut butter, and that despite the fact that SEVERAL students could DIE, we still feel that no problem exists with selling peanut butter in the schools, where the students will eat them, next to their classmate who is not near a teacher who knows anything about an epi pen because few are required to? OR MAYBE, should I rant about the teachers scared of losing their jobs and teaching toward some dumb state test that will test a limited amount of the knowledge necessary for being a functioning member of society?

So much of that bothers me, but the worst of all of the horrors subjected to the students and teachers of Fayette County School System, is the MAP test.

Or should I say, was.

I cannot bring myself to understand why anyone would use something that Satan had come up from Hell to poop onto some dumb council member's bedside table- but apparently many people thought this would be a good course of action. I guess Lucifer looks like an angel, maybe they were confused. Not only did it do an average job at best testing over unimportant knowledge, but it was incredibly not useful and stressed children out for no apparent reason.

My younger sister is brilliant, she absorbs anything taught to her and has an incredible amount of common sense. So naturally, everyone expected her to pass the MAP tests with flying colors. But she never did. Something about the way those tests were set up hindered her ability to show off her knowledge. And that terrified her. She would stay up all night for days prior to the exam, crying and freaking out about how horrible she thought she would do. As an already anxious person, this practically burned the rest of her self confidence and threw the ashes into the sea. I have never been able to see why that was necessary, why she had to go through that, and it has always made me really mad.

So you can imagine my elation to discover that MAP testing was over, forever.

HA. HA. HA.

The school board never had a sudden realizations to the stupidity and horribleness of those tests. THEY WERE JUST TOO CHEAP TO PAY FOR THEM. SO THEY BOUGHT A LESS EXPENSIVE VERSION OF THE SAME EXACT THING.

I'm going to apologize again. By now I've realized that this never needed to be this long, and I'm wasting your time. Also, my friend Procrastination just showed up, he wants me to quit this and not study physics so that we can play some pancake game on the internet. Yay.