Do public schools kill creativity?Follow

Well, glad we answered that question.

Guess we can lock the thread now.

I'd usually do poorly in my other subjects from a perpetual state of boredom. I was horrible at math

Just to clarify, this isn't being "bored" it's commonly referred to as "slow". I was actually "bored" in school because even as a child I was staggeringly brilliant and it had nothing to offer me. I wasn't "bored" because I was ****** at algebra.

Good luck.

I found that joining a gang made school much more engaging.

That wasn't the part that I was agreeing with, but good point!

First class of the day in high school was always a great time to catch a nap, I assume?

Not in my opinion.

It always seems to be the same ol', same ol' 'coupla loners with a grudge and a trench coat fetish, with too many easy to access assault weapons'.

Now if someone turned up with a flamethrower, or some RPG's while wearing jetpacks, now THAT would be creative.

I'm both terrible at math AND bored by it.

Nexa

I went to public school and during the first few years I found my creativity greatly encouraged. During second grade I didn't attend my regular class more than two days a week, and the rest of the time I worked one-on-one with a woman named Mrs Peterson. All I did was write, because it had been discovered during some spelling assignment where the class was required to write a story using the words on the spelling list that I was better than the other children.

I wrote three books that year, and the school had them bound and published and placed in the library. I wrote about my dog and the adventures of other anthropomorphic things. It was perfect. I was lucky to know what I wanted to do with my life by the time I was seven.

Of course, I was able to do this because my first grade class worked at it's own pace by means of packets which contained our lessons. By the time I completed first grade I was doing algebra that I wouldn't see in a classsroom again for another six or seven years.

I'm special, though, and I don't think that public schools should be encouraging most retards to be creative. Most students should probably just have a strict schedule to follow, regardless of what it's filled with, because they're bound to be slaves to a clock sooner or later, anyway.

Edited, Jun 14th 2007 8:57am by Barkingturtle

I hated Phys Ed...especially the rope/net/whatever climbing. I'm pretty sure I passed because gym teachers like watching me jog. Also: I'm an excellent line dancer.

Nexa

You sound like the ideal person to work for a company that espouses a Results Oriented Work Environment,(ROWE). Link is from a Business Week article which cites Best Buy's Home Ofice as an example: "No big business has smashed the clock quite so resolutely as Best Buy. The official policy for this post-face-time, location-agnostic way of working is that people are free to work wherever they want, whenever they want, as long as they get their work done."

Edited, Jun 14th 2007 1:10pm by fhrugby

That pretty much sums up my school and work experience, except I did attend class, I just slept through them with my eyes open.