I recently wrote this on my Facebook and thought I'd like to share it with you all, as well as discuss our High Schools and overall feelings toward public education as a whole.
Note: This post was about James Campbell High School, located in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. If I need to later, I'll elaborate on some of the school's policies.
At times, I feel like I had been cheated out of opportunity due to the fact that I went to https://www.facebook.com/jchshawaii.
As students, and probably teachers to, we never had good role models there, with the exception of a few teachers (you know who you are.) We never had guest speakers, at least ones that actually gave a [censored] about their audience. The ones that we did have were nothing more than representatives from some company that were pushing their worthless products onto us, or someone telling us basic rules of society that we all were taught (or should have been) in Elementary, if not our parents or society itself.
Where was the College Professors to give us a taste of what a good lecture is like? Where was a library that didn't have many restrictions put in place, discouraging students from ever wanting to go there? Where was a uniform that we could take pride in wearing, as opposed to something that made us resemble people whom had no respect for themselves? Where was a Student Council filled with people whom were qualified to lead, instead of filled with children still in a fantasy, whether they were teenagers or old woman?
Where was inspiration in Campbell? The only thing Campbell as a whole ever taught me is a lesson in what I should never aspire to be. The standards were low, and the staff encouraged that everybody celebrate in the most mediocre of accomplishments, if they could even be called that.
This is only a grain of the salt I have for this place. If you want to quote me on it for one reason or another, absolutely go ahead.
Because I know I'm not done dealing with this state, nor am I done dealing with terrible education systems and the people behind them. But there is one thing that will be changing soon enough: Those people will have to deal with me, and they will be doing so on a scale nobody expected.