MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Teacher suspended for doing his job

> Of course it's sad that a student from your school committed suicide but that just
> reinforces the fact that they were not prepared for failure. In the real world,
> everyone is NOT treated equally or fairly and you need to rely on your book smarts as
> well as street smarts to get by. It's a cold, cruel world out there sometimes and
> kids need to realize that their parents aren't always going to be there to bail them
> out.

I agree to a certain point. But the cold and cruel world has also taught me it doesn't matter how smarter you get, knowledge without social skills or extra activities than just homework (remember, no Internet... wasting time on libraries and books all the afternoon using a mechanical typewriter) is useless.

So if my boss needs an urgent report that I present not one day but 15 minutes later because I was perfecting it, I'll automatically get fired and the boss too. Because if my work gets invalidated and is useless, then his will as if he never did that work. I'm sorry, but I don't think the world works like that. No one would have a job for long.

I don't live in Japan. Classes from morning to afternoon and homework for the rest of the day won't make me an educated and prepared person for life. That only converts me into a lower work force for the future. There's only one chance to be teenagers, we're developing into adults but we're not adults. After high school everything is serious, obligatory and boring. That school tried to suddenly push the adult world into kids with more problems than just adolescence. Even worse, my friends and brothers couldn't keep up so they quit and moved to other schools, yet the higher IQ brother was not expected to do such thing, so I was left alone in that nightmare.

In any case, I survived and I'm not a dependent worker as that school tried to train me. I don't miss high school and I won't miss to depend on a boss either. On a positive side, I got stress resistant and autodidact so not everything was lost. :P