Modern Day Fable

Once upon a time there were a few key people in history who sat down and decided to develop a school system and a curriculum that all children would learn for 13 years of their life, plus or minus those who dropped out, or decided to go do something more meaningful with their time. The key people thought it would be exquisite idea to assign grades, forming an average each student would need to attain in order to eventually leave the system to actually get somewhere in life, instead of a classroom. There were a few key students who had their strong suits, but most were vigorous in one subject and lesser in the rest. The Physical Education program was geared towards those students who tried too hard to impress the teachers, pretending to run marathons instead of taking a seat and realizing it's gym class. The Science program was geared towards those students who aspired to be like Einstein, when in reality they were a mere Robert Hooke at best. The English program was geared towards those students who's everyday language consisted of archaics instead of something their peers would actually understand. The Social Studies program was geared towards those students didn't have the money to travel so they preferred to imagine they were visiting the places they pointed to on a laminated map. If one student was bad in gym, but excellent in English, the student was expected to go and run extra laps after school to make up for the laps they didn't run in class. In the school system, average was accepted, so as long as the student passed each class with a 50 percent or more, they would let said student text in class. The key people in the school system thought their idea was brilliant, it made their lives easier to sit in a nicely furnished office while lesser people actually taught the courses to the children for years and years; a substantial circle of useless education. But how and what did the key people learn before they developed the provisions for the educational system? How was it possible for people with lesser education to plan what millions of kids got to learn for numerous years to come? Seriously. Life was hard enough without being forced to remember millions of facts to spit out onto a piece of paper over the years, just to forget it later. Besides, they couldn't make a student try hard in one class if they didn't have the desire to do so. Before long, the lesser people and the students realized that what they were teaching and learning wasn't important enough to spend 6 days in a chair learning, causing strikes and skipping to occur. The key people became conscious of the fact their educational system was flawed, so they blamed it on the students lack of devotion to their futures and didn't change anything. The end.