#26: School

 Day 26 of 30 days writing challenge

School*

*I'm sorry, this is not a fun posting, will be quite serious.

I attended private school until junior high, and got into public school during highschool, and continued my further education to state universities. Might considered myself as lucky to have a chance to pursue high education, since only around 8% of the population able to have it. Our country's literacy and education level is so low it's depressing.

Anyways, regarding my parents' decision to have our education in private schools since kindergarten, from my point of view now is a bit trying too hard and unrealistic. Not blaming them, they portrayed their generation perfectly. They tried so hard to give what's best for us in their rigid opinion, which often made them bleed to achieve what they wanted.

People around me nowadays, those new parents workmates, pushed themselves so hard to put their children on fancy private schools with really high tuition fee--making their children as a showcase of their "success" or whatever. Though it's a bit different with my parents' decision to put us on those private school (it's another set of different values) but still, emphasise on "forcing it".

What's wrong with public school anyways? It's like a miniature of our reality. You have different shades of people, from different class. You don't get the same snobbish people from the same social class in your small small world. Fact is, being so long in fancy private school with rich people around was quite depressing, since we're not exactly poor but we're not rich either (I got my personal bullied experience, check it out on my previous post, I wrote it somewhere). By not joining public school on, let say, elementary level, I can't even know that there're people that's different from me. It's totally noneducational socially, you can't really study diversity and social equity during your golden period of early development. There's this missing link of empathy that should've been there if only I didn't attend private school. 

There's something wrong with our country's educational system. You can't succeed unless you're on some extended lessons (to take extra lessons for upgrading your grades) if you want to continue getting the university you wanted for example. It's like what's the use of school if you can't learn anything from school, or i.o.w what you learned from school is never enough. 

Being in private school so long I know it's like a miniature of social inequity. Only people with money got the best, this is the fact of our society. 

Anyway, my public school experience during my highschool days was quite memorable (or maybe loveable(?)) minus all the extra lessons we took during extra hours. My school was one of those "good public school" and we were really drilled to study and study and study everyday. Despite that, I actually enjoyed my highschool days, except the last year which was hellish. I think I lost my spirit for studying after highschool, there's no energy left. Lol. And the fact I didn't even take my favourite college subject (my undergrad year was hell) didn't help in bringing my willingness to study. It was a miracle actually I finished my degrees. 😌