Every year, grade 12 students are embraced by post secondary opportunities. Every student waits in silent anticipation for this glorious moment for it indicates their readiness and maturation as adults in a vast world. Through rigorous academic trials, lessons on life skills and global perspective, senior students are pounded with the abilities and knowledge to thrive and prosper in the distant future.
Senior students at Princess Margaret Secondary are so well prepared for their upcoming university and college challenges they need not to pay attention in class. For many, indulgence in their doodled and drool covered papers is a vivid sanctuary of their lives to come. Everyone is just so intelligent. Give them a due date and they’ll hand in their cunning reports of having a doctor’s appointment, having to drive a younger sibling to school to make sure they excel as they have, or perhaps that they needed to finish a level on they’re latest video game to maintain the functionality of their reflex arcs. All in all, these seniors are ready. They are above trivial high school politics. They think, no, they know that the ludicrous attempts teachers make to discipline students are futile. For what do they need to be disciplined for? They obviously don’t need to be, they’re almost adults! They can take care of themselves. If they can convince liquor store clerks that they’re 19, they can convince the education system that they’re ready to graduate.
On the other hand, to test this theory is a different story. The vision of graduation is an illusion. That’s the point of school deadlines really. Fundamentally, that’s what they’re doing, creating a mirage of educational success whereas it’s actually a barren desert with absolutely nothing but cold sand blowing over the horizon. Teachers create this hallucination by creating loose deadlines where students can easily get away with not doing their work and put it away for another day. This course of action ultimately sets universities up perfectly financially and students up emotionally. Students pay thousands and thousands of dollars to further build up their ridiculous egos only to flunk out in their first semester. This process is effective because it allows graduates to see the world for what it really is in an abrupt fashion, quite like a punch to the stomach; they’re not going to forget it.
Corruption in the education system is working. Students are raised and educated inefficiently because of mainly, lack of discipline. This allows post-secondary institutions to open graduates' eyes leaving a lasting scar that will teach them a lesson. This is what young adults are emptying their wallets for, life lessons. Money well spent.
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