Hw - 42 Uh...Important Things aka Significance

The American school system babies its students thus preserving the immaturity in its kids. We never really grasp the idea of 'growing up' we have become used to a childish routine.

I think that this topic is important because the better half on teens are stuck in this realm of immaturity. Is it our fault? When I look back on how the school system is we have been hand fed, burped, and put to bed for the last 13+ years. Its all we have known. Daily reports on lateness and reminders on who is passing or failing. Let's not forget the "Timmy do you have your homework today?"'s. I know personally that teachers ask on a daily basis about work and projects and yada yada yada.

We get stuck in this routine thinking that teachers, these 'superior' people who essentially control your high school career with a simple number or letter. I think we get so used to having everything all done for us until we reach the point where we get a huge slap in the face telling us the grow up. We let things and places like high school become the pinnacle of our lives because we think this is where it all is. Having teachers grade your work and cut you slack.

Why is this all that we know?

Take a look at our society, everyone is obsessed with age. Preventing it or relishing it is something that we can see everyday. How many movies have their been where some old guy is disappointed with his life *gasp* until one day he gets a magical chance to re-do his life. We have been filtered to believe that age is bad and that when it comes we need cosmetics to make it all go away. Here we have this obsession with time...all the time.

How many seniors will say "I can't believe its over" Granted you will miss your friends and the popularity or whatever. But I think its deeper than that. Leaving high school means growing up. High school, middle school and elementary school were places that let us crawl around, roll around, fall in love, act a fool without consequence or worry and now we are scared out of our minds.

Some of us appear to be embracing the fact that we can get the hell out of here. Some of us like the idea of being on our own. But is that just another childish idea? Something that lets us run away from mommy for a while. A mini adventure that allows us continues to roll around to get dirty to rip holes in our jeans.

We all say things or have heard things like "We are wasting our youth in school!" or "Everything is easy when you're young" Why does it have to be that way? Why do we all end up wishing we could rewind the clock just a little bit? We are in this mindset of valuing the 'glory days' so when reality comes zooming by to slap us in the face we don't know what to do. We wake up wishing that we could go back.

That leads me to think about why there are so many of us that are immature. It seems that we have been taught to value our young years and hating the birthdays after 29. Its weird but I think alot of us might miss the 'goo goo gah gah' phase.

Is this a bad thing? It looks like we have only been doing what we have been taught.