On the Saturday Attrition Tallies

First of all, I would like to posit the following: the SAT is inconceivably annoying.

I am sick and tired of filling in bubbles, as well as pretending to care about the environmental issues of Alaska. Also, English - though regulated via word order instead of inflection - is still flexible. Oh, and let's not forget the feeling of absolute masochistic tendency that follows a realization of, "OH MY GOD! I SKIPPED QUESTION 4!" I tried to calculate the number of test takers per Saturday times number of fully destroyed erasers (by volume)... but my good ol' TI-84 flicked me off for imputing such trash of a statistic.

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School takes us in when our parents are either too dull to push us farther or perhaps too busy keeping food in our mouths to supply mental advancement. It is a relief to the system - to those parents/guardians who cant. It is also mandated by law, meaning that not accepting this relief equates punishment. It thereby means that a lack of need for this relief is nowhere near an acceptable escape from the system. It is a social pseudo-necessity backed by a governmental system.

School teaches us a rigged set of points - a curriculum of knowledge laid out by people the teachers more often than not have no connection with whatsoever. It is a system built to make all of our children perfectly (or proverbially, your choice) 'well rounded.' It doesn't matter if a kid doesn't wish to learn that section because it seems to have no correlation between their current wants and their eventual goal - the material must be learned.

This stagnant hierarchy of learning makes one more socially normal and certainly fits the criteria for 'well rounded.' Why though? We've known about square pegs in round holes long enough that someone finally tried a round peg in a square hole - turns out it generally fits.

This is not necessarily a critique... fitting is good (and I don't feel like critiquing at this moment). What I do wish to point out is a case of knowledge homogenization. Everyone is offered the same plate and expected to prepare the same dish upon it.

But why?

Does congruity build society?

Has anyone ever been so just like everyone else that they changed the world?

This leads me to the SAT. It doesn't really test the dynamic capability of one's mind. It does show how much we listened in class - how much effort we put into learning exactly what we were told to learn.

What it lacks is fatal.

The SAT shows nothing of what we learned when no one told us to.

...Plus, it destroys pencils and makes my calculator mad at me, which is unforgivable.