Hei there everyone! This is just a random headline I stumbled upon in a newspaper and I decided to write a short essay on it. Any suggestions would be great! Thank you! :D
Today's news are nothing but another failed attempt of parents, teachers and the always-hungry media to subliminally motivate us, the next generations, to learn in order to pass the 12th grade. Even though I appreciate their willingness to provide us with such unofficial and ineffective statistics I think it's about time to look at this matter objectively.
A paranoid concern among the masses was to be expected. Many try to figure out now how only 44.5% of all graduate students managed to obtain their high school diploma. Such an ordinary question has an even more ordinary answer. As a teenager myself, I can confidently say that students who failed have not learned. With the temptations of the modern world revolving around us all, this is understandable. Digging deeper, however, I think that those low grades also show us the level of intelligence your average 18-year-old has. For I cannot imagine how "distracted" or "nervous" [read: stupid] one might be to mistake a novel for a play, regardless of how much they have studied or not. I also tend to believe this since almost one third of the final result was relying on a simple essay. There is nothing very different between how we speak and how we write. In both cases we employ words and we try to make a point. These facts prove nothing but the incapability of the next generation of coherent, logical thinking. And this will probably result in the downfall of the shaky system that barely supports us now.
Stepping on the student's frontline now, I try to empathise with them. The main protest is against the harsh implementations (i.e.: the video cameras installed in the exam rooms) meant to provide a fair evaluation. I do believe it when they say, that it is hard to concentrate when you know so many people are watching you. However, I also know what it feels like when a fellow student who only bothered to come to school twice a week gets a high grade. It is not normal to treat someone who is not interested in learning the same way you would treat someone who is. If we would do so, that would be called "communism".
The last heavy objections were brought against the educational system in Romania. Many have critiqued the vague formulation of the exam prompts, many simply publicly insulted the minister of education. The system is indeed twisted and cannot to be compared to the ones in Western Europe. However, people have accused it for all the wrong reasons. Not the low grades are saddening, but the lack of motivation in young people to learn, to discover. All of them are the same. They all desire to win money; no, not earn, win money. We do not know what passion is anymore, we do not do something anymore just because we love it. Those who do, are few. I think it is not exaggerated to ask ourselves: are we starting to regress? Are we becoming nothing but mere mammals? Because it seems like I am missing what sets us apart from them anymore ...
If you were to ask me, we must expect this beautiful country of ours to collapse. With most of the intelligent, talented young people leaving, mediocrity settles in. We are left at the hand of incompetent leaders who try to hide their futility in this world by randomly asking future 12th graders on TV about their feelings. Perhaps that would not be so bad, if they would actually give a fuck about us.
Today's news are nothing but another failed attempt of parents, teachers and the always-hungry media to subliminally motivate us, the next generations, to learn in order to pass the 12th grade. Even though I appreciate their willingness to provide us with such unofficial and ineffective statistics I think it's about time to look at this matter objectively.
A paranoid concern among the masses was to be expected. Many try to figure out now how only 44.5% of all graduate students managed to obtain their high school diploma. Such an ordinary question has an even more ordinary answer. As a teenager myself, I can confidently say that students who failed have not learned. With the temptations of the modern world revolving around us all, this is understandable. Digging deeper, however, I think that those low grades also show us the level of intelligence your average 18-year-old has. For I cannot imagine how "distracted" or "nervous" [read: stupid] one might be to mistake a novel for a play, regardless of how much they have studied or not. I also tend to believe this since almost one third of the final result was relying on a simple essay. There is nothing very different between how we speak and how we write. In both cases we employ words and we try to make a point. These facts prove nothing but the incapability of the next generation of coherent, logical thinking. And this will probably result in the downfall of the shaky system that barely supports us now.
Stepping on the student's frontline now, I try to empathise with them. The main protest is against the harsh implementations (i.e.: the video cameras installed in the exam rooms) meant to provide a fair evaluation. I do believe it when they say, that it is hard to concentrate when you know so many people are watching you. However, I also know what it feels like when a fellow student who only bothered to come to school twice a week gets a high grade. It is not normal to treat someone who is not interested in learning the same way you would treat someone who is. If we would do so, that would be called "communism".
The last heavy objections were brought against the educational system in Romania. Many have critiqued the vague formulation of the exam prompts, many simply publicly insulted the minister of education. The system is indeed twisted and cannot to be compared to the ones in Western Europe. However, people have accused it for all the wrong reasons. Not the low grades are saddening, but the lack of motivation in young people to learn, to discover. All of them are the same. They all desire to win money; no, not earn, win money. We do not know what passion is anymore, we do not do something anymore just because we love it. Those who do, are few. I think it is not exaggerated to ask ourselves: are we starting to regress? Are we becoming nothing but mere mammals? Because it seems like I am missing what sets us apart from them anymore ...
If you were to ask me, we must expect this beautiful country of ours to collapse. With most of the intelligent, talented young people leaving, mediocrity settles in. We are left at the hand of incompetent leaders who try to hide their futility in this world by randomly asking future 12th graders on TV about their feelings. Perhaps that would not be so bad, if they would actually give a fuck about us.