RAN:DOMpm Emotional Education Episode
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you know, I've been told for most of my life that education was the most important thing and that if I didn't follow with school and complete it, that I wasn't gonna go anywhere in life because you see all the way starting from elementary, they kinda brainwashed, seems like in a very extreme word. But I asked my friend and that's kind of what he said. It was from a young age, we're told we need to follow directions, we need to, We need to go to school on time, be there. We we have to make sure we do whatever the hire people like the teacher. Okay, how do I put this in a way that sounds smart. I feel like they from a very young age that says you have to be here this time, you have to leave this time. Like they're getting us ready to be in a routine and that routine is that 9-5 job. Okay. And before I get into this episode, um I want to say a couple of things, Welcome back everybody to the Random peon podcast. First of all, I'm not saying that education is crap and you don't need to learn okay because without, you know, elementary and stuff, I wouldn't learn, I wouldn't know how to rewrite simple math. So I'm not saying we need to scrap it altogether, that's not the goal here. Um but I have to tell y'all, I went to dinner at this place called cook Shack, I'll leave a link to them down below. They were absolutely amazing. Okay. They were really, really, really good. Um like they were quick, we opened the door. Um the cashier got right to us. Cashier was a little bit cute, but girls are the farthest thing from my mind right now, I have a goal, I have a kind of successful podcast and my only goal is to grow it and I don't care what I have to do, okay, as long as it's legal, like I'm not gonna sell drugs for money for equipment and stuff. But that place was mega good. I had the something chicken, the not slutty. Yeah, I think it was slutty chicken or something. It was so good. Oh my gosh, Like I can't hype this place up enough. You're gonna have to go, okay. So I'll leave a link to their website down below. But anyway, I don't want to spend too much time on the intro. I want to get right into it. Now. Today's episode is going to hit the fields for a lot of kids. Okay. Because I know that a lot of kids struggle with school. Um I do when it comes to certain areas and I felt like students don't really have a voice, they don't, they can complain. Sure they can tell their teachers that they're struggling, but you know, they don't really have anybody to step up. So I'm gonna be that guy. I'm gonna, I'm gonna voice my problem and I don't have, I ain't look up nothing. Okay, because going through it should be enough for you. If you don't believe me when I've gone through it, then maybe you need to take a step back and look into yourself. I'm sure you went through school. I know you would understand. But um yeah, let's get straight into it man. That would be real. I struggle in school. Okay. Especially when it comes to math. Um I'm not very good at math. Okay. And sometimes that's kept me back from doing a lot of the stuff I want to do. I feel like if I was, if it really came down to it and math was what I had to do to graduate, like for all I probably wouldn't fit, I probably would fail. I would probably be held back a lot, but I want to start kind of early back on, so elementary wasn't that bad. Okay. Um sure, you know, I had to go to school and stuff, but the fact that, you know, I kind of thought like, hey, why do I have to come here every day except for summer. Be told when I get a break, be told when I can go to the bathroom, like it was kind of like, okay, that's kind of weird to me, but you know, I went to elementary just fine. Um I didn't struggle too bad. And so with that being said like elementary is kind of out the window for me and it wasn't really into a middle school when I started to um, I'm a bigger dude. Okay, everybody who knows me knows this and um, I was picked on or I guess bullied a lot man when I say a lot, I mean it was every day, like I get it like you want to make fun of somebody else so you don't look as bad yourself but dang bro, it got bad. It was like, why why would I come to a place every day to learn stuff? I know I'm not gonna use in the future and then for kids to just pick on me the whole time like does that sound like a worthy deal to you? And that's when I kind of started being introduced to the mental health thing. Okay. And I know I'm not the only one. Okay. I know a lot of kids in middle school were bullied for like a lot and middle school is the hardest point in your life because you're trying to find out who you are, you want to fit in. Uh, fear missing out is a big deal. And so um, I understand it, but school didn't help that with so many different kids you want to impress and an environment where status matters. You know, it was hard, it was hard for somebody like me who had a horrible speech impediment, which I still kind of do and wasn't had acne and had the body odor and was big, so it was a rough time for me and I tried way too hard, Really, really hard to impress people because I didn't want to be that one kid that nobody wanted to talk to and I made a couple of friends along the way. Um, so it wasn't all bad, but I didn't, I didn't understand why I had to wake up so early to come to school to learn and get picked on and then to go home and do it all over again. And now that I'm looking back, it was, it's not, I mean it taught me a couple of lessons. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not gonna say it was all bad. I didn't learn a couple of lessons and when it comes to, you know, that area, but it still wasn't a good time for me. I still struggle with math quite a bit and I still quite didn't understand. Um, I was being told, you need to do this, this and that you need to get a job. Getting a job, is everything getting the 9 to 5 is what we're working toward here. And I felt like they really limited creativity. And um, I think there was also a flaw when it came to the fine arts, uh, like I did theater right? I get it, you know, you want the best to to shine. But um, it kind of taught me that if you're not the best at what you're doing, you're not gonna get a shot, you're not gonna get that top spot and I understand you have to work hard, but um I feel like they really favor the best and they kinda throw the the, I don't wanna say significant because that's a big word but the not as good, they kind of tossed to the side right, and that's what theater kind of felt for me and I would work hard, I would practice, I would do everything in my power to make sure I was good. But at the end of the day um I feel like school kind of taught me that no matter how good you are, people favor people and only the best get what they want. So that was a hard lesson I had to learn but I learned it right and there was a lot of homework man, I get it, you know we don't, school is all about memorization. If you don't memorize, you're not gonna, you're not gonna do well in school. So I get what they wanted us to do homework but we had a lot of homework and I already have to be trapped in this building for eight hours a day. I don't want to have to go home and forget having fun with my family and doing the hobbies that I enjoy now I have to work on schoolwork and yeah, I mean even waking up that early just to go to a place to get picked on as insane, Like kids need sleep and I get it, a lot of kids, it's their fault, they want to stay up playing video games, doing stuff, they're not supposed to, that's fine. But for those who, you know, struggle to get to sleep, have insomnia. I know a lot of kids do and so I feel like, you know, we can't even perform at our best. Like, I feel like they're sending us up to fail and now I'm in high school senior year, I've done the drill, I've run the gauntlet as you would say, and there's definitely a lot of flaws um, at my school in particular, if you're not playing a sport, then you're really not favored, I'm gonna be honest with you. And uh, I get it. I mean football is the pride of what we're doing, what we do, but I mean, come on, you gotta give those kids a chance. I met Albert Einstein said this quote and it was crazy to me and I really, really enjoyed it. It was, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will believe its whole life, that is stupid. And I feel like a lot of kids are judged based on what they're good and bad at, but it's, if you're bad at something, you can't move on, not if you're good. So for example, I may be the best, I may know so much about history. It's crazy, but if I don't know the pie a gram theorem very well or I'm not good with, with um the algebra or geometry or something like that, then they're gonna focus on our weak points. They they focus on performance, just like a real job. Would they look at your performance, make sure you're doing well. If you're not performing then you're gonna get fired. So in school is that way, if you don't perform, if you don't do well, you're gonna get a bad grade and um, that will keep you from playing sports, going to events, stuff like that. So they teach you that if you, if you want to, you know, to have fun and have freedom, you have to perform well and if you don't perform well, then you're gonna have that fun and freedom taken away. And yeah, I don't agree with that at all. I think that kids should be able to pick a more customized path in life. I don't believe that um that it should be tailored how it is. And I asked a lot of kids and not one of them said they enjoyed school all the way a lot of them said it sucks. They have to wake up early, they get picked on, they're judged for things that the teachers know they're not good at. Um kids are stupid, like mad stupid. That's not a good sign. You don't want your your future generations saying that schools suck because if you're gonna put the future future generations through that and what are we doing for society? We're not doing a thing now, I'm not gonna sit on here and only complain. Okay, school has taught me some things that the debate that was really fun, that helped me with my communication skills and um some of those classes are very much needed depending on what career path you want to take in life, but they really need to change some things and it's hard and I'm not a feminist or nothing like that, but I understand that girls struggle with the dress code, I understand, I think that dudes get a lot more lenient li I understand um and I feel like, you know that school kind of teaches you some lessons, you don't want to learn Type B and homecoming and prom, you know, all the rejections, all the, all the high school relationships that last a week or two, you get way too attached. You break up, like I think high school is the spawn of bad mental health and um I just don't understand and I don't think I'm the guy to fix it, like I don't know what I can do in my power to fix it, but I can be that voice for the students, I can be the guy who talks about the problems and yeah, but you know, at the end of the day, this episode isn't going to change anything. Kids are still going to get picked on, kids are still gonna struggle. Kids are still going to wonder why they're not good enough heck, and in the 10th grade, I saw a girl dang near break down because you know, she was worried that she wasn't gonna be able to to exempt the final because she really had to, and that's crazy to me, it's crazy that our performance is based on how well we do at something and God forbid we suck at it and we looked down on and we're stupid and stuff, we resort to things such as cheating because cheating is not gonna help you in real life, but we have to resort to cheating and, and doing stuff we really shouldn't be doing and the vaping problem, I know some kids really be doing it because they think they're cool, but sometimes you do what you do to take the stress away at leads to unhealthy sleeping habits that leads to A lot of stress that leads to heartbreak. I think school leads kids in the wrong direction and um I feel like we need to read, we need to stop telling us that elementary, stop programming us to get ready for that 9-5 and we need to have a lot more entrepreneurship, a lot more creativity and freedom and we need to really crack down on bullying and stuff because I know that the suicide rate is high and especially amend because of mental health and I definitely know from personal experience that school does not help you feel better at all. And um yeah, that's all I really have to say because again, nothing's gonna change. I'm gonna make this episode. I'm still going to go to school on Wednesday, I'm still gonna get picked on, I'm still gonna suck at math, but hey, you never know. Maybe somebody important in the school system will hear this episode and maybe they'll change it or maybe they won't. But uh, that's all I have hey, by the way though to like in the mood a bit, y'all need to go to um, we'll cook shack or shock cook cook shack. Yeah, because that place is the bomb. Okay if you go there, tell them random PM sent you, the owner should know what that is. But yeah, what else do I have to say? Besides good luck and I hope you make it and I hope you don't have to struggle like many kids do and like how I had to um, y'all know the drill, Get with the program and stay random. Thank you so much for listening