Go to college to learn

surgery, neurology,

law, medicine,

finance, teaching, and so forth.

Technical arts, maybe.

Those who truly make it

or have made it

on any level

with writing prose

or fiction

or poems

or contemporary literature

will do it out of a mixture of stubbornness, compulsion, and fire.

Past an understanding of English, school was

an arduous nightmare for me.

Pulled from the system(s)

by sudden parental death,

school was a logical waste

for me at grade 11

employment eclipsed

education

because the streets were

even worse than

the classrooms

so I worked shit

jobs

a dropout with a dream

I read voraciously

and wrote like

a madman

and after two decades

of being out in the wind

or in cars or old vans

or in apartments

or rented rooms

or shit monthly

and weekly

hotels across the country

the hard work paid off

the hard work at home

after the job had eaten my

flesh for 10 hours

but the jobs fed

the pages

and right now the rain

falls in California

and the steak and eggs

are over-easy

and rare just like

I like them cooked

and even though I'm

in a diner on my

phone

and not crazy

about this poem

I didn't write it

to be anti-education

or pro-anything

this poem

is

cautionary.

School is a must; people complain about having to go to school? Ungrateful little bitches - pardon my french. They don't know how many people would kill to receive that education, not to mention for free.

"There's too much homework."

Get off your ass and get a job, then. We'll see if you like manual labor instead.

"We can't use our phones."

So use them, it's on you if when graduation day comes you don't receive a diploma.

"They won't let us wear whatever we want."

If they let you wear whatever you wanted, that wouldn't be a school; it would be a strip club but without the rich guys and bodyguards to keep boys from touching you.

"When am I even going to use the pythagorean theorem?"

You're not, but it helps develop your brain so that when you get a job and actually have to use it, you're not a dumb shit.

Schooling is essential, bit only if it's done right. American school systems aren't doing it right. Instead of teaching you how to learn, the "teachers" stabs in front of the class and lecture, telling you to take notes, as if that will make you retain the information they throw at you in hope something sticks. There are ways to trigger a person's memory, to build their intellect, and the school systems just aren't doing it. We don't all learn the same way, and if you don't learn the way the teacher decides to teach, then you're shit out of luck. Classrooms should be interactive, with all four main types of learning used, so as to engage more off the student's mind. If the student is bored, they're not going to learn anything. If they struggle, they're going to develop a belief that they aren't smart, or that they "can't do math" or whatever subject. With that belief in mind, how can they learn? All of these are failures on the party of the American school system.

I'm an english teacher so this is hard for me for I have 50-50 opinion on this. As society dictates, it's a mandatory that you go to school in order to land a good job in the future. At school you learn to establish yourself, you learn what you want and what direction you want your life will lead. School is where you first explore,learn things and open up to the real world. School is good but I don't think that you can only learn things from there. I am a firm believer that if you wanted to learn something, you find a way to learn it. Persevere and work hard on something that you want. Some would disagree on this but I don't think that the success of a person is based on how well he did at school but rather how hard he worked for his achievements. There are so many successful people out there who didn't even get to finish college. What i'm trying to say is that, whether or not you go to school, your success depends on you.

School is great.

I love seeing my friends at least 5 days a week, and learning something new every day. My favorite subjects are math, reading, and writing.

But the reason school is only great, is because of the favorites. And by favorites I mean the teachers favorites. I hate teachers favoring kids because if your not a favorite it almost feels like a constant reminder that your not good enough for your teacher. And it always seems like there is the same favorite students year after year so there must be some certain attributes of an admired student. Personally I feel that a classroom isn't a safe learning environment unless all students are equal.

School actually reaches you things you will use, no matter what your field. Especially in English and Grammar. You use it every day, in ever word you say and think. If you ever have to write report papers; there's your high school English at work. You might say when will I use some obscure Math formula, and while you may think it's stupid, there are MANY jobs that will require the use of more advanced math (algebra and beyond). The same goes for chemistry, biology, and even history. If you don't want to go to school, then don't and work a low paying job that will barely allow you to sustain yourself.

- Michael Hall

The society in which we live requires one to go to school and graduate college in order to have a decent living. I don't see this as fair. People often get "school" and "education" mixed up. School is a place where education is taught, but what happens when the school is not properly educating it's students? Is a piece of paper stating that you've graduated college really the only credible evidence that proves you are intelligent and are capable of learning? Everyone is different, we are smart at different things, but we all still have so much to contribute. School is just a mask.

The only place I am free of screaming and yelling.

But also the prison I am trapped in,

And every one else is a prison guard, they push me around and I fall to my knees but I always get back up to see the good in this prison.

As long as I can avoid the guards, I am free instead of stuck being a worker at home cleaning, doing yard work and being screamed at.

So I guess school is pretty good. On my standards.

I usually don't like to write in the morning because it isn't the best way for me to start the day, only because I hate the morning time. However, I did something different today, I woke up early. It is true when they say, "the morning is the beginning of the day so make it as best as you can." My mornings really do make a difference as to how I go about my day. If I wake up late usually I'm the grumpiest person on Earth. This morning, it isn't so bad. I sent my love his Good Morning message, texted the girls, got dressed, and left the house.

School. Especially, Phoebus High School, is the hardest thing to wake up too. This school is filled with black people who are ignorant and poor, the teachers that are just trying to fill the holes in their lives to make them successful, then you have me, the misfit. I'm not a misfit because I have money but because I'm black and I know that there's more to life than this. This school is most definitely not a reflection of who I am as a person, it's more like an everyday reality check. A reality check that I hate, more than anything else in the world.

However, waking up to Prose isn't so bad... I think I could do it everyday. Well, I'm in my first class of the day and she allows us to use the computers whenever we're done with everything. I'm always done early.. I guess I should start writing in the morning. It's like writing down the words that would flow in the wind of a exhale from a deep breath. It's relieving. It's good to know that outside of this putrid filled hell there's more than just this small town known as Buckroe. If anything, my town is an inspiration to death stories.

More than anything, I would like to tell Prose, Good Morning!