What all is wrong with the Public Education system.

The first and foremost issue is that by "force-feeding" information down the throats of children they are effectively killing the urge to learn. Kids learn to associate learning with the boring work sheets and subject matter in school, and actively try to avoid learning on their own because of it.

Another problem is that a large majority of the things taught in school actually is useless. If they would give children a chance to learn what they wanted I can guarantee you there are a few classes that would be cut off entirely due to needlessness. I'm sure one day I will need to know Richard Nixon's Foreign Policy even though I don't want anything to do with politics. Your reasoning amazes me, school system.

A major problem is that they don't treat kids like humans. Their treatment is more akin to animals. If They can't go to the bathroom when they have to, or disagree with something without getting in trouble for "back-talking", I'm afraid I can't call those "rules" anything more than brainwashing. What I hate the most about that is how all teachers have the right to punish everyone for one person's mistake. Are we really supposed to be taught that no matter how well you act, if someone else messes up you're going to be punished along with them anyways? seems to me like that would just encourage rule breaking so that they can make sure they aren't punished unjustly.

They never really teach you anything anyways, all they do is make you memorize. that's all school is. Just a giant game of memorization. The reason for this is because teachers are paid on how well their students take a test. They have to make money to keep living, so they spend as much time as possible making the children memorize the facts they think will be on the test, so they have little time left for actual education. Whoever instituted that "pay for grade" crap is a total moron who contributed to the eventual downfall of the public education system.

Here are some possible solutions that you should really look into if you don't want to be a mindless puppet the rest of your life

Home Schooling

This is the most famous option, have your parents teach you instead. if you're worried about not being social, some of the most social people were home schooled. school actually kills your want to be around other people, since it forces you to be around people you don't like and gives you no way out.

Getting your G.E.D.

This one gets the most flack for not being worth as much as a diploma, which is utter crap. your G.E.D. looks just as good to a college as a high school diploma, and jobs don't care about high school anyways. they only care about how well you can do something.

Unschooling

This is basically home schooling where you are allowed to control the schedule. you can learn whatever subject you want whenever you want. even the lazier people will have nothing better to do than learn eventually if left to their own devices

I hope this has been a good read for you, I would recommend going over to School Survival if you found this interesting. they do a much better job at this than me ^^;
also of note is this video that LinzerDinzer linked to me on her Twitter Account.

Something to say comic one

On top of using this site to host any particular snippets of text that enter my mind, I have decided to also occasionally upload comics. This is the first one and is made of Fill tool failure as far as coloring goes. I know it doesn't quite fit the page, but if I resized it anymore you wouldn't be able to read the text.

Flash Animating and my eventual plans for the future.

Recently, I myself have taken up the fine art of Animating in the fine format called "flash". needless to say, I currently suck at it, since I have no art skills whatsoever and a crappy program named "pencil", so I can't even add music, and adding too much color makes the program die an untimely death at the hands of a processing overload known as crashing.

I have a feeling if I practice a lot more though I can eventually get to something half decent and maybe even make a bit of money off of it what with newgrounds' ad sharing plan, and with that I might be able to get a real website some day relatively soon, and then I can take the majority of my content and put it in one place rather than uploading it all over the internet.

If I get that good at animating then it only stands to reason that the quality in my art would have gone up by then and then I can try my hand at webcomics which have been a major interest in my life for some time now. Along with that I would plan to have a seperate "art" section in the site for anything I had drawn.

Hopefully by this time my recordings would be of a much better quality than they are now and I would include an MP3/audio section as well. instead of selling things like downloadable content such as MP3s for making money off the site, I would sell personalized art prints and T-shirts, and other physical merchandise etc. along with maybe a few books if I ever wrote any/ comic books if I ever drew any, and I would use Ad revenue as well. if all goes as planned, I will be able to live just off of the site.

Of course I would also have to get a lot better with programming and I might even have to tag a few people along with me if It gets as big as I'm gonna try and make it be.

Indie VS Industry

Recently the “indie scene”, otherwise known as independent labels, has been getting more and more attention lately. You can attribute this rise in popularity to avenues for quick publication and instant worldwide availability opening up to the public at a cheap-to-free price range, such as the internet. There was a boom of indie material in 1960's to 1970's as well, back when almost every teenager thought that major corporations were censoring far too much. I am writing this paper to argue for independently released media and the benefits of doing so for all publishers and consumers alike, and would like to start off with a brief history of the censorship and tyranny of major labels.

One instance of censorship among major labels is related to the punk group, the Dead Kennedys. There were quite a few people and even a few labels themselves saying that the Dead Kennedys would be signed if they changed their name, which of course they would not do. Although this was intentional, the Dead Kennedys lead singer Jello biafra is cited as saying “one of the reasons I used that name was to torpedo any fantasies of any other band members of signing to those pimps.”¹, it still stands as a good example of what someone was able to do when out on their own. Of course, there is always the age old issue of censorship on words in actual songs, which is abundant in radio and kid-friendly albums, which is the next thing I will be taking a look at.

Wal-mart, a well known and popular market place, has a certain business practice with all of its musical C.D.s that come in stock. That practice is only allowing versions of discs with censored unacceptable words into the store's stock. In a bold move, popular canadian pop-punk group Green Day refused to sell their album 21^st century breakdown in the retailer because of the need of a censored version, instead releasing the fully uncensored version at target, where it still peaked on the sales charts.

Comics have an even worse history with the beast of censorship, dating back all the way from the 1950's and not letting up even a little bit since. Comics have long been thought of as material for children among the major corporate minds, and have always been treated as such. The harsh treatment began around the time the CCA (Comics Code Association) was formed, but in truth it was only affecting the major distributors of the industry. Things like fanzines, which were comics made by ordinary people and often distributed freely among friends, remained untouched for the simple reason of them not going into the larger market.

Television has always been a huge target of censorship. Unfortunately, do to the nature of broadcasting itself, it's not often you see an underground or independently produced television show. They normally aren't big enough to sustain themselves with profit from ads and as such, the FCC has an iron grip on what gets to broadcast. One popular way to get around such things is to make a “web show”, where you basically create a show with digital equipment and broadcast it over the internet.

Movies are in a better position, they don't require serialization and don't have to be broadcast to anyone. I would think the most that an independent film producer would have to pay for is the equipment itself, with possibly DVD distribution or any possible merchandise based off of the film being next in line. There are even a few Independent films that have been shown in theaters, and this presents a great hope to me as to where America's future is heading.

The main problem with Producing independently is that it is too expensive for most people to promote their own work, although this has mostly been solved by the many popular hosting sites on the internet which even go so far as to allow you full control of the license your works are under. Another problem is that you often don't get full control of anything, and producing independently solves that period. If you're willing to drop the label, you get full control. No obscenely thick contracts necessary.