when i first started highschool, i was very happy about it. new people to know, new things to learn and a new place to adapt to. i was very extroverted then and i still often consider myself to be since i like to know and talk to other people.
however, towards the last few months of the first year, the state school system began to change. drastically... now we had online lesson platforms, things were monitored far more strictly and the teachers also struggled to adapt to many of the system changes.
in the second year, many more changes were pushed further, teachers could no longer give their own lessons and had to use premade "learning slideshows" sent by the school system to teach the students. at this point i was beggining to get annoyed.
many students in my class were EXTREMELY loud and infuriating, in the first year we were known as the "worst class of the school" just by teacher complaints alone, while i personally didn't get backlash for my class's antics and had good relationship with the teachers, almost the entire class was made up of screaming, narcissistic children who would rather shout at the school workers rather than own up for their mistakes.
and now in the second year i was with yet another group of annoyances who kept shouting curses and disturbing the class every chance they got, hell, one of them even threatened to pop one of the teacher's tires (fortunally he changed schools).
many of the demands of the school system were absolutely idiotic, we had to finish MANY online lesson platform quotas to get good grades. at this point we had to basically teach ourselves with these platforms to be able to know our grade level math and it was infuriating, and of course the teachers were affected the most. they had to try and make the school tests keep up with the demands and try to make sense of what were given to them. but many of them failed very hard.
in the third year, everything just went downhill. teachers try their best to make us learn what we are given but they fail due to lack of content and being unable to keep up the pace. we literally have school books that have a single page of lesson content, and then that's it. seriously how are we able to learn anything with 1 page alone?!?!?!
worst part is, that the tests were no longer designed by the school workers, they were designed by the school system as well. and since teachers could not help much in progressing our lessons due to pacing and classroom behaviour (which was still 100% horrible) we had to begin to cheat. a lot.
to our rescue, came the cheating tools created by also very angry students who designed them to make school more bearable, i honestly do not know what i would do without them.
since many of the students in the 3rd year were basically giving up on school due to the ammount of stuff we needed to do, many quit school and i honestly do not blame them. the teachers were also very much done with it, 2-3 of the teachers that joined in the 2nd year were already planning their way to leave the school crew alltogether and go somewhere else.
the vibe of the place was just off, teachers began arguing with eachother, my entire class got divided, many of the friends i had at the beggining of school were gone, i now only had 1 friend who i talked to the most. if it wasn't for them i wouldn't be motivated enough for being able to go another day inside that hellhole.
and there ain't rly a happy ending, things just stayed that way and probably will get worse as time goes on. all that optimism and enthusiastic attitude i had in the first year was completely gone.
thinking positively never solved my issues, it just helped me get more and more mad at my circumstances, due to the fact that no matter what i did. i couldn't change them.
fortunally, it's over and i no longer have to worry about school, but to you all that are suffering from a long last problem that you can't fix, it's ok to feel bad. it's ok to be mad at what you were given, cus trying to smile in situations of struggle will only make you feel worse. many people are probably in your place, and if you provide company to eachother you can make it a little better. and if not, that's also ok. just hang on cus it will get better. it will be over. and you will be able to get your optimism back. meanwhile, shout when you feel angry, cry when you feel sad and laugh uncontrollably when you get hysterical. cus the only way people know something is wrong is when you make noise.
sorry for rambling on too long, just had to get this off my chest.
i really dislike the toxic positivity people try to impose by telling you to develop a better attitude to deal with those problems, cus that does not help. never helped me and never will. i will keep on complaining and shouting as i need to to feel better, and i will let people know when something is going bad.