Just wanted to share a memory from my childhood.
5th grade was my last memorable school year before I completely checked out of school as a whole. Here's a short list of the long list of bad memories followed by the main topic.
-Father assured me he will not always be around so I will need to have my own plan.
-My teacher absolutely bullied the shit out of me for being a depressed kid.
-And I had some realizations that my friends weren't actually my friends but I was someone they could laugh at.
Besides all that I remembered a school event that made me realize how fucked we are today and how grim the situation seemed coming into adulthood.
The event centered around the difficulties of living as an adult. Basically they wanted to show us children how hard the real world actually was. Here's how they did it.
First things first kids, ya need a job. Draw from this hat and the random job and salary you get is yours, no trading. Okay cool, oof I got janitor at 600 a month, what a bummer.
Next up, you need to talk to various faculty about getting a phone, managing a car payment, electric bills, oh and that random health problem that you get randomly drawn as well.
Let's just say I lost hard. Of course I was in the negatives. And so was most of the kids that just received a “bad” job.
When we arrived back in class to reflect and discuss everything that had happened the teachers says “see how hard it is in the real world? This is why you need an education.” Kind of funny when I think back and realize how wrong that teacher and right that event is. It gets even funnier when you realize that the adults knew this and tried nothing to change the system as it was just getting worse.