It’s the Little Things…

Life consists of many ‘little things’ and the nature of these ‘little things’ can decide whether you find life enjoyable or absolutely agonising. It’s all those ‘little things’ that people usually base their ideas on the quality of their day; from coffee spills to getting flowers from your partner – you can say that the ‘little things’ are tremendously important.  

So how does it apply to school? Being the strong adherent of analysing the ‘little things’ of any major institute to determine how satisfactory it is I decided that through my first-hand experience I shall observe the ‘little things’ of school. And boy do they certainly diminish the already tainted quality of school!

Though I cannot possible list each and every one of them, I have, however, decided to give you a thorough description of some of the main, shocking ‘little things’.

1.  How ’bout the deviating from the topic we’re discussin’? You know. I know. How one minute we might be talking about Australian Aborigines and the next how Marilyn Monroe was smarter than Albert Einstein (is that even true???) but usually it’s something a little more stupid; like hey, stupid jokes or sports. 

Teacher: Oh dude man, have yo seen the match between the Dogs and the Cars? It was rad…
Student: Excuse me Sir, aren’t we supposed to be doing trigonometry?

(This may have been exaggerated on a miniscule scale; only the part where the student wants to do work).
  
2. How ’bout gettin’ the class settled down? Some teachers do it better than others but they always delay work (if we do work) nontheless. If you go to school and you find youself in one of the very numerous classes that contain poor students, get a watch and time how much time is wasted on silly stuff; like taking 10 minutes to mark attendance, 10 minutes to get to the classroom, 10 minutes to tell that boy to stop throwing chairs…

3. How ’bout all those fools makin’ a ruckus?  Yeah, that’s right – teenagers/children misbehave. This unfamiliar, astounding piece of information must be hard to digest, so I suggest you take a minute to settle down. Good. Now, analysing this we can come to a conclusion that there are two relevant scenarios from this phenomena. One is that the misbehaviour causes those who are trying to work distraction (teacher tell them to stop, the detention et cetera (which is wasting time)). Two is that those who are misbehaving are obviously NOT doing work and so are not supposedly learning. Merging them together means that during those brief, yet very common, episodes of misbehaviour, little to no people are working.

Analysing my voluptuous words of wisdom, would lead you to conclude that there is a lot more time wasted in school than you might have thought. Those three points were brief and there are many more points, some may be unique to the school, but whatever.

It’s the ‘little things’ that make a cheap holiday fantastic. It’s the ‘little things’ that can make life more pleasurable. And it’s the ‘little things’ that make school such a big problem.