Too Cool For School

Hello dearest bosomed bloggers! I hope you and your bosoms are happy today, and welcome to Danielle Tuesday! *cheesy 90s opening sequence*

Housekeeping
Punishments! I think we have decided that Aoife would eat blenderized salad with (not raw) egg. Aoife if you could do the punishment this week and then document it before Saturday, that would be A+, but I guess we could tone your punishment down a bit since it wasn't really your fault, so maybe we won't set a deadline for you? I don't know, is this okay with everyone? We could also let you drink just a tiiiiiiiiiiiny bit of blenderized salad and (not raw) egg, but still keep the deadline. What do other people think?

Orla, of course, does not get this privilege. Does anybody have any ideas for punishments? John Green once said that punishments are usually of these categories: eating something, embarassment, and pain. I propose that Orla would do an embarassing kind of punishment, but I'm not sure what.

Aoife: I'm sorry about the punishment! It would be super interesting though, so I'm not counting it out, but I guess we could give you a bit of a leeway, as I mentioned earlier? Anyway, what you and Kate said about the vlogbrothers made me think of just how many lives they've actually affected, in a good way. I wonder how it makes them feel, to know that so many people's lives have changed because of them and that so many people look up to them, who likes them because of their personality. Must be a bit strange.

Orla: I. LOVE. YOUR. MOM. She's so motherly she reminds me of Mrs. Weasley. I don't tell you that often enough, but yeah, your mom's pretty awesome.

Kate: Hi, I'm glad you didn't burn your hair.

Theme for the week: Back to School!!!!1

I have a love-hate relationship with school. I love learning about new things, and acquiring new skills, and getting high grades and SCHOOL SUPPLIES (seriously why are school supplies so shmexy.), but at the same time I have a couple of issues with the school system. Like, for, example, homework. I mean I get that it is designed to reinforce what the child has just learned from school, but at the same time, the teachers often give too much of it that is so overwhelming, and turns a person off actually learning, which is what a school is designed to do. It's like the love for knowledge has been replaced by the love for paperwork.

Also, the exam system. More often than not, people pass an exam not because of how much they know about the subject, but because of how well they can manipulate the system. This particularly irritated me when we were preparing for our Geography Junior Cert. Our teacher gave us this formula for answering questions: SEE. Statement, Explanation, Example. She said that the reason we weren't getting as much points as we could be getting was because we were not following this formula, although we were actually answering the questions correctly. The teachers know this, the correctors know this, the students know this. It all struck me as a bit of a joke. They weren't teaching us Geography. They were teaching us how to pass an exam.

There are so many flaws with not just our school system, but the school system of nearly the entire world, that it would take me about 76 years typing them all out in here. But it is not enough for me to loathe school completely. Sitting on a desk and learning new things give me such a rush, and, believe it or not, I am looking forward for another year of it.

-Danielle