newly ancient

For my entire school experience I have been confined within a K-8 school. This means that from when I was in kindergarten to where I am no in eight grade I have had to deal with the same annoying policies and bureaucratic delays (though you can be sure I wasn’t calling them that in kindergarten) Throughout it all, I have been irritated with the system. Frankly, it makes no sense. Why on earth would you stick emotionally-unstable adolescents on the same buses and in the same assemblies as equally emotionally-unstable (but for different reasons) kindergarteners. When teachers are campaigning for 8th graders to be escorted in lines to each of their classes, I wish people would remember the importance of freedom as you develop yourself into an adult. The general policies and ideas surrounding a system of K-8 education make no sense.

K-8 education provides no additional opportunities for academic achievement in middle school. If anything, it hinders innovations and learning when students in a very advanced math class are required to do the exact same style of work as they were doing when the were in kindergarten. Sure, the subject matter is the same. However, the process is extremely tedious and stifles innovation. Sound anything like corporate America (minus Google). Apparently, Johns Hopkins University agrees with me that K-8 education provides no academic benefits.