once i dated a guy who stopped talking to me for a month and i found out he didn’t like me anymore but he was too scared to dump me so he just ignored me and i spammed his facebook with wiki links on how to break-up with your girlfriend
Heyo. This is actually boggarts-and-broomsticks. Due to a glitch in my blog, I can’t post this on my main blog, so I’m going to reblog it instead. I’m deleting this blog and remaking it to get rid of the glitch. If you’d still like to follow me, the new blog is still going to be boggarts-and-brromsticks.tumblr.com
//I’m sorry if it pisses people off that I have this on my blog but this is literally everything that truly upsets me in my personal life.
The way they have the student’s as numbers really got to me on a personal level I can’t even begin to describe. My school boards treat us as if we are just simply numbers, that’s why we have ‘student numbers’ that we use for everything.
The horrible pollution and toxins we are practically pouring into the air we need to survive.
The way the teacher just looked at him like he was an ‘it’ and not an actual person.
The way they graded the students not even caring.
The way it literally BROKE not only him but an entire generation.
The worse part is the ending because not only did he save the dogs life, that he had watched die everyday, he died himself doing something different for once in his life.
Not to mention that’s probably the first and last time he has ever laughed.
Sorry for ranting I just needed to get this off my chest.
oh my god and then the pictures. how we’re allowed to be “individuals” and “think creatively” but all of the pictures were just slight variations of the same thing- what they wanted us to draw.
and then the part where he starts shaking and the teacher looks so confused. because the teacher cannot comprehend why a student could POSSIBLY be unhappy when he/she gets such good grades.
this video is beautiful, and worth the 4 minutes of your life to watch
just the fact the children’s mouths are zipped up goes to show how we as children have no voice, just silenced in order to conform to what is deemed as normality. but when the zips break, and the kids escape we see they all run in the same direction (apart from the main character), which to me says how despite the opportunity of freedom and individuality, we dont know of anything else, how to do things by one’s self, so we progress in a similar conformity as from the start.
also, there’s the mask that the teacher wears, which kinda says how we only know what we see, not what lies underneath.
Also a fantastic use of Chopin’s funeral march.
and note how even when their zippers break they still have no voice.
what disturbed me most was the lack of colour.Everything was in greyscale, and that felt to me like the education system. We take classes and do exams not for the fun of it, but in order to pass exams. Teachers don’t go off syllabus for fear that we won’t pass. All of our education goes towards some letters that tell us how well we learnt what we were supposed to.
And it’s so boring and monotone. I love the classes where the teacher will teach us something random because we were interested or because they felt like it, and it’s something we do because we’re passionate about the subject, that adds colour and diversity to our education. Like stories about the classical world that had nothing to do with Latin language, but we were curious, or particular customs of Judaism that had no bearing on the death of Jesus, but were mentioned once and we thought might be interesting.
I don’t want to learn just so I can pass exams and get into uni and pass more exams so an employer is more likely to give me a job (although I recognise that university level degrees are pretty essential in certain areas, like medicine)
We need passion and excitement and variety to learn, to grow and to not lose ourselves along the way.
But even when teachers resent the system as much as we do, they can’t do anything because they’re meant to be getting us through those exams.
