Public schools train you to survive and that’s a bad thing
Public schools have three endgames in mind for their students: Enrollment, enlistment, employment. All three concepts condition you for survival mode.
Nothing says survival mode more than the good old enrollment, enlistment, or employment track. Public schools either want you to enroll in post-secondary education and accumulate debt, help defend an empire, or make someone else a lot of money.
If they didn’t, they’d change their curriculum overnight. They’d show students how to identify new trends, how to own and operate a business, either brick and mortar, online, or both, and teach them the nuances of technology so they’d thrive in the real world.
They’d also hold classes on how to run a home, maintain a vehicle, grow food, and efficiently handle emergency situations like when the power goes out during a storm.
Schools would offer full courses on how to build and maintain credit, manage finances, and show students how to make their hard-earned money go to work for them.
Public schools teach useless topics because they don’t want you to thrive
Have you ever asked why you learn physical science, biological science, earth science, anatomy, physiology, and such? Especially if you don’t use any of the above unless you’re entering specific niches? And if you needed to, chances are you’d open your phone and research the topics you needed to look up.
Sciences are one of many subjects public schools teach that most people never use. But there are a lot of things everyone uses in life.
That said, public schools should hit harder on actually preparing a student for life as opposed to telling them what volcanic rock is made from or one-sided State-approved takes in history class or “origin theories” in science.
I don’t say public schools preach propaganda just to start a shitstorm. They preach it because they want you to have a one-track mind that acts reflexively. If they truly cared about your well-being, then science would be hands-on agriculture and mechanics.
Not sitting in a classroom and learning about coefficients or what hard and soft water is. Again, you can look that up if you need to. But growing food, raising livestock, and operating vehicles is something a hell of a lot more people do.
Public schools teach propaganda, not critical thinking
Math class would focus on budgeting, credit scores, and ways to turn money into actual wealth when it’s just sitting there, not solving equations or postulating geometric shapes or whatever the hell it was we were doing.
As for history, why not teach that the winners tell history but there are multiple sides to history itself, and much of it is up for debate? As for reading and language arts, can’t they let kids decide what interests them the most, and let them read up on it? I’m sure they’d organically learn new words pretty fucking fast.
Such a curriculum would increase the odds of kids thriving in life. They would graduate fully-equipped to take on the world; not live predominantly paycheck-to-paycheck.
It’s clear that, from State-approved curriculums alone, they don’t care about you. They want you to live at a subsistence level and bow down to employers, the public sector, and the American Empire.
Learning starts with the individual, not the collective
One reason I wrote my YA fantasy, The Arcane Prophecy, was to flip off not only public schools, but traditional schooling. After going through the system for 14 years (Pre-K-12th grade) and working a job that I taught myself how to thrive in, it hit me: public schools have it backward.
They start by clumping kids into a classroom, making them sit still, face the front, shut the fuck up unless given permission to talk, worship a skycloth, and thank the perpetual warfare state for keeping you safe. Does that sound like individual education or collective indoctrination to you?
Yet, as I’ve seen the superintendent of my old school district do, public schools will turn a blind eye to the problem and keep lying to parents that they have their kids’ best interests at heart. Yeah, as if they’ve known them since birth.
Where The Arcane Prophecy comes in
The Arcane Prophecy chokeslams the survival mentality straight to Hell, showing readers a market-based alternative that focuses on individual learners, and practical, hands-on learning that helps students master their elemental ability. They’re not sitting in a classroom and taking endless notes to memorize on their next written test.
And if you want to see what Arcane’s all about, check out the first three chapters, meet the protagonist Yote Diamondback, and see how she ends up at Arcane Elemental Academy.
