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October 20, 2011
Dark Thoughts
If I were a child today, I would kill myself.
My god, how depressing is today's childhood? She took her reading test the other day and she scored 60%. She needs to score above 85% to be considered on target.
We told her that maybe she should read the book more than once before she takes the test. So she read Seabiscuit four times. She took the test today and got 40%.
It is exasperating. I am seriously consider moving to a different country altogether. Granted, all countries test their children, but at least the teachers [in the other countries] are actually teaching the average students, not fussing over other non-education stuff.
She is really not good at anything. Her grandma thinks she has artistic talents, but I have seen other children's work, hers is average.
Then there is the dancing. She likes to wear the costumes at the recitals, so she doesn't really put in extra effort to be really good at dancing. Again average.
Chinese school... what can you exactly do there? I supposed if you are really good at Chinese, you can go work in China someday?
Volleyball... she is terrible at it. She can't catch a ball! She has been playing since August, and she can only catch a ball twice.
Oh yeah, the arithmetic... pretty lousy. She can't do additions and subtractions fast enough.
It starts to get quite depressing. I have no idea what kind of future she can have. If she decides to join Occupy Wall Student youths, I don't blame her. This country is not kind to the averages.
Posted by Mike at October 20, 2011 08:38 PM
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