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matrixmannThe bus stop turns into the youth club...
First love, first drink, maybe even first time getting physical. And lots of friends.
What has modern society to offer to its youngsters?
Living in sterile, mold-contamined, pimped up flats, celebrating their weekends in used up buildings whose purpose they know at the highest from when they were kids, offered consumer goods which they can never pay, jobs that don't exist and promises that never come into effect. On top, bags of clothes manifactured in the third world which they can cut and rearrange to show how run-down they are, and ugly hair-cuts which make them appear like they have some sort of problems.
Education somewhat is an alien concept, both in the way of knowledge about the world and emotional development.
They get handed a lot of toys and tools to get paid the time their parents haven't spend with them, but can't make up for the deep nothing they perceive.
Sold out worlds, they long for destruction, for the destination that remains for when there's no task for you or your body is plagued by diseases. Diseases the parents thought about in their selfishness "they will be able to get along with that". And they keep wondering why these kids in their selfishness for exstasy beget another aimless generation of kids accidently...
On the other hand, education in the form of learning in excess for those who can pay for it. Planning of futures until the age of 40, orchestrated and without a doubt that anything can come in between this. No guess of what poverty means, what deprivations means, not even that it exists at all or what life-threatening circumstances could be. A bubble which nothing goes wrong within.
In the end, the planning also reveals its shallowness: Getting education, getting jobs, founding families, reproduce, buying houses, buying cars - running around and following the established role model, without a thought for a deeper meaning, just as trying to get drunk and loitering around in derelict houses and on the streets. It's about running away and clouding your mind.
The middle class youngsters ignore in their planning, that their kids are going to have to fight even harder for getting jobs as there is limitation in this, so it is also done in a manner of feeding your ego, numbing your mind to prevent to understand something.
Whereas the kids which grow up in poverty rather get their kids unvoluntarily and suddenly start to get those dreams of a idyllic world that isn't reachable for them. If they do not turn out in the end to abandon them, to show them the true face of what their existence already is: Superfluous.
First love, first drink, maybe even first time getting physical. And lots of friends.
What has modern society to offer to its youngsters?
Living in sterile, mold-contamined, pimped up flats, celebrating their weekends in used up buildings whose purpose they know at the highest from when they were kids, offered consumer goods which they can never pay, jobs that don't exist and promises that never come into effect. On top, bags of clothes manifactured in the third world which they can cut and rearrange to show how run-down they are, and ugly hair-cuts which make them appear like they have some sort of problems.
Education somewhat is an alien concept, both in the way of knowledge about the world and emotional development.
They get handed a lot of toys and tools to get paid the time their parents haven't spend with them, but can't make up for the deep nothing they perceive.
Sold out worlds, they long for destruction, for the destination that remains for when there's no task for you or your body is plagued by diseases. Diseases the parents thought about in their selfishness "they will be able to get along with that". And they keep wondering why these kids in their selfishness for exstasy beget another aimless generation of kids accidently...
On the other hand, education in the form of learning in excess for those who can pay for it. Planning of futures until the age of 40, orchestrated and without a doubt that anything can come in between this. No guess of what poverty means, what deprivations means, not even that it exists at all or what life-threatening circumstances could be. A bubble which nothing goes wrong within.
In the end, the planning also reveals its shallowness: Getting education, getting jobs, founding families, reproduce, buying houses, buying cars - running around and following the established role model, without a thought for a deeper meaning, just as trying to get drunk and loitering around in derelict houses and on the streets. It's about running away and clouding your mind.
The middle class youngsters ignore in their planning, that their kids are going to have to fight even harder for getting jobs as there is limitation in this, so it is also done in a manner of feeding your ego, numbing your mind to prevent to understand something.
Whereas the kids which grow up in poverty rather get their kids unvoluntarily and suddenly start to get those dreams of a idyllic world that isn't reachable for them. If they do not turn out in the end to abandon them, to show them the true face of what their existence already is: Superfluous.
The school thing
Date: 21 July 2016 07:22 pm (UTC)Well, the local bourgeoisie sends its kids to the school with the highest graduation achievable because they want to keep a certain status in society. Also, often enough, to find somebody who takes over their business once they grow old.
They do this - I don't know, if you can say "less caring about whether their child is able to make that" or "just to make sure their kid receives the best possibilities in life", which a graduation defintely is which enables you to study at university.
Maybe you know it somewhere from practice, people which only have a secondary school leaving certificate themselves sending their kids to the same school with the same educational qualification because they think "this has been enough for me to get along in life, so it will be enough for you too". Even though the kid could do better than this. Or it would be better for it to start there because who knows what happens? Maybe he even makes it to graduation and more doors stand open to it in life.
On another hand, and this is something I can understand, if you try for Abitur, financial costs that come with that are sure higher than only 10-classes-school. That's because of school trips that take longer than a day. A trip to Weimar, London or whatever - people which are not that rich need to save for this. Actually, otherwise it maybe would be their own family vacation.
You need to know if you want to put yourself in such situations or not. If you got 2 kids that try for that graduation, you gonna experience that twice.
Maybe a lot of people also fear this strongly and that for they don't let their kids go to school where they try for Abitur.
10-classes-school - if the kid even makes it to the 10th, these days they got that school form pretty much worked down by putting it together with those from the 9-classes-school; often enough you only have one class in the 10th school year - only sees you until you turn 16 or 17 (if you make it without ever needing to repeat a year). With under 18, it's a lot more harder with travelling abroad as you legally cannot fully make all decisions by yourself. So - none of that taking place.
On another hand I also must say: Education is a matter of the federal states. Each one can design it that way that it wants. You have like 16 (little or more ) different school education systems.
In some federal states it may be more possible because more poor people generally live there, in others it may be even more like "only snobs and rich kids have Abitur graduation".
This also surely comes into play.