Jane

Jane is 13 and is considered 'smart'.

She has good grades and she studies her butt off every night and every day for one A+. Her report cards are mostly A+s, but sometimes there are a few Bs and A-s. Everyone thinks she is the best. She has Bs in Orchestra and Art, but otherwise they’re mostly As.

Ever since 7th grade, she hasn’t had time to do things she used to do at 6th grade. She doesn’t talk on the phone with her friend living in another state anymore, she doesn’t talk to her relatives anymore. There aren’t simply any time for any of that.

She heard that in high school however things get worse. She needs all A+s to get into this very special club where the school prepares her for Ivy Leagues, and she knows that expectations are too high for her to give up and becomes an average student now. After all, she has an image to maintain and she knows that well.

Do people just studied their whole life and then for the rest work and boom, it’s over?

Jane doesn’t see hope in the future- she doesn’t see how it will turn out. She can’t imagine herself standing at a high-school classroom. As time went by she questioned everything.

Jane wants to disappear. She doesn’t want to suicide or take up that unnecessary process- she wants to just disappear and go back to the days when she simply didn’t exist. She wants every cell in her body to simply vanish from the planet.

Or maybe she’s delusional and is doing things all the hard way. Anyhow, she shouldn’t be wasting time thinking- she should be catching up in math.

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Jane is a 13 year old student in South Korea. In South Korea, 1 out of 10 people die- and they are high school students. Deaths from cancer and heart disease come after death of suicide.

Is this really how education supposed to work?

How is education- if brought upon such harsh terms- "enjoyable"?

How are we to enjoy our young, student days when this is our young student days?

Or maybe Jane complains to much.

Submitted October 12, 2024 at 04:29AM by JumpyBus1551 https://ift.tt/BSOxwKh