Education: Students

Students!
How many times have you crammed the night of an exam
Filling your mind with dates, formulas, and quotes just to never use them again?
How many grades have you recieved that you were never asked about during an interview?
How many times have you remembered an answer too late after you'd turn in your exam?
Does the poor timing of your memory make you more or less qualified for a job?
Well on a application form it would have.
We all have different callings, talents, dreams, and genes.
So why is a classroom of individuals tested by the same means?
It comes to a climax when Jason thinks he's dumb because he can't equate sums, but can fix anything around the house.
Or when Susan can't write well, but can sing every song word for word after hearing it once.
And our schools have the audacity to have a policy on equality. Irony!

Don't let society tell you your worth
For this is the society of pastors that preach charity, but own private jets.
Parent's that want "educated kids" but won't/can't help with their child's homework.
Governments that speak peace, but endorse war, calling for people to pursue higher education and further learning. Yet they raise tuition every single year?

Our professors say our exam grades will be imperative for our success, and we believe them.
We were always taught to listen to our teachers, and yet if we take the teacher out of the equation who are we going to listen to?
One should realize we need to learn to think for ourselves instead of follow when misled.

Tests are tests, and finals are not final.
For they never prepare for life's test of survival.
This rant goes to those kids who feel his or her worth from that D or that A on results day.
The ones who found what they were searching for on google, tweeted to popularity on Twitter, pictured success on Instagram, liked there future on Facebook, my world changers and my dream chasers.
This one's for my generation.

So whether it's 74 or 63, 96 or 88 success is more than an option and these tests do not hold our fate!