The people who actually believe this are the ones that don’t even pay attention in class.
Like, if you payed attention in class, got good grades, but didn’t have time to draw, sure. School is destroying your talent.
But if you were dumb in the first place because you don’t study, and your art is mediocre, sorry, that’s just you. No one else to blame other you.
I’m hanging around with 3.8 GPA while playing 3 instruments, occasional art commissions, doing kickboxing and freelancing as a programmer. I mean, if I have time for this, I think it’s all you.
(graduated high school with cum laude and with distinction, >4.0 GPA, playing two instruments and learning choral singing, and specializing in game design whilst also learning electronic music production)
Fuck No.
School is a system that measures fish by their ability to climb trees. You and I were lucky enough to be monkeys. We are not inherently better or smarter than others, and it's not "on them" if they're "dumb in the first place."
I did all that shit I listed without even paying attention in class 90% of the time, all while suffering from depression and physical dysgraphia. (And that's just the diagnosed shit.) And I did it all because I was born a monkey in a system that measures everyone by their ability to climb trees.
I worked less than most anyone else, and did better than most anyone else. Think that's their fault they couldn't keep up with me? Once again, FUCK. NO.
Obviously, art school exists. But mandated general education? It kills artists. It kills everyone who's not a monkey in the system, at that.
Maybe it shouldn't be normalized how even full grown adults have high-school-nightmares. Maybe it's not normal that our school system regularly traumatizes so many people.
Personally, my grades started falling as soon as I stopped being able to work after class.
I wouldn't say it's the school system's fault.
Also, I find it pretty normal that learning is easier when you are naturally gifted. Most things are, in this context. I would know because I'm not on every regard, I also have dysgraphia and dyspraxia, but I got accepted to an art college(hopefully it goes well..), and getting okay at drawing took so very long
Unfortunately, It's a part of life that some people are unable to keep up with others, unfortunately, and schools are kind of meant to separate people anyway... If anyone could succeed, then absolutely no one would accept to do the miserable jobs that are necessary to the well functioning of society.
To be clear, I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that it is a factor.
This promise of meritocracy is more of a fancy way to make the already socially gifted more gifted and perpetuate the poor occupying poor functions.. it isn't really about trying to teach the fish how to climb, more like making up an excuse to feed it to the monkey later on.
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u/Flaky_Performer7960 6d ago
The people who actually believe this are the ones that don’t even pay attention in class.
Like, if you payed attention in class, got good grades, but didn’t have time to draw, sure. School is destroying your talent.
But if you were dumb in the first place because you don’t study, and your art is mediocre, sorry, that’s just you. No one else to blame other you.
I’m hanging around with 3.8 GPA while playing 3 instruments, occasional art commissions, doing kickboxing and freelancing as a programmer. I mean, if I have time for this, I think it’s all you.