Students have been oppressed by the school curriculum for too long.

I am apart of a small group of students in Western Australia who have had enough of this pointless curriculum.

As Albert Einstein once said, "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination." We believe that school should be a place to learn life skills, get educated on what you will need to have your dream career and get prepared for the real world, not a place to have meaningless facts drilled into your head. Us as students are being expected to be reaching unreachable goals. If you judge a fish by its ability to clime a tree, it will think it's stupid for the rest of its life

There are many other sources found on the Internet that are promoting the same point. One video on the Internet outlines how the curriculum hasn't changed since the time where children were destined to work in factories, without education for other jobs that would be coming in the future. This shows that our current curriculum isn't designed to cope with what we require from our schools, and shows that it is due for a big update, while there is another video showing that what we are currently learning isn't helping us in the real world. It outlines that there are many things he hasn't learned, while showing the pointless things he learnt instead. I recommend you watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xe6nLVXEC0

Let's talk about the teachers, they have the most important job in the world. Teachers should be payed just as much as doctors. One saves lives... and the other makes lives. Teachers are often blamed for problems with the schooling system, they are not the problem. Teachers aren't the problem, it's the people pulling the strings that are making the problems. In no way am I saying the government are the problem, it's the system they employ that is flawed. 

If you ask any scientist they will tell you that no two brains are the same, but we are teaching them the same thing. Students are competing to get an 'A' a letter that determines your values and have you ever heard of grade A meat? We are being put in straight lines, nice and neat, if we would like to speak raise your hand... sounds like a factory, right? I'm not saying that we are being trained to work in factories, but we are being trained to work in factories. 

What would happen if a doctor prescribed all of his patients the same medicine? well a lot of people would die. So why are we prescribing all of our students the same education? Every student has different needs, different gifts and different dreams, but we are teaching the same thing.

Please help us in our journey to make schools a better place. A change in Australia's curriculum can inspire other nations to do the same thing and make the world a better place.  

Sincerely, Dylan

Credits

Writer - Dylan, Caleb, Logan

Editors - Dylan, Caleb, Logan, Ashlyn

Special thanks to...

- All the teachers supporting us.

- The people who helped with writing, you know who you are

- And all the people backing this petition