C.A.L.M

For those of you who have not heard of this class, I’ll briefly overview. 

CALM stands for Career And Life Management and is basically a course on just that. They go over buying cars, apartments and living with room mates as well as sexual education and career choices. 

So basically, the exact same thing as we’ve done all through high school anyway in classes like Health and Phys. Ed. 

This is the first course I’ve genuinely hated. Not because I’m a teenager and I’m angst-y toward school. Quite the opposite, I hate the course because I see so much potential learning being wasted. I spend an hour and a bit sitting in a desk filling out the same work sheets I’ve done since grade seven answering questions that I have known the answer to for years. My future career? I know what I want, why do I have to spend more time “looking it up” (eg, learning other things that are probably more beneficial to said career). I have never, ever in that class thought to myself “That’s something new/interesting that I didn’t know before.” 

It’s an unfortunate class when I see myself learning more outside of it than in it. 

As a secondary, vaguely related topic: kids skipping class. 

It’s kind of funny to me, since I’ve never really wanted out of a classroom. I ask them “Where did you go?” and occasionally they’ll say “Oh, we went to <fastfood restaurant> and got ice cream.” I’ll admit, that sounds good. But, more often than not they’ll say “Oh, we hung out in the cafeteria” which, to me, seems a whole lot boring-er than actually going to a class. And, anyway, they’ll end up having to learn what they missed anyway the next day, except condensed. (Actually, that’s interesting, considering what I’ve said in earlier posts. Perhaps I should skip the entire semester, then show up in the last two weeks and get my condensed schooling like I wanted…)

Either way. 

If Alberta Learning is reading this, I would seriously consider re-writing some of the aspect in the course (It’s not a complete waste of idea. There is potential in theory, just not in execution.) 

If someone who skips regularly is reading this I ask you, why? Whatever is outside of class could not possibly be that interesting or fun. Maybe I’m wrong?