Are customizable subjects the answer?

"Don't you want something else?

Something new, that what we've got here?

And don't you feel it's all the same?

Some sick game, and it's not insicere."

"Everything's Just Wonderful" - Lily Allen

As a student, it's fair for me to confess I'm really lazy. I take A's and B's in exams easily, but I barely do anything at home. This has been making my capacity of taking good grades less noticable, in the sense that it gets compensated by grade-lowering lacks when it comes to homework in general. For that reason, though I acknowledge school is meant to prepare us for adult life and the hard work it requires, I propose the following system:

Each student can choose, for every subject, if they want a passive subject (exams counting more and reducing homework and its significance) or an active one (more relying in effort and work and less in inherent capacity). Every student must choose a mínimum of x active subjects (being x a variable depending on the total number of subjects in the year/center; the proportion between x and the number of subjects might vary from one center and year to another) in order to pass the year.

That way, students will be able to work in the subjects they like the most or have bigger difficulties with while also being able to discover and learn from other subjects without them taking the attention dedicated to the previous ones.

However, this system would require adaptation to the concrete centers where it would be applied and judgement by teachers, parents, and, mostly, students. That's why I'd really want to hear what other students think about this! So, if you're a student (or a teacher! or a parent!), regardless of your age, country and level, it would be really interesting to have your comment. Maybe another post will be made regarding the statistics taken from this coment section in the future!

Our first task ☺ Commented

"Are you ready for a little chat?

And a song about the Internet?

It's a story ‘bout a social door

You’ve never seen before"

"The Social Network Song" - Valentina Monetta

So, for this new school year, our first English task was sending an e-mail to our teacher as an introduction and, then, uploading it to our blog. I added some commentary/reaction to it as I uploaded it because I actually realise, some time later, that it was not half as formal as it had to be!

So, there it is:

Hi teacher!

My name is [REDACTED]! Well, that's the name I was given by my parents, but everyone who knows me calls me Heather, I just like the name better. I'm also a fanatic Diamond, which doesn't mean that I'm worth millions (or maybe yes, who knows*) but that I'm a Marina And The Diamonds' fan, and an enthusiastic Eurofan (♥Eurovision♥)**. For people who care about these things, I'm also a girl who has had the misfortune of being born in Spain... and male***. I prefer taking that with humour ****.

I hope this year will be really fun ! I think I'm quite good at English (well, that's what I've been told so far!) so I aim to get the Advanced certificate next July... But I still struggle with phrasal verbs and collocations ! Maybe I should go step by step and take the FCE first, but, well, money leaks, you know , so the best thing to do is getting it with the lowest number of exams possible !

Also, as mentioned in class, I created a new blog for BTX (sorry  )*****, so there are the promised URLs:

The 4th ESO blog: http://withouturlbutcool.blogspot.com.es/ Its title is "Littlest Things".

The 1st BTX blog: http://potatoesareradioactive.blogspot.com.es/ Its [provisional!] title is "Super-duper-interesting Title." ******

* Definitely yes, why would I add all of that periphrasis to state the obvious?
** Just one thing about Eurovision: if you don't love it, you've probably never seen it!
*** Okay, saying this by e-mail to a person I know for... a day? is pretty much a reputation suicide. Contrary to what I could have thought, though, this didn't bring any reaction or reference to the response given by our teacher!
**** I realise this could have been not so ridiculous as a class work if there weren't so many emotes, especially from this point on.
***** In case you haven't read anything from Littlest Things, this was because its last post was a definitive goodbye. A comeback would have killed it...
****** This was changed for a good reason...