Screaming Jelly Babies

Well I’m back from school! Surprisingly, it wasn’t that bad. Geography was alright. We had to have a class geography and general knowledge quiz. It was funny, although one question was ‘What is Andy Murray’s last name?’ (That was a group made up of dumb, idiotic boys by the way). Drama was boring though – I spent an hour hanging up costumes, carrying boxes on my head, cleaning, suffocating under tonnes of material and all sorts. Art was okay; we had to create an A3 size picture of a pattern from our chosen culture. Then German (Nicht so gut) was a film lesson! We watched Ice Age 3 and gorged on sweets. But during lunch, I had to go to a ‘learning leaders’ meeting. Being a learning leader means creating lessons for our class and little primary school children. Yaaaaaaay. Not! But Chemistry was THE best lesson – we did experiments. First we put methane gas into washing up liquid and then set fire to it. There was a massive burst of fire and we could even hold it in our hand. Then we did a screaming jelly baby, where we heated a boiling tube up with some kinda white powder, then set fire to a jelly baby in it. There was like a shot of purple fire and it makes a really high pitched noise. However, school on a whole is a bore. Our teachers are horrible, and the kids scream and throw all kids of stuff around the room. Don't get me wrong, I want to get an education and blah blah blah, but I can't be bothered when we have students there less inelegant that chimps (I do not kid, one boy did not know what disturbed meant). So what are your thoughts on school? Is it a great gift for children or a waste of time and money? Feel free to comment ;)