One of the things that gets on my nerves the most about Univesp is their insistence on pushing the agenda that everyone should learn to program. It feels so insidious to me.
Why not teach logic, or, alternatively, why not push for stronger mathematical education, instead of going straight into adding another meaningless time-waster to young people's curriculum?
I am a firm believer that Brazilian public education beyond elementary school is of little use to anyone but the most academically invested of students. Instead of learning actually useful things, or
catering to each student's individual strengths, we're left with a hodgepodge of disciplines and with classes that have no consistency in quality. Teachers reiterate how students must be able to study by themselves, but
they never teach us how to.
School can be summed up as nothing more than empty promises and exhortations on things you need to learn "for the real world" but that they will never in a million years teach you. You're expected to
be invested in things whose relevancy to your life is never actually demonstrated. Dumbfoundedly annoying for an educational system that worships the ground Paulo Freire steps on to not adapt what they teach to a student's life circumstances.
They go on and on about being safe and inclusive, but what do they want to include students into? There is no community in most schools beyond the cliques you're either a part of or are bullied by. Staff will just as readily
hound you for perceived transgressions upon the shared living as they will sanctimoniously admonish you for not speaking up when harassed by other students.
I wonder if, had I gotten admitted into computer science or a real computer engineering degree, whatever college I'd be enrolled in right now would be less stupid.