Sims 3 logic vs real life

"igazor;c-16300112" wrote:

"Anthonydyer;c-16299854" wrote:
When you're in between classes at college and people walk by in the hall and you think it would be cool if people had those name labels that you get when you roll your mouse over a sim. The Sims is on to something! ;)

As a weak way to protest against forced senseless conformity, a bunch of us in high school used to get annoyed with the student number bar code stickers we were issued to identify ourselves on computer graded mandatory standardized tests (and with the tests themselves). So during testing week, we all went around wearing the bar code stickers on our foreheads.

To be fair, I don't think any of us really amounted to very much after that... :p

@igazor I wish we'd had the guts to try some form of protest (however meek) against standardized testing. In high school, we were all so terrified of tanking an SAT or AP test and therefore not getting into (insert college here) that I doubt it ever occured to anyone to rebel. That little booklet of bar codes we'd each receive at the beginning of AP season had way too much influence over our lives.

Of course, with typical school tests, our teachers weren't even allowed to use scantrons. I think someone had this idea that we were all such special snowflakes that even implying that our learning experiences could be summarized in standardized test format would crush our fragile sense of our own uniqueness. Not to mention stifling our budding creativity. I actually remember some of the older teachers saying something to the effect of, I personally don't think any of you are worth the extra time it takes me to individually grade your tests, but your parents have convinced the administrators differently, so here we are. But don't imagine for even a minute that this means I actually agree with them.

On the other hand, AP tests meant I got out of taking not one but two separate English classes in college, so for me at least they ended up being well worth the consternation and resentment.

That's one thing I wish at least a few of the teenage sims had—an overwhelming desire to avoid as much pointless busywork as possible. No matter which traits I give the kids, they always seem to want to do their homework as soon as they get home. And while they can "slack off" in school, there's no option to "get into a twenty-minute argument with the Simlish teacher about whether writing a series of essays on Shakespeare is actually helping anyone learn or is in reality only supporting the forces of mandatory assimilation that stifle any expression of dissenting opinions just when students are finally beginning to develop the intellectual tools to form their own opinions." I mean, even Sims occasionally need defense lawyers, and they have to start honing their skills at some point.