How The Talk Of The Election Is Stealing My Education
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How The Talk Of The Election Is Stealing My Education

No I am not politically correct, I just want to learn.

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How The Talk Of The Election Is Stealing My Education
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Every day in class I find myself becoming more and more frustrated. I'm a student who enjoys going to class and learning about the career I one day plan on working in. This semester specifically is one that is important now that almost all of my core classes are taken care of. But, how am I suppose to learn about my major of choice if in every class all we talk about is the presidential election?

Hear me out, I understand that this is a huge election, and for most millennials my age this is the first election we can vote it. However, 45 minutes is a long time to go on about our nation's choice of candidates when class time is only an hour and fifteen minutes.

Yesterday during my advertising class, the majority of the duration of class was spoken about the debate. Why is 45 minutes necessary? I can understand if we took 10 minutes in the beginning of the class to hear some opinions, but after 15 minutes of discussion I was completely checked out and just simply not interested in the discussion anymore.

I started to take notes from the textbook instead, since we have a test coming up. I wasn't disruptive, and continued to teach myself chapter two of the textbook. When my professor noticed me typing, he asked me if I had any thoughts on the election. I simply answered, "no". He asked me again, and I just shook my head.

I don't consider myself "politically correct" as he referred to me as. I have no problem stating my opinion whenever I feel like doing so. I just don't appreciate almost the entire class discussion about an election. The class only meets twice a week, and it's an advertising class. If this was my Business Communications class I can completely understand a class discussion on the topic, as a discussion can help build strong communication skills that millennials already lack due to excess technology devices.

To wrap it up entirely, this class started at the end of August. It's now almost October and we only have about one page of notes that's been recorded. Every class there's some sort of discussion about something that just takes over almost the entire class time.

This isn't happening in just one class either, this is happening in about 3 of them and I'm tired of hearing the same ideas and opinions being repeated over and over again. Yes, this is a huge election. Yes it's Trump against Clinton. Yes, we could potentially have a first woman president. No, I am not losing my education over it all.

There is a time and a place for certain matters to be discussed. If a professor wishes to speak about a topic, set aside time for it. Don't revolve the entire class around the election. Believe it or not, some students are serious when it comes to their education.

Particularly in this election, with the candidates we have running for office, my education is more valuable than it's ever been. I lose brain cells watching the comments BOTH Trump and Hillary, make towards their different views on areas that matter crucially to this country.

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