School Questions

It is a very rational approach to think that fun traditions is a method to appeal to your parrents. Furthermore, it is good to maintain a disciplined approach to studies. However, I think you should try to think of why "fun traditions" could be a good thing. As you say, one of the purposes is to socialize you - and why would that be important to you?There are many ways you can be a social person; the must natural to you would probably be the 'open-minded friendly and intelligent person, whom has a lot of interesting thing to say'. That is okay, you do not need to be the outgoing person, whom seek attention.I'm saying this as if it was a normal part of your education, and I think it should be; social life is very important, too. No matter what kind of future you end up with the skills to socialize with other is as, or even more important in a lot of cases, is more important than your academic knowledge and skills. When I'm saying this, it is because I assume and believe it is very important to be happy, or at least feel accomplished in life, and I hardly think a person can do that alone with schools, studies, academic results.In Denmark pupils and students are mostly taught with Appreciative pedagogy, I think it is called in English, approach. Dialogue and apprciations of your own experience as valuable are some of the key thoughts behind the term "Appreciative pedagogy". Since you seem to be a smart person you might try to read about this stuff. I have not read about PEA, but since they think of fun traditions as important, it might indicate that they take an Appreciative pedagogy approach. The most "extreme" proponents of AP would probably call general school system in England "indoctrinating". Just to give you a idea of what is it What have all of these thing to do with anything? Well, social life is an important factor in life according to AP.One of my point is you should try to be open-minded towards their "fun tradition" despite you might not find it meaningful to your life.I'm ramblin like a crazy here I guess and everything might not be too clear, but I hope it generates some thoughts useful to you, whether you agree with my ideas or not Good luck