Torturing Classroom Management for Students

This article tells about a student of the high school in Yogyakarta. He feels that the education system in Indonesia is not more than a prison for students. Because students must take some lessons that are less in need, but that system is difficult to change, because it has been running long enough. He is not trying to imitate the foreign schools, but he thinks that we need to try first. As what has been done in his school today; which have accelerated classes; at the second grade of SMA (Senior High School). This is just an experiment, but keeps applying.
Nowadays, his school is trying to deliver the lesson material using a computer, even though the school facilities is not adequate, but there is a teacher who wanted to apply this new system in his school. Even though once opposed by many teachers and even the headmaster, but it did not discourage his intention, and it's going pretty smoothly. The student support conveying lesson material by using Power Point and it is quite pleasant and quite clear. Some time ago our school was visited by several school headmasters in Yogyakarta to see the system of using a computer in classroom activity.
Actually the writer does not want to blame anyone, but it makes him and another students feel tired and bored. Many students skip school because of boredom; every day the same contents and activities. Nowadays many students do not respect to their teacher at all, and I think this is the fault of a chaotic system.
Critical Reflection
In particular places, there are still many schools which keep Teacher-center as a method of teaching-learning process. I strongly agree with the writer’s opinion who state that school (teacher-center learning) seem like a prison. Most of students will fell bored during the lesson, all they hope are the lesson will over soon. Most of students will feel cheerful when it is holiday or the lesson finish earlier. It occurs because nothing interesting from the lesson to the students. The teacher only gives the lesson and the students accept by listening; Students more like vessels that will be poured water (knowledge) by the teacher. Sometime this boredom condition will make some students hate the teacher and won’t respect the teacher at all.
I think the best solution of this case is making attractive classroom; like what has been done by the writer’s teacher (delivering the lesson by using computer). Sometime that kind of bright idea will get some barriers from surrounding, because of conventional thought (in remote area especially). Teenagers will be attracted with something new and unusual. As a teacher we must be clever to make use that condition. Teacher must stimulate the students by conveying materials begin with what they like and improve to the more specific ones.
Beside the teacher factors, we still have another barrier in creating an attractive classroom activity. Because of expense limit that we have, as we know that the government does not give enough expense in supporting education. On the other hand, we have to be aware that we live in developing country and keep finding another less expense solution with remarkable result.

Taken from Critical Pedagogy and Literacy Project