Why my school should be burnt to the ground. (380 hits)
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Submitted by BeaverDamn (View user info) at 2007-04-12 22:21:18 EDT
The American public education is a complete and utter failure. You hear this all the time from grandstanding politicians and rabid talk show hosts, but how often do you hear it from the student? I'm a sophomore in high school, and save a few classes, my day is a fucking joke.
I'll describe a typical English class for you:
Teacher sits at her desk doing fuck knows what on her computer for literally 15 minutes everyday. She then proceeds to keep sitting and asks us all from her desk if we did our homework. Of course, everyone has it "done", and she finally gets her ass up to lead a "discussion", in which she tells us all the answers for the following quiz. We take a sloppily designed quiz in which there is every opportunity for cheating. Bell rings. This is an honors class.
Though each class is different in how it is waste of time, most of them thoroughly bore me and leave me stupider in some way than when I entered.
I'm supposed to be preparing to become an "adult", to leave for college with a wide variety of knowledge. Instead, I spend my days in a stupor, half-assing nearly every assignment and still easily acing the class.
I'm not in an inner city school either, this is a small school I'm attending. Everyone knows everyone, and no real problems with fights, drugs, or anything.
I'm thinking of writing my congressman, maybe he'll get something accomplished for me! Wait, fuck, I was living in bizarro world.
We received a homework assignment in Algebra II in which we drew a circle and marked where 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees are. That was our homework. I'm going to shoot myself.
I'm thinking of standing up in Algebra II tomorrow and shouting, "When do we start learning?"
Sort of off topic, but is it necessary to have a fire drill twice a month? I think by the third time, we've all figured out how to walk out of a fucking door.
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Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-04-14 01:41:41 EDT (#)
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Things are like that for a reason. You obviously go to a special school.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-04-14 01:28:51 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-13 17:15:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-04-13 15:38:35 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-12 19:47:50 PDT (#)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:42:38 EDT (#)
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Just ask to take a few college credit classes through your local college instead of regular classes. Ask your guidance councellor, assuming the councellor isn't useless to you. Same shit, but this actually has a payoff.
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Planning on it soon, but I have to get in my required classes first.
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In addition, you should speak to the principal as well. There may be other things at play you don't know about...for example, is your school a Title I school? Has your school been marked as 'non-performing' under No Child Left Behind?
These things can drastically affect curriculum, forcing the schools to put their best teachers and spend the most money on the kids who don't score well on the tests.
It sounds to me like you're a white kid who does well on the tests - I'm sorry to tell you, but the illegal aliens who don't speak english will be getting the lion's share of funding, time, and attention.
Welcome to 21st Century America.
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Our school is about average. We take a graduation test best suited to 6th graders, so it looks better than it probably is. Problem is, our school is a little too small to have any real AP or Honors classes, so anyone with intelligence is fucked.
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I'd ask your guidance councellor about challanging your current course, which is the option to take a massive test over a period of time that gives you full credit for the class.
Not a lot of schools do this, but I'm sure if you or a parent keeps hammering at them, they'll allow you to.
Just keep telling them that your classes are creating an incondusive learning environment, and the material is sub-par to even the most basic standards of where you should be in your classes by now. Your right to an education is being hampered by the system, pandering to those unable to perform to a reasonable standards set forth. Not all the material is being covered to the fullest extent, and you do not wish to develop any form of psychological damage which is proven to occur in people who are forced to do work far below their capabilities, and causes such a determinal effect that the memory, mental growth, and personality are severely warped to a point of regression which causes lifetime damage to you physichally and emotionally.
It's bullshit like that which I used it to the fullest advantage at every opporotunity possible. Call a lawyer if you have to. If you do it right, you'll get your way every time.
Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-13 17:15:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-04-13 15:38:35 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-12 19:47:50 PDT (#)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:42:38 EDT (#)
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Just ask to take a few college credit classes through your local college instead of regular classes. Ask your guidance councellor, assuming the councellor isn't useless to you. Same shit, but this actually has a payoff.
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Planning on it soon, but I have to get in my required classes first.
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In addition, you should speak to the principal as well. There may be other things at play you don't know about...for example, is your school a Title I school? Has your school been marked as 'non-performing' under No Child Left Behind?
These things can drastically affect curriculum, forcing the schools to put their best teachers and spend the most money on the kids who don't score well on the tests.
It sounds to me like you're a white kid who does well on the tests - I'm sorry to tell you, but the illegal aliens who don't speak english will be getting the lion's share of funding, time, and attention.
Welcome to 21st Century America.
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Our school is about average. We take a graduation test best suited to 6th graders, so it looks better than it probably is. Problem is, our school is a little too small to have any real AP or Honors classes, so anyone with intelligence is fucked.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-04-13 15:38:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-12 19:47:50 PDT (#)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:42:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Just ask to take a few college credit classes through your local college instead of regular classes. Ask your guidance councellor, assuming the councellor isn't useless to you. Same shit, but this actually has a payoff.
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Planning on it soon, but I have to get in my required classes first.
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In addition, you should speak to the principal as well. There may be other things at play you don't know about...for example, is your school a Title I school? Has your school been marked as 'non-performing' under No Child Left Behind?
These things can drastically affect curriculum, forcing the schools to put their best teachers and spend the most money on the kids who don't score well on the tests.
It sounds to me like you're a white kid who does well on the tests - I'm sorry to tell you, but the illegal aliens who don't speak english will be getting the lion's share of funding, time, and attention.
Welcome to 21st Century America.
Submitted by MEGACITO (user info) at 2007-04-13 09:36:56 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-04-13 07:31:19 EDT (#)
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I hope your face gets cryogenically frozen to dick and you have to walk around like that for the rest of your life, faggot face.
Submitted by ChaosJester (user info) at 2007-04-13 04:07:10 EDT (#)
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Today's public education system is little more than an over-regulated day-care for adolescents. It is possible to recieve a half-way challenging academic education in such a system, but you really have to work at it. As was mentioned below, seeking out college-level courses is one way. Also, I found that if you simply ask most of these teachers, they are more than happy to guide you to other, more challenging subjects. Usually, your teachers are otherwise well-meaning jokers who have been ground to dust by a mindless bureaucracy. My old teachers always seemed overjoyed to have a student who actually wanted to learn something.
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2007-04-13 03:55:17 EDT (#)
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My hair is burned.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2007-04-13 01:03:56 EDT (#)
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When the first words of this post after the title weren't some variation of "Because I'm a whiny little fag and 3rd degree burns would do me good" I stopped reading
Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:47:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:42:38 EDT (#)
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Just ask to take a few college credit classes through your local college instead of regular classes. Ask your guidance councellor, assuming the councellor isn't useless to you. Same shit, but this actually has a payoff.
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Planning on it soon, but I have to get in my required classes first.
Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:46:36 EDT (#)
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Thank God it stops here all public education has taught me of any use is the ability to zone out completely.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:42:38 EDT (#)
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Just ask to take a few college credit classes through your local college instead of regular classes. Ask your guidance councellor, assuming the councellor isn't useless to you. Same shit, but this actually has a payoff.
Submitted by Draco (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:42:01 EDT (#)
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High school is essentially more of a social maturing buffer before college than it is an academic institution. I learned very little in high school. What I did learn will serve me only as conversation topics for the rest of my life. I can talk your ear off about the causes leading up to World War 2, find the "deeper" meaning of poems and stories, and play you numerous scales on the trumpet.
I'll never use any of that for a job that I'd plan on having for the rest of my life.
High school was boring as hell for me, but it gets better after you get out. And chances are you'll never need to lable the points of a circle again unless its to get you through a basic studies math course in college.
Submitted by BeaverDamn (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:35:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by IntangibleHands (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:29:27 EDT (#)
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I feel so sorry for such a poor boy who will never have the opportunity to have to worry about being shot at after school. You're so deprived.
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Yeah thanks. No shit my school is better than that, I'm just particularly pissed I don't learn anything in 75% of my classes.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:30:20 EDT (#)
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"We received a homework assignment in Algebra II in which we drew a circle and marked where 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees are. That was our homework. I'm going to shoot myself."
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Submitted by IntangibleHands (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:29:27 EDT (#)
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I feel so sorry for such a poor boy who will never have the opportunity to have to worry about being shot at after school. You're so deprived.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-04-12 22:29:11 EDT (#)
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...and somehow, you're not in the honors program.