High School

[Aki Ko]

I really do enjoy band and other classes that aren't standardized, but those are few and far between.

I would take art, but the fact that a stick figure is an accomplishment for me should tell you why I wouldn't. I'm just glad that I graduate in a year and won't have to deal with standardization anymore

I like art since I can actually draw. Lucky you, you don't have long to deal with school, but you will have to deal with society... and I wish you luck.

 

[Turbotwin01]

My history teacher taught me how to write a essay better then any english teacher I've ever had. I think that's saying something for the 🤬 teachers here. He put it so basic and simple that I could probably write one twice as fast as before.

Now in english I have to do some stupid film project where my group is 🤬 stoned more then half the time. Not to mention the fact the teacher has handed us a ton of homework (when she said at the start of the semester she never handed out homework)

Oh yeah, and apparently since I missed a day in math I had to do a test in the loudest class ever and got my worst mark in math so far (besides the summative assignment which was "unaceptable" because I tried to not awnser the questions the same way my twin brother did [probably be thought as plagiarism by our very intelligible and perfect school system]) Not to mention the teacher teaches at a mile a minute so you can't understand anything.

So yeah, I guess you can say I like it here. 50% of the teachers suck, they shove homework so far up your 🤬 because they think they're subject is the only important subject, and everyone is either a stoner or gossip bag.

There I think I'm done venting. I'm just glad my march break is here.

 

[Aki Ko]

My history teacher taught me how to write a essay better then any english teacher I've ever had. I think that's saying something for the 🤬 teachers here. He put it so basic and simple that I could probably write one twice as fast as before.

Now in english I have to do some stupid film project where my group is 🤬 stoned more then half the time. Not to mention the fact the teacher has handed us a ton of homework (when she said at the start of the semester she never handed out homework)

Oh yeah, and apparently since I missed a day in math I had to do a test in the loudest class ever and got my worst mark in math so far (besides the summative assignment which was "unaceptable" because I tried to not awnser the questions the same way my twin brother did [probably be thought as plagiarism by our very intelligible and perfect school system]) Not to mention the teacher teaches at a mile a minute so you can't understand anything.

So yeah, I guess you can say I like it here. 50% of the teachers suck, they shove homework so far up your 🤬 because they think they're subject is the only important subject, and everyone is either a stoner or gossip bag.

There I think I'm done venting. I'm just glad my march break is here.

I feel bad for you. My classes aren't nearly as bad as that.

 

[Slash]

in high school I didnt participate in anything, I was so lazy I barely did my homework

That was me

 

[GranTurismo916]

Do any of you guy's schools have observers that evaluate teachers? My county has a strange evaluation of teachers, to the point of becoming irrelevant of displaying true teaching abilities. My history teacher ranted quite seriously about the issues with the system, stating that because observers acknowledge themselves of conducting evaluations on one week but at a random time, teachers can exploit this by doing things otherwise abnormal of their usual teaching methods just to raise their scores (e.g. writing Objectives on the board - it cannot be more trivial than that). These observers don't even account for student attitudes, behaviors, or the atmosphere that exists without a total stranger hopelessly sneaking in the room. Of course their evaluations do include the more objective-based factors like recent test scores. But the more subjective-based factors like student attentiveness is entirely up to the observer and their skill of identifying the littlest educative weakness of the teacher. My English teacher actually released a bit of results to us, and it was pretty shocking how it came out. She also put up a math formula the evaluators actually uses that tried to measure "teacher effectiveness", but only a few of us cracked its variables since the math involved was a bit too complicated to decipher. Plus, there was no given guidelines on using the formula in fears of external exploitation. She, and a number of other teachers, raised a bit opinion on this, but I prefer not to say a lot on that.

Now my high school plans to dedicate their next newspaper headline (yes, we have a newspaper committee) on the entire system, which will be very interesting to read.

Yes, it's really annoying because the teachers act so fake.

 

[Johnny1996]

Terrible past two days, glad their damn over. The lack of intelligence in my biology class is too damn high. Seriously.

Yesterday, some one was wearing the same shirt as me, and called me from across the room to comment on the situation. Then he came over to work with me during next period when I was too peed off to work with anyone. Today, my biology class got told off because of how terrible the tests were from the day before. Only good thing about these two days is that we're closer to the weekend and my A on my Spanish quiz.

 

[MiuraSV777]

I have a question for everyone: is taking a world language required at your school? Mine requires 2 consecutive years of a foreign language, to graduate.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Yup. Second language begins at 7th grade here. We only have Spanish and French here, because our district is poor. im taking French.

 

[Sage Ages]

Yes. No me gustan español.

 

[Bc4]

No me gusta el español.*

 

[Sage Ages]

Exactly.

 

[Bhowe83]

I have a question for everyone: is taking a world language required at your school? Mine requires 2 consecutive years of a foreign language, to graduate.

It's not required for graduation, but all major universities require it. So pretty much yes.

My history teacher taught me how to write a essay better then any english teacher I've ever had. I think that's saying something for the 🤬 teachers here. He put it so basic and simple that I could probably write one twice as fast as before.

Now in english I have to do some stupid film project where my group is 🤬 stoned more then half the time. Not to mention the fact the teacher has handed us a ton of homework (when she said at the start of the semester she never handed out homework)

Oh yeah, and apparently since I missed a day in math I had to do a test in the loudest class ever and got my worst mark in math so far (besides the summative assignment which was "unaceptable" because I tried to not awnser the questions the same way my twin brother did [probably be thought as plagiarism by our very intelligible and perfect school system]) Not to mention the teacher teaches at a mile a minute so you can't understand anything.

So yeah, I guess you can say I like it here. 50% of the teachers suck, they shove homework so far up your 🤬 because they think they're subject is the only important subject, and everyone is either a stoner or gossip bag.

There I think I'm done venting. I'm just glad my march break is here.

Good Ol' Ontario, always stoned off their gourd. I'm from Atlanta and even I know how much pot is smoked in the land of maple leafs.

And your gripes are just part of life bud, you're always going to have to work in non-perfect conditions. You're asking to be spoonfed the perfect environment. Not even when you have your own home will you have that. Homework is a part of life too. You're just going to have to toughen up and learn to deal with problems or you'll never survive in this world.

 

[MiuraSV777]

Ok, just wanted to see if I was the only one or not.

 

[Bhowe83]

Ok, just wanted to see if I was the only one or not.

It actually is very good that your school enforces it considering if you plan on going to any college in the US you have to have those 2 credits

 

[Aki Ko]

I have a question for everyone: is taking a world language required at your school? Mine requires 2 consecutive years of a foreign language, to graduate.

At my school, foreign language isn't necessary to graduate. It's only necessary if you want to go to college/university for 2 or 4 years. Or what @Bhowe83 said.

 

[Johnny1996]

My school starts as early as eighth grade with a foreign language and high school requires four years of the same language to graduate. I'm currently taking Spanish.

 

[Bhowe83]

My school starts as early as eighth grade with a foreign language and high school requires four years of the same language to graduate. I'm currently taking Spanish.

We had spanish offered to us from the beginning of 6th grade. If you took spanish in 7th and 8th (and passed) you'd earn credit for the freshman course in highschool.

So freshman year I came into the 2nd level spanish class full of seniors and juniors, and that was interesting to say the least

 

[iMikeTheKing]

In my school district, Spanish has been offered since 1st grade. I'm currently taking Spanish 3 (I'm a junior) and it was required to take 2 years of foreign language to graduate. They changed that this year so you only need 1 year. Everybody in my class except the new transfer students, has already taken 2 years of foreign language.

Anyway, My busy week is over. Track seasons starts on Monday instead of today. We lost our playoff game by 20+ points to a really good team, and the HSPA test was easy.

 

[Johnny1996]

@Bhowe83: There's only two sophomores in my Spanish class. Luckily the only higher grade students in the class.

@iMikeTheKing: Good luck with track! 👍

 

[iMikeTheKing]

@Bhowe83: There's only two sophomores in my Spanish class. Luckily the only higher grade students in the class.

@iMikeTheKing: Good luck with track! 👍

Thank You

 

[Johnny1996]

Thank You

Sure thing.

EDIT: Since you're required to post a picture in the DYSAGT threads, I'm saying this here: on the way home, I saw a really well-maintained Civic EF today. Not only is it an EF, but it was all stock. Normally any kind of Civic would be in crap condition or customized to the level of the Questionable Modifications thread. All this EF needed was a wash. Other than that, well-maintained.

 

[Bhowe83]

@Bhowe83: There's only two sophomores in my Spanish class. Luckily the only higher grade students in the class.

It wasn't a bad thing. I wasn't treated like fresh-meat, but I did start acting like an ass like most the upperclassmen who couldn't give a 🤬 about that class

 

[GT5Power]

We're getting our report cards this Monday. Gunning for the honor roll.

 

[Eks]

Now in english I have to do some stupid film project where my group is 🤬 stoned more then half the time. Not to mention the fact the teacher has handed us a ton of homework (when she said at the start of the semester she never handed out homework)

My history teacher is the same way.

February: "Oh don't worry, you almost never have homework."
March: Homework every night.

 

[Stephan]

I'm a 3rd year(we're following Basic Education but by 2016, we're following K+12 by '16.) and there are two concerns; gays and ridiculously boastful top ten students.
In terms of gays, they're boastful in terms of popularity and my batchmate Ian, he/she breaks the rules of our school but he/she was able to pass. But how was he able to pass?
The top ten of my batch are considered boast students plus they're not friendly, when I tried to talk to the top one, she avoids me for no reason. Is that top ten material?
FYI, Im a former honor student but due to the POS, I was disqualified.

 

[Aki Ko]

I don't know, but gays seem to have it harder in US schools than the Philippines.

 

[Stephan]

I don't know, but gays seem to have it harder in US schools than the Philippines.

I wonder why US has low no. Of gay students

 

[Aki Ko]

There are a low number of gays who IDENTIFY as gay. Some can lie and some still are unidentified. But, being known as gay can increase the chance of being bullied or attacked or even thrown out your own house. I'm lucky that where I'm at (South Carolina where it isn't known to be gay friendly) my school isn't hung over it.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I'm going to get my course selection for high school soon.

 

[Johnny1996]

Today was terrible. Rather than fill this reply box with a long, forgetful post, I'm just going to say that it was terrible.