High School

In Ancient History we got our first Homework but it was quite interesting as we had to use 5 Sources to understand the murder of Claudius and must explain why if/if not Agrippina killed him for each source.

This is easily beats Modern History where last year (Modern History is mandatory in years 9-10) I was bored out of my mind :P. All we learned about was Australias involvement in the Vietnam war and the Australias White Australia Policy. It all just felt uninteresting and nit finding anything really new.
 
Astroboy2215
Well, a crisis may have just been averted, three kids from my school were caught stealing guns. No word on what they were planning to do with them. What scares me the most is that I have multiple classes with one of them.

http://www.wmur.com/news/teen-accused-of-stealing-7-guns-from-conway-home/30982590
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In my Senior year of high school, a kid I personally knew was arrested for making a hit list. He didn't have a gun on him when he was busted, but he had his list already made.
 
We had to do scheduling stuff for next year this morning, and we had to wait 30 mins for the Votech buses to show up again after doing elementary school runs. During that 30 mins, a group of people starting throwing ice balls at one another, then switched to throwing said ice balls at classroom windows. During that time, someone almost got hit by a car. The next part though is... well, I'll just let you guys decide on a proper word for it.

Two kids are in a heap of trouble. Once again on the Votech bus. One kid was snorting Adderall and another was just sitting there, minding his own business. The one who was doing the snorting is the same one who has been caught with vapor pens numerous times before. The other was just sitting in another seat, but never reported anything to the bus driver. The latter gets a 10 day, out of school suspension, and the former gets a much more severe punishment. However, both get to stand before a magistrate for what happened. If the vapor pen kid wasn't on his last legs already, he sure as hell is now.

School has been getting absolutely unbearable for me lately. And I probably didn't need to say that.





prisonermonkeys
What the hell was in that muffin? Nitroglycerin?
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Heh, you tell me. :boggled:

That was pretty much my first thought too. Well, I have had a few school muffins over the one and a half years worth of time I've been a high school student, and while they are rather crumbly, they're usually nothing compared to the infamous muffin from the other day.
 
Johnny1996
That was pretty much my first thought too. Well, I have had a few school muffins over the one and a half years worth of time I've been a high school student, and while they are rather crumbly, they're usually nothing compared to the infamous muffin from the other day.
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What is this muffin incident?
 
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Johnny1996
It was only a muffin, but it caused so much attention.

On the Votech bus today, someone smashed a muffin that was still in its bag between their hands. Not only did it loudly pop the bag, it also sent muffin crumbs literally everywhere. Crumbs went as far as three rows of seats toward the front of the bus, including in my hair. The bus driver was a little scared, and yelled at the people responsible. Then as she turned her focus back on the road ahead, someone threw another muffin right out the window and into traffic. The bus driver then got super pissed and yelled like crazy. Those who were responsible for throwing the muffin out the window couldn't understand why the driver was so mad. An actual quote from one of them:
I don't see why [she's] so mad. The muffin is biodegradable, and we're feeding the birds.
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They all seemed to miss the fact that anything that gets tossed out the window is on the bus driver. For example, if someone throws trash out the window and a police officer sees it, everything from that point on is entirely the bus drivers responsibility. And its quite obvious that such a thing isn't what a bus driver wants to have to put up with.

Anyway, somehow no one got reported to any high school officials, at least not yet.
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So for my English class we have to present an Oral Presentation on the books we've covered last semester. Topic can be on anything, and can't last more than 15 minutes. My English teacher decided that pulling names out of a bag is the most effective way to get everyone done and today I got chosen to go up. And it was terrible. I actually passed the limit and was asked to sit down. I was a bit embarrassed after that. Completely lost track of time in spite of hours of prep beforehand. And the bad thing is that this Oral is worth quite a bit. I guess I enjoyed doing my topic so much that I droned on for too long.
Well, at least the only thing I'll be doing in English for two straight cycles is listen to people talk. Not that anyone in my class actually absorbs the information.
 
Whenever there is a Speech or Oral Presentation my way of surviving is to go first. One time, I was last and got more shaken up as everyone went on as most were so much better than mine. I couldn't even speak. So if I go first, I don't have to be ashamed of my work if it sucked compared to others.
 
RESHIRAM5
Whenever there is a Speech or Oral Presentation my way of surviving is to go first. One time, I was last and got more shaken up as everyone went on as most were so much better than mine. I couldn't even speak. So if I go first, I don't have to be ashamed of my work if it sucked compared to others.
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Yeah I share that mentality. But I sat back to see how other people did it because the Orals are so flexible I want to get an idea of how other people have done it. After that I knew my game plan. In spite of me running over the time limit, I actually feel a bit more confident in presentations too.
 
My first day back was a little boring, but what do you expect on a Friday? Things are looking for more promising for me however, because our class has good teachers.
 
Technicolors
So for my English class we have to present an Oral Presentation on the books we've covered last semester. Topic can be on anything, and can't last more than 15 minutes. My English teacher decided that pulling names out of a bag is the most effective way to get everyone done and today I got chosen to go up. And it was terrible. I actually passed the limit and was asked to sit down. I was a bit embarrassed after that. Completely lost track of time in spite of hours of prep beforehand. And the bad thing is that this Oral is worth quite a bit. I guess I enjoyed doing my topic so much that I droned on for too long.
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That sucks being capped to 15 minutes on something you wanted to talk about. I thought teachers would want the students to be able to discuss a topic they find interesting without a worry for limits. My teacher gave us a minimum time limit, not a maximum time limit.
 
Aki Ishikawa
That sucks being capped to 15 minutes on something you wanted to talk about. I thought teachers would want the students to be able to discuss a topic they find interesting without a worry for limits. My teacher gave us a minimum time limit, not a maximum time limit.
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That'll actually be a problem because it'll take forever to finish. We have a lot of stuff to cover this semester. Plus the scores are sent to examiners and my teacher can't change that.
 
I think I may have killed me left arm in my fitness for life class on Thursday (Friday was a teachers workshop). If I bend it anyway it just hurts real bad. Haven't hurt myself like this since I was a freshmen. My girlfriend needed some inspiration for her art 2 project, I guess she used me lol. She puts my drawings to shame
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Well, my friends have been giving me candy today. I think they have been trying to get me into a sugar rush, which they have successfully done. Have had only one real class today, the rest of my day has been eating candy and playing on my laptop.

Work out Wednesday is tomorrow....not looking forward to that :yuck:
 
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I was pretty depressed all day today, so this story helped me get in a better mood, but it didn't last long. Anyway, I thought it was funny, so I'm sharing it here.

In science class, two good friends were messing around with a minute or so left. One grabbed the others back pocket and ripped it, which exposed some underwear. The class burst out laughing as a result, as you'd expect from a bunch of high schoolers. Then the other friend did the same thing in retaliation, but this time it exposed a lot more underwear. Cue even more laughing, and even someone slamming their head down on their desk from laughing so hard. Probably the only thing that would've made it funnier would've it not being the last class of the day.
 
My face is gonna be put on the school this year. My afterschool art program chose me to be the face for a new mural we're creating.
 
Soooo, back to school for me today. First year as a senior, year 11 (11th grade for you yanks I think). Classes are pretty good, got some good friends and some of the girls aren't bad either. ;) Bit of a kick in the guts to have the girl whom I've been getting over for a year in three of my classes, but I'm feeling fine around her now and plus, it may be a good thing if anything.

NCEA is needlessly complicated.
 
Not much at all to mention about today, except for someone getting a face full of snowball at Votech. :lol:

And that apparently the high school has a "suicide watch" list in which the staff pay close attention to how students act, and the staff can observe any student and put any student's name on the list without the student(s) in question knowing, provided that the staff has reason to put a student on the list.
 
Went on a field trip to the state capitol and got to sit through a legislative session. Pretty cool if you ask me.
 
Johnny1996
And that apparently the high school has a "suicide watch" list in which the staff pay close attention to how students act, and the staff can observe any student and put any student's name on the list without the student(s) in question knowing, provided that the staff has reason to put a student on the list.
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Pretty much every school will have something like this. It doesn't matter how big the welfare department is; they can't be everywhere all at once. And sometimes the behaviour of at-risk students can vary depending on the subject area and their relative level of comfort with their teachers. We're required by law to monitor students and report them, even if we don't know the exact details of the situation.

There is a whole lot going on behind the scenes that students don't ever see.
 
prisonermonkeys
Pretty much every school will have something like this. It doesn't matter how big the welfare department is; they can't be everywhere all at once. And sometimes the behaviour of at-risk students can vary depending on the subject area and their relative level of comfort with their teachers. We're required by law to monitor students and report them, even if we don't know the exact details of the situation.

There is a whole lot going on behind the scenes that students don't ever see.
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Yeah, and it isn't surprising one bit. The reason why schools do such a thing, a student will never know unless they become part of the school staff them self later in life, like the one co-principal at my school. He's a graduate of the district and is now a principal there, and he said that he hated the school himself when he was a student, but now he loves it.
 
So today was... unexciting. In English, we continued our look at Paradise Lost, in math we looked at cosine law, we played Jeopardy in chemistry and got to look at our molarity quiz mark, and then I had computer class, and I think we finished up our thing with Game Maker. For the record, I got perfect on the molarity quiz. I think the teacher is pretty liberal with significant figures. Though I try my best. Later, I learned of a way to circumvent the school's website blocking (At least for YouTube) that doesn't use proxies, cause those are all blocked, and if there are any that are unblocked, I don't feel like looking. The method involves Google Translate. Really. Just "translate" some URL from any random language (I know Spanish works for the link I tried) into English, then click on the "translated" URL, and it'll take you there.
 

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