High School
- Thread starter BubbleBelly542
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- On the run
- NaveekDarkroom
"My last name is Sweet."
"You keep saying your last name is sweet, but what is it?"
Who's on first? I imagine such things could happen with my middle name, which is Epic. But whenever I bring up my middle name, I try to avert such confusion.
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- Los Angeles
- racingheartruby
- RubyWooby
Story time!
So I was coming home from school and I take the Metro bus because I live pretty far away and I don't have my driver's license. So I get on the bus, put in the monaayyy and I look left and the bus is filled with little kids. All of the bus was taken, front to back. So I was like "What the hell? Why are there so many kids?" And then a woman pokes me and says that the kids are there because they are going back to school from a trip.
So then I say "Why don't you guys have a school bus?"
She said it was too expensive for her school. I was confused, so I asked her how come, and she said the district (LAUSD) doesn't give the school enough money, so the kids can only have one field trip per year and they can't even get school buses just for the kids, they have to use the public bus.
My school's in the same district, and our classes are overfilled with like 50 kids per classroom and almost always there's 4 seats too little for our whole class. Our books are ripped to shreds and teachers are getting laid off-we already have a shortage of teachers.
You wanna know the best part?
We took a standardized test on a specially programmed iPad on Wednesday, which I heard the district paid over 800 million dollars for it to be a go.
Fantastic.
So I was coming home from school and I take the Metro bus because I live pretty far away and I don't have my driver's license. So I get on the bus, put in the monaayyy and I look left and the bus is filled with little kids. All of the bus was taken, front to back. So I was like "What the hell? Why are there so many kids?" And then a woman pokes me and says that the kids are there because they are going back to school from a trip.
So then I say "Why don't you guys have a school bus?"
She said it was too expensive for her school. I was confused, so I asked her how come, and she said the district (LAUSD) doesn't give the school enough money, so the kids can only have one field trip per year and they can't even get school buses just for the kids, they have to use the public bus.
My school's in the same district, and our classes are overfilled with like 50 kids per classroom and almost always there's 4 seats too little for our whole class. Our books are ripped to shreds and teachers are getting laid off-we already have a shortage of teachers.
You wanna know the best part?
We took a standardized test on a specially programmed iPad on Wednesday, which I heard the district paid over 800 million dollars for it to be a go.
Fantastic.
- 5,649
- North Dakota
- RacingCowboy570
- RacingCowboy570
My last name seriously is "Sweet".
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- On the run
- NaveekDarkroom
I know that. I believe you. I was making a joke.
Sigh. I don't get some people. I think they should be spending some of that 800 million on actually getting school buses and giving students more field trips, and stuff. Taking tests on iPads is cool I guess, but what's wrong with paper? Paper would cost a lot less.
In other news, I've gotten my English Literature mark from 25 up to 50 percent. I'm aiming for a 70. And we started our penultimate unit in Chemistry, which is solution chemistry. The questions may involve multiple solutions, but (probably) have only one solution.
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- Hammerhead Garage
It depends on the way in which devices are integrated into the curriculum - if it's done well, then it can be extremely good value for money. Likewise, excursions aren't a good thing by default; they need to be planned out well in advance and have a clear outcome in mind. Especially when they can be so disruptive.
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- North Dakota
- RacingCowboy570
- RacingCowboy570
My bad
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- NaveekDarkroom
I guess you make a good point.
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- Massachusetts
- EvanJamesLee
- 247
- Massachusetts
- EvanJamesLee
They are thinking about removing the French Language program in our High School due to lack of funds yet there was plenty of cash to pay for a bunch of ipad carts that we almost never use.
I'm not sure of its current situation but when I used to go to the Elementary School, the library was closed since they couldn't pay for a librarian and there were trash barrels in the halls to catch water from the leaky roof. But we had plenty of cash to pay for a rock climbing wall in the gym and a bunch of Playstation 2s with dance dance revolution hooked up to them. Yes we had PS2s in gym class...
Logic
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- Hammerhead Garage
Schools don't get a lump sum payment to spend as they see fit. Everything would come from an individual budget, and if there is a shortfall, you can't just carry funding over from one budget to another. The library funding would be the responsibility of the school, but the money spent in PE would come from the PE faculty. And I'm guessing that the rock wall and PS2s were judged to be a one-off expense with low on-going maintenance costs, whereas the repairs and employment of a librarian would be an ongoing cost.
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- Cobargo NSW
- Viraax_The _Wolf
- ViraaxTheWolf 2
Today I have to preform at the Yr.7 and Yr.8 year meetings 
. The song that I have to play is What a Wonderful World by Mr. Armstrong. Wish me luck
. The song that I have to play is What a Wonderful World by Mr. Armstrong. Wish me luck
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- Chicago
- Brutaka_GT
That's not too bad because I enjoyed High School more or less.
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- Conway, NH
- Astroboy2215
First real day back from vacation and it was interesting. Made some plans with a few friends for a big party the last day of school. My school messed up my whole morning. They moved the vending machines to where my groups table was. According to them it made them easier to get to for everyone. It just moved from one side of the room to the other, so nothing has changed. Another weird thing happened, walking back from lunch, a friend of mine ran over to me and told me to get on his shoulders, so my friend gave me a piggy back ride to my class. Nearly took my head off when we got to the doorway, but I did get there pretty fast. Officially learned the seniors last day, June 16th.
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- NaveekDarkroom
With less than two months left, I think it's smooth sailing from here until June. I know have a plan for English Lit (The class that I've been having the most trouble with) and I think I can finish the scrapbook for it before May ends, if I keep on schedule. And maybe I'll get that 70 percent I want this term. I quickly jumped from 25 to 50, I think it's possible. All of my other courses are going fine.
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- New Jersey
- CWM_GTRacer22
Well... Uhhh. Finished the final of the ELA sections for PARCC today. Come home, then get a recorded message from the superintendent on the phone...
Apparently, some idiot went in the boys bathroom, wrote an "unspecific bomb threat" on the wall, and now there is an ongoing search with dogs for anything suspicious. Just wonderful. Why are people so stupid???
Apparently, some idiot went in the boys bathroom, wrote an "unspecific bomb threat" on the wall, and now there is an ongoing search with dogs for anything suspicious. Just wonderful. Why are people so stupid???
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- Tecumseh, MI
- I_Fail_At_FPS
There are always idiots anywhere you go. Case in point- April 20, 2012: High school principal brought in the drug dogs on 4/20 and some guy was caught with drug paraphernalia in his car that day. That guy was in my gym class that was stopped due to dogs being in at that period.
Another idiot during my Freshmen year of college had the drug dogs brought into the dorms after he was caught taking his roommate's cough syrup and using as a drug instead of using it for its actual purpose.
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- Hammerhead Garage
Because they think they're being clever and don't realise that they are breaking the law.
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- New Jersey
- CWM_GTRacer22
It really is quite ridiculous.
If they think it's clever, then they really are incredibly stupid. I mean, how ignorant must you be to do anything like this???
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- Tecumseh, MI
- I_Fail_At_FPS
Bomb threats can happen anywhere. My hometown has about 800-1,000 students at our high school, and there was a bomb threat in 2008 that resulted in the staff having to search the high school during a thunderstorm. They did the same thing during the middle school (I was in 8th grade at the time) as well. The storm had cloud-to-ground lightning in it on top of it. So not only were there panicked students at that moment, there were also staff at risk of being struck by lightning. All because some idiot wanted to skip school so he made a bomb threat. I was happen when he got sent to jail for that. Good riddance.
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- North Dakota
- RacingCowboy570
- RacingCowboy570
I have about 100 people in my high school and we have never had a bomb threat from what I remember. Luckily, I live in a small enough community where this would be highly unlikely. But anything can happen though......
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- NaveekDarkroom
Today in chemistry we continued our solution chemistry unit, looking at precipitates and how to predict precipitates, as well as spectator ions in precipitation reactions. For this, we used the Lead(II) nitrate/potassium iodide reaction again. In the reaction, a precipitate of lead(II) iodide forms, along with a solution of potassium nitrate. The teacher explains that the potassium and nitrate ions are spectator ions in the reaction as they remain unchanged, and we wrote the complete ionic equation, as well as the net ionic equation, the latter of which omits the spectator ions. We were also given a solution chart to predict precipitates. For example, chlorides, bromides and iodides of silver(I), lead(II) and copper(I) have low solubility, while chlorides/bromides/iodides of anything else are soluble, and how nitrates and alkali compounds are soluble. This stuff interests me.
Also, some students brought snacks, which was planned. Next Friday, I have to bring something. I'm considering baking muffins. I'm sure I can easily bake 30. It's probably gonna end up being more.
Also, some students brought snacks, which was planned. Next Friday, I have to bring something. I'm considering baking muffins. I'm sure I can easily bake 30. It's probably gonna end up being more.
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- Northwest Passage
In the newspaper it was said that the school had several million dollars available and most kids in school still think that the district is poor. Many kids don't know or realize that there is a good amount of teachers who make over 70,000 plus, and I live in a county that has a 20,000 dollar per capita income. Its pretty stupid. The teacher payroll is also 14 million dollars, and there is under 2000 kids in the school. And rather than the teachers taking pay cuts, they raise taxes in the district.
Amazing.
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- Massachusetts
- EvanJamesLee
The SAT test is tomorrow.
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