I feel like I should revive this thread. I'll just give you a fair warning, it's a rant.
So today was the first day of school. Same school, so I know my way around. This should be great, like last year, last year was great. I know almost everybody. Now, see, everyone likes to say how 8th grade is always better than 7th, and as a spoiler, for my story, it isn't, and I can already tell. See, part of what made last year great was the teachers were entertaining, while at the same time you learned something. This year, it doesn't seem the case.
This year all my teachers just seem, I don't know, bland? They're lacking personality. And I know I'll learn with this sort of personality. But I learned quite a lot last year! I mean, take my science teachers this year, and last. Last year our teacher was humerous and fun, but at the same time he got the point across. This year, it just seems that our teacher's trying to hard to be hipster, and you can't do that without making yourself look like a fool. A boring one at that too.
It can't help that I won't see the majority of my friends this year either. I mean, last year I really didn't see any of my friends in any of my classes, with a few exceptions, but most of the people, I already knew. So I could easily hold a conversation with them. This year it just seems they deliberatly paired us with random people, except for the Football players. See, over in Texas, it's almost like if you don't play football, you will be branded as a loser. Well, the school doesn't want any of these football players to be seperated from their friends, so they group them all together. Why the hell would you do that? It's like setting a bunch of ravenous zombies to attack a village. It's just not common sense. I mean, coupled together these guys have an IQ of about 70. Last year one of them didn't know that gravity existed, and this year one thought he was in English when there was a big written sign that said US History. I feel quite insulted to be in the same class as them, especially since I won an award last year for science.
So what's the moral of the story. Don't believe what others tell you about 8th grade being better than 7th, it's not.