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I personally don't think my school is that bad but almost everyone who attends this school thinks so but I do think my school is pretty boring.
I've always wanted to know what schools outside the Bahamas were like :( . Could someone please tell me? |
do you speak spanish? schools vary from place, like in illinois the schools are pretty darn big and new. and indiana schools have rats and are very dirty
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Well, I'm a freshman and I personally hate it! I realize that, yes, I am the lowest on the food chain(or so to speak) in highschool, but I still want to be treated like I'm a teenager and not a preschooler. At my school, freshman spend the last 40 minutes or so with mentors who act as if we're little kids who don't know anything! I mean, I know I'm nothing to special because I'm finally in highschool, but at least treat me like a teenager!
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The Bahamas?!
Well er..when I had school in SF it was REALLY easy there, most people sucked there though, although I had a family of friends, half of them sucked? xD And, here in Russia, I havn't gone to school here but its REALLY hard here, especially for me. I havn't been here for 7 years, and and, I heard someone from 7th grade in Russia came over to America and took an official math test, and he did it with his eyes closed and passed it all perfectly. |
I'm asian, so my school is at the Philippines. The thing is though, we study in an American curriculum thing, so I have no idea how other schools work, actually. Mine is a self-study thing, where you're given your PACE, with a number in it, and then complete it to advance to the next one. Of course, you're required to finish at least 3 per quarter to get to the honor roll. And all sorts of incentives are given. Anyway, that's pretty much it.
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Indiana the state? You must be thinking of Southern Indiana. I've yet to hear of rats in the North. Anyway, school is boring everywhere. At least part of it is. My school is private, so it's pretty small, and in need of some repairs, but other than that it's bearable. I think the people I go to school with make it worth it. |
The problem with American schools is that for half the year teachers are busy preparing their students for standardized testing that, in my opinion, should not be taking place. Let the teachers teach our kids and stop with all the stupid tests already. As far as someone from Russia passing a math test with his "eyes closed" I don't believe that, we aren't a bunch of idiots here, except for the politicians.
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I love studying. I like my school. |
[quote="Yeah"]The problem with American schools is that for half the year teachers are busy preparing their students for standardized testing that, in my opinion, should not be taking place. Let the teachers teach our kids and stop with all the stupid tests already. quote]
Haha! This especially holds true in Georgia due to the No Child bullshit. Teachers at our school ignore standardized testing since we do well on it anyway. It's retarded though because we have to take a Graduation Test our junior year which consists of math, english, science, and history (one per day). THEN at the end of the year ontop of that, we have to take an End-of-Course test which is a summation of everything you've learned in the particular class that particular year (so they're actually a little harder than the graduation test because they're not so generalized). I never went through the stereotypical American highschool experience. I wish I did, sort of, but then again I'm in a semi-college environment and I like that. |
Well I am from Puerto Rico and I say that school suck, I hate how they give the classes!! -_-
I use to study in Illinois, and I perfer to stay their!! ^^ |
Pfeh. All I can say about my old high school in Illinois is that they were more concerned about maintaining a high overall grade point average than really doing anything to help 'trouble' students.
As you can probably guess, I was one of them :P They suspended me for a week because they found a doodle of a character holding a gun, and assumed I'd be likely to go on a Columbine style killing spree >.< |
School in England is kind of crap (Well, in Leeds it is, I'm not sure about other places). I'm in the top set at my school and the standard is really awful. We have people in our top set English who have just come to England and can't speak English let alone write an essay or anything. The school can't cope with the amounts of non- english speaking students.
In England we have a system where you're practically told what high school you go to (We just have primary schools and high schools). I didn't want to go to my current one and applied for loads of schools but still got landed here. We appealed against it and everything but because I lived close to the school I had to go. My school is tailored for kids who struggle with school work and stuff, so there's loads of schemes to help them, but once you get good grades you're just abandoned- they really don't care. |
probably about the same, it really depends on the person.
I like school better then work so I'll probably be at college a bit more longer then others. High school was easy for me, I like learning (to avoid work). |
:o You live in the bahamas? Cool! X3
Umm...I homeschool...>.>... The school I went to before, I hated..well..kinda...It was not good for me at all...x_x... I guess homeschooling is better...it's better then being in that school, so yea...C: |
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I see! What curriculum are you using? Conventional? Like, with teachers actually teaching? xD |
I'm a freshman in highschool, lowest of the food chain. I really don't like it, since I was supposed to go to a school in my district, but this ones closer. All my friends went to the district school, and I havn't really made any good friends yet, so it's kind of lonely...
The school itself is okay, and people who see me think I'm a softmore, more a freshman, so I guess that's cool -nervous laugh-. It's pretty big, and almost everyone there is nice, I havn't really met any b*tches yet, and I hope to keep it that way -smile-. It can be a bit boring, but we have 'dress up' days every week there's a Home vs. Rival school (the school I was supposed to go to), and those can get pretty fun. |
I think that there are very few people who actually enjoy going to school, so I don't think you're alone on that one. I personally don't have much experience with high school, I only attended for a little while before switching to home schooling. But I did very much enjoy attending classes in college. You have a lot more options and you can pretty much take whatever classes you want. Sure, there are general education requirements for degrees, but even there you generally have some options, with the exception of say maybe English. |
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When I was in high school, it was ok. Some of my friends really, really hated school, but I was able to bear it. The teachers spent 1/3 of hte year (or more) reteaching old things learned from last year to help us with stuff from this year. Like with math, they reteach us some algebra to help us learn algebra 2. It's such a waste of time.
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My school is a bunch of stoner faggots is what it is.
They just teach to the CSAPs. (The ebil standardized test for Colorado) It makes me realize how stupid the kids in my school are when so many of them fail and I pass while not even bothering to try on questions where the answers aren't ridiculously obvious. Thankfully, this is the last year of CSAPs... Then I have to pay to take my standardized tests! |
My high school in Michigan wasn't so bad. The rooms didn't have air in them though, so it was incredibly hot in the summer. It was a pretty organized school other than the fact that there were offices all over the place and it confused some people. xD A lot of kids in my school did drugs though... And it was starting to get crowded, so they're adding on this year. |
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In Norway they supposedly go easy on us, and therefore I have a feeling that other schools outside Norway are probably than us. -_-
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I live in Indiana and the school I went to didn't have rats. We had some bugs in the summertime but that was just because of the courtyard and how the lake is only about two hundred feet from the back of the school. Anyways school for me was always really boring. The only thing I liked about it was being in band, but even that could really suck sometimes. I had block four as my high school schedule, so that meant four classes every day that were nearly two hours long, and then a lunch break right in the middle. It was bad for classes, because even though we changed every quarter for the short classes and every other quarter for the longer classes, it could really be horrible. You could miss a class you really want that has to do with what you're aiming for later in life because a required class is at the same time as the one you really want to try. It made it really hard for some kids to get in everything they wanted. Or sometimes people would take forgetful things like Spanish or Math the first two quarters of one year, and the last two of the next. So that's an entire year of going without learning anything new. Because of that, a lot of people flunked a lot of classes. They say you should study things every day or else you'll forget it, and it really is true. |
The students in the British school system are over tested and underachieving. :lol:
Our average reading level for 5-11 yr olds had just dropped below that of America. D: |
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