<p>Or don't. I'm just ranting, hoping it'll catch on.</p>
<p>Things I hate about my school:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Grade inflation. I'm 38th in a class of ~900, but no one ahead of me is considering top universitites. It's far too easy for people of slightly-above-average intelligence to make straight As in AP courses. Hence, being valedictorian is more a matter of how many APs you can cram into your schedule than how intelligent you are.</p></li>
<li><p>In-school extracurriculars. Cross country and choir have taken up 3/8ths of my class schedule every year. So my opportunities for AP courses are severely limited. As it is, I have to opt out of AP Literature if I want to continue with either choir or cross country this year.</p></li>
<li><p>Graduation requirements. You have to take so many level classes and electives to graduate, which weigh down your GPA. Unfortunately, cross country and choir are both 4-point courses (honors classes are worth 5 and AP classes 6).</p></li>
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<p>/rant</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Grade whores are rewarded.</p></li>
<li><p>Anyone can take an AP class. True story: I was called out of my Sports Med class to have an administrator tell me I should take an AP class my senior year. Really dude?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Most of my complaints are non-academic, but whatever.</p>
<ul>
<li>It is way too difficult to get into some AP classes. </li>
<li>The AP Chem and AP Physics teachers are new. They’re both terrible.</li>
<li>Phys ed every semester</li>
<li>Religion every semester</li>
<li>A semester of Health and Computer Science are required. So pointless</li>
</ul>
<p>Thaaaat is pretty much it.</p>
<ol>
<li>Grade Deflation- Believe me, it’s much worse than Grade Inflation.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li><p>The goddamn middle schoolers are too wild, always smoking weed and cigarettes in the bathroom, which stinks enough already without them doing that.</p></li>
<li><p>The title of valedictorian and rankings in general are so overrated. Everyone thinks being #1 is so hard and being a valedictorian is so glorifying when it really isn’t. The best school anyone has ever gotten to from my school is UC Berkeley with special cases such as athletics aside. Only 1 guy has ever been accepted to an HYPSM/Ivy league school - Stanford - in our school’s history, but only because of a basketball recruitment. Oh my god, especially the UC’s…everyone thinks they are so hard to get into and are the best schools in the entire world. They become so prideful when getting accepted into even lower schools such as CSULB and the sort and start to think that they are the *****.</p></li>
<li><p>People think that admissions to top colleges are based solely on GPA and APs with mundane extracurriculars (i.e. sport and few clubs). They think that just because you get 5’s on 500 APs that you are legit and that top colleges should accept you, just as were the mindsets of the valedictorian and salutatorian this year. Of course, they failed to recognize that SATs are even more important, of which they received lower than 2000 and not more than 750s on the Subject tests yet still applied to MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. HAHAHHA. They had stupid extracurriculars too.</p></li>
<li><p>Think the students are just like that? Think again because the teachers are exactly like this too. They glorify the UC system and GPA and APs when really they should be glorifying SATs and doing meaningful extracurriculars that stand out and reflect your interest(s). All of the teachers, counselors, and administrators are seriously just talk sometimes and often say fictitious or useless things about applying to colleges. The majority think their classes are so hard and they believe that they are hardcore teachers when in reality they probably don’t even know what the word “teaching” is. The requirements to get into AP classes are far too lax, and some of those subpar students who manage to get in really get distracting in class.</p></li>
<li><p>Too many graduation requirements. Please, I don’t need Health when I’ve already done Biology H with an A+ or 2 years of P.E. Just let me do classes that will actually be pertinent to the major I plan to study in college instead of wasting my time.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>-Absolutely no prereqs for any AP courses. The kids coming from regular biology with no physics experience can elect to take AP Physics. Same for Calc. Where is the logic in that?</p>
<p>-Because of the lax AP policy, by sophomore year, 20 kids (out of 900 total students) are stuffing their schedules with all AP courses.</p>
<p>-We don’t have Latin :(</p>
<p>-The Phys Ed classes are bell curved. *** right? Fortunately we only have to take 2 years of PE…but the kids who are “forced to fail” (by the curve) sometimes end up taking it all four years…suckers.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<ol>
<li><p>No chance for advancement if you show the ability. It’s more of a county thing, but the majority of teachers here know I should be in higher courses.</p></li>
<li><p>Course selection - **** poor… no real courses.</p></li>
<li><p>Grade inflation - enough has been said.</p></li>
<li><p>Restriction - The school barely tells you about anything, and also doesn’t allow you to take certain courses.</p></li>
<li><p>Area. This school is legitimately ghetto. Every year I find like 4 news stories of students from my school getting in trouble for stuff like robberies, gang violence, deaths, etc.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Just recently, 3 students from my school got arrested for raping a girl from the same school. </p>
<p>Boys: 14, 15, 16</p>
<p>Girl: 15</p>
<p>Grade Inflation - way too many A’s are rewarded.</p>
<p>No AP Physics C.</p>
<p>Need to sign a “Parent-Student Demand Waiver” if you want to take more than 3 H/AP.</p>
<p>School has rankings.</p>
<p>3 year PE requirement.</p>
<p>Too many restrictions on course selection and emphasizes too much on reducing as many classes as possible. “Oh you just moved here? We’ll put you in Choir and Woodshop and you can’t switch to other classes!” - happened to me</p>
<p>Counselors don’t know much about college admissions.</p>
<p>^ ryanxing: sorry to hear about Choir and Woodshop. Although that gave me laughs. LOL, woodshop. Seriously?</p>
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<p>Going along with this, and expounding upon my own complaints, I have this to add about my school:</p>
<ol>
<li>Graduation requirements:</li>
</ol>
<p>~4 years of each core subject (math, science, history, english)
~2 fine art credits
~2 PE credits
~1 health credit
~1 tech credit
~1 communication credit
~4 elective credits</p>
<p>Considering my main ECs take up 12/32 classes, my academic options are limited. No APs offered to freshmen, only AP World offered to Sophomores, and most APs have prerequisites that make it so only seniors can take them (Gov’t, Econ, Physics, Lit, Calc, Comp Sci, and Chem).</p>
<p>Also, my sport is too demanding. I cannot miss practice (which we have before and after school, every day), nor can I miss meets (every Saturday in the fall and spring). So I can’t get heavily involved in other ECs.</p>
<p>I think the dumbest thing is the fitnessgram.</p>
<p>It’s an inadequate test to see how well you can “run the mile” or whatever.</p>
<p>To be honest, health is important, but I think that other classes are more important.</p>
<p>4 AP courses only.
Athletics > academics
Very few elite teachers
High tuition
Small classes (40 people in a class)
Getting away with cheating
Guns
Drugs
Conservative rednecks
Close-minded people
Racism
Lack of diversity (99% of school is white)</p>
<p>Ugh, so much.</p>
<p>Hard as hell to make myself stand out from the others.</p>
<p>Too overcrowded.
Crappy reputation.
Sleazy security guards.
Required gym all four years (But it’s a state thing, so I guess the school can’t really do anything about it.).
No “interesting” AP classes (Psychology, Foreign Languages, etc).</p>
<p>Things I Hated About My High School:
I could probably write an essay on each of these bullet points, but I’ll spare you. </p>
<ul>
<li>Grade inflation.</li>
<li>Spoiled, rich, stuck-up, pretentious jackasses with their heads up their asses.</li>
<li>Teachers who played major favorites. </li>
<li>People who thought they were cool because they smoked/drinked/partied. I had a social life too and I partied, but you don’t see me bragging about how drunk I got the other night and then posting pictures of myself posing with a vodka bottle. It’s called class, get some. </li>
<li>Superiority complexes of a lot of people for various reasons (I’m richer/smarter/better/drive a nicer car than you… I don’t care so shut the **** up)</li>
<li>Slutty girls. </li>
<li>Disgusting, overpriced cafeteria food.</li>
<li>Horrible sports teams. </li>
<li>Early school start time. </li>
<li> Closed-minded.</li>
<li>Ugly campus that looked like a prison. </li>
<li>Corrupt Associated Student Body class that ran/attempted to control the whole school.</li>
<li>Fat, ugly, *****y girls who didn’t wear enough clothing. </li>
<li>Unhelpful, lazy administration and counseling office. </li>
<li>Everything. Ughhhh I hated my school. I’m so glad I graduated. And I’m sure there are even more things that I could come up with that I just haven’t thought of yet.</li>
</ul>
<p>I mostly really just hated the people. They were the worst. Except for my friends… yes, I had great friends.</p>
<p>ugh, our school is 40% asian which i’m not so concerned about but they are exactly the stereotypical asian model. They always associate only with each other, i am one of the few that actual have about the same number of non-asian and asian friends.
our school is so highly academic that there’s pressure to take AP classes… as a result, you get lots of students in AP classes who honestly have no business taking them. people, (esp. the asians) obsess over grades, to the point where they will go to summer school if they don’t get an A…
it annoys me how many people cheat and help each other cheat on tests, homework, etc. nothing i can really do about it, just wish people were more honest
people are obsessed about “looking good for college”, when i asked someone why they were doing track & field, they replied- colleges like that, i wanna put it on my app</p>
<p>Counselor tells me PE won’t effect my GPA in highschool and I will get my credit as long as I pass and I pass with a B and now I will never be able to get my gpa higher than like 3.96 :(</p>
<p>What I hate about my school is that our test scores are no where near the competitive level.
I also dislike that the Japanese teacher only taught up to level three(four next year) and sadly, I’m going to a new high school next year that does not offer Japanese as a language course.
I hated the health and P.E requirements. I was gone for two weeks from health, still made an A and I was the only one who actually did something physically demanding during class instead of text.
I also dislike how many fights there are(yes, I go to one of those schools). I don’t like hearing about who fought who and now it’s on YouTube.
I hate that you can get suspension for wearing a trench coat but girls walk by security all the time in “athletic” short shorts, and that is a rule they reiterate every other day.
Most everyone is extremely ignorant and homophobic(I’ve heard people say that people have said that they’d “shoot” me "in the face"
and I thought I was gay).
I VERY MUCH HATED the fact that of the three guidance counselors we had, NONE OF THEM were available EVER.
The halls are always so dusty that you could someone’s schedule by their footprints.
I’m done for now. I’m also pretty sure I’m going to find a load of things I hate about this new school.</p>
<ol>
<li>Way too many white people</li>
<li>Somewhat too many rich cliquish people, even though most of those cliquish people are nice to everyone.</li>
<li>You can’t normally take APs until sophmore year.</li>
<li>Overpriced lunches</li>
<li>Heat and AC sometimes don’t work.</li>
</ol>
<p>On the contrary, some nice things.</p>
<ol>
<li>Great sports teams</li>
<li>Big campus</li>
<li>Very high spending per student</li>
<li>like 300 or more computers, including tablets</li>
<li>Like 20 guidance counselors</li>
<li>large variety of clubs</li>
<li>26 AP classes</li>
<li>Public open admission</li>
<li>Sends like 10 to HYPMS and like 90-100 to top 20 out of class of 700.</li>
<li>No class rank </li>
</ol>
<p>I’m overall happy.</p>
<p>Oh god, the counselors… they don’t give a damn. I barely started getting to know mine at the end of this past year, and she only started showing interest in me after I destroyed my SAT. And guess what? Now she’s retiring. Just in time for college applications. So now I have the fantastic benefit of a brand new counselor who doesn’t know a thing about me, and I’m supposed to trust her to write me a good recommendation based on objective statistics.</p>