My school district has what they call “Power Mondays” which mean that middle and high school students start at 8:05 instead of 7:20 or so about twice or three times a week. It’s great, but the bus still comes at 6:45.
GUYS WE ARE ALREADY 1/6 OF THE YEAR THROUGH!!! YESHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I have 36 weeks of school, and I’m on week 7 or so, so YASSS 1/6
When do your schools start? The year started on August 7 and at 7:20 for me.
7:20 is not okay, pass it on
My school starts at 8. How do you some of guys deal with starting at 7:20???!?
I don’t even know, but it makes second period awful. I have some friends in Virginia, their schools start at 9…
My school starts at 8, but sometimes there are random dates that start at 9 or even 10 sometimes.
My school starts at 8 lol
Idek when my school starts. Oh well.
So, my school district’s superintendent has a Looney (pm me if you got that) idea to make a military institute for our county. We have 8 or 9 high schools with another one opening next year, and all but one have large JROTC programs. The one that doesn’t is a digital arts and design school that has semi-competitive admissions, altough that’s a stretch. We have two magnets here: one IB and one the aforementioned digital arts and design. I think that we could benefit from either a STEM magnet or an arts and humanities magnet. My district doesn’t offer many specialized STEM courses, much less anthropology or international studies classes. I don’t think we need a military focus, and that we need students better prepared for the future, whether that includes research or relations. The school would be on a community college campus.
Thoughts?
@awesomepolyglot I personally dislike the idea of military-themed schools, as they seem very limiting in their approach.
My school is extremely competitive: our teachers are attempting to explain to us how obtaining a C is not the end of the world, but most of the results are futile as 85% of our school is like:
“I need to get a 4.0, lots of ECs, a bunch of leadership roles, create an app / website, create a charitable event / organization, get a 2400 on the SAT and a 36 on the ACT, ace those AP exams and SAT Subject tests.”
I’m not even kidding. 82% of our school is Asian, though, according to our school demographics, so that might be why :P. (jk)
So that makes our school consist of mostly academically oriented students. There aren’t really cliques as there are just groups of friends that more often than not correlate to a certain type of student, i.e. sporty, social, etc. I’m just that kid that goes into the library during brunch and finishes next week’s math homework :P.
As said before, junior and senior year is where our school “encourages” us to take honors and AP classes, though usually most sophomores usually attend APs and honors before then. For example, next year I plan to take AP Computer Science, Pre-Calculus Honors, Chemistry Honors, and AP Chinese. Since they don’t offer advanced classes for history or English or PE, it’s pretty much the most I can take (unless I wanted to take AP Calculus or AP Statistics, which is a no for me). Hopefully that’ll be enough for those Ivy Leagues $_$.
@awesomepolyglot, a militaristic school does seem weird and has a bad connotation to it.
I am planning on taking at least one AP next year. The maximum I would take is three, but I’m seriously deciding on two. It is so confusing.
I’m planning on writing the superintendent a letter that goes something like this:
Dear Dr. (name),
I read in the (newspaper) that you have plans to open a military institute on the campus of (community college.) It appears that you have a plan for funding this, so why not have a STEM or arts and humanities magnet? Dr. (name), we don’t need more military education. We have thriving JROTC programs in all but one of our county’s high schools, but very few specialized STEM courses, such as chemical engineering or microbiology, and equally few courses in anthropology or world religions. We don’t need military training, we need science and art. International relations and microbiology will always be relevant, but as Obama pulls soldiers out of the Middle east, military training will be less necessary. Please consider these options for (County) County.
Sincerely,
(name)
@awesomepolyglot
I’m sorry but that was kind of funny
Wait, you are gonna write against it?
@awesomepolyglot
Heck yeah I’m writing against it
Well okay.
In other news, I can not wait for Monday. I really love school haha.
I also ate almost a full thing of raw cookie dough today. 
@IrrationalPepsi what’s your favorite class? And was it the band fundraiser type of cookie dough that has no eggs and never goes bad?
In other news, The Martian comes out in a week. 
My favorite class is actually Communication Skills. Communication Skills is required in the fall semester for all freshman and it is basically an English class that has a bigger emphasis on grammar. My favorite subject is always going to be math, though.
No, the cookie dough was regular store cookie dough. The chance of contracting salmonella is like 0.00836%. I googled it lol
@awesomepolyglot What’s your favorite class?
I really like Biology. We’re learning about cell biology and biomolecules at the moment. I also like my English teacher, who is kind of famous in my school for being very funny and lax with detentions. And then there’s Orchestra, which counts as an honors class. The teacher wears suspenders and Converse almost every day and his violin has a raccoon carving instead of a regular scroll. He yells a lot, but it’s really funny.
So I don’t know, @IrrationalPepsi. I like a lot of my classes.
Your Orchestra teacher sounds really cool lol. Unfortunately, I do not have biology until next semester.