<p>I hate school.</p>
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Yesterday at my high school the ceiling in part of the hall actually caved in and fell on my principal, who is now in the hospital.
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<p>I think someone's trying to give your principal the hint that it's time to lighten up on the kids.</p>
<p>Anyway, something similar happened to the Junior High School in my town...luckily I was a freshman/sophomore at the time, so I wasn't in the school. It had flooded and several rooms were screwed over pretty badly. Ceiling tiles were popping out all over the place, there were like 3-4" of water on the floor. Not to mention it smelled like hell.</p>
<p>Back in december, at my high school, they replaced the windows with ones that supposedly are more "up-to-code". Not one person in the school thinks they're better than the old ones. The old ones opened outwards, the new ones open inwards...and they're at a perfect eyelevel so people can poke their eyes out, or hit their temple and kill themselves. Aside from that, the illegal immigrants who installed the windows never put the insulation in, so the building was FREEZING cold for about 4 months, then one day it rained really hard and the whole science wing was flooded. Puddles were forming in pretty much every classroom. It was terrible. The school also replaced all the doors. During the construction, they ripped out all the old ones, and MAN getting from class to class was SOO EASY. Without the doors, there were no traffic jams. It was just smooth walking to class. Then they had to install new doors which are heavier and harder to open. This slowed down traffic dramatically. How is this fire-code? It's harder to open the damn door, you'd be burned alive by the time the door opens. Not to mention, the doors themselves hinder your ability to get out of the building. Besides, more importantly--the building is made out of cinderblocks, there is no way in hell the school will go up in flames. Then to further **** people off, the fire department is forcing everyone to keep the doors to the classrooms CLOSED during class. Once that door shuts, the classrooms begin to bake like a brick oven. We don't get the cross-breeze from the window and door being open--if it's hot in February/March, I'd hate to be here in the summer. THe good thing about this, though, is that the teachers really don't care about the firecodes. One of my teachers can be quoted as saying, "F**# the firecode, I'm opening the door."</p>
<p>This may or may not have been mentioned before, but the student parking lot is a piece of crap. Potholes everywhere...uneven terrain, which means DEEP (and I mean DEEP---6" to 1 foot deep puddles) can form inside the parking lot....most people know where they are, so they avoid parking there when it's going to rain, but seriously, that is not safe. Plus the lines are nearly non-existant, and nobody can park straight.</p>
<p>Examples:
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<a href="http://bakshi.us/snp2k/jpg/lot/lot3.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://bakshi.us/snp2k/jpg/lot/lot3.jpg</a></p>
<p>You can see the lines in these pictures because for some reason the picture enhances them...plus the water makes the asphault black, which would enhance the yellow of the lines. On a normal sunny day, most, if not, all parking lines are nearly invisible.</p>
<p>Then, the school spends $2 million on a new gym. They bought it around 5 years ago. It has probably only been used about 5 times. Why? The illegal immigrants who built the place didn't properly seal the floor, so the floor is bubbling up and buckling. One basketball player fell on the ground and a 1-foot long sliver poped up an almost impaled him.</p>
<p>Why the school always has to go with the lowest bidder is beyond me...they've had nothing but problems, why can't they pay the extra $100,000 and get a good, reputable company...$100,000 spread out over the entire state is what? only like 5 extra cents a person has to pay in taxes...if that!</p>
<p>Hahahahahah.</p>
<p>oh Snp2k you have it worse than i thought....we are allowed to go off campus and eat lunch (juniors n seniors only)</p>
<p>well, I'm the Chairman of the Superintendent Advisory Council, so I complain about every unjustness against my school by low life administrators. Why dont u form one? hehe</p>
<p>just today i got a tardy slip due to the snow. tardies can't be excused by a parent in my high school. but you can be absent however many times you want, have them excused with a forged note (they dont call or check signitures). lesson = if you think you're going to be late, don't come to school. glad to see the school provides incentive for us to work hard.</p>
<p>hahaha wow, high school is going down the crapper. What ****es me off is how I can't go home when I have a STUDY HALL AT THE END OF THE DAY!!! It should be optional. What a bunch of loonies. Honestly, I just can't seem to grasp their policies.</p>
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lesson = if you think you're going to be late, don't come to school. glad to see the school provides incentive for us to work hard.
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<p>Ohhh yeah, I've already learned that one, but the way I see it is this---you miss a day of school, that means you have to make up all the work you missed, get the notes, etc. It's a pain in the ass. And I couldn't agree more about how they punish us for being late, but they let us be absent as much as we want to be. Where is the logic behind this rule? If there is any, I am sure as hell not seeing it. It's like: ever hear of the saying, "Better late than never." OHHH!! I KNOW WHY: the writer of the law was friggin dyslexic and wrote the rule backwards!! That explains it. The rule should have been "late as much as you want to be; absent 3 times = detention." There we go, that clears it all up. (jk)</p>
<p>YET ANOTHER complaint with my school---they're trying to pass a rule that allows teachers to write-up students who run to get to class. That is unbelievable. Here, you have to run. Otherwise, you get a tardy. Oh the stupidity of the school administration is mind-boggling.</p>
<p>I mean, it's not like I'm griping because I'm a student and that's what students do. 99.99% of all the parents of the students in this school are really p!ssed at the administration too. They also agree that it is going down the crapper. Virtually 100% hate the principal's guts. She could die of a heart attack and instead of a funeral, they'd have a grand party on seeing who could urinate the most on her gravestone.</p>
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I don't form one because:
1. I didn't know I could
2. Administration wouldn't approve (if they deny the starting of a debate club, there's no way they're going to sign off on a Superintendent Advisory Council).
3. I'm almost out of this penitentiary, so there really isn't a use.
4. The administration is fully aware of the problems this school has---they're just too lazy to go fix them. This town is pretty rich, but the money taken from us from taxes gets spent on renovating innercity schools that don't deserve renovation. They're failing--why should they get all the new stuff.</p>
<p>They get a brand new school built, all the latest technologies inside, new computers, the works. While, the kids in my town work hard, get good grades, strive to succeed and we get sh!t on. I mean there are so many instances in the world where the guys who actually do the work, get screwed over and the guys who ride the system end up doing better than those who work hard to get every step in life.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, my small suburb town has a massive eyesore right in the middle of town. Lucky for the town, it's in a ditch. I bet if the school was in the open (instead of a ditch) there would be more complaints as everyone would see it.</p>
<p>Plus, this town is a very safe town, not much happens. The only problems that happen in the school itself are the damn druggies/stoners who are constantly doing pot, smoking, etc. in the bathrooms. As a result, we now have two cops patrolling the building. Ordinarily they won't be annoying, but they are. Sure they're nice, and they're really personable and you can just walk right in their office and hang out, but they give out parking tickets for the most ridiculous things. Actually, they've gotten better--back in the day, you could count on getting a ticket. It's been about 4 months since I last saw a ticket on someone's car. Maybe the cops just don't like going out in the cold nasty weather, snow and crap. I don't know. What I do know is that they would be better placed in a school that has more problems...ie: innercity schools where gangs and drug busts are made every second of the day, people carrying guns and stuff.</p>
<p>I could write a book on how corrupt this school is and how bad it has gotten over the 4 years I have been there, but I won't.</p>