<p>I'm just curious to know if anyone actually likes/is having an enjoyable time in high school. There are some things that I like, but overall, my school blows. </p>
<p>I think it's the student body. I go to a wealthy public hs and the kids are pretty spoiled. All they care about is exterior appearances, partying, drugs, and alcohol. (I'm sure a lot of other kids in different high schools are like this too, but at my school it's awful!) They're superficial and fake as hell. It's annoying.</p>
<p>Our sports teams (except basketball) suck too, so no one has any school spirit, which is depressing. I want to go somewhere with tons of school spirit for college in order to gain some compensation.</p>
<p>Wow, that sounds pretty similar to my school. Very, very affluent county. Extremely competitive (ranked 80 or something nationally).</p>
<p>I really dislike my school. But hey, what can I do about it? It’s junior year and I can’t just move. People are very materialistic here and they are hell bent on achieving a supposed state of “success” that has just been jammed into their heads by their parents. People cheat and lie for an A and I bet only a small percentage of them actually give a damn about a little thing called learning. People join clubs just to look good for college. People take up openings on sports teams just to put it on their apps when there are actual people who love the sport but get cut. And everyone pretty much gets a Lexus or a Mercedes Benz for their first cars.</p>
<p>Not that I have anything against rich people. I just don’t really belong in this town.</p>
<p>I attend a high school with a large portion of minority students. Only a small percentage of the students want to learn. Lots of kids who dont understand/care about school. Although we do have a lot of school spirit even though are sports arent that great</p>
<p>I have very mixed feelings about where I go to school. There are parts I hate, and parts I love. My school is a really interesting mix of socioeconomic classes. We have literally everything from kids that live in the projects to kids that live in million dollar homes. I’m not gonna lie, I can’t stand most of the kids that I go to school with. MOST of them don’t care at all about school, it’s all a big game. It’s more common than I’d like to admit to see pregnant women, or kids with their colors on. They walk slow, and in groups so wide that they take up the whole hall so no one can get around them. I don’t know…I’m just going to stop rambling. Maybe it’s elitist, but I just can’t take most of them. They’re just uncivilized and immature. </p>
<p>Despite my hatred of most of the kids that go to my school, I wouldn’t want to go anywhere else. Our school is a bit of an aberration because we are classified at an inner city school, yet there’s so many successful things going on. I feel like I’m getting a really good, well rounded education, have good friends, it’s a lot of fun. I’m proud of the school, even thoguh there are a lot of parts that I hate.</p>
<p>For the most part, I like it. I’ve found a good group of friends, and we have a good time together. I like the diversity, too, which is inevitable with 2000+ kids–racial diversity, but also a diversity of experiences, backgrounds, and expectations for the futures. It’s interesting to be around people with such disparate family traditions for college/community college/army/etcetc. What I don’t like is the grade grubbing population, and the fact that it’s just a regular public school (versus a magnet or boarding school for a specific interest), so some of the kids are clueless about their interests other than Call of Duty. I wish more people had really passionate interests, though I have found a few really incredibly passionate people that almost make up for the rest of them.</p>
<p>I hated almost every minute of high school…and now that I’m in college, would absolutely never go back to mine! I do however appreciate the caliber of the academics and how well I was prepared for college.</p>
<p>I agree with you guys. My high school is one of the top ones in my state and we are a very rich school district… except me. I run track and XC and I know that those people have successful lives and stuff. Everyone is rich and plain rude. In English 2, I wrote a paper about how rich people don’t care about the world. I wrote how I couldn’t go to Homecoming my freshmen year because I didn’t have any money, and how nobody with money cared.</p>
<p>One time at my lunch table (I sat with other people who ran cross country), there was a party.</p>
<p>Person 1: So are you going to (person’s name) party?
Person 2: Yeah I think, maybe.
Me: Wait what party?
(There were 6 people sitting at my table including me.)
Person 3: There is no party. <em>smiles at me</em>
Person 4: There is no party. <em>smiles at me</em>
Person 1: There is no party. <em>smiles at me</em>
Person 2: There is no party. <em>smiles at me</em>
Person 5: There is no party. <em>smiles at me</em>
Me: Yes there is, you just said the word “party.”
Persons 1-5: No, there is no party.
Me: I will find out.</p>
<p>See? I got angry at them. All of them are rich people with friends and happy lives. I hate them all. I want to kill them. I wish I could kill them. They hurt me many other times before.</p>
<p>Right now I sit with people who are nice to me. But they all smoke, and I dont. They invited me to a party, but I didn’t want to go with the risk of being banned from running track/XC. So apparently I’m “cool” enough (or dumb enough) to be invited to parties where they do drugs, alcohol, and smoke, but I’m not good enough to be invited to simple dance parties. Probably because I’m shy and I don’t have any friends at that school. WELL I DON’T WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THEM ANYWAYS. I DON’T NEED FRIENDS IN HIGH SCHOOL.</p>
<p>One of the people who sat at my table is a bully to me now. I swear to God this person I will have this person punished. He claims he’s my friend, but he lies to me and insults me behind my back. He does it a lot. Everybody else does this, but only once in a while. My story.</p>
<p>I wasn’t too content with it. I live in an affluent area with a multitude of wealthy individuals. My high school represented that and the students that composed it placed a significant emphasis on outer appearances and were superficial, something that contrasts with my personality and preferences. The education itself was good, but going to a school with 2800 students and large class sizes prevented me from acquiring individual attention and contentment. I prefer small groups with stimulating conversations amongst students and teachers, something that my old school lacked.</p>
<p>New school:</p>
<p>It’s online so I don’t have to interact with materialist people. I’m able to focus on the purpose of going to school. I’ve still managed to make some new friends and I’ve enjoyed my experience so far. I’m also content with the fact that I’m enabled to sleep more and am in a more relaxed setting, while still maintaining a sufficient focus on academics.</p>
<p>My high school sucks. Mostly Mexican–Not racist but most of them(in my school) are extremely unfriendly. They smoke, drink, do drugs, fail classes(on purpose) even though they could do so much better. They ignore me(of course. I’m Asian… And proud of it). It’s difficult to make friends since even if they’re nice, our personalities really don’t go together. In geometry they’re mostly juniors and some senior in my class(i’m sophomore) and since this is my 1st yr taking this class, they move on really quick. Since everyone else has taken it before but failed. I cannot keep up with the speed they are going at since most of them already knew the material but just chose to not do hw. It’s so frustrating! In all my classes I have As and Bs. In geometry I have an F! I ahve to get it up to at least a C(to keep myself from suicide) by the end of this semester(which is less than a month… and i still don’t understand what we’re doing in class)! At school I just hang out w/a small Asian group who are fobby… But I just envy all the other schools in my district. They’re all Asian schools and I’ve met some in Key Club activities. They’re all friendly and easy to get a long with. I’m a sophomore and I bus to school everyday. Well. I want to transfer but I’d have to bus to a different city. -__________-" That pretty much means… I’m stuck here for the rest of high school. Hope you all had better experiences. Right now my high school year sucks.</p>
<p>Hate/Love Relationship with it. The education is top-notch and student body is fairly diverse, which is actually pretty nice. Not too many snobby rich people (the city I live is actually pretty poor), but there are a lot of materialistic people who think they can by with looks. And as much as it kills me to admit it, when given the chance, they actually manage to surprise you with their academic competence, which is quite scary. I hate the competition in my school - people are like animals at my school. It’s scary how people know my grade before even I get to know myself. After 13 people asked me for my average in two days, I almost swore that if one more person asked me for my AP Bio average, I would shoot myself.</p>
<p>The building is a pile of crap. Compared to just about every school we have to go to, it is worse.</p>
<p>But I enjoy the flexibility it offers; I’ve been able to easily get credit for independent studies, skip courses and accelerate my curriculum, and there are no limits on honors/APs. There are plenty of clubs/sports to do, and there are a ton of really cool, friendly people, as well as genius types too. A bit cliquey though. And very white. Some people can be quite competitive and nosy when it comes to grades, but generally its a very friendly environment.</p>
<p>Laziness is glorified. The people considered the smartest are the people who, without doing much work, get high grades and test scores.</p>
<p>eight28, you made me think of that Half Cocked song…except for “I don’t give a damn 'bout my bad education!” </p>
<p>Anyways.
I like my school. Our facilities are AMAZING. You will rarely find a nicer school in the country. Many ECs. A lot of sports. We won state in basketball in '05. 5th in the state right now as I recall. The people and the staff are hit-and-miss with some real gems. Some of the teachers you can tell are smart, but can’t teach. I’m very lucky this year.</p>
<p>However, here diversity means you’re Asian, but not Korean. I know. I know. How radical. </p>
<p>Our musical theatre department is also stellar. Every spring we put on a musical with our sister school and there’s always old Jewish ladies that come up to the actors and stuff and go- “I saw it on Broadway…and this was better!” Oh, that reminds me. A lot of Jewish people.</p>
<p>I don’t really like my school. A lot of people are rather two-faced. They’ll be nice to you in one setting, and totally rude to you in another. I have a couple of good friends, some people to talk to in my classes and talk to about homework outside of classes. For the most part, people are just annoying. There’s about 10% of us who care about school, which is why I like being in high-level classes at my school. </p>
<p>But basically:
Lack of school spirit
Only good teams: girls soccer and both tennis teams
<p>I go to a very wealthy and competitive public high school.
The academics are pretty good, they have a wide range of AP and IB courses, in the top 500 high schools in America, top 10 in the state, etc etc. They also have lots of ECs and it’s all fine and dandy. </p>
<p>Socially, everyone is very exclusive. When I go to parties, there are literally CLIQUES that stand around and don’t interact, they just look at the other cliques and gossip about them while sipping on some vodka mixed drink. Girls get ridiculously tan, get drunk, and wait for guys to “take advantage of them” in their inebriated state. There are also the “rastas” that are wealthy WASPS that pretend they are Jamaican, and definitely do not the embody the love/openness/tolerance of the Rastafarian creed. The ones that pretend to be liberal/tolerant/open-minded/artsy are the ones that are just as *****y, back-stabbing, and close-minded as the rest of the sheeple at my school. Most of the IB diploma candidates, who are supposed to be the smartest and most open-minded, fall int this category. It’s ridiculous, I pretty much hate everyone. I am friendly with most of them but I don’t go past school interaction… “Minnesota nice”</p>
<p>At my old high school, it was less wealthy and competitive, but people there were actually interesting, artsy, and open-minded. They didn’t have to pretend to have that vibe. Their parties are actually fun. That’s where most of my real friends come from.</p>