<p>I would just like to take a moment and complain about my high school:</p>
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<li><p>No APs Sophomore year and only 1 Junior year. However a ton senior year. (though apparently this is only for my class, and the class that will graduate after us will get more AP classes) [now that i think of it, i may have gotten lucky on this one]</p></li>
<li><p>Crappy electives and ECs. As a geek who is not into sports I figured I'd op into the computer related electives. After two years of 3D animation, I now know Maya (albeit version 7), and I also know that no one in their right mind should ever subject themselves to that torture.</p></li>
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<p>I was looking into other computer/tech electives, however I do not need to take MS Office classes which are for people with "Little or no computer experience" (which is no one at my school, and considering that I've never not had to type something on the computer in any year of school even before high school I think that if someone needed this it would be too little too late). </p>
<p>Other options are Digital Photography, the teacher of which would , and has, admitted that I could probably teach this course as it basically involved learning the basics of Photoshop, which I have been fortunate enough to use since version 5.0. </p>
<p>There is also a Digital Journalism class which I knew would **** me off the moment I saw the word "blogging'</p>
<p>My school leaks haha, like all the time but it's just funny and something to joke about.
seriously if you really want aps then self study them. my school offers them to sophomores but the teachers don't really prepare you so it's kinda like selfstudy. people on here especially to that a lot, just get a book and a prep book </p>
<p>don't complain so much, it's really not that fun. maybe you can take something at a CC</p>
<p>My complaint is about your complaint benellis. Judging by your post, your school is about 1000000x better than my crappy school. My school only offers 6 APs, and they make it impossible to schedule them all. The one "technology" course my school offers is MS Office intro and Digital Photography and 3D animation are two concepts that will never enter the halls of HCHS. And at my school, it's either do sports, do drugs, or have fun getting beat up every day by the stupid jock stoners that "rule" the school. </p>
<p>So... don't complain so much, your school doesn't even seem that bad. Mine is way worse, and I bet you don't have to pay $10,000/year to attend!</p>
<p>I liked my high school. It was kind of ghetto/dirty looking though, and most of the teachers didn't really teach you anything. (Good preparation for college, I guess.)</p>
<p>My school only offers 5 AP classes and all the teachers are horrible. Can you take concurrent enrollment? I think it's MUCH better than AP classes for many reasons.</p>
<p>I'm taking all AP and college classes this semester, and it's so frustrating because ONE AP class takes up 95% of my time. The funny thing is that she says it's just like college. When kids that have taken college history called her out on it, she said that it is because we aren't taking our histories at an university. I hate AP classes!</p>
<p>Well, with these complains, it makes my school sound good. We have about 13 AP classes, and most of the teachers are pretty good (all the bad teachers get assigned freshmen non-honors courses). The only pitfall is the lack of good electives. There are plenty of english and social studies electives, but not many fun ones. </p>
<p>There are also very few tech courses, and this year there are none at all because the teacher retired in November, and his job required a very odd skillset which they'll have trouble replacing. That teaching position is supposed to be able to teach woodworking AND robotics/C++ programming, two completely unrelated things. They couldn't find a replacement qualified to teach both, so the replacement guy just teaches woodworking, and anyone that was signed up for a tech class got switched to woodworking. He's a really nice guy and he's an amazing woodworking teacher, but its a shame he won't be able to stay because the replacement will have to be able to teach both topics (good luck finding someone! It won't be easy.). I got switched from Robotics to Woodworking, and I was annoyed at first, but ended up enjoying it.</p>
<p>At my school, the first available AP class is Environmental Science, which can be taken as early as sophomore year. I'm taking it next year because I have the teacher this year for accelerated biology, and he's amazing, so it will give me another year before I have to part with him... plus I've heard people say really good things about how he teaches the class.</p>
<p>I am noticing a trend with terrible tech classes.</p>
<p>I'm bored out of my mind at my current tech class. Currently it involves half the class paying me a few dollars to borrow my flash drive for a couple minutes to copy/paste the assignment in their folders. We are handed a bunch of instructions with absolutely no material taught to us, so unless you knew how to use the program already, no one could do the assignments.</p>
<p>The robotics portion of the class involved programming (or more accurately, dragging colored blocks onto a line) navigation through dead reckoning - i.e., no sensors at all, which probably discouraged the small portion of the class who were actually interested in engineering to not go into engineering at all.</p>
<p>Maybe the DOE should stop paying millions and millions of dollars renovating the football field and put it into our state's failing public school system.</p>
<p>@brillar that sucks man. I've known the Photo Teach for a long time (taught at the middle school) she also taught the 2D 3D class, basically she teaches all tech classes other than the media ones (which are basically iMovie 101), so she knows that I know how to use Photoshop, but a few years ago I had a teacher who felt that it was necessary to explain how to use contextual menus so I know how you feel, at least it's an easy A! :P</p>