<p>I am writing this post to give us an opportunity to vent about how much high school sucks and how much we want to get out. Let me begin by listing all of the reasons high school sucks for me:</p>
<p>1) Grade Pressure
2) Overly Sensitive Kids who take things too Seriously
3) Cliques
4) Boring Classes that do nothing but teach to the AP exams
5) Affected kids who try very hard to be like everyone else or try very hard to be unlike everyone else
6) Political Correctness (may only apply to schools in the Northeast).</p>
<p>Of course I am grateful for all that my high school offers. It’s just fun to complain :).</p>
<p>I agree with the above and, well, have nothing else to add. Well said.</p>
<p>The remark about political correctness probably applies more here than at your school. This is a very politically correct area. Famously so. Good post :)</p>
<p>My school is terribly politically incorrect, but it's mostly in good humor. Everyone who's not white gets made fun of, but in a friendly way (if that makes sense). In physics the other day, the teacher was reading a question out loud. </p>
<p>Teacher: "Pedro and Carlos (our textbook is mad PC) are sitting on a dock after a swim and observe waves with an amplitude of one meter..."</p>
<p>Guy in class: "That was no swim; that's how they got here!"</p>
<p>Hah! I love it how textbooks try to be so "diverse." I had a Spanish book once with a black kid, an asian kid, a fat kid AND a kid in a wheelchair. How realistic.</p>
<p>Ever seen Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella? Same idea.</p>
<p>It's a real-life version of Cinderella starring Brandy (she's black, if you don't know who she is). The prince is Asian. The king is white. The queen and fairy godmother are black.</p>
<p>oh yeah, the cinderella thing killed me. Diversity is great. Trying to represent different races equally, albeit unrealistically, is good too. But you have to make the relationships POSSIBLE. I kind of doubt a white guy and a black woman are really gone pop out an asian son. :)</p>
<p>What about the context of the story? I doubt there were Asians and blacks in Europe in the Middle Ages, and if they were, they probably weren't freely mingling with whites. I guess the producers thought that little kids were too stupid to know that a black mommy and a white daddy can't make an Asian son or to care about historical context.</p>
<p>oh wow, i'm in r&h's cinderella right now. it's the school musical this year. </p>
<p>the brandy version is great, much better than the julie andrews version. i don't mind the colorblind casting aspect, because they really chose wonderful performers. if you get too analytical about it, then, well, i don't think a black woman and a white man will be popping out an asian baby anytime soon. </p>
<p>but, then again, it's a fairy tale, and anything can happen. :)</p>
<p>I feel like complaining again. I have 4 tests, 4 papers and 1 project due this week. Even though I shouldn't be, I am very depressed and self-conscious. My school makes me feel like I'm crap. </p>
<p>But I tell myself not to get upset over my stupid personal problems; after all, there are AIDS Orphans in Africa dying as I write this post. Thinking about that doesn't help my mood, however; it just makes me feel worse about myself for not caring.</p>
<p>Man I'm so ****ed off at this one teacher today. I get really paranoid when people cheat off me..so I can't focus on the test. I dunno why, it's just one of those things. And this one kid cheated off of me (C-D student, never made an A on a test in his life)..and he got a 97 on his test. I got a 97. We missed the same ones I think. This was the test before today's. And after the test is over--for today-- (okay i sit right next to him and the class is so full so there are like no other chairs and the teacher gives us assigned seats)..im doing my vocab for the next chapter and he's sitting there talking to another kid across the room about how my paper was covered well this time and he couldn't cheat..argh it..it ticked me off soo much..he thinks im freakin deaf..what an idiot..i told her to move me to like one of the last 3 chairs available. And I didn't even choose this seat at the beginning of the year..she moved me cuz I touched her "precious" billboard..geez..she likes to pick on me but she wont pick on the senior who's failed the class 3 times and talks on his cell while she's showing a darn video..and once I moved at like the end of class when we had some free time (i swear I moved ONE seat from where I was sitting) ..and I have ONE minute till the bell's gonna ring..and she's like "Sarah I said everyone move back to their seat"..and the whole class is talking btw..and I'm like "Um, but there's like one minute till class is over"..and she's like "Well I don't care, move back" and she laughs and I havta move and she makes it like this huge scene in front of the class..ARGH..she thinks she's being cute but she's NOT..I swear she's like afraid of the seniors..lol sorry..long vent</p>