I feel like high school is making me stupider.

<p>Class is so boring that I cut corners all the time. I don't actually learn things, I just cram, and conveniently forget it the day after the test. I do homework on auto-pilot. I'm cultivating lots of bad habits simply because I can get away with it (procrastinating, being disorganized). I don't ever pay attention to teachers, because it's not like anything they have to say is important. Basically, I waste 8 hours a day, just sitting there, doing nothing but busy work. I feel like high school is slowly leeching away my willingness to learn, while wasting my time with hours of busy work. I actually feel like over the years, I've become more stupid, especially when I look back to when I was younger, when I was much more curious and excited about school.
The stuff they teach in 2 hrs, if they just gave me the notes/worksheets, I probably could learn in 20 minutes. Everything is just so SLOW, which is making me slow.
Is it just my school?</p>

<p>I’m probably almost exactly like you in your habits, except I play sports (with my friends, that is, lol), do fun stuff, and don’t regard these things as “a waste of time”. Of course, what you’re doing may be different.</p>

<p>There’s a time to study and work…for me I’ve never gotten that “clicK” yet in my life ever until now, and I’ve basically been and still “waste” my life according to most people’s standards.</p>

<p>I don’t know, maybe next year something will happen.</p>

<p>Do something productive in class… read a novel, develop your sketching skills.</p>

<p>I feel the same way.</p>

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<p>Thank you for learning how to use proper grammar. Instead of slacking off in class, try learning and maybe your English will improve.</p>

<p>^I know stupider is not a word, excuse me for not having perfect grammar on an internet forum. But it’s not like anyone teaches me grammar at school. That’s my whole point, either class is filled with boredom or incompetence on the teacher’s part, so I’m not learning much, which equals me getting more STUPIDER. </p>

<p>haha, that’s bascially what I do in class, read novels, but aren’t I supposed to be learning something more? I spend 8hrs a day there. For example, today in math, we “learned” how to add vectors. Well that’s nice, but that shouldn’t take a full 2hrs, more like 20 minutes. Teachers are seriously wasting time, they get off topic for half the class, or maybe the whole class.
And outside of school is a lot more worthwhile and fun. While I’m actually in class though, I’m beyond bored. The amount of HW is just plain ridiculous.
At least at my school, education sucks. I dunno about everywhere else. It’s to the point I want to graduate early…but that isn’t happening.
I just wish I could go at my own pace or something, like everything should be on computers, you take the lesson, take a test, then move on.</p>

<p>yepp…felt the same way this whole year, got worse as the year progressed, teachers and me started slacking…
i always feel like it’s unnecessary to even go to school as i taught myself all the ap curriculum by reading the textbooks and studying myself, i mean, it helped having a calculus teacher, but i solved alot of those problems after figuring them out by myself, and for psychology, the teacher’s lectures were a regurgitation of what i had read a week ago from the ap psychology book…so yeah i’m always bored in class…</p>

<p>High school IS extremely boring. Teachers are incompetent, they don’t teach real “thinking” and only emphasize memorization, and yadayadaya.
However, as I have learned in the last 3 years of high school, the lessons learned from humility can be really far-reaching.
Point is: There are people smarter than you and there are people less smart than you. Get over yourself.</p>

<p>^ It wasn’t my intention to say that I’m smarter than everyone else, I know better than that. I’m just ranting about how boring HS is, and how it can be so pointless a majority of the time.</p>

<p>Felt that way until this year, I think taking as many AP/IB courses as I did has kind of taken the bored aspect away and I actually enjoy learning.</p>

<p>Some of my classes are like that, but some of my classes are THE OPPOSITE where if I don’t pay attention and study (my school gives almost no written homework, but it’s tons and tons of studying/essays) I would absolutely fail. But I never really take notes in class except in AP Art History, I mostly just try to actively participate so I remember things. But like English, Latin, Theology, occassionally Math are all wastes because my teachers are not exactly competent.</p>

<p>I feel exactly the same way. I spent all year in AP Computer Science learning Java. Then I spent a weekend on the internet learning python. Guess which one I know better?</p>

<p>I am the exact same. I only really am interested and pay attention in 2-3 classes. Others, such as history… Uhm wut?</p>

<p>^ Python, because Python is an easy language to learn (not that Java isn’t). Now, if you could master LISP programming over a weekend, I would certainly salute you.</p>

<p>My sentiments exactly, things are moving too slowly. We learn nothing in my history class, I remember everything from my amazing 8th grade teacher. In latin, we cover a chapter in about a week and a half to two weeks, whereas it’s very plausible to finish a chapter in 3 days or so. Algebra isn’t bad, but I still feel we do a lot of busy work. If my teacher would only do one or two practice problems and that’s it, I’d be much happier. I do have to pay attention in chem, which is probably the only class I actually am not bored in, as well as C++, because my teacher allows us to complete our work at our own pace, especially projects, which are very fun, like the Millionaire game I’m making now.</p>

<p>I could definitely just take my finals now and just enjoy summer.</p>

<p>that’s cause its the nature of high school to kill brain cells through boredom and stupid tests and assignments. that’s just the way it is. and until the education system changes dramatically, i’m guessing that’s how it’ll be for a long time.</p>

<p>The first class I’ve really liked in HS is APUSH. It is taught by the best teacher I’ve ever had, who is incredibly passionate about history. She teachers lecture style and fills her lessons with interesting off-tangent stories that I’ve really enjoyed listening to.</p>

<p>I’ve learned more in APUSH this year than I have in all my other classes combined…</p>

<p>I’ve wasted a year pretending to learn 2nd level Chinese, Pre-Calculus, and Chemistry…such a waste. If only the classes weren’t boring and useless…I want to learn my subjects, not be given a worksheet and told “do this and study.”</p>

<p>I suppose I’ll have to relearn it all when I have the time.</p>

<p>Rixs, I feel the exact same way.</p>

<p>They seriously need to reform education or something. Compared to other countries in Europe and Asia, our education sucks.
They should at least give us individualized learning plans. People’s methods of learning are completely different (visual, auditory, etc.). So are people strengths. Some people are great at math, others at english. They should be dealing with us as a individual and come up with lessons that are relevant and interesting to us, instead of lumping us all into a 40-kid class, where the teacher just shoves a few worksheets at us (of course after wasting 3/4 of the period).
I should LOVE school, but I HATE it. I can’t wait to get out of there, I look at the clock too much, hoping for the class to end since it’s so boring…The quality of my work is definately lacking, I just want to get it done, not really learn it. And that makes me upset because I feel like I would normally like learning, if it weren’t for the way they presented it to us.</p>