<p>simfish, I never thought of the earplug idea. I'll have to buy some from walmart or something!</p>
<p>u know it's kinda funny. I skipped school a lot this year to study on my own. Made my english teach mad but no one else cared.</p>
<p>Vtran, how did you handle those "tardies" and "absences"?</p>
<p>my paretns really dont care . they know I make good grades so they tolerate a little of whatever. I just came in after school or during lunch and made up the absences</p>
<p>Don't they show up on your transcript?</p>
<p>You make good grades while skipping classes? Wow, what kind of school do you go to...</p>
<p>But i suppose we all have different ideas about what a "good grade" is.</p>
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<p>Not on my school distict's.</p>
<p>I have 9 absences from my calculus class and I still have an A in the class. Ironically, it is my favorite class and the class that I feel I am gaining the most out of (and I have a B in my least favorite class, French, with 6 absences).</p>
<p>And no, I'm not stupid enough to say "therefore, more absences = better grades." All I'm saying is that motivation is far more important than simply being present in class.</p>
<p>Some people don't need a lecture to learn material.</p>
<p>sup, my only b was an 85 in Pre cal. for my other classes:</p>
<p>AP US History: 93
Latin 3: 99
AP Chem: 100
AP English: 90
AP Physics: 96</p>
<p>3 or 4 points below what I usually make in a few classes, but not enough to care. yea I don't go to the most academic school in the world</p>
<p>simfish: That makes sense, yes. Our lates and absences appear on our high school transcript, and skipping class is punished with suspension if you're caught. Needless to say attendance isn't usually a problem.</p>
<p>Just do your homework during class. If teachers don't like it, then don't let them find out.</p>
<p>Thisyearsgirl, Sigh and me go to a small Christian school in Taiwan. Our entire high school has around 200 students, and although our school "claims" our courses are modelled at a Honors level, the courseload except for certain classes is ridiculously light. We are constantly stuck with half-hearted amateur teachers that should go teach elementary/middle school where teaching isn't exactly that important. The biggest joke -- our English teacher reads out of Spark Notes word for word as his "lecture". Believe it or not, we got through Jane Eyre, A Separate Peace, and Silas Marner that way (all three books which less than 5% of the class actually read because the teacher was so slack). His quizzes/exams were all derived from Spark Notes and Grade Saver, and everyone could get 100%'s on them because all you had to do was log on to the Internet and read everything off. This was how ridiculous school got for me this year...I (and nearly everyone in the class) wrote to the school board complaining about this teacher, and we kind of "got him fired". At any rate, he won't be teaching English II next year. The only courses that I had to focus in on school was Physics and AP Calculus. Everything else was study hall. I currently have a 4.00 GPA, but what of it? I hardly learned anything in school...I have to supplement my studies by self-studying many courses such as APWH this last school year, and I'm doing at least 3 independent courses next year. This is a widely-rampant problem, and I actually look forward to college in the sense that my professors (hopefully, but much more likely than right now) will KNOW what they are talking about instead of blabbering jibberish. Thinking about this and the fact I have two more years of this nonsense left, I almost wish I can go off to college right now.</p>