<p>It can be about a specific class or experience with a teacher or anything within the scope of your high school experience. </p>
<p>The busywork. High school for me is incredibly silly; often I’ll have hours of assignments to do that ultimately have no impact. I wish that teachers would realize that such busywork does nothing. For example, in APUSH, all we really do is read The American Pageant and talk about the American Pageant. Also, in Spanish, it is simple rehashing of what’s in the textbook. It just seems as if high schools aren’t adding anything I’m not already getting</p>
<p>The obsession over test scores, especially junior year. Some of my friends took the SAT three times just to get a 2300 in one shot when they already had scores in the 2200s. People consider 790s on SAT II tests to be “bad”. One sophomore said she took four practice Math I tests in one Saturday. Maybe it’s just me because I didn’t have to study nonstop for years to get a score I wanted, but I just think it’s overboard. People spend so much time studying and then don’t get satisfactory results and wonder where that time went.</p>
<p>I still have girl problems even though I’m single and want to stay that way. </p>
<p>@Smrtical
Humble-brag? </p>
<p>@Apollo11 No, more like I just spent sophomore year building strong friendships only to have them crushed because I don’t want to date. </p>
<p>“Journalism is an easy A class.”</p>
<p>Oh, really? Well then please tell me why I stay after school most days for 3+ hours to work on it, and work hard during class to write stories and track down people like you to interview. </p>
<p>@Smrtical
So the struggle is real, if that is what I’m to glean from this?</p>
<p>@Apollo11 Yes. I’d love to tell you all about my sophomore year. </p>
<p>This is more so annoying than frustrating but I don’t like the whole “I’m always right and the teacher is always wrong” mentality. We’re all here to learn. I think some teachers deserve more respect than they’re receiving and I feel bad for them sometimes. It’s also annoying when students complain about their grades or test scores but admit to not studying, taking notes or really putting in any effort. Doesn’t really make sense.</p>
<p>All of the emphasis on gpa like the difference between a 3.0 and a 4.0 is lifechanging but it’s a one number difference !!! One number is literally the difference between harvard or community college I could rant for years but that’s life man the education system isn’t changing anytime soon</p>
<p>Petty high school relationships. </p>
<p>@letmeseetheworld said it. Even the teachers that I don’t think have an incredible quality of teaching you should still treat with respect. It’s disgusting to hear so much hate for people that are there to help YOU. In school (not as much real life), you earn what you get. It’s usually your fault if you’re failing or making a C. </p>
<p>But, for me, it isn’t really even that. It’s the cell phones. Upon cell phones and more and more cell phones. STOP. Stop making me want to make an allusion by calling you Mildred in reference to how your addiction to your phone WHILE YOU SHOULD BE LEARNING AND SHOWING SOME RESPECT mimics Mildred’s addiction to her parlor walls in Fahrenheit 451.</p>
<p>The most annoying things about high school are 1. Busy work. 2. People who get overly stressed over 1-2 points on a test. 3. Kids questioning fundamentals of subjects even though the teacher is clearly more educated in the field. 4.Kids blaming teachers for their bad grades and just over all criticism of teachers who may not be great but are still pretty dam good.</p>
<p>People who blame their teachers for bad grades or AP test scores, like in my AP micro this year 85% of the class did really bad and weren’t getting the content. However none of them ever did homework unless it was graded and instead of reading the book they just wrote the vocab words we were supposed to and be done. Most people got like a C or worse and probably failed the AP test or didnt even take it while me and my friend simply did the work (maybe half hour a night, sometimes none or sometimes more) and got a 5 on the test. Like seriously people being independent and putting in your own effort is the most important thing to learning. Also I hate perfectionists who argue with a teacher when they get like a 98 or 99 on a test.</p>
<p>school lunches and how the Spanish teachers give out a ton of worksheets just to keep you busy </p>
<p>Mine is petty, but it’s how only a couple students get recognized. My school does academic rewards every year we have a math student of the year, a physics student of the year, etc. for each grade level. At the assembly everyone has to sit with their class and for every other year, there are a number of students, most earning one award. For my class, there were literally 4 students for 12 or so awards. One earned the PE students of the year, one earned the DECA student of the year, and two students split the remaining 10. This isn’t an exaggeration. I know they’re unimportant and, again, I’m being petty but my class is very strong academically (we have the most students in NHS) and so there were many smart, hard working students who should have earned those awards rather than two winning every one. They’re both very smart and certainly deserve to be recognized, but I felt this was unfair. Again, I know this is petty, but two students shouldn’t represent a class of 300 just because they have 4.0’s. </p>
<p>@Apollo11 I feel you on the American Pageant. That was probably one of the worst textbooks I have read in existence. It turns history, a subject I love, into one that I dread reading about. Thank goodness our teacher was a great lecturer and made classes interesting. I’m also with the guy that said that journalism is easy and how certain people make unecessary drama</p>
<p>How students can average 37% on tests in a class and still end up with an A overall because the teacher doesn’t have the balls to say “no” when they beg for loads of extra credit. </p>
<p>How people complain about having low 90 averages in classes…like SHUT UP.</p>