I really can’t stand the people who assume that they’ll get into their first-choice reach school.
There was this one kid in my class who applied to UPenn Wharton ED. The Friday before decisions came out (they came out over the weekend), he went on a loud tirade in the middle of economics about how he would be so much wealthier and more successful than anyone else in the room because he’d be going to Wharton.
He was rejected.
He literally didn’t come into school the next week.
When people who go to the “Rich” (public) school down the road, or the charter school, or a private school, and they completely discredit anything I do good in my “ghetto” public school. Like I was talking to some people and they were like what did you get on your human geography midterm, and I was like a 92%, which was the highest grade in the school. So they were like oh that’s cuz you go to Ghetto Springs (my school’s nickname). I didn’t say anything, but I wish I had said “No, it’s because I started studying 2 weeks before the test, made 500 flashcards, watched 3 hours worth of review on youtube, and studied for 7 hours the weekend before”. Plus, I got a 100% on my biology midterm and people even at my own school get very mad when they ask me and I tell them. Like you know I’m smart, so don’t ask me if you’re just going to get mad when I tell you! (Well that was my rant lol)
@micmatt Oh my gosh, literally no water or bathroom all day except lunch?!? That literally sounds more like prison than school lol. That just would not work for me because I have to use the bathroom 3-4 times a day
Oh yeah, I thought of another one. Teachers who give out pointless work. Im not talking about too much homework or anything, but Im talking about useless assignments that will not enhance my understanding of something in any way. My child development teacher gave us like 1~2 months to do this extremely time consuming project: a 3D model of an elementary school classroom. It had to have 3 different stations (like a reading station, or a computer station), a teacher area (teachers desk and workplace), students area (with a bunch of desks and chairs and all those), a bathroom (so obviously a toilet and sink too), and miscellaneous things like doors, windows, chalkboard, etc. All of these had to be 3D and hand-made. She told us a story about a student printing a picture of a toilet and putting it on the wall and receiving a low grade, since the toilet wasnt 3D. I spent way too much time on that project (over a days worth). And remind me what I learned from that project? I clearly learned what a kindergarten classroom looks like, which I could have easily learned by searching up an image of a classroom on Google.
Ok another one from me. This one isn’t necessarily about high school and it’s not “frustrating” (Why am I even on here?) but just really “scary.”
I am seriously so afraid of growing up, going to college, being an adult. Don’t get me wrong: I am very excited, but I am very scared too. I don’t feel like an almost-adult. I don’t want to leave all my childhood memories behind. I don’t want to leave behind the people that really matter. Not friends, I mean family. Whenever I remember all these random memories of spending hot summers with my cousins and brother playing cricket back in the homeland, fighting and making up with them, attending big fat weddings, sleeping on the terrace under the stars, watching movies for hours on end, it all feels so nostalgic that I actually feel nauseous. I wish I had treasured those moments and enjoyed them a bit more.
I feel so sad right now :’ (
As much as we feel frustrated by high school, let’s all treasure our final years of childhood (some of us will stay children at heart though! And that’s okay. In fact, that’s pretty awesome.)
I hated the "filler’ courses. I took business management in high school thinking I would learn business skills and instead we watched shark tank all class and did worthless vocab.
My school’s administration is so disorganized!!! Gaaaahhhh!!!
We have 4 guidance counselors for our school of 3200+, so they are completely overwhelmed and most of the time refuse to do schedule changes. Here’s just a few things that have happened to me:
Junior year: Did awesome in physics sophomore year, signed up for AP Physics B but didn’t get the class. There were 36 spots and 30 seniors signed up so there were 6 spots for juniors. The juniors who got in were first selected on the basis of if their schedule could accommodate 4th period physics (which mine could). From that sample, they gave the class to 6 juniors based on ALPHABETICAL ORDER!!! Seeing as my last name starts with an S, I didn’t get that class, so they said “oh, you still need your fine arts requirement, so we’re gonna put you in music appreciation lol”
Senior year: Asked to do double science (AP physics C and ap chem) which required a teacher recommendation. Got the recommendation, but when I checked my schedule they gave me AP Spanish and no AP Chem. They said it was because I didn’t get recommended into double science. But then I argued that I was, in fact, recommended, and they double checked and were like “lol jk you’re right”.
So then they removed spanish from my schedule and placed me in 6th period chemistry, giving me a 1-6 schedule with an open 2nd period, EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A 2ND PERIOD OF AP CHEM??? I considered dropping one or the other, and I had to basically harass the vice principal until I got into 2nd period.
The feeder middle school was pretty bad too. My 8th grade year, they registered me as a new student and put me in all regular (non-honors) classes. They claimed to have none of my info on file, so I had to go back to each teacher I had in 7th grade and have them email the admin that I was a student of theirs last year and I was recommended for honors. In addition, they initially had me as an ESL student in their system. I’m white af and I’m pretty sure English is my first and only language…
Every year at least one kid is busted for bringing weed or alcohol on campus. Who would possibly think that’s a good idea?
Other things students have been suspended/expelled for include:
Smoking weed at 9 AM in front of a boys bathroom
Smoking weed at various times of day inside the bathrooms
Having sex in the aforementioned bathrooms
Girls giving each other piercings in the bathrooms with toothpicks
Threatening to bomb the school
Calling the teacher a “puta”
(some of us will stay children at heart though! And that’s okay. In fact, that’s pretty awesome.)