My teachers: You have finals coming up? Great, here are 6 projects to keep you busy.
Somethings I find frustrating about high school is when teachers have favorites and when students whine about how they have no time because they are taking all honor classes( There’s only 3 Honor Classes available for freshmen ._. not much). Another thing would be when peers compare stats and another one would be when I was signing up for courses, one of my peers was trying to tell not take the classes I wanted because I’m not as competent as they are.
When a classmate reminds the teacher about homework.
I hate how we are expected to act like adults, but they still treat us like children.
-I can’t stand students who are detrimental to the classroom. I understand you don’t tale school seriously, but when a teacher has to spend half the class getting at students it takes away from my learning. I wished class rosters were based on grades instead of random
-Students with higher grades should get the classes they want first…
-I don’t like that counselors are never really there for you.
-I don’t like blinded students. Students who think that life is only about partying, pleasure, drugs, etc, yet complain when they don’t get things they want. (grades, achievements, etc)
-I hate schools that prioritize their athletes and disregard their academic honor students.
-It’s unfair that I miss out on opportunities because of the school I go to or the state I’m from. I live in AL and don’t have a lot of options. We have the basic AP classes and my old school offered IB, but I wish I could take Japanese, Geography (tired of learning the same thing in History), and some older courses they got rid of like woodshop. Even some clubs are school exclusive and are hard to establish at other schools.
-It really irritates me when teachers won’t give you that one extra point if you make an 89. It is partially my fault though I’ll be honest.
-I can’t stand when people talk about us smarter kids like we don’t earn our grades
-Ivy League schools are weighted too highly than other colleges sometimes. People could hear someone went to Harvard and give them the job, yet someone who graduated as valedictorian from a state school would be disregarded. I respect the Ivy Leagues as much as anyone else, but they don’t determine your success.This also goes for high schools of different states and districts too.
-I really dislike how the education system is set up period. In order to pay to college students have to fight neck to neck for valedictorian, highest GPA, scholarships, and any other opportunity. Students don’t ever get to do things they like or have free time, because they’re trying to be president in 5 different clubs, play sports, do volunteering, and still do the AP work of 5+ AP courses. God forbid you make a C or less on your report card or something less than a 30 on the ACT, because then you can kiss scholarships goodbye. Even where you go to school at has a big influence on whether or not you can get scholarships since colleges like to skip over the less fortunate schools. Rich folks have the money to pay for college and poor people get all the financial aid, but all the people in between get very little if anything. I’m working my butt off to get scholarships and I’m confident I’ll get enough, but no teenager should have to stress themselves because it’s their deciding factor if they get in a pile of student loan debt or not. I pray to God I make enough money and save a lot, so that my children won’t have to stress during high school and can enjoy it a little more.
I know that a college education, especially scholarships, are an opportunity and not a freebie, but it doesn’t change the fact that the students on sites like these as well as I do all we can to be the best we can be, for personal, academic, and competitive reasons, but at the same time are going against one another for spots at the Ivy Leagues or those full free rides. I didn’t expect to rant this long, but I ended up ranting.
The annoying freshmen who block the hallways and are loud and pushy and just hiring in general. Freshmen have a hallway where most of their classes are in, unless they have tech,PE, art, music etc. Unfortunately the AP Stats teacher also teaches algebra I and II which are average and below average freshman classes. Which means stats is tight in the middle of freshman hallway. 0/10 woukd not recommend
As an alumni, it is time to vent, and vent hard.
- Unless if you have the fortune of going to a very good high school, 90% of the students there are useless little losers. I'm sorry for the bluntness, but when you look at the chronic levels of bullying, misbehavior and intellectual laziness at high school, it's tough to come to any other conclusion. Luckily, things get better when you go to college and most of the morons get weeded out.
- The cruelty and the bullying. I was spared most of this (I paid my dues in elementary and middle school), but not everyone was - a testament to my first point.
- The stupid jockocracy.
- The lazy, apathetic teachers who are probably a lot dumber than you are. This isn't all of them, of course; but there are plenty of useless morons who become teachers (just look at the average LSAT scores of education majors), and thanks to tenure, they don't get fired.
- The boring, bare bones classes. Again, I was at least partially spared this by going to a very good IB program, but in the few instances where I had to take a non-IB or AP class, I was bored to death by them. I'm cautious of sounding like a braggart, but this is CC; I'm imagining many of you went through a similar experience.
- The worthless administrators who loved ruling by guilt-by-association.
- Your parents are probably usually right, but when they're wrong, it really sucks because you're very limited in your options then.
- Being suck in a high school based on what geographic location you randomly relocated to.
- The small town tribal mentality - your reputation is very difficult to shake, and it's tough to get a blank slate.
- Overall, a lack of control or freedom over yourself - you don't have many options when it comes to who you get to associate with, what classes you can take, where you can hang out or how you get to live your life. You feel like you're being held back and oppressed by an inefficient process led by people who barely know more about what's going on than you do. At least you realize that things get better. Much better. Well, except for the useless morons I mentioned before. But for everyone else, I guess it's good that life goes uphill from here.
^the salt is strong with this one.
- Slackers that tell stories of getting sloppy drunk last Saturday and tell others who to buy weed from
- Students that do drugs
- Students that do drugs and brag about their country club lives X(
- Cheaters
- Students that never push themselves to even try higher level courses. They just coast for four years. [-(
I think I get so upset about students that drink and smoke because I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why they're throwing their lives away (education wise). It's like high school is one big playground for them to sleep around, get high, and have fun. There's nothing wrong with having fun in high school (at an appropriate level), but I feel like your main goal should always, always be to work hard and get yourself into college. I don't know, maybe I'm too uptight?
@jubilant56 Well it’s called high school. If you aren’t high through at least half of it, you must be doing something wrong right?
@jubilant56 You’re not uptight in a bad way, you’re just sensible and realistic.
@Frigidcold Lol, that certainly seems to be my classmates’ philosophy…
@albert69 #:-S Okay, good. I just don’t like it when students make the weak excuse, “Yolo. I should be able to have fun while I’m a teenager.”
@jubilant56 [-( There are many ways to have fun besides getting high and sleeping around that are far safer and more beneficial. 
@jubilant56 Well it’s called high school. If you aren’t high through at least half of it, you must be doing something wrong right?
Wow there guys. Some people have different ideas of fun. Try not to judge too hard, ok?
I can write a book, but I’ll just do the top 10.
1 )People who party/go out until 3 AM, then complain they’re tired.
2) “Haha, I’m going to tech school, I don’t need to take the SAT’s, I’m way cooler than all of you.”
3) People who think because they have a part-time job, they no longer need a diploma (This is actually common in my school.)
4) People who do literally nothing, or act rebellious, thinking they’re “cool”, and blame the teacher that they’re failing. (I watched a documentary yesterday about children who walk 12 miles daily to go to school, maybe we should give them your spot!)
5) People who complain over the most pathetic things. I’ve actually witnessed someone throwing their iPhone during class because they wanted white, not black. Thankfully, I’m not in that school anymore.
6) Couples who break up and get back together daily.
7) People who walk slowly in the hallway, or run in the opposite direction (into me) if they see a friend.
8) School lunch.
9) People who’re extremely judgmental, and complain they don’t have many friends.
10) PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING.
Homeschooled people probably feel lucky after reading this thread…
I think the most annoying thing about high school is how judgmental people are of each other. So many of you decide what is appropriately ambitious behavior, and then go on to judge anyone who does not fit your standards. So what if someone wants to complain about something you think is shallow? Who cares if someone does drugs? It’s their choice! Something about you probably annoys them.
Contrary to what some of you seem to believe, you will always have to deal with people who are different than you. Getting to know others with different values has been a very important, educational (albeit sometimes challenging) experience, and certainly I wouldn’t classify it as “annoying”.
“Just because you have better grades than me doesn’t mean you work harder for a class than I do.”
Yes it does. Because I work hard for my A while you don’t do work AT ALL and complain that you have a D.
@RMIBstudent the salt is strong, but everything you said is true. I think the salt is strong in 99.99% of this board, but no one really tells it like it is. The truth of the matter is that education (esp. in the U.S.) is designed around teaching to the lowest common denominator. This is true even in AP classes. It means that MANY smart students, generally those who go to public schools (and therefore those schools HAVE to keep kids from failing out), are learning very little and mostly just pissing away their time.
That being said, there is obviously some good stuff. I love most of my teachers. They make it worth it to get out of bed every morning. I think trading 4 years of your time in HS (where you’re frustrated most of the time) for an amazing undergrad education and the possibility of an even more amazing grade education is worth it, every single time. The catch is that it likely isn’t worth it for those who aren’t going to put forth the effort; everything turns into a balancing act, but IMO the real winners are always those who stick it out for the long haul.