<p>The braggers. Its so annoying. Never knew the extremes existed, but they do. There’s this one dude who is like rank 5 or 6 or something and the way he goes about his day is so annoying. Randomly checking his ACT scores from June in class and going, yeah I totally just destroyed Berkeley’s stats. Oh my goodness this application page is garbage. I might apply to Yale if I feel like it. Let’s compare myself to the rest of the school…yep just destroyed them too." Its too much. It has to be the most annoying thing I’ve experienced. I’m just sitting there quietly like “Dude, I just moved here and my GPA is higher than yours. Get on my level and shut up”</p>
<p>^bump xD</p>
<p>Hey, this thread was started on my birthday. :o</p>
<p>Well, I’m home schooled, so I am thankfully spared some of the rawer elements on the high school life. To me, one of the most frustrating things about high school, some the time period that is, is having so many places to go but still having to rely on parents or my older sibling for transportation. </p>
<p>Second would probably be the SAT - that was quite frustrating. </p>
<p>Focus on class ranks and reputation. People treat it like real life, end all be all, when it’s really closer to a fish bowl.
Oh and not being 18 (depending on your birthday) yet, but that wasn’t an effect from high school itself haha.</p>
<p>(About my school specifically):
One of the most frustrating aspects of my school is that there is only 9 AP Classes. Calc BC isn’t offered because the districts requires Calc AB first and less than 4 people a year reach Calc BC. Considering that school requires Algebra 1 for the first Honors course which is Honors Algebra 1/Geometry it makes wonder why the first course isn’t Honors Geometry/Algebra 2. It could save many people having to take Algebra 1 twice and would make many people reach Calc BC or further if they cut the Calc AB pre-req. Also, AP Physics 1 is a senior course somehow.
Another is that we only have 7 classes a day with lunch being required due how lunch, 4th, and 5th period are bundled.
Probably the most frustrating aspect is that we have only 2 foreign languages: Spanish and French. Only Spanish has levels 3 and 4. Those taking French were heavily screwed over.
Most teachers either don’t care about their students or don’t care about their teaching or both (my H. Chemistry teacher and drafting/engineering teacher come to mind).
Our school has next to no clubs and it is difficult to start one. (We have never been told we could start clubs and considering how much most teacher’s care, we probably couldn’t). The only way to get involved is to join a sport which are school seems to gloat about too much (We have assemblies once a quarter to gloat about athletics and to glorify the Student Council cult).
The final frustrating aspect about my school is that they seem heavily against skipping courses or doubling up in subjects. P.E. being required is also annoying.</p>
<p>(About high school in general):
One thing that has always bothered me is that people seem to think one is smart because they get straight As. It is just a test of memorization (AP World History and H.Biology for example) with a few easy applications (the history essays and basic evolutionary scenarios). Math lacks creativity. It is just a mechanical process in which you learn a process and apply to every possible scenario. The tests are pretty much taught. Although I hate the way proofs are taught (two-column) it seems that most students who excel in math begin to falter there. English, at least at my school, happens to be based mostly on completion. If you turn all your assignments you should pass. The essays are also pretty easy to bs. Let’s not forget that we spent this entire semester learning about the parts of speech and types of sentences with the bulk of our grade being determined on whether or not we completed our vocabulary books or completed a current event worksheet every week (this is an Honors course by the way).
The emphasis on sports and the popular kids and their gossip is also pretty annoying.
The school food is pretty bad as well.
I also hate how everyone stresses the importance of a significant other. I just don’t want be involved in that nonsense.
I don’t know why people are startled that I don’t have a Facebook account or use Instagram. I feel that too many people put emphasis on socializing. </p>
<p>Imbeciles who know nothing yet are in honors classes.</p>
<p>Teachers who think the students know nothing and teach super-basic concepts.</p>
<p>No partial credit in math (like, I know the concept–I’m sorry if I made a dumb mistake while factoring or whatever).</p>
<p>Clubs that only use Facebook to update people on meetings (not everyone has one, you know). </p>
<p>Cafeteria food.</p>
<p>People whose parents can afford to let them go to super-expensive summer programs.</p>
<p>US News’s high school rankings. I think my high school deserves to be in the top 50, but US News does not even put my high school in the top 500.</p>
<p>@Mangiafuoco yes! My school isn’t even ranked, because apparently our URMs do worse than the rest of the population (by the way, only 1% of the school is made of URMs, and the majority of them don’t care about their grades at all because they’re “popular”–like, I know one URM who was in an honors class last year and she transferred? (there are also these half-Brazilian, half-Japanese triplets who do pretty well in school, if the Brazilian part makes them URMs); but basically, the URMs at my school choose to do badly, for the most part). I go to a school that’s 86% Asian, so the other ethnicities tend to become the stereotypical “popular kids.”</p>
<p>When we used to be ranked, we were ranked pretty high, though.</p>
<p>I already commented on this but junior year has given me new reasons to rant.</p>
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<li><p>The parking lot and the sh** drivers in it who act like they’re super cool just because they can drive. It’s madness.</p></li>
<li><p>The idea that the staff and district decide everything for the students. Like my school REFUSES to accommodate to the student and makes the student suffer from their apparent laziness and stubbornness. What happened to doing what’s best for our education?</p></li>
<li><p>Like @ThatPurpleKoala said, people who try to copy homework and get pissed when you say no. ESPECIALLY when you’ve spent hours on that dang thing and they get credit for your hard work. ugh.</p></li>
<li><p>People who obsess over social status and popularity. You know who I’m talking about. Like people who act like totally different people when their “popular” clique arrives, and those who act like they’re superior and are super rude to everyone. Or when people ignore/backstab their old friends just to be popular. Ridiculous.</p></li>
<li><p>Kiss-ups. Please GO AWAY, nobody likes you.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Honestly I could go on for years</p>
<p>English. They’re pretty much like “oh yes analyze this… but if you analyzed it differently than I did you’re wrong.” The class is supposed to be based on critical thinking.
The fact that there is only 6 classes in a day.
Stairs. Why must my school be 4 stories tall.
People who don’t throw their trash away after lunch. My school doesn’t have a lunchroom so most people eat in the halls or upperclassmen go off campus, and most people clean up after themselves but there’s a group who eats in a hall I have to walk in right after lunch that leaves their garbage everywhere, and it is disgusting.</p>
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<p>Story of my life.</p>
<p>All the seagulls during lunch because people throw their trash on the floor! Or maybe that’s just my school…</p>
<p>People asking you where you are applying to college. Underclassmen will never understand until their senior year it’s more about where you get into than where you are applying. </p>
<p>Edit: I have to admit I once was the person I am criticizing…then I became a Senior 
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<p>My school district advertises its “equity promise,” yet when I asked if I could do something students did at my neighboring school (take a class at the other school), they never even replied to my request. True, I had teachers and my counsellor help me out, but the district and the other school literally slight me. Hence, I am in a class with kids that sell weed that is supposedly “college chemistry,” even though I dished out hundreds of hours of my summer to test out of it. Studying AP Physics by myself is awesome.</p>
<p>Also as a general thing:</p>
<p>People who complain about no sleep and bad grades even though they get 10 hours+.</p>
<p>Group work. I always end up being the so-called “leader” who does 90%+ of the work because my dam grade is based on it. </p>
<p>Student: “This piece of literature is not worthy of a 6” (AP Scale 1-9), upset he only got a 6
Teacher: “First of all, your timed essay is not a piece of literature” … Talk to me after class instead of interrupting </p>
<p>people who are anti-social/outcasts but complain when nobody wants to be their partner or someone says no </p>
<p>I did not qualify for AIME. I took the AMC in 2013 and 2014. Both times, I missed AIME qualification by one problem. This is extremely frustrating for me. I thought I was good at math. Now, I have realized that I am below average in math.</p>
<p>1) Cheaters with high GPAs</p>
<p>2) Detention for being a second or two late to class</p>
<p>3) Cheaters who cheat on SATs/ACTs (you kidding)</p>
<p>4) Did I mention cheaters?</p>