<p>HS is hard mmkay</p>
<p>I thought there were actual cliques with labels. Like preps and goths and stuff. But no one I’ve ever met is that one-dimensional.</p>
<p>I heard that kids at public high school are more likely to bully because their poor and that means they’re uneducated. At least in my experience, I would say it’s the opposite.</p>
<p>Honors classes require you to study an hour a day each and AP’s two hours a day each. Yeah, right haha</p>
<p>@halcyonheather
Thank goodness I go to a decent school</p>
<p>^
What is that a response to?</p>
<p>1) High school will affect the rest of your life.
2) You will use everything you learn in high school in real life.
3) High school will be the best time of your life.</p>
<p>The list of lies:</p>
<ol>
<li>People would be mature.</li>
<li>You’d have more chance of course freedom/freedom of person.</li>
<li>“The boys will be more grown up and attractive, believe me!”</li>
<li>“It’ll be the best four years of your life!”</li>
</ol>
<p>
</p>
<p>1.) Yes it will.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather
Cliques… my previous school had it but not my current school</p>
<p>“High school will be the best years of your life”-everyone since middle scholl</p>
<p>I can guarantee there are millions of people in the world who are very successful without doing well in high school.</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way, High school only affects what college you get into. And what college you went to only matters for a few years of your career. After that, it’s all what you have accomplished and your experience. If you think in 20 years people will give a **** what high school you went to or what grades you got, you need a reality check.</p>
<p>“If you think in 20 years people will give a **** what high school you went to or what grades you got, you need a reality check.”</p>
<p>By that logic, why do I bother living? In 100 years no one will give a damn about ME.</p>
<p>“Don’t worry, we will deal with less stupidity once we attend high school.”</p>
<p>1.There’s groups of kids who block the main hallway that create slow traffic between classes.
2. I knew a girl in psychology class who spends all her time with make up or complaining about the hardness of the class. (she did not read ANYTHING in the textbook)
3. I still hear conversations about how “the man” preventing certain kids making good grades.</p>
<p>@Milthick:
Even though you can still rise after screwing up during your high school years, it is a lot easier if you entered the workforce with a degree, especially one with magna/summa cum laude from a well-known and elite university.</p>
<p>@smallkid9:
1: I know how that feels, I really wish that my school would allow me to bulldoze my way through classes.
2: I know several kids who rely on repeatedly re-tests to simply pass honors courses. It’s a simple fact that some kids should never take AP courses, much less be allowed to go on to college.
3: Entitlement. I see this a lot in American high schools, it seems like everyone acts like they “deserve” high grades. Unfortunately from what I have heard about college students, this will only wane during the workforce, so they still have 4~8 more years before reality hits them.</p>
<p>We really shouldn’t send kids to college if they’re only going there to rack up debt and party. </p>
<p>It sounds mean, but not everyone should attend college. It doesn’t seem feasible.</p>
<p>“Best times of your life”
Hahahahaahhahahahahahahahah…
God I hope not.</p>
<p>“School doesn’t really matter until you get to high school.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I had to decide to have my Algebra class from middle school removed from my transcript, as I got a C in it (led to believe IT DIDN’T MATTER), and that would greatly harm my cumulative. So now I have to somehow retake Algebra 1/2. </p>
<p>If no one would have told me the above statement, preferably the opposite, I would be so much happier right now. I could have opted for all the high school credit classes in middle school, I could have gotten awards and been in contests and fairs, I could have selected my freshman year courses smarter, I could be golden right now. </p>
<p>But no. My generation was the misinformed one. And my parents’ generation was the weird clique one, so they didn’t want me to be an outcast/nerd. I could have grown up bilingual, and smart. ****ing time machine, man. </p>
<p>Sorry. Anger. What could have been. Etc.</p>
<p>Haley, that’s not what I am saying at all. By your logic, we remember Andrew Carnegie, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, and many others for the grades they got. But we don’t, we remember them for what they did. And that’s what I am saying, what you actually do is what you will be remembered by. The things you actually do while working are much more important. “To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die.” - Carl Sagan</p>
<p>Ach7DD, Not at all. A lot of state universities are alright in a certain field, for example, Purdue for engineering. They are also to get into, and have tons of recruiters when you are about to enter the workforce. You don’t need straight A’s to go to Purdue, and can be just an average joe at grad, and still get hired (for my case, in the tech field), work for 5 years. Nothing you have done except the 5 years experience matters. The people on this forum exaggerate how hard things are way to much, a lot of you actually need to do some research instead of just blindly following what you are told.</p>