<p>high school is for those ppl who aren't creative</p>
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Our despotic consideration of students, oppression of those who chose a different path, and blind admiration of our "educators" is sickening.
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<p>What most highschoolers feel about this 'tedious, useless, and unfair' system is a product of their ineffective rage and teenage 'wisdom'. I can't take anyone under 24 seriously when discussing education because it's that age when people think they know everything. Talking about the 'systematic destruction' of dreams or creativity or things of that abstract nature just makes me want to laugh at you, because some people clearly don't get it.</p>
<p>Yes, high school in the US is ineffective. Yes, in some places it's pretty bad. But those who blame THEIR failures, THEIR lost dreams, and THEIR shortcomings on something as stupid as 'highschool sucks and society is pushing me down' deserve a slap to the head and an ironic laugh that they're only proving themselevs right. Those who deserve to succeed and have the drive to will persevere no matter what stands in their way and no sit down and cry over an obstacle like academia.</p>
<p>Maybe you're* not destined for things as great as you thought you were. Too bad.</p>
<p>*You in the general sense, not any specific poster.</p>
<p>My mom is a public high school teacher in the Northeast. She is <em>not</em> well-paid. It varies from town to town, but I doubt very much that she would make more than $80,000/year (which is not that much in this part of the country) unless she worked at Phillips Andover. I'll have to ask my friend, though: her mom works at Phillips and might be able to provide an estimate as to how much educators at the most prestigious private school in the state make. Regardless, public school teachers still don't make much, and to imply that they make enough (or that they should make less) is absolutely idiotic. They need to make a decent living, and most teachers have families that they need to support.</p>
<p>I go to school in Indiana and the administrators are big d-bags (just today one was walking down the hall and broke into class and yelled at a kid for sitting on a desk, so he could see the other people in his group, and when the kid made a smart-ish comment under his breath so the dean took the kid out of class, and he didn't say one word to the teacher of the class throug the whole incident)
Aside from the administrators everything else is cool, the teachers are good and hate the administrators more than the kids (above statement is just the most recent d-bag move of our admin.) and the school is big enough, 3200 kids in 3 grades, that you can find any group of kids you want.</p>