<p>My school is the worst school you could end up at. We're poor. We have 30-35 kids in each classroom. We taped the ceiling tiles together. We don't have locks in the bathroom. We have drug issues a lot. People do pregnancy tests in the bathroom and they take a dump on the bathroom floor. You can punch someone and beat them up and get away with it. You have assigned seats at lunch. We don't have anything. My teachers are bad teachers. My favorite class, Math 1 (a crap new version of Algebra 1), is even poisoned by my school and the state. I love math, but they ruin it. My math book has no lessons, it's ALL word problems. My WHOLE class is word problems. Instead of teaching me exponential functions, all I did was half-life bacteria problems. They don't teach us equations, that's not part of the curriculum. We have to make them on our own, and usually in "NEXT NOW" (the new terrible f(x) way. My teacher doesn't teach math either. She's never gotten in front if the class, or gave notes, never. There's a school two minutes in walking distance from my house. I can see it from my house. It's so much better, they have drama and Spanish and Math 2 (Geometry--they're ahead). Those kids have their necessary language credits knocked out of the way, and it doesn't factor into their HS GPA. Whereas I have to take them in HS and they're 4.0 classes, so my GPA is lower than them in high school and no matter how hard I'll try my class rank will always be only in the top half. </p>
<p>I hate my high school but your school sounds way worse. I’m sorry you have to deal with that. </p>
<p>I dislike (hate is too strong) my high school but your school sounds way worse. I’m sorry you have to deal with that.</p>
<h2>Two reasons why I’m not happy at my HS: 1. Academics are not valued. Being accelerated and/or involved in academic ECs isn’t appreciated, especially not as much as the other HSs in my city. But, it’s definitely not as bad as it could be; there are still a couple of smart upperclassmen that I get to work with on a regular basis. 2. Most of my friends are at a different HS. Sure, people say “make new friends!”, but I like having friends that don’t shy away from intellectual conversation.</h2>
<p>Wait, why is your class rank being compared to the other school? That seems unfair. If this is in the same school district, you should raise this issue with the district people. It’s unfair if one school has an advantage and class ranks are being compared across different educational opportunities.</p>
<p>I don’t like my school that much even though it’s the best school in our district and our county(I think).</p>
<p>My school has a lot of issues with drug abuse, poverty, gang violence, etc. - however, it’s massive, so it’s really easy to isolate yourself from that type of stuff - while I’m aware things like drug dealing take place on campus, I never actually witness it because I’m surrounded by the kids who take the same classes as me and have the same interests and goals as me – (mostly college bound seniors in the top 10% of our class) – so I guess I can’t complain too much. </p>
<p>I dunno, I think I had a good high school experience. I didn’t have friends, but no one made fun of me or anything. The administration let me do whatever I wanted academically. I’ve changed a lot since I was fourteen, but my school was a constant in my life for three years. I’m a senior now and I haven’t been taking classes there this year, but I went back a few weeks ago and I ended up feeling kind of nostalgic. </p>
<p>yes</p>
<p>I like my school. I feel like hating my school would definitely subdue my drive for getting work done, so I kind of convince myself I love it all.</p>
<p>Well, come to think of it, I dislike our school district more than I dislike my school. In fact, the bureaucratic school district is who I have the most grievance with. Their ineffective policies focus on promoting underachieving, or poor, students and closing the “achievement gap”. While that in and of itself isn’t a bad idea, the fact that they neglect gifted education is. This is not just a problem with my school district; most American schools lack the framework to support gifted students.
A theory a friend of mine came up with is that schools can close the achievement gap in two ways: make the underachieving students smarter, or… make the smart kids dumber. They both close the achievement gap! Conspiracy theories… </p>