<p>When your school finds it necessary to spend ALL money replacing all imac g4s (<1 year old) with new big screen iMac g5s</p>
<p>When you run out of money for textbooks so you need to share one very old and falling apart textbook per class</p>
<p>When you can't print in the library unless you bring your own paper because the school can't afford to buy paper</p>
<p>When the brand new computers in the library do not have a word processing application. You must instead print out all information, walk across the libary to the word-processing room and hope to get one of the four word-processing computers. From there, you must save your document on a flash drive or burn it off on a disk to transfer it tothe "printing station."</p>
<p>When the administrative building is a huge beautiful building full of fancy chandeliers, marble floors, granite counters, etc. Basically, a mini Taj Majal (even though the school is "broke"). </p>
<p>When you have monthly drug searches with canine units and lockdowns, but students still continue to get caught EVERY month.</p>
<p>When your school is referred to as the "pharmacy."</p>
<p>This is just the tip of the iceberg...Way worse things about my school that I probably haven't even remebered. (Thankfully!)</p>
whoever said they get yelled at for holding the microscope with one hand, you're supposed to hold it with two, one on the base, and one on the arm. thought that was common knowledge.
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haha, I never use two hands though. But the teacher don't care, because the microscopes are all over the room.</p>
<p>-When there aren't enough seats in class, so other students must sit on the floor</p>
<p>-The school is so big that it has two principals, with one side called the North side and the other one called the South side. Normally, it would have been East and West, but the school administrators did not want to start any fights.</p>
<p>-The average SAT score is 600 old and 900 new.</p>
<p>-You must wait at least 15 minutes to get any help from the college center lady.</p>
<p>-There's tagging, but that's obvious.</p>
<p>-There's a covered eating area, but you're not allowed to use it.</p>
<p>-A lot of teachers quit because there's not enough parking.</p>
<p>-When you ask the college center lady what extracurricular activities the school offers and she says "what's that?"</p>
<p>-When all the AP/ACT/SAT/SAT II tests in your school's library are brand new because no one uses them.</p>
<p>I got in trouble for lifting up a beaker that my teacher put off the electrical outlet to try and plug in the microscope.<br>
I had no clue why there was a beaker on the outlet, apparently it was broken.</p>
<p>the head of school's cell phone rings during the moment of silence in memory of 9/11, and she answers it and talks loudly. Also when prom is not allowed to be held anywhere besides on school grounds because they caught one or two kids drinking last year.</p>
<p>->when there's no ECs offered whatsoever
-> teachers are given half the day at work sleepin or fooling around
->school starts at 9:00 am and ends at 2:00 pm</p>
<p>When the Board of Education doesn't pass the budget, so some extracirriculars and elective classes get cut... but the school still has enough money to put smoothie machines in the cafeteria, and to put up little Braille signs next to every room (saying the room number.) I don't think we've ever even had a blind person.</p>
<p>My kids' private school starts at 7:40 & ends at 3; the public school starts at 8 & ends at 2:10 most days & about 1:15 on Wednesdays. If you have 10+ absences/year, you automatically fail in the public school, I've been told. Your parents may also be reported to Child Protective Services, even if your doc has notes explaining why you should be home rather than in school!</p>
<p>-There is more concentration on discipline problems than on actual education.</p>
<p>-The administration knows when and where a few kids go off campus for lunch, or which kid has an iPod on during class, yet they still can't figure out that guns are being sold in the back of the parking lot.</p>
<p>-Those same kids are suspended to encourage them to stay at school (How the hell does that work, exactly?)</p>
<p>-When there's a fire drill, you have to wait for an announcement to come on the intercom to tell you if it's real or not and if you stay or walk outside.</p>
<p>-There are 9 administrators that won't stay off your ass, but they cut classes due to "budget problems". CUT ADMINS!</p>
<p>-When you ask the counselor for help to fill out your app form, send off your transcript, or fill out your recommendation form and they say "that's not my job". Also, when they won't let you into the office or when you do enter, the counselors run from you.</p>
<p>-When you can only sit in ONE HALF of a NEW cafeteria (wasteful spending).</p>
<p>When there's a bomb threat... but it's for a day during vacation. I guess it's somewhat comfroting that when the middle school had one a couple days later that the kid was smart enough to pick a day when school was in session.</p>