<p>Across the street is an orange grove, which isn't too bad... until "burning season." God, when all you can smell are burning rotting oranges (the smell is extremely strong and pervasive) NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE, it's extremely difficult to feel healthy/the desire to learn.</p>
<p>Well, we can't tell what color the walls are in the hallways--they're covered with lockers, you see.</p>
<p>But at least we have AC. I think it's mandatory to have AC if the school's in Florida.</p>
<p>When your teacher asks a kid to think of a sport, and the only one he can come up with is Lawn-mower racing.</p>
<p>10jarsle you have to be joking right!?!?! thats crazy haha</p>
<p>.....when the principal is more worried about what girls wear than his job
.....when anyone is allowed to do the IB Program even if they failed every class
.......when seniors loose their parking privelige, for parking on the teacher's lot in testing days, when it says your allowed to
...... when kids meet up in school to play b-ball and the cops show up
.....when kids are looking at books in the library, and the librarian thinks the kids are dealing drugs
.....WHEN THE SCHOOL BUILDS A NEW BUILDING FOR THREE MILLION DOLLARS, GETS BRAND NEW COMPUTERS, ELECTRONIC SMART BOARDS WHERE YOU CAN WRITE ON IT AND IT EVERYTHING COMES ON THE COMPUTER, BUT HAS SHORTAGE OF BOOKS AND CANT AFFORD NEW ONE</p>
<p>When your vice principal confiscates your food because you had your lunch out in the hallway (just took it out of my locker) and then proceeds to eat it in front of your face.</p>
<p>^ WOW. Just.. wow.</p>
<p>BestMiller1 I could be wrong but it is up to IB not your principle who is in IB. Sure they can take the classes if your principle but there is no way they can get an IB diploma out of it if they are failing every class.</p>
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<p>This is partially true of our IB program, at least up to our junior year. That's why last year's figures were:</p>
<p>Number of Students in the IB Diploma Programme</p>
<p>Freshmen (PIB): 102
Sophomore (PIB): 95
Junior (IB): 88
Senior (IB): 41</p>
<p>thats stupid though..............if you have people in your class who are not up to your standards, then doesnt really promote any competition does it?....you dont have to do anything, just sit there and beat em really badly....i took the IB program to challenge myself from courses that are offered at regulars.....if having students whose grades dont qualify in the program then the learning environment is the same as regular classes, then there is no point of doing the IB Program....Example, had a STEREOTYPICAL BLONDE CHEERLEADER in the class, she was so annoying...we were reading the book Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Marquez....the protagonist's name was Santiago.....and even though we 100 time corrected teh girl, she kept saying SAN DIEGO.............my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>either that or it is just as hard and you just do well while others don't..ya know...</p>
<p>...when watching Shrek is part of your final.
...when the teachers treat you more as their grandchildren than students.
...when your APUSH teacher spouts his political views during the entire class period.
...when your Spanish teacher knows more about English literature than the entire English department.
...when AP is confused with remedial courses.</p>
<p>Hey BestMiler1-- There's a girl im my class like that. She thought that Austria and Australia were the same.</p>
<p>...When almost all class time in US History is spent watching movies unrelated to history (this one we saw was about a boil that took over a man and he had two heads at the end). When someone in the class asked if we could watch Malcolm X, the teacher said, "I don't think that movie has any historical relevance." Maybe not, but more so than the boil movie.
...When in that same class, we do not learn any history and spend the time not spent on watching movies on sketches also unrelated to history.
...When your English teacher continues to talk about sex. Constantly. Calls a student gay, another suicidal and gay, and another a transvestite (all completely random)-- and is still working at the school.</p>
<p>I just remembered one (real btw)</p>
<p>-The teachers themselves have to order the textbooks.</p>
<p>When the substitute teacher in a classroom of 3rd graders hurts a child & then runs screaming from the classroom, banging her head against the wall or door yelling, "I can't take it!" The other teachers hear the commotion & summon the counselor who looks in at the chaos & then leaves, saying, "I have things to do." The kids remain with the deranged substitute & no other adult present for the rest of the day (4+ hours). The next day, the principal comes in & scolds the kids for misbehaving & causing the substitute to "have a bad day," making them miss most of their field trip & laying a huge guilt trip on them. The school refuses to tell parents why their kids are suddenly frightened to go to school! (True story of why I switched my kid's school the next day.) This substitute CONTINUES to work for the public school system!</p>
<p>...when you can count on one hand how many kids pass AP exams for all tests.
...when your passing rate for AP English is one for every thirty.
...when you don't remember the NAME of your English teacher because she was never there.
...when you're not sure who was your teacher - the sub or that lady who came in on the first day and left forever.</p>
<p>That's awesome...I had a sixth grade lit/math teacher who did that spirited. Came the first week maybe, then never again and we got this fat man who looked like a genie as a sub.</p>
<p>...when you can count on one hand how many kids pass AP exams for all tests.
...when your passing rate for AP English is one for every thirty. </p>
<p>Haha, that happens in my school too.</p>
<p>...when the only difference between AP and regular is the number of cross word puzzles handed out.
...when ever single new kid that enters your school complains about pathetic and ridiculous both the teachers and students are.
...when you become unsure if the number of kids transferring out of the school is greater than the drop-out rate.
...when you learned everything in "AP BIO" in the second semester of your 7th grade year.
...when the teachers make fun of the missing kids and bet on if they were a) druggies b) suicidal or c) just plain stupid.
...when your math teacher threatens leaving the school for a volleyball position at a nearby high school because the principal is too busy watering down the curriculum to up the graduation rate.
...when you've had the same luck as logisticswizard with SparkNotes.
...when you've posted on the "HOMESCHOOLING IS A JOKE" thread and nevertheless wish that you were because you know you'd learn more in a semester than all four years combined.
...when you laugh at new teachers for their blind optimism; you know they'll be jaded by the end of the term.</p>
<p>...when school decides to take away IB Chemistry and offer it when hs is done for you :-(
... when the football team has not won a home coming game in six years
... when the track team has more championships than footbal, basketball and baseball combined............whoooo hoooooooo :-)
... when your history teacher slips and falls over a coffee spill, because the janitors are too lazy to do their work
... when superintendent of the school is sued because of fued between a fellow student
... when the superintendent salary is gigantic and enormous, exceeding than what it should be
...WHEN THEY CANCEL EVERY PEP RALLY WITH OUT VALID EXCUSE.....FOUR YEARS OF HS AND HAVENT GONE TO ONE WINTER AND SPRING PEP RALLY BECAUSE THEY WERE CANCELED FOR NO REASON
... when the cheerleader team is horrible and kickline team is NDA champion for six years straight</p>
<p>When your counselor does a presentation on financial aid and doesn't know the anagram or the meaning of the anagram FAFSA.</p>