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When your school is over 80 years old, and they are finally reconstructing, leaving you with very little space and no auditorium. And by the time they finish, the school will be the most attractive in the county. Except construction finishes 4 years after you graduate, and it starts in your soph. year.
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Same here only I think my school is 100+ years old.</p>
<p>you guys are making this stuff up...right?</p>
<p>We had a choice between a second gym or a swimming pool. We picked the gym which we use only so we can justify its cost..</p>
<p>The principal preaches about the importance of good speaking skills when he himself cannot impromptu for beans</p>
<p>The chemistry teacher tends to randomly start speaking in German...</p>
<p>French 3 and French 4 are combined...</p>
<p>you color pictures of macbeth and shakespeare in your AP English Lit class for homework and the teacher make you redo it because you didn't stay in the lines.</p>
<p>incomplete ur kidding right?</p>
<p>your french teacher's husband and father are both on their deathbeds.</p>
<p>there have been more nurse visits from tripping over rolling (rollie) backpacks than football injuries.</p>
<p>same kid drives a hummer, range rover, a bmw 645, a mercedes s-55 amg, and cadillac escalade all in one week(one each day).</p>
<p>10/12 of the books read in honors english are written by black authors even though the black population at my school is less than .25%</p>
<p>12 kids in physics had over 60 absences this year and still managed at least a B.</p>
<p>the h20 polo coach is a vietnam/marines veteran, his favorite quote is "what doesnt kill u makes u stronger"</p>
<p>when 3/4 of the regular biology class knows more about the subject at the beginning of the year than the teacher does. He. Is. The. Worlds. Biggest. Idiot. Yet they won't fire him.</p>
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<li>When the school is in the news for 'promoting homosexuality' because Opposite Gender Day was part of Spirit Week... and then a parent forces a kid to drop out because of it.</li>
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<p>"the h20 polo coach is a vietnam/marines veteran, his favorite quote is "what doesnt kill u makes u stronger""</p>
<p>lol thats awesome</p>
<p>lh0pitalrules, i wish i were lol. It's not all the time that we have to color though.</p>
<p>...when teachers and students alike hate the vice principal</p>
<p>...when the PE teacher is arrested on multiple counts of child rape and molestation</p>
<p>...when your world history teacher knows less about world history than you and half your classmates and then yells at the class for taking too many notes</p>
<p>...when your algebra 2 teacher is a Lebanese immigrant who still, after 10+ years in America, can't speak intelligible English</p>
<p>...when your high school concert band is made up of 10 seventh-graders who just started playing their respective instruments</p>
<p>...when the teachers' annual salaries aren't enough to put them above the poverty line and they haven't been raised in 5+ years but the administration just voted themselves another pay raise</p>
<p>...when the school fires the best teachers for no reason and keeps it "hush hush" but keeps the ridiculously awful ones for years and years and years</p>
<p>...when the French program is randomly cut, leaving students with no way to fulfill foreign language requirements before graduation</p>
<p>...when the school is built next to a garbage dump full of illegal immigrants and across from Goodwill and a really ghetto Taco Bell</p>
<p>...when 3/4 of your tuition goes to paying the heating bills and yet the heating system invariably breaks down each and every winter</p>
<p>...when it takes literally an hour to log on to the school computer network</p>
<p>...when the vice principal randomly checks student's CD players (that they aren't even using during class) and looks up the lyrics and then tells the parents how their child is listening to a CD with ## cuss words on it</p>
<p>I think this thread is a bit weird. People go to the "What Are My Chances" Forum and talk about how they attended an elite private school and took all these advanced classes. Then you see these people coming to this thread and talking about how their school sucks.</p>
<p>Then there are all these people talking about how they are smarter than their teachers. Sometimes it's the case, but I doubt it is as common as people think on this forum.</p>
<p>well mine isn't as bad as the ones posted but here are a few
When</p>
<p>you live in one of the richest districts in the US but your school doesn't have the money to put the tiles on the ceiling for a year.</p>
<p>a substitute teacher a black sierra leonian comes and says that you
have to study even after the APs in AP chem class. He even prepared assignments for us to do since we were playing cards.</p>
<p>your school ends on June 24th this year.</p>
<p>people have pride in our school and thinks our school in a very competitive school while it actually isn't.</p>
<p>Only a few go out of state or even bother to apply out of state.</p>
<p>Your principal enforces "No play, but only work" policy after the AP tests in AP classes.</p>
<p>People call you an overachiever when they don't realize that they are either too lazy or stupid.</p>
<p>Your school offers AP statistics as a year-long course and people still don't get over a four.</p>
<p>AP Computer Science AB students get high grades as an A in class but only one or two manage to score three or above.</p>
<p>Blaming your AP teacher is a common procedure instead of blaming yourself for not doing anything.</p>
<p>School internet filtering blocks sites that you need for research.</p>
<p>People take APs with no idea and worry about getting low grades but still don't work.</p>
<p>People think that a low GPA is justified by the fact that you take the 'toughest load of classes' in your school and think your school is pretty competitive.</p>
<p>People go to MUN conferences to 'socialize' than to argue their point.</p>
<p>You need a pass to stay after school unless you are with a teacher.</p>
<p>You can only stay in the cafeteria during lunch. Once you get in the cafeteria you can't get out until the bell rings.</p>
<p>I feel your angst with the thing about how the school thinks they are awesome when it's not true.</p>
<p>You may have seen my post earlier, my school always barely gets the second highest commendation for the state tests, and yet they brag about it constantly. All the other schools in equivalent economic districts nearby get the highest rating.</p>
<p>...When the teachers union sues the school because they don't like the fact that seniors aren't taking PE</p>
<p>...When the teachers are making an AVERAGE of $100,000/yr [[as high as 150]] and threaten to strike if they don't get their yearly raise. They're started at a salary of around 60+</p>
<p>...When your school proposes a tax increase and if it fails threatens to make the SCHOOL DAY shorter (i.e. maximum classes allowed would be 5) and CLASS SIZES bigger but keep the "big" sports -- basketball and football.</p>
<p>...The state of Illinois makes the state requirement -- PSAE testing (includes the ACT!) -- a mere few days before AP tests. That was the most hellish time I've ever experienced.</p>
<p>When your school cancels dances because too many people are drunk!</p>
<p>when your school models slogans and dance themes after acoholic beverage ad campaigns. (refreshment served in beer bottles, "ABSOLUT" everything...).</p>
<p>i was on time-out for a few days so i didnt get to say another thing.</p>
<p>when your school filters words out like Grapes of Wrath from a search engine because it is related to sex...g-RAPE-s of Wrath (if you know what I mean)</p>
<p>"...when the vice principal randomly checks student's CD players (that they aren't even using during class) and looks up the lyrics and then tells the parents how their child is listening to a CD with ## cuss words on it"</p>
<p>LMFAO!</p>
<p>"when your school filters words out like Grapes of Wrath from a search engine because it is related to sex...g-RAPE-s of Wrath (if you know what I mean)"</p>
<p>The school admin might think that it is a porno site......</p>