<p>when your VP finds a kid on a site with porn ads and asks him to click it and then prints it out in full color and reports to the dean</p>
<p>I would like to echo Godfather, me thinks many of these posts <em>cough</em>imiracle911<em>cough</em> are simply the egos of many CCers who see themselves as above or better than their fellow students and their teachers. Granted some of these things are horrible, but just because you perceive the people in you school as being stupid when compared to your almighty greatness doesn't make the school bad. </p>
<p>This thread also illustrates how we (myself included) tend to inflate our college apps (ie these so-called crappy schools suddenly become "elite magnet schools" on apps).</p>
<p>I've been echoed, gosh I feel special lol.</p>
<p>It's a natural human tendency, but I think it's over done on this forum. People skew the facts to suit their point.</p>
<p>When we are posting on this thread, people say how much their schools sucks compared to their "almight greatness" because it makes them sound fabulous.</p>
<p>When we are on the chances forum, they talk about their elite private school where only geniuses get accepted, and how it's Newton's alma mater and all this crap.</p>
<p>Sure there are bad teachers, but take them for what they are worth, learn what you can, and move on.</p>
<p>I had a horribly organized programming teacher this year. I felt like if I didn't have the interest and it had been a core class, I wouldn't have learned a thing. I decided though, that I took the class because I wanted to learn programming, and I was darn well going to learn it no matter what the circumstances were.</p>
<p>If your schools sucks, take advantage and slide into the valedictorian seat.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wish I went to a crappy school where I could get a couple B's and not lose sleep due to homework.</p>
<p>I thought my school was bad enough, but it looks like some of yours' might be able to beat mine with that title. Nonetheless, here's my list: [ul]
[<em>]When public canings become a weekly/bi-weekly affair
[</em>]When we are forced to put on a facade when officers coming in to validate our status as an autonomous school arrive to inspect us
[<em>]When teachers' English are so atrocious, they spell their words wrong, they get their verbs mixed up and they have their grammar all over the place
[</em>]When your own teacher gets you to settle her adminstrative matters with the office
[/ul]</p>
<p>haha wow and I thought my school was bad! but my school is still extremely pathetic :
-when the school doesnt offer a single AP or Honors class - i guess we do have an 'honors' biology, but it just means that you arent in plain, aka remedial, biology
-when the principal gets on the intercom, and forgets what she was going to say and then makes a few really weird sounds as she mumbles and then she's the laughing stock of the students and teachers for the rest of the day!
-when your teacher is corrected in class by you at least 3 times a week
-and finally, when you go to a catholic school, with some religious people as teachers...and when one of the nuns asks to be transferred because the administration is so bad and embarrassing</p>
<ul>
<li>When you have a foreign geometry teacher that talks way too fast for anyone to comprehend.</li>
<li>When said geometry teacher begins teaching in Spanish because he thinks the class doesn't understand English.</li>
<li>When quite a few people haven't quite grasped the concept of flushing after using the bathroom.</li>
<li>When seniors throw dead cats into the portables and expect it to be funny.</li>
<li>When the ceiling has more holes then you have pores on your face.</li>
<li>When gangbangs are common in the locker rooms and in the auditorium's pit.</li>
<li>When a football team that hasn't scored a single touchdown in its school's entire history beats your school's team.</li>
<li>When you can walk into the bathroom for 10 seconds and come out completely buzzed.</li>
<li>When learning a new language proficiently is easier than buying lunch.</li>
<li>When you are officially listed as "The 4th Most Poorly Behaved High School in the City".</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm really starting to love my school... and the teachers...</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>-When a girl is telling me that she can't take AP Bio because her boyfriend is not taking with her.</p>
<p>When every team sport in your school has a state title except for football, which can't even make league playoffs, and it's still the the biggest, most important sport at your school.</p>
<p>Lol, that's how it was at my school too.</p>
<p>When the chorus teacher takes thousands of dollars in school money, that should have been used for school trips and equipment, to pay for vacations and luxuries, then gets fired, prosecuted in court, and replaced. This is especially embarassing for her son, who was a senior in the school when it happened.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>when dropping out and getting a GED is actually smiled upon. (not that getting a GED is bad, but MY GOD!)</p></li>
<li><p>when your school will use millions of dollars on two new wings on either side of your school, but your band and choir have nothing. and your departments have 30 year old microscopes and books. (our presidential timeline ends at Nixon!)</p></li>
<li><p>when your teachers gab TO YOU about teachers in the school being prominent swingers. (makes you wonder!)</p></li>
<li><p>when you can have a 1.8 GPA in a class of 500 and still rank not last!</p></li>
<li><p>a whole riot starts right NEXT to a police car outside of school, and the fighters don't expect themselves to get arrested.</p></li>
<li><p>the gym gets closed down because of falling tiles. and rods.</p></li>
<li><p>our homecoming gets broken up because of a "carnal" deed.</p></li>
<li><p>people are proud of a 900 on your SATs. and act like it's a 1600.</p></li>
<li><p>better yet ^, people gasping and saying, "OMGZ, like you are so smart yo," at a 1150.</p></li>
<li><p>there are 2 or 3 clubs that have more than 20 people in it. </p></li>
<li><p>there are less than 10% of the class in honors classes.</p></li>
<li><p>people brag about the ease of bringing guns inside the school, and readily show it to you</p></li>
<li><p>EVERYONE knows the smell of weed.</p></li>
<li><p>EVERYONE knows which bathrooms are for smokers, and promptly avoid them. (you get written up for smoking, even if you weren't!)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Eh, I hate my school...</p>
<p>-the school invites freshman and sophomores to the SENIOR PROM because there are too little students seniors and juniors to have a real dance. </p>
<p>our graduating class was 23. prom had less than 100 people. luckily i didnt go. i was busy partying 3 days in a row during a college visit.</p>
<p>-when your school limits the number of computer sheets you can print out and puts it on a fine on your library card if you go one measly sheet over</p>
<p>-when your school has NO windows at all...it's like a prison</p>
<p>-for the past 30 years mildew/mold has been forming in the vents and walls making students sick...and they JUST now replaced the siding</p>
<p>-when your car gets broken into while parked in the gravel lot and the security guards say "That's not school property"...omg...</p>
<p>-when you can't leave the commons/cafeteria during lunch...</p>
<p>-when the administration worries more about shirts being tucked in than crap-ass teachers...</p>
<ul>
<li>when you're gifted lit teacher plays spades all day long and teaches absolutely nothing...and then has the nerve to start dumping 10 assignments a day on us because she got caught selling candy...and the highest grade was like a 80...</li>
</ul>
<p>-when you have to pay $180 for senior dues and $180 for junior dues...even if you DON'T participiate in the activities...</p>
<ul>
<li><p>add a $20 per semester parking permit to those dues...</p></li>
<li><p>when the computer network is down all the time</p></li>
<li><p>When no one has gotten a 3 or higher on the APUSH exam in 4 years...but everyone gets A's in the class</p></li>
<li><p>when there are 3 food fights in one day...that day happened to be the same day MIT came to recruit...</p></li>
<li><p>you know what's for lunch beforehand...because it's the same thing every week...</p></li>
</ul>
<p>-when you have to shout MacBeth lines across the room for honors english</p>
<p>lol, that was an interesting day, but then again every day was with palmer</p>
<p>-When you ask your GC about SAT II's and she asks you "What are those?"</p>
<p>-When said GC's main job is assigning everyone's (7-12) classes.</p>
<p>-When the GC has only heard of about 3-5 of the top 50 LACs, and she has only heard of those because they are relatively near the school</p>
<p>-When literally NOBODY could answer the question "What is the highest score possible on the SAT?" correctly</p>
<p>-When many people couldn't answer the same question about the ACT (the only test people here take)</p>
<p>-When there are only 2 AP classes and no honors classes</p>
<p>-When nobody ever actually takes the AP tests because you only got through 1/3 of the material</p>
<p>-When the TWO clubs offered are Future Farmers of America and Family Community and Career Leaders of America (where you just go to the meetings and talk about cooking)</p>
<p>-When there is an ex-military substitute teacher who makes everyone do push-ups and tries to teach you the phrase "magnum opus" </p>
<p>-When an extremely non-mathematical person like me has to explain Algebra II concepts to the teacher</p>
<p>-When said teacher says "I'll come back to that" at least 5 times a day and never does (I hear you, whoever said this first)</p>
<p>-When your school scares away 2-3 teachers a year out of a total teacher population of about 25 </p>
<p>-When your school has a reputation for causing said teachers to actually quit the profession</p>
<p>-When students make a game out of causing certain teachers to cry</p>
<p>-When the Spanish teacher does cry all the time and she tells you all about her messy divorce that took place years ago and how her kids don't love her, only their dad (To be fair, she doesn't work here any more)</p>
<p>-When none of the 3 Spanish teachers you have had can roll their R's or speak in any sort of an accent (Like beans? Try fry-hoo-lays)</p>
<p>-When the health department had to come and tell the Home Ec teacher to keep her room sanitary. </p>
<p>-When you find a nest of baby mice and milk that has been expired for months in said Home Ec room</p>
<p>-When your gym teacher also teaches math</p>
<p>-When someone asks "How do you know which is the numerator?" in Algebra II. And is serious.</p>
<p>-When a class is held in the wrestling room. Wrestling is not held in that classroom, CLASS is held in the WRESTLING room</p>
<p>-When your 58-year-old English teacher is known for staying in his room until 10:00 PM looking at porn</p>
<p>-When an athlete gets caught doing drugs and the standard penalty is not being allowed to play in the next game</p>
<p>-When there are classes that are graded almost exclusively on "class participation" (i.e. almost no tests or homework)</p>
<p>-When there is 1 AA kid and 2 Hispanics in a school with a 7-12 population of about 300</p>
<p>-When people carve swastikas into everything</p>
<p>-When "going to college" means tech school, community college, or the
incredibly-crappy local U to 95% of graduates</p>
<p>-When you get called a walking thesaurus when you use the word "thesis"</p>
<p>-When, by the end of junior year almost 10% of your class has already dropped out</p>
<p>-When cars in the parking lot are vandalized on a weekly basis, and a few were even totaled this year</p>
<p>-When you overhear the person at the locker next to yours talking about a knife/chain fight they have planned for the following night</p>
<p>-When going to court is as common a reason to leave school as going to the dentist</p>
<p>-When all of this takes place not in the inner city in a small farming community</p>
<p>-When almost everyone at the top of your class takes really easy classes, and if you take harder classes you wind up barely in the top 1/3 of the class</p>
<p>I could go on and on. I love my friends and many of my teachers, and my school isn't actually as bad as all of this makes it sound. However, I do really hate how people who go to top schools are constantly saying that they almost wish they went to a worse school so they could be the valedictorian. It is NOT as easy as they seem to think to be at the top of a crappy public school!
~I officially declare my rant complete and will now exit my soap box.~</p>
<p>-When your AP Bio teacher refuses to teach evolution due to personal beliefs and ends up showing the students a creationist video instead.</p>
<p>-when the IB Econ HL class averages 30~40% on exams. </p>
<p>-When admin doesn't know a good teacher when it sees one and then refuses to acknowledge the faults of a clearly bad one. </p>
<p>-when the school does not havea GC and generally holds little interest in ever getting one. </p>
<p>-when the school pays more attention to image than actual work- avoiding cmoplaints/suggestions/potentialchanges that would actually allow the school to become w/e image it is trying to uphold. </p>
<p>-when the school takes care of the "smart" students and tries little -if at all- to help those students who couldn't all ready take care of themselves. </p>
<p>-etc.</p>
<p>My school actually isn't too horrible -I've just really lowered my standards over the years or the school has improved somewhat... both situations hold truth- but it can stand to be much MUCH better.</p>
<p>
[QUOTE]
when you can have a 1.8 GPA in a class of 500 and still rank not last!
[/QUOTE]
Thats not so bad because I looking threw (<-Did I use the right word?) some transcripts on my GC desk and someone had .4063 and still wasn't last in the class!</p>