<p>whoa, so many porn teachers. My biology teacher used to be a stripper. Apparently, she hasn't completely shed her stripper tendencies.</p>
<p>Why some kids start at 7AM and others end at 5PM.
When the first lunch period is 8:30 in the morning.
When you have 4000 kids in a building made for 2000.
When you have books that have "Bob + Mary 1974" graffited on them.</p>
<p>omg lunch at 8:30 in the morning? I thought our 11:00 was fairly early...</p>
<ol>
<li> When your child has the SAME math book & coverage for 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade & would have had it for 8th grade too except she took summer school at a private school at a higher level math course & advanced to 2 courses above the SAME course (or she would have had the same course in 8th grade AGAIN). NOTE: The school said if she took summer school at THEIR school, she would have had to repeat the SAME math course she had taken 5th-7th grades yet again even if she got an "A," but since she took math at the private school which has much higher standards & better teachers & coverage, she is allowed to advance to higher level math!</li>
<li> When more than 1/2 the 6th grade gets deficiency notices (meaning the kids are all getting Ds & Fs)--these same kids were all getting As & Bs in 5th grade before advancing to this "blue ribbon" public middle school! The school insitituted a policy in the 2nd semester that if your work is late, it drops a full grade (or more) for every day it's late. You are supposed to turn it in, no matter how late it gets, even if you will get absolutely NO credit for it! When parents call the school & try to meet with the faculty, they are told "everything is fine," & then their kids come home with Ds & Fs!</li>
<li> When your child receives an "F" for the quarter not turning in a Home Ec project when your child was sick 2 of the 3 weeks prior to the project being due, including the entire week the project was due & turns it in the day the child returns to school. This is after the parent called the school the day the project was due to be sure it was OK for the child to turn it in when the child returned to school after the illness!</li>
<li> When kids accept swearing & stealing as regular part of campus life.</li>
<li> When your child's 3rd grade class is lectured about having the substitute teacher "lose it" when the sub teacher freaked out & ran out of the classroom, pounding her head against the wall or door, yelling "I can't take it!"</li>
<li> When your 4th grade child drops "Gifted & Talented" because as she admits to the principal she's tired of having the GT teacher make everyone cry in class every day when she literally screams at them.</li>
<li> When your child's teacher reports to you that your child is spending a lot of time in class reading the newspaper & the teacher can't decide whether she WANTS or DOESN'T WANT the child to continue doing so.</li>
<li> When your bright 8th grade child is put on the teacher's "S" list because he asks a question the teacher can't answer & therefore the teacher becomes your child's sworn enemy.</li>
<li> When your child starts fearing kindergarten because of frequent bullying & you speak to the teacher who denies there is a problem. You teach your child to hit back & when the child tearfully explains to the teacher that his/her parents are insisting she hit back instead of being a victim & hating school, the teacher says, "If you hit back, I will not give you a Valentine." 10 minutes later, child is pushed & hit by bully, who says in amazement, "Teacher, I was hit BACK!" Teacher admitted it was a crisis in her career because parents were not happy with her handling of the bullying (by ignoring it with her rose-colored glasses, but she kept teaching with those rose-colored glasses firmly in place). <sigh></sigh></li>
<li> When your child's teacher is SHOCKED that your child has been admitted to a highly competitive selective private high school.
** OK, I admit these are composites of the amazing school experiences my kids have had at several different schools, but you get some of the picture & they're all TRUE! That's why I finally gave up & sent my kids to private school where they have had mostly positive experiences, at considerable out-of-pocket expense to us, but MUCH better emotionally & educationally.</li>
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<p>when you find used condoms on the drama room floor.</p>
<p>when the desks still have class of '05 (this is 1905) carved into them. </p>
<p>but no, my school isn't that bad.</p>
<p>LOL that would be hilarious. 100 year old desks....</p>
<p>When the kids in your study hall class make hobbies out of making themselves pass out/go into seizures, duck-taping themselves to the walls, and shooting staples at people (occasionally into them).</p>
<p>Yeah. Having a non-AP "class" was really quite a shock.</p>
<p>When your Spanish teacher is fired and on the nightly news for soliciting a minor online.</p>
<p>When your seventh grade teacher was fired for posting nude photos on a gay love connection site... without anyone knowing he was gay.</p>
<p>oh my :o.....</p>
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when you find used condoms on the drama room floor.
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<p>Oh my...my friend's school show last year almost got cancelled after they found one onstage...</p>
<p>when the JV volleyball assistant coach has had repeated sexual activities with a minor.
when the city newspaper arrives and asks your friend, where is the main office?
when the accused defendant is sentenced to several months of probation and community service (and fired, of course).</p>
<p>when your science teacher gets fired and sent to jail for having more than 55,000 child porn pictures on the school computer.</p>
<p>you have 5 second lunch periods...
the smartest kid has a GPA of 2.5
when the teachers give quizzes BEFORE lectures...
when you actually write and do you homework during lunch (required)
when the start of classes 5:15 am and the end is 7:15</p>
<p>
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the smartest kid has a GPA of 2.5
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Wow.</p>
<p>when there is a Moaning Myrtle at your school
when people claim to see the ghost of a former student that committed suicide in one of the old school buildings
when a teacher is silently fired for not even realizing that several seniors had disappeared from the field trip to go TP the house of another teacher
when a girl goes officially missing after escaping with her boyfriend to get out of the country and into Mexico
when anti-abortion groups protest in front of your school</p>
<p>u know ur school is bad when they replace a smart girl from a advanced class to make a dumb but rich student feel smart. :(</p>
<p>My high school from two years ago
Largo HS in UM MD</p>
<ol>
<li><p>When the history books END right after Clinton is elected... the first election - in 1993.</p></li>
<li><p>when the english teacher spends more time adjusting her wig than teaching the class</p></li>
<li><p>when spending class outside for two hours is NORMAL because some kids set fires in the janitor's closet again.</p></li>
<li><p>when it takes two hours for the fire department to show up, when it's literally right next door to the school</p></li>
<li><p>when the rate for passing the state mandated math test is only 6%</p></li>
<li><p>when the rate for passing the state mandated english test is only 22%</p></li>
<li><p>when the valedictorian's GPA was 3.0</p></li>
<li><p>when the saledictorian's GPA was 2.8</p></li>
<li><p>when the principal lies about his college degree.... and gets to keep his job</p></li>
<li><p>when the head of district schools steals money from the schools, is caught with drugs, and cheating on his wife... and it all makes FOX news the same night</p></li>
<li><p>when being reported on FOX and the washington post is normal</p></li>
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<p>my old middleschool:
a 7th grader got arrested trying to sell pot...apparantly, two 7th grade girls reported him. --;;</p>
<p>some other school i heard of:
an 8th grader makes a list of his 'hoes' and share them with his friends.</p>
<p>When your principal calls an assembly before winter break to regretfully inform our educational community that our school was actually built atop a radioactive toxic waste dump and sinking into the ground at the remarkable rate of 1.5 cm/year.</p>
<p>"Surprise!"</p>