Title says it all, pretty much. Not the place for serious issues like bullying and whatnot. Talk to your parents if you have real problems, and talk to us if you have stupid problems!
those of you wondering why i don't have an active RP (so far none). i try. but whenever i get to the rules section of it my computer restarts. computer: i realise what your telling me and i give up.
There was the time they forced the entire junior and senior class to go on a field trip with no warning whatsoever to parents or guardians (much less the students). So I had to pretend I was a 10th grader the entire day because I didn't want to go and I didn't want to freak my mom out. xD
Oh, and they also coerced me into applying for college even though I made it more than clear I had no interest. They actually pulled me and every other senior out of class. I wouldn't mind making us learn how to fill one out or giving us a mock application, but they forced us to actually do it. Even if I had wanted to apply, I don't need them to hold my hand. .-.
And the guidance counselor, even though I said I didn't want to go to college, made me change my documented after-school plans to "2-year college". It was like that in the entire school. I wasn't just a deadbeat kid with no idea what to do. I can make my own life choices without any snide comments, thanks. xD
Yeah, I guess that was the stupidest thing about school. They wouldn't let me take care of myself. They assumed that everybody was dumb and couldn't function on their own. Instead of careful guidance, they force you to do what they want you to do. And that's what the entire system is based around. xD
The policy we had with fighting. A guy in our school got slammed against a brick wall repeatedly by some upperclassman, but he was suspended because he was resisting by swinging back at the guy. The big guy had maybe one or two bruises on his arms, but the guy he was beating up had to get facial reconstruction surgery. Granted, he had a 2-day suspension while I think the other guy got sent to juvie, but it baffles me that you can be suspended for trying to fight back.
That and the electronics usage policy. Our school forbid us to use electronics during the day (which they've changed for this year to allow usage, conveniently right after I graduate). I had to finish an essay for a class and every computer in the library was either occupied or out of order, so I pulled out my laptop to work on it. Nope. Monitor came right up, closed it and sent me to the office where the principal basically told me that I'd have to wait until after school. Just annoying, you couldn't ask me to put it away before you close it?
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And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord, as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere,
But now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear.
Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear.
"You should have gone to the toilet at break!" I didn't need the toilet at break, srsly. Are you suggesting we should all go to the toilet at break just in case? All of the hundreds of us, in those 15 minutes? That would be chaos! That would never work! So what is the solution, teacher!?
.....Woooaaahh... You get a 15 minute break? All we get is a 5 minute break inbetween classes, and they still tell us that.
At our old school, we had around 3 easily access-able bathrooms (3 per gender, 6 total), between like, what... The entire school? 25-30 classes not counting the electives and whatnot? Imagine how much chaos that'd be if we all went during that time, not to mention we only got 5 minutes. I also really hate the whole "you should of gone at lunch" thing. Teacher, I didn't need to go at lunch. That food takes time to digest and make me wanna go. I'd understand if it was, like... 5 minutes after lunch, but come on, it's been 30.
At my current school, we don't even get a lunch break to go (There is, but on my schedule, I'd have to go about 1/2 hour early before my classes start to make it to lunch), and it's a really small school. One bathroom only. Between, what... 8-12 classes (Forgot exact number, it varies anyways) with 20-30 students on average? And with only 5 minutes?
Teachers know when they're being examined and can put on a super amazing lesson when they are and bore us to death when they aren't. What a dumb idea.
I used to have this really, really terrible teacher in grade school that did just this, but to a waaay worse extent.
During class no one is allowed to eat food, not even the staff (Out of respect, and it's just more professional, anyways) and yet this teacher would have her desk stuffed with proper school su- Wrong teacher. She would have it stuffed with doughnuts, those 'family sized' bags of chips (That she usually eats completely in one class period) sodas, etc. Anything junk food, and she'd eat it during class. She was also really mean in general. Had a question? She'd literally tell you 'no' and not answer it, and that's questions related about stuff she's 'teaching'. Teaching in ''s because she rarely even taught us properly (Why many kids had so many questions) then she'd get mad at us and punish us for when we failed the test.
But when someone comes in and watch her? She's a totally different person. All the food magically vanishes, she answers our questions, she's completely nice, the lesson plan was actually understandable.
As for my personal things I find dumb...
When they tell you that you'll use x in the future, when every one knows that's completely false, or when they constantly say you absolutely need school to be successful. No, you don't. Sure, it'd help, but you don't absolutely need it. Stop threatening to kids that their going to be homeless hobos that gets addicted to drugs and has eternal sadness and more depressing things that I probably can't post here if they don't go to school...
A few minutes between every leason, just to get there, no actual break. One 10-15ish minute break at 11, I think, and then a 45 minute lunch break at 12:15. Is that unusual?
As for my personal things I find dumb...
When they tell you that you'll use x in the future, when every one knows that's completely false, or when they constantly say you absolutely need school to be successful. No, you don't. Sure, it'd help, but you don't absolutely need it. Stop threatening to kids that their going to be homeless hobos that gets addicted to drugs and has eternal sadness and more depressing things that I probably can't post here if they don't go to school...
.... I kinda got ranty... Oops.
I think you sort of do need school, but I agree that a lot of what they teach is flawed. If it isn't applicable to at least most people's lives, it shouldn't really be mandatory in the higher year groups/grades/whatever you want to call them. In our school, when we ask why this is useful, the answer is "for the exam". Its always fairly lighthearted in tone because the teachers no perfectly well that they're teaching garbage most of us will forget anyway. It's funny as well, because this is usually in maths, which just so happens to be a subject they force us to take throughout the entirety of high school. This doesn't happen in, say, History, because we chose to take it. Maths and such needn't be taught beyond a decent level.
But yeah, you do kind of need school. You can't ignore the correlation between people's educations and people's success. There's always exceptions, but don't put your faith in them. Moral of the story, school is important but we can still laugh about how dumb it is. The funny part is that we're kind of right, really. Its like you start off young thinking school is useless, then you get older and realise its useful, thinking you've matured a lot, but then you realise that a lot of it is in fact rubbish. I think that happens a lot growing up. You change your view on something thinking you've matured, but then you realised you were more right back when you were like 7, just for the wrong reasons. Second moral of the story, kids are geniuses.
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This isn't much of a problem, but how detentions worked in my old school were extremely unfair and rather stupid.
In 4th grade, we were assigned homework, and the teacher told us if we didn't complete it or turn it in, we would get detention. I did complete it, and took my time with every question. But I was completely confused with the last question, and I didn't answer it (Note: It was the ONLY question I didn't answer, and it was something like, arrange the words in this bar or something). When I turned it in, the teacher looked through it and saw that I didn't answer the last question, and told me I had detention for not completing my homework. Yep, because not answering one question on a homework that I took my entire time carefully with, equals to 20 minutes in a class staring at a board.
Theres a lot more to this detention stuff.
Near the end of the year, 2 students got more than 80 detentions to go to (The rule was, if you don't go to detention, you end up having 2 other detentions you would have to attend to). The two students ended up never going to them, and by the time it was the last week of school, all those detentions were scrapped away.
This isn't much of a problem, but how detentions worked in my old school were extremely unfair and rather stupid.
In 4th grade, we were assigned homework, and the teacher told us if we didn't complete it or turn it in, we would get detention. I did complete it, and took my time with every question. But I was completely confused with the last question, and I didn't answer it (Note: It was the ONLY question I didn't answer, and it was something like, arrange the words in this bar or something). When I turned it in, the teacher looked through it and saw that I didn't answer the last question, and told me I had detention for not completing my homework. Yep, because not answering one question on a homework that I took my entire time carefully with, equals to 20 minutes in a class staring at a board.
Generally you're supposed to go and ask this stuff sometime before the due date, considering you have about a week to do it. Unless it was due literally the day after you got it, you kinda deserved it.
Theres a lot more to this detention stuff.
Near the end of the year, 2 students got more than 80 detentions to go to (The rule was, if you don't go to detention, you end up having 2 other detentions you would have to attend to). The two students ended up never going to them, and by the time it was the last week of school, all those detentions were scrapped away.
Good on the students. They found the loophole, maybe the school will turn its brain on now.
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My school principal says that if students get in a fight, it's better to suspend all of them instead of the instigator. His reason being "I don't believe in self-defense. If you choose to fight someone, you have broken the rules and deserve to be punished.". It's a big problem, since everyone here lives in ghetto areas and fighting is part of the norm.
Also, to the teachers that treat high schoolers like small children, please stop.
What if it's something along the lines of Tai Chi? You use your opponents momentum and energy against them. You rarely take the offensive. It's basically the martial arts equivalent of tripping someone. Is that punishable?
I'm not in high school yet.
Now I'm scared.
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اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
What if it's something along the lines of Tai Chi? You use your opponents momentum and energy against them. You rarely take the offensive. It's basically the martial arts equivalent of tripping someone. Is that punishable?
I'm not in high school yet.
Now I'm scared.
Probably. They don't tend to care for specifics and they certainly don't care for buts. That tends to be part of the ego. What matters to them is that the other kid got hurt and they were fighting you. That makes you the evil scum of the Earth. If you aren't a punching bag, you're at fault.
That said, that sounds like a really cool martial art. I think I've heard of it, but never looked into it. Sounds like a neato self defence that will probably get you out of trouble sometimes. Honestly, it would depend on the teacher.
Don't be scared of high school. We don't have a middle school in this country, which is what I presume you're in, but I can tell you this. My primary school was way worse than secondary in terms of fights. They were two very different schools in very different areas, but that's how it worked for me.
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Probably. They don't tend to care for specifics and they certainly don't care for buts. That tends to be part of the ego. What matters to them is that the other kid got hurt and they were fighting you. That makes you the evil scum of the Earth. If you aren't a punching bag, you're at fault.
That said, that sounds like a really cool martial art. I think I've heard of it, but never looked into it. Sounds like a neato self defence that will probably get you out of trouble sometimes. Honestly, it would depend on the teacher.
Don't be scared of high school. We don't have a middle school in this country, which is what I presume you're in, but I can tell you this. My primary school was way worse than secondary in terms of fights. They were two very different schools in very different areas, but that's how it worked for me.
Tai Chi is pretty cool. It takes a lifetime to master though, so don't expect to be breaking blocks of wood on your first day. (or ever)
And don't worry, I'm not really scared of high school, it was a feeble joke.
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اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
A few minutes between every leason, just to get there, no actual break. One 10-15ish minute break at 11, I think, and then a 45 minute lunch break at 12:15. Is that unusual?
For me. 5 minutes between classes, one 30 minute break for lunch. No other breaks.
That's our old school, new one is just the 5 minutes, no breaks at all, but it's only 3 classes long. (They're about an hour and a half long each).
I think you sort of do need school, but I agree that a lot of what they teach is flawed. If it isn't applicable to at least most people's lives, it shouldn't really be mandatory in the higher year groups/grades/whatever you want to call them. In our school, when we ask why this is useful, the answer is "for the exam". Its always fairly lighthearted in tone because the teachers no perfectly well that they're teaching garbage most of us will forget anyway. It's funny as well, because this is usually in maths, which just so happens to be a subject they force us to take throughout the entirety of high school. This doesn't happen in, say, History, because we chose to take it. Maths and such needn't be taught beyond a decent level.
But yeah, you do kind of need school. You can't ignore the correlation between people's educations and people's success. There's always exceptions, but don't put your faith in them. Moral of the story, school is important but we can still laugh about how dumb it is. The funny part is that we're kind of right, really. Its like you start off young thinking school is useless, then you get older and realise its useful, thinking you've matured a lot, but then you realise that a lot of it is in fact rubbish. I think that happens a lot growing up. You change your view on something thinking you've matured, but then you realised you were more right back when you were like 7, just for the wrong reasons. Second moral of the story, kids are geniuses.
This is pretty much how I think about the subject. This is probably the most accurate thing I've read that's been said about school.
The only difference is history is required for us. So is science, but I think it's a bit more important... Some how, I actually never payed attention in science because the science teacher always babied us and taught us like... 6th grade stuff... Like, really, we're in highschool.
I think you sort of do need school, but I agree that a lot of what they teach is flawed. If it isn't applicable to at least most people's lives, it shouldn't really be mandatory in the higher year groups/grades/whatever you want to call them. In our school, when we ask why this is useful, the answer is "for the exam". Its always fairly lighthearted in tone because the teachers no perfectly well that they're teaching garbage most of us will forget anyway. It's funny as well, because this is usually in maths, which just so happens to be a subject they force us to take throughout the entirety of high school. This doesn't happen in, say, History, because we chose to take it. Maths and such needn't be taught beyond a decent level.
But yeah, you do kind of need school. You can't ignore the correlation between people's educations and people's success. There's always exceptions, but don't put your faith in them. Moral of the story, school is important but we can still laugh about how dumb it is. The funny part is that we're kind of right, really. Its like you start off young thinking school is useless, then you get older and realise its useful, thinking you've matured a lot, but then you realise that a lot of it is in fact rubbish. I think that happens a lot growing up. You change your view on something thinking you've matured, but then you realised you were more right back when you were like 7, just for the wrong reasons. Second moral of the story, kids are geniuses.
Have you considered a career in words?
That was so eloquent and so true.
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اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
The only difference is history is required for us.
Here's another thing I find dumb. It was going into Year 10 we started getting options, so we could drop, say, History. But you had to do History or Geography, nobody could do both or neither. So somehow they're so important you have to choose one, but so unimportant that neither of them are mandatory? That makes zero sense.
I have no problem whatsoever with my school, I love it with all my heart, but I do have a problem with all of the horribly incompetent and just plain stupid people I have to share it with. If people don't want to go to school then don't make them, it would make it such a better place since all of the idiots wouldn't interfere with the learning experience of the people that actually know what they're doing.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
Title says it all, pretty much. Not the place for serious issues like bullying and whatnot. Talk to your parents if you have real problems, and talk to us if you have stupid problems!
Aye aye!
Although I do enjoy learning Language.
OT: When the faculty says "do your best"
Then you turn in a paper that doesn't get an "A", and suddenly you "aren't applying yourself"
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"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
the pledge all of them
Where am i who am i who are you what is this blocky place
your not allowed to cuss when you drop your bag on your foot.
and the same as nTrud3r
we don't learn swedish in MFL, just spanish, french and german. however, where i want to work learning swedish would be handy.
we don't learn java, where i want to work learning java would be handy.
like many users of the minecraft forums i'm a member of the server total war (IP:167.114.100.168:438) the server includes a 1:1500 scale map of earth.
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those of you wondering why i don't have an active RP (so far none). i try. but whenever i get to the rules section of it my computer restarts. computer: i realise what your telling me and i give up.
Teacher are deaf or just don't care in my school.
My school separates us by grade and gender, variety of words for them.
There was the time they forced the entire junior and senior class to go on a field trip with no warning whatsoever to parents or guardians (much less the students). So I had to pretend I was a 10th grader the entire day because I didn't want to go and I didn't want to freak my mom out. xD
Oh, and they also coerced me into applying for college even though I made it more than clear I had no interest. They actually pulled me and every other senior out of class. I wouldn't mind making us learn how to fill one out or giving us a mock application, but they forced us to actually do it. Even if I had wanted to apply, I don't need them to hold my hand. .-.
And the guidance counselor, even though I said I didn't want to go to college, made me change my documented after-school plans to "2-year college". It was like that in the entire school. I wasn't just a deadbeat kid with no idea what to do. I can make my own life choices without any snide comments, thanks. xD
Yeah, I guess that was the stupidest thing about school. They wouldn't let me take care of myself. They assumed that everybody was dumb and couldn't function on their own. Instead of careful guidance, they force you to do what they want you to do. And that's what the entire system is based around. xD
That we were forced to take Art class and not take any financial classes, one of which is very much needed in the real world no matter what.
The policy we had with fighting. A guy in our school got slammed against a brick wall repeatedly by some upperclassman, but he was suspended because he was resisting by swinging back at the guy. The big guy had maybe one or two bruises on his arms, but the guy he was beating up had to get facial reconstruction surgery. Granted, he had a 2-day suspension while I think the other guy got sent to juvie, but it baffles me that you can be suspended for trying to fight back.
That and the electronics usage policy. Our school forbid us to use electronics during the day (which they've changed for this year to allow usage, conveniently right after I graduate). I had to finish an essay for a class and every computer in the library was either occupied or out of order, so I pulled out my laptop to work on it. Nope. Monitor came right up, closed it and sent me to the office where the principal basically told me that I'd have to wait until after school. Just annoying, you couldn't ask me to put it away before you close it?
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord, as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere,
But now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear.
Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear.
Obviously the main problem is the problem with most adults in this world.
"Yeah, well, I see your point and all that but, I'm kinda like, the adult and everything? So yeah, I'm right"
Except its not even like that, its just "stop arguing". So if any of these things that you're posting bother you? Tough.
.....Woooaaahh... You get a 15 minute break? All we get is a 5 minute break inbetween classes, and they still tell us that.
At our old school, we had around 3 easily access-able bathrooms (3 per gender, 6 total), between like, what... The entire school? 25-30 classes not counting the electives and whatnot? Imagine how much chaos that'd be if we all went during that time, not to mention we only got 5 minutes. I also really hate the whole "you should of gone at lunch" thing. Teacher, I didn't need to go at lunch. That food takes time to digest and make me wanna go. I'd understand if it was, like... 5 minutes after lunch, but come on, it's been 30.
At my current school, we don't even get a lunch break to go (There is, but on my schedule, I'd have to go about 1/2 hour early before my classes start to make it to lunch), and it's a really small school. One bathroom only. Between, what... 8-12 classes (Forgot exact number, it varies anyways) with 20-30 students on average? And with only 5 minutes?
I used to have this really, really terrible teacher in grade school that did just this, but to a waaay worse extent.
During class no one is allowed to eat food, not even the staff (Out of respect, and it's just more professional, anyways) and yet this teacher would have her desk stuffed with proper school su- Wrong teacher. She would have it stuffed with doughnuts, those 'family sized' bags of chips (That she usually eats completely in one class period) sodas, etc. Anything junk food, and she'd eat it during class. She was also really mean in general. Had a question? She'd literally tell you 'no' and not answer it, and that's questions related about stuff she's 'teaching'. Teaching in ''s because she rarely even taught us properly (Why many kids had so many questions) then she'd get mad at us and punish us for when we failed the test.
But when someone comes in and watch her? She's a totally different person. All the food magically vanishes, she answers our questions, she's completely nice, the lesson plan was actually understandable.
As for my personal things I find dumb...
When they tell you that you'll use x in the future, when every one knows that's completely false, or when they constantly say you absolutely need school to be successful. No, you don't. Sure, it'd help, but you don't absolutely need it. Stop threatening to kids that their going to be homeless hobos that gets addicted to drugs and has eternal sadness and more depressing things that I probably can't post here if they don't go to school...
.... I kinda got ranty... Oops.
A few minutes between every leason, just to get there, no actual break. One 10-15ish minute break at 11, I think, and then a 45 minute lunch break at 12:15. Is that unusual?
I think you sort of do need school, but I agree that a lot of what they teach is flawed. If it isn't applicable to at least most people's lives, it shouldn't really be mandatory in the higher year groups/grades/whatever you want to call them. In our school, when we ask why this is useful, the answer is "for the exam". Its always fairly lighthearted in tone because the teachers no perfectly well that they're teaching garbage most of us will forget anyway. It's funny as well, because this is usually in maths, which just so happens to be a subject they force us to take throughout the entirety of high school. This doesn't happen in, say, History, because we chose to take it. Maths and such needn't be taught beyond a decent level.
But yeah, you do kind of need school. You can't ignore the correlation between people's educations and people's success. There's always exceptions, but don't put your faith in them. Moral of the story, school is important but we can still laugh about how dumb it is. The funny part is that we're kind of right, really. Its like you start off young thinking school is useless, then you get older and realise its useful, thinking you've matured a lot, but then you realise that a lot of it is in fact rubbish. I think that happens a lot growing up. You change your view on something thinking you've matured, but then you realised you were more right back when you were like 7, just for the wrong reasons. Second moral of the story, kids are geniuses.
This isn't much of a problem, but how detentions worked in my old school were extremely unfair and rather stupid.
In 4th grade, we were assigned homework, and the teacher told us if we didn't complete it or turn it in, we would get detention. I did complete it, and took my time with every question. But I was completely confused with the last question, and I didn't answer it (Note: It was the ONLY question I didn't answer, and it was something like, arrange the words in this bar or something). When I turned it in, the teacher looked through it and saw that I didn't answer the last question, and told me I had detention for not completing my homework. Yep, because not answering one question on a homework that I took my entire time carefully with, equals to 20 minutes in a class staring at a board.
Theres a lot more to this detention stuff.
Near the end of the year, 2 students got more than 80 detentions to go to (The rule was, if you don't go to detention, you end up having 2 other detentions you would have to attend to). The two students ended up never going to them, and by the time it was the last week of school, all those detentions were scrapped away.
Generally you're supposed to go and ask this stuff sometime before the due date, considering you have about a week to do it. Unless it was due literally the day after you got it, you kinda deserved it.
Good on the students. They found the loophole, maybe the school will turn its brain on now.
What if it's something along the lines of Tai Chi? You use your opponents momentum and energy against them. You rarely take the offensive. It's basically the martial arts equivalent of tripping someone. Is that punishable?
I'm not in high school yet.
Now I'm scared.
اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
Probably. They don't tend to care for specifics and they certainly don't care for buts. That tends to be part of the ego. What matters to them is that the other kid got hurt and they were fighting you. That makes you the evil scum of the Earth. If you aren't a punching bag, you're at fault.
That said, that sounds like a really cool martial art. I think I've heard of it, but never looked into it. Sounds like a neato self defence that will probably get you out of trouble sometimes. Honestly, it would depend on the teacher.
Don't be scared of high school. We don't have a middle school in this country, which is what I presume you're in, but I can tell you this. My primary school was way worse than secondary in terms of fights. They were two very different schools in very different areas, but that's how it worked for me.
Tai Chi is pretty cool. It takes a lifetime to master though, so don't expect to be breaking blocks of wood on your first day. (or ever)
And don't worry, I'm not really scared of high school, it was a feeble joke.
اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
For me. 5 minutes between classes, one 30 minute break for lunch. No other breaks.
That's our old school, new one is just the 5 minutes, no breaks at all, but it's only 3 classes long. (They're about an hour and a half long each).
This is pretty much how I think about the subject. This is probably the most accurate thing I've read that's been said about school.
The only difference is history is required for us. So is science, but I think it's a bit more important... Some how, I actually never payed attention in science because the science teacher always babied us and taught us like... 6th grade stuff... Like, really, we're in highschool.
Have you considered a career in words?
That was so eloquent and so true.
اكتب الإساءة على الرمل و انحت المعروف على الصخر
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble"
Thanks.
I've considered everything, but I'm leaning towards physics and computing at the moment. Maths-y stuff.
Here's another thing I find dumb. It was going into Year 10 we started getting options, so we could drop, say, History. But you had to do History or Geography, nobody could do both or neither. So somehow they're so important you have to choose one, but so unimportant that neither of them are mandatory? That makes zero sense.
I have no problem whatsoever with my school, I love it with all my heart, but I do have a problem with all of the horribly incompetent and just plain stupid people I have to share it with. If people don't want to go to school then don't make them, it would make it such a better place since all of the idiots wouldn't interfere with the learning experience of the people that actually know what they're doing.
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king