I'm a sophomore in high school. For the most part, it's okay. It makes me mad that most of the stuff we do will have nothing to do with our actual careers. But luckily, I go to stupid redneck school, so it's pretty easy. We have a few great teachers though. I love classes where the teacher can actually get into what they're teaching. That especially applies for my English class. It makes me feel like I'm in a PW trial or something. The teacher always slams on desks and things like that when he's trying to drive something into your head. The teachers who don't care much about what they teach are cool too, as long as it's the type that are laid back and careless. The other day, I jumped out of a window in Driver's Ed to see if I could combat roll out of it (and just ended up falling on my stomach). The teacher usual comes in about 30 minutes late (no joke), but when I got back in, he was standing at his podium. He just laughed and took role. What makes school not okay is when you have teachers who hate their jobs and take their anger out on the students, or the type that just hand out work, tell when it's due, and sit at their desk all day. I like teachers that actually get up and teach, care about what they do, and give good examples about what they're talking about.

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I never went to school as my siblings and I were homeschooled. I'm currently doing a University-level HND Computing course, which is pretty cool because your pretty much treated like an adult (attendance isn't necessary, you just have to hand your work in).

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Cramming is a bitch, but it comes from parents with high expectations...

A Day
Period 1: Chemistry II AP
Period 3: English Language/Composition AP
Period 5: U.S. History AP
Period 7: Forensics IV/Advanced Studies: English
B Day
Period 2: Calculus AB
Period 4: Comparative Politics
Period 6: Biology II AP
Period 8: Physics I H

Since there is only three weeks of school left, I'm slacking and becoming irresponsible. What angers me is how I'm going to use five of those classes when I become an Anesthesiologist.

Not meaning to boast my level of education, rather anyone who feels like they're being killed because of school, I holler to all of you. My Chemistry and Physics teacher has played PW: AA and since then we greet each other with "HOLD IT!" and "TAKE THAT!".

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I like going to school a lot. I just simply do my school work, always informative with notes for people who need the extra contents, don't eat lunch (My parents always give me $2 a day for my lunch money and I don't eat lunch at school since I SAVE MY MONEY FOR GAMES AND ANYTHING ELSE in my desire) and the most important thing...hanging out with my friends. I go to TIMBERLINE HIGH SCHOOL in Washington and my school is so damn crappy because of construction of A NEW BULIDING FOR THE SCHOOL. (Which will take like 2 or 3 more years)

And yeah, these are my classes...

1st:Study Skills
2nd:Health
3rd:Basic Language II
4th:US History II
5th:SPECIAL ED. Math II
6th:Life Science

Right now, im a JUNIOR and I am CURRENTLY PRESSURED by too many DAMN WORKING PROJECTS. ( ) My 1st period rocks because Study Skills is a class to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING or just simply completing your late Homework assignments. (They are indeed to be required in order to do something)

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I'm currently in 11th grade (I go to an international school in Shanghai), and have these classes-

Pre-Calculus
Biology
Comparative Government (history of various governments and current politics)
Language Composition
Choir (it's a joke, really- there's only 5 people and 1 isn't there half the time)
Modular Technology (basically a class where people work on learning various computer-related things- what is it with everyone and 3D design anyway ?)
Spanish (I still wonder why I picked this over AP Mandarin(Chinese) given that I am a native speaker)

About my teachers-
Pre-calculus teacher is harsh sometimes but OK most of the time. He doesn't actually check homework but rather gives a little quiz to test if you've actually *done it* rather than just copy your work off of someone else. Quite ingenious, really.

Biology teacher is mostly OK but the requirement that chapter notes be turned in is quite annoying. I did perfect 100% on the past 2 tests and had a 77% average because I turned in my notes late; I always forget( ). And we're on the reproductive system, so the usual "inappropriate comments" flow around.

Comparative Government teacher is also the coach for the basketball team, but she's not biased or anything. She actually gets into what she teaches, and is a bit of an activist. That's what I like about her- she makes you care about the topic she's teaching.

Language Composition teacher- She's quite a bit like the Comparative Government teacher (apart from being a coach). Her only other distinguishing quality is that she's from Alabama, and you can hear it in her voice.

Choir teacher is a bit like - She's all smiles and sugar most of the time, but when she gets on a sticking point (like the fact that she was hired to teach the kindergarten and elementary music classes instead of high school choir) she rants herself to the breaking point (and I got yelled at too- but that's because I was expressing my shock that the "choir" was only 5 people).

Modular Technology was made to have minimal teacher interaction, so I can't really say anything about this other than the fact that the choice of available programs sucks. I wanted to do some basic networking/hardware stuff but couldn't because the school didn't have the resources.

Spanish- The teacher is pretty laid-back except when certain times roll around (tests/quizzes/when the movers annoyed him a lot over the weekend since he's moving to Oregon next year). The assignments are pretty easy too. I still kind of regret this class, though- it almost got me a sexual harassment charge from one of the girl students (no, she had no case- it was just a case of selective memory where she thought she saw me every time she turned around and thought that I was stalking her because of that).


Occassionally, there are subs-
1. -A New Zealander that's quite like - I just hate him because he's way more strict than the teachers he substitutes for.
2. Mario (something I can't pronounce)- Believe it or not- this teacher is female. Only she and her kid (in 5th grade) know her last name- everyone else, even the students, call her Mario. She's from Finland and she's a PE teacher. She seems to be on the ball most of the time.
3. Chris- Again, like Mario- no one calls him by his last name, and he's quite laid-back, like the substitute he replaces (only cases are biology and comparative government).
4. (some African name that I can't remember)- This teacher got a reputation at the last school he taught as a "bully teacher" and the students at my school call him "Mr. Chewbacca". Enough said.


my classes as they are right now-
It's nearing the end of the year, and the projects are being piled on me. First Comparative Government, and then English. The good news is that these classes have no finals because of the projects .The other classes, not so much. Also- I have prom coming up in a few days (the whole high school is invited since if it was limited to seniors there'd be all of 8 people- no, I'm not joking) and an internship after that. My school has a program with local businesses where they can arrange for student interns to work there to get work experience. This lasts for 2 weeks and is right after prom. Oh, joy. At least I get no homework during these 2 weeks, but I got Best Buy (yes, there is one in China, and the one I'm interning at is the only one in this whole country). I also have to take the SAT on June 2nd.

So all in all- the experience was fun, but I won't regret leaving.

BTW- someone asked here earlier what A-levels would be in the US. The US equivalent would be the APs. (Even more fun- the school is so small that classes have to be relocated because of exams).

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I'm currently what one would call a college drop-out. I went for two semesters, hated it, decided to take a few months off to get my act together and it ended up becoming a full year of nothing.


High School was alright, I guess. I hated it while I was there, but after going to college I can safely say that I miss it somewhat. Partially because I still have friends there, but mostly because of all the weird teachers I had.


Like my old English/Drama teacher, who would randomly break into song from time to time, and had a great interest in musical theatre. He arranged some of the best trips ever, from going to see Broadway plays to talk show tapings (mostly the Maury Show). Yeah, there's a class I'd kill to be in again.

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graduated

trying to get in to college, yet i get rejected due to my depression

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High school has been one of the craziest times of my life. The only part about it I truly enjoyed was my Freshman year... before I joined the absolutely-pointless AVID class... before I was pressure into all these SATs, college applications, FAFSA stuff. Plus, our new high school principle is a bitch stealing our old principle's saying ("Make it a great day *pause* or not the choice is yours.")

Words can not describe how ready I am to get the hell away from that place! And then I'll be going to UC Davis in September. ZOMGWEWT

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I do like most people at school, most subjects are okay too. I'm in year 10 (11th grade I think) and I'm taking art, history, food tec and business for my GCSE's I'm in quite high sets (the lowest set is 3 out of 7 ^_^) I'm hoping to get C-A* grades!
I'm quite bored of school, but I'm very nearly d=finished (just one more year) then I get to go to college then probably uni!

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School topic must be bumped! >:O No, not because everyone likes school, but because it's an important topic :P

Anyways, I finally decided which course to take after elementary school >_> In any case, I'll have to keep studying until I'm like 23-24 as opposed to like 99% of my school who're just going to start working at 18 :P

bump i took 1 semester off after cuttinbg 2 terms college to get my act straight and so far so good. im a history major and i have to write loks of papers, oh well back to work

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Our timetable is the worst. Our school is supposed to be an arts school, but we only do one lesson a week and maths 3 times a week! *ramble fastforward* GRRR LIVVI ANGRYYYYY!!!!

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geez at least the people in this page are a little happier then in the previous one. I'm tired of school, but thats only because i dont like waking up at 6 every morning. All of my teachers are great (except for my science teacher, actually, hes a douche, but thats my 7:30 class, go figure) and although i don't really (except for, again, in my 7:30 H Biology Class) have any classes with my real friends, i can still chill with a group in every class.

A-day: German 2, Adv. Conditioning, Debate, Geophys. Science
B-Day: (H) English 9, seminar, US History, Algebra 1.
I'm a freshmen with a 4.0, and only a couple weeks of school left...

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A day- Gym, Spanish B, Math III (failed the finals) English III (anyone who ahd a certain english teacher last year probably failed that class due to the just throwing the stuff we needed to review two days before the final Global Insights, Lunch, Science

B day- Cycle the rest the same.


3 weeks left for me


(4th week not counting as it is realyl graduation and such)


Good thing is, I know all my classes for next year and I am fine with them.