Venting

[nirvana]

I hate school.  I think expectations are filthy.  Honors classes and advanced placement classes suck, because they build even more expectations.  I don't expect to be told by my teachers to "try harder" and I won't if they tell me too.  I think teachers suck.  I think teachers have no right to stand in front of a class for 90 minutes and ask rhetorical questions.  I don't answer their questions.


Teachers are sniveling dweebs with no respect for students, although they say they have respect.  I don't respect the school "authority figures", screw them and their lovely little world.


Also homework, it has no effect on how well I do on a test.  Test are pointless and not a measure of how much you learned but how much you can memorize and for how long.  Learning=memorizing.  I believe you can learn all you need to through experience.  I believe 8 hours a day of school is too long, I believe the government and schools try to force too much into minds.



Thinking out loud.....well  EXPECTATIONS SUCK!

[Sandman]

Might as well get used to it. School never ends.

[nirvana]

Oh yeah?

Here's more ranting:  School causes stress. After 2 days of stress I have flipped out on my mum and sister, telling my mum she was pissing me off and my sister, "no difference then everything else in this country" after she said i'd have to answer a lot of questions if I wanted to drop a class (namely spanish.  

Then there are the inch thick 10LBS textbooks that don't ever fit in your 4 inch wide, 4 inch deep 4 foot tall locker.  Carry those 2 10lbs textbooks all day then 5-10lbs of other junk and my supple young 15 year old body is just about crushed to the point Ineed a chiropractor.  


Point is i may start asking the school district or government for money to supplement my anxiety/stress medication and chiropractor bills.

[mosgood]

McDonalds is always there for ya bud.


btw... I'll take mine with extra fries.....

[Russian]

enjoy your freedom. It will end soon(tm)

[Russian]

Originally posted by mosgood
McDonalds is always there for ya bud.


btw... I'll take mine with extra fries.....

add 20 nuggets to that, thanks.

[detch01]

Sounds to me like you need to learn to say this with a smile:
"Would you like fries with that?"

asw

The older I get the smarter my parents and teachers get

[Mustaine]

Originally posted by nirvana
Oh yeah?

Here's more ranting:  School causes stress..

really?




seriously, at 15, you got ALOTTA "stress" ahead of you bro. you got senior year and deciding on college, or what not, prom, athletics, other activities, your first "long term" girlfriend, your first major break up, and TONS of minor things that will seem like the end of the world @ the time.

best advise, is remember to have fun, even if you make an arse of yourself in the hallway by having your pants fall down or something. just laugh it off, and move on.

there is LOTS of life ahead of you

[Gunslinger]

yes further example that youth is waisted on the young.  I envy you Nirvana I really do.  One day you will reach a point when it hits you "everything your 'mum' and teachers ever told you was for a reason and they were mostly right"

My epiphany was my first duty station going to Avionics school and doing laundry for the first time.

[RightF00T]

Nirvana I'm guessing you're in your sophomore year?  School can't be that bad buddy...heck if the work is all you have to worry about you have it made.  You could easily be stuffed into trash cans every day and have to endure a job after school as well.

Speaking of minimum wage, if you figure out that you can handle the workload of school after this year, consider finding a fast-food or similar job in the area.  After working there for a while, you will soon get an appreciation for an education and have a general feeling that you don't want to be doing that kind of thing the rest of your life.  Just remember education= options.  Noone can take that from you.  

Sorry if I'm sounding like an after school special but it sounds like you just need a kick in the butt to get back into things.  Good luck this year.

[nirvana]

I worked for my step dad 10 hour days as a mechanic for 7 weeks before school.  I think i'm gonna press the easy button once and drop the class I least desire to be in, Spanish 2.  The teacher is somewhat less then desirable, and while you can't always change your boss I can in this situation.  Plus I don't plan on going to Mexico or any other spanish speaking country soon.  If you live in America, you speak English. Period.  


Despite what you say Gun, I choose to question whether the teachers know what they are talking about, they may have a college degree but that college degree means that the Wright brother's first flight last 12 minutes and they went 30 miles, this according to my science teacher last year.  She also chose to scare us with the "microwaving plastic wrap causes cancer".  Snopes said that is false.  

Education gives you options because people say it makes you smart and more qualified, doesn't necesarily mean it's true.  A guy I know, who I don't necesarily agre with, dropped out of high school when he was 16, he then started a job at a fast food restraunt:aok   He would rather work 5-6 days a week then go to school.  I really have a lot of opinions on this but my 15 year old mind is probably too nieve to understand what i'm even talking about.  And yes I am a sophomore.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by nirvana
Also homework, it has no effect on how well I do on a test.  Test are pointless and not a measure of how much you learned but how much you can memorize and for how long.  Learning=memorizing.

I had an epiphany my spring term as a freshman in college.

I worried over tests and grades and thought grades were the end product of education.  

When I decided to learn the concepts, my grades went down slightly, my stress level plummeted, and I still remember and can use engineering concepts I learned 10 tears ago.  If I can't find a reference to look up a formula, I can remember the formulas by knowing the concepts and the units I need for the answer.  

I learned that when I gave up memorization and actually learned the concepts that were being taught, I kept the knowledge.

[Russian]

Originally posted by nirvana
A guy I know, who I don't necesarily agre with, dropped out of high school when he was 16, he then started a job at a fast food restraunt:aok   He would rather work 5-6 days a week then go to school.  

Hay, I know someone who did same. Oddly enough, he is still living with his mom, no degree, but he can flip burgers quite skillfully.  I guess that’s expected, to flip burgers skillfully that is, after 6 years.
And nothing is stopping you from approaching that teacher and tactfully telling his mistake.

[Shane]

if anything, stay in school just to learn how to run a spellchecker.

speeling iz phundazmentel.

serve out your sentence and hush up, the rest of us did - supposedly.

back in the old days we had to actually research and type our term papers.

the google generation has it easy! ipods are a priviledge, not a right!

[eagl]

Drop Spanish and if you ever want to go to college, they'll probably make you take it as a remedial course.  Then you'll be sitting in a room full of 400 other people taking remedial spanish from a grad student who couldn't care less about expectations or how quickly you flunk out.

Quitting is easy.  So easy, it's habit forming.  Start now, and 30 yrs from now you'll be sitting in your singlewide wondering why you ever tried to finish anything.