Venting

[Eagler]

sounds like you need a new handle


get a grip kid, life is tough

[Simaril]

As said above, trying to separate the drive for grades from learning stuff can reduce stress tremendously.

Jump thru the hoops the trainers put there -- its ok to recognize them for what they are, but dont get pissed off about them. They are part of life, no matter what you end up doing.


Learn to think and understand what's happening, and you can actually have fun in classes. Teachers (if they're good) will respect you more for original, well thought out ideas than they well for leet memorization skills. Dont disrupt class, talk to them without nastiness or arrogance, but feel free to make em earn their keep otherwise. Profs at university used to get really discouraged at the way most students never got past regurgitating facts.



And -- dont blow off all this "learn how to think" advice. My daughter's not into math, but when she realized that ALL problem solving -- including car repair -- relies on "isolating the variable" she suddenly had a different attitude towards algebra. Higher math seems useless until you accept that it also teaches your brain to use higher forms of abstract thinkning, which will help you all over.

[nirvana]

Thanks guys, haven't read them all just yet but I will.  I have decided to finish the semester, because we are moving.  Figure if I want to work at McDonalds I need AT LEAST a second year of Spanish to talk to my co workers around here:rolleyes:


Querer papas fritas senor?  No?  Lo siento senor.
Querer un gato en tus pantalones? En el pantalones!  Horrible.

[nirvana]

Oh the hormones, OH THE RAGE.  I don't like sports, because, in my point of view anyway, they are all a bunch of stuck up salamanders who are better then anyone.  Same with most of the teacher around here, some are nice but others aren't.  I know it's not the right thing but respect is a mutual thing.  I respect teachers for the first few days 'til I get a grip on what they are really doing.  If I don't like em, they get nothing.

Hell, I hardly say a word in class which drives a stake in between me and teachers sometimes.  

Drediock I can't imagine being your child.  I would have gotten a record number of whoopings at the end of 8th grade and a 4 year punishment, I got an F.  You know why? GIRLS, I talked to them too much.  I got a C (amazingly) in Geometry last year, why?  TALKING.  When you are a teen girls are just sooo.......distracting:)

[Shane]

*you* concentrate on the books... let *us* take care of those teen girls for you.... err i mean the ones of legal age anyway!

[vorticon]

Originally posted by nirvana
I know it's not the right thing but respect is a mutual thing.  I respect teachers for the first few days 'til I get a grip on what they are really doing.  If I don't like em, they get nothing.

Hell, I hardly say a word in class which drives a stake in between me and teachers sometimes.  

easiest way to deal with teachers you dont like is to be more interested in what there teaching than who they are...if that doesnt work see if you can get a transfer to a different school if you cant stand your teachers...

handy tip for the girls, just manouver where you sit so there between you and the teacher, then you can oggle less distractidly

[KONG1]

Making good grades in school doesn�t make you smart, being smart makes it possible to make good grades.  Most people have it backwards.

Point is this.  The education system is just a game.  Your success at the game is an indicator of, not a creator of your intelligence.  Just play the game, by the time your 21 you can have a bachelors.  This will allow for more choices of what game to play next.

Point two is this.  Lot�s of hot girls in high schools and colleges so go.  Just wrap your willy or you will have less choices of what game to play next.

Your teachers may be mediocre.  Get used to it.  Mediocrity is the norm.  If someone�s good at something they want to advance to the next level.  They stop advancing when they reach something they don�t do very well, and there they stay (Peter Principal).  Just the way it is.  Dealing with crappy situations and crappy people is a skill in and of itself.  

Last thing, about respect.  Don�t expect a lot of respect from other people.  Just make sure you behave in a manner such that you respect yourself.  That�s what really matters.

[crowMAW]

Originally posted by nirvana
Querer un gato en tus pantalones? En el pantalones!  Horrible.

!Yo tengo pantalones muy importantes!

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by 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.

You have "reckoning" to look forward too.  You're all full of piss and vinegar and you are 15?!   Remember this, Repect your elders, it is becuase of them, that you are here.   Oh and one other thing.  When you are 25 years old, you'd swear that someone opened the blinds.

Good Luck in Life bud.

Karaya

[FALCONWING]

School always came easy for me...i goofed off out of boredom...Straight A's and Straight poor conducts all the time. Varsity letterman cause i liked the attention. I thought i had it all figured out...had a letter to the AIr Force Academy with Senator behind me...Dad was Colonel in the USAF.  I was all set to be a fiter pilot.  SAT's 1380....

Then i found out I had Muscular Dystrophy...thought I needed a knee brace cause it kept giving out whe i was hiking...Air Force MD figured it out and a muscle biopsy later it was confirmed...16 years of dreaming of flying a fiter out the window and whole life upside down.  Not to mention the prayers i prayed while i waited for the biopsy results.....

Point is..you never know what the future holds so dont limit yourself son.  Work hard and be good at everything you do..it will make you better in the end.  School is not a game...it is a time for learning but more importantly maturing into a decent human being with good ethics and understanding how to get along with one another.

BTW im fine....became a doctor instead...married a beautiful doctor as well and have 3 great kids and one otw.  But i get weaker each year...cant go up steps or run anymore etc.  Howver i thank God everyday for what he has given me. I hope someday you do too and not be filled with regrets for what you let slip thru your hands

[Shuckins]

Most worthwhile things in life can only be acquired through diligence and hard work.

Education is no exception.

Your teachers are there to guide you...not to entertain you.  They can't be Eddie Murphy every day in the hopes of enticing a bunch of spoiled momma's boys/girls to act in their own self-interest by actually "pursuing" an education.

You may be a pretty decent kid, but stop feeling sorry for yourself, grab the bull by the horns, and get-r-done.

[nirvana]

You are lucky you don't hear me on squad vox half the time Karaya, then there is all the negativity and pessimistic remarks.  I really don't know how they put up with it.  Anyway, I concentrate on school as much as possible, it is a "job" which you get paid for in "education".  As it is though, I don't care much for the administration running it and I think we, the students, should be allowed to vote for that kind of stuff.  If we are the generation of the future give us a chance to vote.   You guys think voting for teachers and principals etc. would give them something to think about?

[Hangtime]

"supple young body?"

????

[FiLtH]

I wish I had high school "stress". Actually I hated school. Ive worked hard my whole life. When I could have worked smart if I had just applied myself a little more back in high school.

  This is your chance...dont blow it. Buck up and study hard. Show the world what you can do. Dont be just another "victim of society".

[Maverick]

Originally posted by nirvana
You are lucky you don't hear me on squad vox half the time Karaya, then there is all the negativity and pessimistic remarks.  I really don't know how they put up with it.  Anyway, I concentrate on school as much as possible, it is a "job" which you get paid for in "education".  As it is though, I don't care much for the administration running it and I think we, the students, should be allowed to vote for that kind of stuff.  If we are the generation of the future give us a chance to vote.   You guys think voting for teachers and principals etc. would give them something to think about?

The phrase, inmates running the asylum, pretty much covers what you just poposed. Rather accurately I might add.