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Stupid Schools... (General Discussion)
Stupid Schools... // General Discussion
Aug 17, 2001, 10:53pm
lol, i'm not depressed.. just tired.. i do that when i'm tired.. i decided not to sleep for a cpl days.. still paying for it.. heh..
[View Quote]"goober king" <rar1 at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote in message news:3B7D8CC9.8010606 at acsu.buffalo.edu...
: Wow... and I thought *I* could get depressed... Reading all your posts
: these past few days has actually made me feel better, and realize how
: glad I am that I'm not you. Going through life believing that school is
: a waste of time and that we're all slowly killing ourselves with
: technology and what-not... Makes one wonder how do you manage to wake up
: in the morning!
:
: I realize it's probably mostly adolescent angst and you'll grow out of
: it in a few years, but someone else could read that and think you're on
: the verge of suicide! Oy...
:
: j b e l l wrote:
:
: > "nornny" <Nornny1 at home.com> wrote in message news:3b7d621a$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
: >
: > : wow, I feel bad for all the pathetic high school and people's lives that you
: > : guys inhabit. lol. High isn't exactly my favorite place to be, but it's a
: > : lot of fun (and drama). I kinda look forward to going back to it this year
: > : since I've gained upperclassman status (junior). :) It's just one of those
: > : things you kinda have to go through to develop and it's lost of fun, but you
: > : can't WAIT to get out. lol.
: >
: > Fun if you consider sitting on your ass listening to lectures for hours on end only for that 5 minutes of socializing in between
: > classes.. then trying to remember what you learned a few years later to no success..
: >
: > : We have a few immature people and stuff, but every place does. :) We have
: > : cheerleaders who are valordictorians, we have gym classes where we take
: > : walks to McDonalds and eat breakfast, we have really kickass french fries,
: > : and the education is way up there compared to other towns around here in
: > : Connecticut. The proms could use a little work, but blame the class
: > : president (the football captain. :/ some things never change. ;) ). The
: > : principal has GOT to go though. He made it so general level kids (dumbest
: > : and least enthused kids in the school) can't get D's and F's. We're on this
: > : really weird block schedule that takes up more time than it does uses it,
: > : and a bunch of other stuff. But the teachers get paid well, so they teach
: > : better. :) It's kinda fun, we only make it as bad as we want it to be, and
: > : besides, you only go through it once, why try to grow up early? :D
: > :
: >
: > Being a senior (regretfully, I kick myself for not heading over to the community college after freshman year.. could have
graduated
: > with my high school's diploma after sophmore year.. would have saved a lot of time and b.s. *sigh*) everyone is immature.. walks
to
: > mcdonald's for p.e.? how health-minded.. eduction.. in public high school? what a joke.. you must read the text book and not
listen
: > to your teachers, if your actually learning something.. prom has and always will suck, but it's a big deal at the time, so it'll
: > always be there.. teachers get paid well? so they don't take as much sick days off.. bah.. as bad as you want it to be? take a
look
: > around.. everything is so dramatic and full of shit.. cheesy.. stupid.. god these people all need to grow up.. we LUCKILY only
go
: > through it once.. much more high school bull shit and i think i'll go insane.. no wonder these kids shoot up their schools..
it's a
: > waste of time and money.. just send us all straight to college, with a cpl hours the first day to catch us up on the 4 years we
: > missed (which trust me, will only take a cpl hours)
: >
: > :
: > BAH!
: >
: >
: >
: >
: > -j
: > : "birdmike" <birdmike at home.com> wrote in message
: > : news:3b7d31d9 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
: > : > It makes one wonder what the true purpose of high school *in the US* is.
: > : I
: > : > think it's not to educate kids, but to make them feel good about
: > : themselves.
: > : > I mean, how much do you learn from Physical "Education" and all the
: > : sports?
: > : > Not much, but it sure makes the dumb idiots feel good about themselves to
: > : > see they can run around a track faster than people with IQ's triple of
: > : their
: > : > own.
: > : >
: > : > -BirdMike
: > : >
: > : >
: > : > "mike zimmer" <zimmer at pitnet.net> wrote in message
: > : > news:3b7ca339 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
: > : > > I just got my Freshman Agenda book today with all the school rules in
: > : it.
: > : > > Here are a couple I find "interesting".
: > : > >
: > : > > "There will be a $1.00 fee for changing a locker combination." Yet, most
: > : > of
: > : > > the lockers don't even need to have a combo to open them...
: > : > >
: > : > > "The lost and found department is in the school store." Store? Odd.
: > : > >
: > : > > "4. Line jumping in the hot lunch line is not allowed. It is
: > : > > discourteous, since the next student is just as hungry as you." Not if
: > : the
: > : > > next person is a anorexic...
: > : > >
: > : > > "15. Throwing or shooting any objects where injury could result is
: > : not
: > : > > allowed." So, if no one else is in the room, can I throw a computer
: > : > monitor
: > : > > across the room?
: > : > >
: > : > > "16. Fighting is prohibited by city ordinance. Parents and Police
: > : will
: > : > be
: > : > > contacted when fist fighting occurs." So, what if we never used our
: > : fists?
: > : > >
: > : > > On the last page there is a multiplication table. If you need that, why
: > : > are
: > : > > you in High School?
: > : > >
: > : > > I was bored tonight and was reading my useless book and decided to let
: > : you
: > : > > all in on my School's stupidity. This is just the beginning, wait until
: > : > > school starts! >:-D
: > : > >
: > : > >
: > : >
: > : >
: > :
: > :
: >
: >
: >
:
:
: --
: Goober King
: Maybe JBELL and JFK2 could hook up in a few years...
: rar1 at acsu.buffalo.edu
:
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Aug 17, 2001, 10:56pm
9 classes.. damn..either short classes or a long day.. or both..
here's what i have.. senior year, mind you..
networking concepts
personal finance
"colt connection" (don't ask)
heroes (lit)
computer applications 1 (why i'm in this again, i don't know.. will have to see about that)
lunch
creative writing
off campus (to be changed to nuclear era cuz i failed it last semester last year)
[View Quote]"wing" <bathgate at prodigy.net> wrote in message news:3b7d6c64 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
: Whee, I got my schedule last week for the first semester. Other than being extremely confusing, it's rather funny. First semester
I
: have (In order of appearence)
:
: P.E. (first thing in the morning, I hate that)
: Music (Ughhhh again)
: An hour of study hall
: An hour of lunch (aka study hall II, cuz you can finish all your homework in 2 hours and the food sucks)
: Trig (WTF, I'M A FRESHMEN) O_O
: American Government (Whee, a whole class where we talk about the only thing dumber than schools)
: Spainish (Yes, they spelled it that way)
: Biology
: English
:
: What the hell do I do second semester? All these are 1 semester courses that you're only allowed to take once a year.
:
: "mike zimmer" <zimmer at pitnet.net> wrote in message news:3b7ca339 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
: > I just got my Freshman Agenda book today with all the school rules in it.
: > Here are a couple I find "interesting".
: >
: > "There will be a $1.00 fee for changing a locker combination." Yet, most of
: > the lockers don't even need to have a combo to open them...
: >
: > "The lost and found department is in the school store." Store? Odd.
: >
: > "4. Line jumping in the hot lunch line is not allowed. It is
: > discourteous, since the next student is just as hungry as you." Not if the
: > next person is a anorexic...
: >
: > "15. Throwing or shooting any objects where injury could result is not
: > allowed." So, if no one else is in the room, can I throw a computer monitor
: > across the room?
: >
: > "16. Fighting is prohibited by city ordinance. Parents and Police will be
: > contacted when fist fighting occurs." So, what if we never used our fists?
: >
: > On the last page there is a multiplication table. If you need that, why are
: > you in High School?
: >
: > I was bored tonight and was reading my useless book and decided to let you
: > all in on my School's stupidity. This is just the beginning, wait until
: > school starts! >:-D
: >
: >
:
:
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Aug 17, 2001, 11:34pm
Wait a minute... you only had to pay 30 dollars for a college course?
Around here we have to pay upwards of $200! That includes books as well as
tuition.
SW Chris
[View Quote]"nornny" <Nornny1 at home.com> wrote in message
news:3b7da59a$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I'll join in on the fun too. :) My schedule, that for the first year had
NO
> conflicting classes or anything, as of yet. :) Usually, on the first day
of
> school, this schedule we have now will TOTALLY be changed into a mess of
> classes you don't want. ;)
>
> On A Day (see, we have two days, A days and B days, with different 84
minute
> classes for each day. So you see a class every other day. Weird messed up
> block scheduling...)
>
> A1 Semester 1 Phys Ed (might as well get it over with? lol. and it's
always
> better to excercise in the morning, I heard, so you're more invigorated
> during the day, although you sometimes get all sweaty)
>
> Semester 2 - Study Hall, but i'll prolly sign up for Office Aide and
> enjoy the benefits of air conditioning, quietness, late arrival to school,
> and free phone calls, SCREW THE PAYPHONES!! GO COLLEGE RESUME!!!
>
> A2 French 3 Accelerated (accelerated is the fancy name for honors. lol.
and
> my week down in Pennsylvania for French camp better pay off this year)
>
> A3 Band (ahh, the joys of having 4th lunch block. :/ )
>
> A4 Advanced Placement/UCONN Chemistry (god, I paid 30 dollars and a heck
of
> a lot of straight A-s for this college course in hopes that I won't have
to
> go through the slow and painful death of college chemistry. instant
credit.
> ;) Although, you need to pass the AP exam at the end of the year and 90%
of
> the class drops out within the first month. Last year, the AP Chem class
> held 40 students at first, but after the summer reading was assigned, it
> slooped to 30, then after the first week, 15, and by the end of the year,
> there were only 6 kids who got the UCONN credit, 3 of whom got the AP
> credit. :/)
>
> For a Junior looking towards Ivy League, a pretty uneventful A day except
> the end. It's not like I could GET any decent electives (drafting, foods,
> CAD, whatever floats your boat) with the classes that fill up the other
day
> (B Day). Band and French are one of those "committed electives" that you
> sometimes just have to choose. ;) Anyways, B Day...
>
> AP American History - Yay, a college class bright and early in the
morning.
> Since 200 years is a lot to cover, we started sophmore year up until the
> Jackson era for this class. Anyone who "passed" the AP History part 1,
gets
> to go to the REAL AP History and be able to take the AP test at the end of
> the year, if they last that long. God, I don't tihnk I can stay awake. The
> class is fun and challenging, but dear god, help us all.
>
> Pre Calculus/Trig Accelerated - yeesh, I'm not a math person. ;)
>
> American Humanities English Accelerated - reading is...fun?
>
> AP Chemistry (again) - god, TWO periods of chemistry. how will I
survive??!!
> That's 84 minutes each day of this stupid subject. lol
>
> Nornny
>
> "wing" <bathgate at prodigy.net> wrote in message
> news:3b7d6c64 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
being
> extremely confusing, it's rather funny. First semester I
homework
> in 2 hours and the food sucks)
> thing dumber than schools)
> that you're only allowed to take once a year.
>
>
>
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Aug 17, 2001, 11:36pm
The "other" type is probably just as happy where they are too. ;)
SW Chris.
[View Quote]"builderz" <sawran at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3B7DA567.5A6ED270 at yahoo.com...
> sw chris wrote:
America
The
>
> ROFL. Yea, I saw that last night. That guy could barely even talk. I
> wonder what his IQ is...
>
is
>
> That is *usually* how it goes. I'm glad I'm the working type. ;)
>
> Builderz
> Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
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Aug 18, 2001, 12:11am
Shorter than usual day actually. 4 hours reserved for classes (they give us a whopping 0 minutes to traverse the entire building to
get between classes, and this aint no small urban compact school either, the freshmen area is the size of four football fields) and
7 classes to do in 4 hours... That's 34 minutes per class. Heck, in Tech Ed it'll take 90% of the people in my class all semester to
learn to boot the darn things with classes that short, while I'll be walking in the first day ready for a 125% on the finals.
[View Quote]"j b e l l" <jbell1983 at home.com> wrote in message news:3b7dbd3b$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> 9 classes.. damn..either short classes or a long day.. or both..
>
> here's what i have.. senior year, mind you..
>
> networking concepts
> personal finance
> "colt connection" (don't ask)
> heroes (lit)
> computer applications 1 (why i'm in this again, i don't know.. will have to see about that)
> lunch
> creative writing
> off campus (to be changed to nuclear era cuz i failed it last semester last year)
>
> "wing" <bathgate at prodigy.net> wrote in message news:3b7d6c64 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> : Whee, I got my schedule last week for the first semester. Other than being extremely confusing, it's rather funny. First
semester
> I
> : have (In order of appearence)
> :
> : P.E. (first thing in the morning, I hate that)
> : Music (Ughhhh again)
> : An hour of study hall
> : An hour of lunch (aka study hall II, cuz you can finish all your homework in 2 hours and the food sucks)
> : Trig (WTF, I'M A FRESHMEN) O_O
> : American Government (Whee, a whole class where we talk about the only thing dumber than schools)
> : Spainish (Yes, they spelled it that way)
> : Biology
> : English
> :
> : What the hell do I do second semester? All these are 1 semester courses that you're only allowed to take once a year.
> :
> : "mike zimmer" <zimmer at pitnet.net> wrote in message news:3b7ca339 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> : > I just got my Freshman Agenda book today with all the school rules in it.
> : > Here are a couple I find "interesting".
> : >
> : > "There will be a $1.00 fee for changing a locker combination." Yet, most of
> : > the lockers don't even need to have a combo to open them...
> : >
> : > "The lost and found department is in the school store." Store? Odd.
> : >
> : > "4. Line jumping in the hot lunch line is not allowed. It is
> : > discourteous, since the next student is just as hungry as you." Not if the
> : > next person is a anorexic...
> : >
> : > "15. Throwing or shooting any objects where injury could result is not
> : > allowed." So, if no one else is in the room, can I throw a computer monitor
> : > across the room?
> : >
> : > "16. Fighting is prohibited by city ordinance. Parents and Police will be
> : > contacted when fist fighting occurs." So, what if we never used our fists?
> : >
> : > On the last page there is a multiplication table. If you need that, why are
> : > you in High School?
> : >
> : > I was bored tonight and was reading my useless book and decided to let you
> : > all in on my School's stupidity. This is just the beginning, wait until
> : > school starts! >:-D
> : >
> : >
> :
> :
>
>
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Aug 18, 2001, 12:14pm
You're thinking COLLEGE college courses. This is college highschool
cooperative class. :) Basically, they teach you exactly the same materials
as they do if you went to UCONN, but in high school, meaning there's a bit
more time to let everything settle in your brain, instead of like 2 hours of
chemistry with 100 other students. All we had to pay was 30 dollars to take
the equivilant of two UCONN semester credits (forgot how many hours that is)
in Chemistry. Didn't have to pay for the book or anything, just the actual
class. :) Also, the class is an AP (advanced placement) course also, but the
school district pays for us to take that test. Theoretically, you can skip
UCONN chemistry 101 and 102 or something like that if you pass the high
school class. :)
Nornny
[View Quote]"sw chris" <chrisw10 at nckcn.com> wrote in message
news:3b7dc636 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Wait a minute... you only had to pay 30 dollars for a college course?
> Around here we have to pay upwards of $200! That includes books as well
as
> tuition.
>
> SW Chris
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Aug 18, 2001, 12:45pm
You mean, depending on what classes you have that semester or year, you have
shorter or longer school days? Wow. Our HALF DAYS aren't even as short as
yours. lol. We have 4 classes every other day, each of them 84 minutes long.
If you put all the classes together every day, it'd still be 42 minutes a
class. :/ Third period has an extra 20 minutes to it to accomadate the 4
lunch blocks (although the time you spend in class is still only 84
minutes). The only exception is if you have no class during 1st period or
last period, in which case, you can sign up for late arrival/early
dismissal. For a school day to count, the school has to be in session from
7:40 (when school starts) til 12:00 (end of school on a half day, or maybe
it was 12:30. one of those). Anyways, our regular school day goes until
7:40-2:05 as it is.
Nornny
[View Quote]"wing" <bathgate at prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:3b7dced8 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Shorter than usual day actually. 4 hours reserved for classes (they give
us a whopping 0 minutes to traverse the entire building to
> get between classes, and this aint no small urban compact school either,
the freshmen area is the size of four football fields) and
> 7 classes to do in 4 hours... That's 34 minutes per class. Heck, in Tech
Ed it'll take 90% of the people in my class all semester to
> learn to boot the darn things with classes that short, while I'll be
walking in the first day ready for a 125% on the finals.
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Aug 18, 2001, 3:59pm
The school I used to go to (private, with a very expensive tuition) only had
Macs and 486s. And guess what? The 486s were faster than the Apple G3s.
All of the computers were on one sub-56K line. Talk about slow.
But, the worst thing of all was the computer "teacher" who put a hacker in
charge of the network who sabotaged the schools network and blamed it on my
friend. The "teacher" also had us make webpages and wouldn't let us use CSS
because she didn't understand.
Ah, the memories.
[View Quote]"mike zimmer" <zimmer at pitnet.net> wrote in message
news:3b7d99c6 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Guess what, we get to learn Word '97!!!
>
> sw chris <chrisw10 at nckcn.com> wrote in message
> news:3b7d8b18 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
revolution....
a
second
>
>
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Aug 18, 2001, 4:07pm
Don't we all love the USA's wonderful sports-based society!
[View Quote]"sw chris" <chrisw10 at nckcn.com> wrote in message
news:3b7d8f7e at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Hehe... I suppose that's the exception to the rule. :)
>
> SW Chris
>
> "kah" <kah at kahbot.com> wrote in message
> news:3b7d8e44 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> than
> grammar...
hyper
appearances
in
of
Show
the
> slinking
rules
> Yet,
> Odd.
> Not
> result
> computer
> Police
> our
> that,
to
wait
>
>
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Aug 18, 2001, 4:14pm
Wish our high school college classes were like that. :(
SW Chris
[View Quote]"nornny" <Nornny1 at home.com> wrote in message
news:3b7e7831$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> You're thinking COLLEGE college courses. This is college highschool
> cooperative class. :) Basically, they teach you exactly the same materials
> as they do if you went to UCONN, but in high school, meaning there's a bit
> more time to let everything settle in your brain, instead of like 2 hours
of
> chemistry with 100 other students. All we had to pay was 30 dollars to
take
> the equivilant of two UCONN semester credits (forgot how many hours that
is)
> in Chemistry. Didn't have to pay for the book or anything, just the actual
> class. :) Also, the class is an AP (advanced placement) course also, but
the
> school district pays for us to take that test. Theoretically, you can skip
> UCONN chemistry 101 and 102 or something like that if you pass the high
> school class. :)
>
> Nornny
>
> "sw chris" <chrisw10 at nckcn.com> wrote in message
> news:3b7dc636 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> as
>
>
>
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Aug 18, 2001, 4:17pm
Don't forget entertainment-based as well..
SW Chris
[View Quote]"birdmike" <birdmike at home.com> wrote in message
news:3b7eaee3 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Don't we all love the USA's wonderful sports-based society!
>
>
>
>
> "sw chris" <chrisw10 at nckcn.com> wrote in message
> news:3b7d8f7e at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> hyper
> appearances
money
> in
the
> of
> Show
> the
> rules
is
you."
used
decided
> to
> wait
>
>
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Aug 18, 2001, 5:31pm
We just got internet last year...
[View Quote]birdmike <birdmike at home.com> wrote in message
news:3b7ead1b$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> The school I used to go to (private, with a very expensive tuition) only
had
> Macs and 486s. And guess what? The 486s were faster than the Apple G3s.
>
> All of the computers were on one sub-56K line. Talk about slow.
>
> But, the worst thing of all was the computer "teacher" who put a hacker in
> charge of the network who sabotaged the schools network and blamed it on
my
> friend. The "teacher" also had us make webpages and wouldn't let us use
CSS
> because she didn't understand.
>
> Ah, the memories.
>
>
>
> "mike zimmer" <zimmer at pitnet.net> wrote in message
> news:3b7d99c6 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> revolution....
had
> a
word
> second
around
>
>
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Aug 18, 2001, 7:39pm
That's about it. However, regardless of how many classes you have, you MUST be at school at 8AM to at least noon, and only those
with cars and valid school parking permits (About 15 parking spaces, the rest of us park on road and in the stadium lot) get to
leave at noon, the rest of us are stuck until the buses carrying middle school students arrive at 2:30 (The roads here are so low
capacity that the 40 buses have to serve double duty to both schools at once, and then deal with elementary after that)
[View Quote]"nornny" <Nornny1 at home.com> wrote in message news:3b7e7f76 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> You mean, depending on what classes you have that semester or year, you have
> shorter or longer school days? Wow. Our HALF DAYS aren't even as short as
> yours. lol. We have 4 classes every other day, each of them 84 minutes long.
> If you put all the classes together every day, it'd still be 42 minutes a
> class. :/ Third period has an extra 20 minutes to it to accomadate the 4
> lunch blocks (although the time you spend in class is still only 84
> minutes). The only exception is if you have no class during 1st period or
> last period, in which case, you can sign up for late arrival/early
> dismissal. For a school day to count, the school has to be in session from
> 7:40 (when school starts) til 12:00 (end of school on a half day, or maybe
> it was 12:30. one of those). Anyways, our regular school day goes until
> 7:40-2:05 as it is.
>
> Nornny
>
> "wing" <bathgate at prodigy.net> wrote in message
> news:3b7dced8 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> us a whopping 0 minutes to traverse the entire building to
> the freshmen area is the size of four football fields) and
> Ed it'll take 90% of the people in my class all semester to
> walking in the first day ready for a 125% on the finals.
>
>
>
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Aug 18, 2001, 8:35pm
Heh - I have to learn windows 95 and word 97 this year :-/
[View Quote]"mike zimmer" <zimmer at pitnet.net> wrote in message
news:3b7d99c6 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Guess what, we get to learn Word '97!!!
>
> sw chris <chrisw10 at nckcn.com> wrote in message
> news:3b7d8b18 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
revolution....
a
second
>
>
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