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animeshadows wrote on 2012-03-06 08:56
As a Junior in High School, my view on school is iffy. To be slightly more specific, it is incredibly corrupt. Students who do well, including myself, can simply learn how to play the system to raise their grades....
For just about all of my years in school, I've done many things to raise my grades. The source of it, all, however, is kissing major ass. Once convincing teachers you are a "good person," you get so much benefit of the doubt, it's idiotic. To date, I haven't done a single homework assignment in my Physics class. My grade? 102%. No extra credit, either. Adding on, I've been given 100% on essays that I have never turned in, but the teachers never approached me about them... etc.
The next thing I absolutely loathe are the remainder of the students at my school. Half of them are mentally ill, I assume, from Jersey Shore. (The other day, I heard a girl who told her best friend that she had JUST learned birthdays happen on the same day each and every year. I wanted to slap the bitch.)
I'll spare you the long stories. What are your opinions on school, be it High School, College, or otherwise?
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RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-03-06 09:01
I think it prepares people for the jobs they'll take more often than not.
There's an awful lot of BS, usually of the same variety, going on in the workforce.
I will say that I find it unusual that you did so well without doing homework and by simply... appealing to them. In the high school I went to, that never would've been acceptable. It would've basically been an automatic failure.
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Cynic wrote on 2012-03-06 09:03
I've never had a problem with people abusing their relationships towards Teachers. Basically all the Public Schools (not counting College and above) in my area are horrible, though. The students go there to socialize and nothing else. They don't do any work and the Teachers have usually long since stopped caring or are losing motivation to even try and teach kids anymore. The Principals don't really do anything about it but shove it under the rug.
There are some kids like myself who struggled to actually learn and do what you're supposed to do in School, but since the majority didn't care, neither did the Teachers.
The only positive experiences I've had at Schools was at a fancy (albeit 'free' at the time) public School in a rich neighborhood when I was a kid, as-well as the online HS I attended. There the Teachers actually taught and cared about their work, the majority of the kids did their best and actually participated in class and tried to learn, the Principals cared, etc etc.
All in all, I have a pretty negative out-look on public schools and sometimes even schools in general.
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Bride wrote on 2012-03-06 09:06
Quote from animeshadows;797780:
For just about all of my years in school, I've done many things to raise my grades. The source of it, all, however, is kissing major ass. Once convincing teachers you are a "good person," you get so much benefit of the doubt, it's idiotic. To date, I haven't done a single homework assignment in my Physics class. My grade? 102%. No extra credit, either. Adding on, I've been given 100% on essays that I have never turned in, but the teachers never approached me about them... etc.
the hell D:
I hated high school
I didn't do that great because I didn't put much effort, but the few times I actually cared I was able to make As/Bs
overall I didn't like it. I only had a problem with maybe 2 of my teachers my sophomore year, but those are the only teachers I disliked
one was a major biotch and the other was unprofessional and a major flirt with female students. Middle school was my favorite because I had a ton of friends back then, but overall, I didn't really like school. Just didn't enjoy it :(
Here's to hoping college will be much better. Especially in the UK, where I won't know ANYONE
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Blue Shell wrote on 2012-03-06 09:08
Its alright.
Just getting up in the morning...
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Strawberry wrote on 2012-03-06 09:08
I'm speaking from the view of my second year of high school, but I'm not quick to judge things here quite yet, but, my years have never been like that, and I'm glad they haven't.
The teacher sounds like they're not really doing their job properly by not checking, though. It's good that the teacher trusts you, but treating people equally is the way most schools go, and they usually say things like that during their opening or announcements. It kind of makes me feel like my effort was for a waste if they don't even bother evaluating it. It hurts so much...Especially if you spent so much time doing it. x_x
I've done a lot to raise my grades, like beginning to take the time into reviewing any extra material that I don't understand. I'm not sure how nearly half of them could be mentally ill, however. They must've really been living under a rock, unless they've had some mental condition or something.
In regards to anything, I'm the type of person that would prefer some criticism more than just compliments. Anything constructive would be nice, and it's what I usually base some things on so I know what I can improve on. If I think it's fine, maybe I take their comments into consideration and then use it for other things. D:
But just at least some sort of evaluation on things...
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animeshadows wrote on 2012-03-06 09:10
I feel the need to clarify— I am still a good student willing to learn. Without the kissing up, my grades would be near 92-93%... but a 10% change is still significant.
The only thing I find worth attending HS for, at present, is for my Broadcasting class, drama, and speech team.
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Moppy wrote on 2012-03-06 09:10
School is friggin' awesome.
Sure, I don't do any of the work but I love chillin' with mah besties!
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animeshadows wrote on 2012-03-06 09:15
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Kaeporo wrote on 2012-03-06 09:19
High school was interesting. I learned a lot of good general knowledge that will help me throughout the rest of my life.
It suppose it really depends on your perspective. Some people try to stand out among their peers in order to make it to higher levels of education. Some people simply try to become better than their peers. There's a good amount of networking involved for people who care about such things.
I have a couple of old friends who simply attended school for its intended purpose. They weren't concerned with grades, they just wanted to learn more things and become better, more well-rounded people.
Then you've got people who simply don't care about school be they successful or not. I always saw these peeps as troublemakers, though I learned some of my best life lessons from them.
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Chillax wrote on 2012-03-06 09:23
Well-intentioned idea that could be worked on to be better.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-03-06 09:26
largely depends on the school
the cat has seen terribly degraded, broken down schools to really nice and fulfilling ones
but really, the cat dislike that colleges encourage students to do a lot of small-time extracurriculars just to stuff applications
(like community service clubs. the students just use popularity to be president)
Why not encourage them to make/join clubs out of actual interest, like your broadcasting club.
It's also dumb when grades are revolved largely around homework and busywork for classes that emphasize on knowledge
(like giving worksheet packets and projects for a AP physics class instead of lecturing on the concepts and demonstrating them irl)
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VorpalAvian wrote on 2012-03-06 09:43
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;797846:
largely depends on the school
the cat has seen terribly degraded, broken down schools to really nice and fulfilling ones
but really, the cat dislike that colleges encourage students to do a lot of small-time extracurriculars just to stuff applications
(like community service clubs. the students just use popularity to be president)
Why not encourage them to make/join clubs out of actual interest, like your broadcasting club.
It's also dumb when grades are revolved largely around homework and busywork for classes that emphasize on knowledge
(like giving worksheet packets and projects for a AP physics class instead of lecturing on the concepts and demonstrating them irl)
^ I share the cat's view on this about school quality and clubs. Imo school is more like a place that teaches things that the government wants you to know as well as other things that may or may not be interesting. That said I find history fascinating, but useless -.- not my thing but it was a class that I was one of the top in. I'd much rather have gone to school in Britain, compulsory education from 5-16[SPOILER="Spoiler"]But i think they changed that in 2008 :/ hoping they didn't and it's still 16
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[/SPOILER] then you have a choice of staying in high school til you're 18 or joining college or a trade school. -.- I would totally have gone to culinary school as soon as hit 16. Sadly I didn't live in Britain then -.- but yeah I find school helpful in some ways depending on it's circumstances. The place I live in right now is screwing my brother over by taking out many of it's classes and then there's the usual decrease in it's funding because we happen to live in a city that loses out to the richer/prosperous ones where the bourgeois live. woohoo freedom, equality and the same level of education available in America
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Retard wrote on 2012-03-06 11:03
Quote from animeshadows;797780:
As a Junior in High School, my view on school is iffy. To be slightly more specific, it is incredibly corrupt. Students who do well, including myself, can simply learn how to play the system to raise their grades....
For just about all of my years in school, I've done many things to raise my grades. The source of it, all, however, is kissing major ass. Once convincing teachers you are a "good person," you get so much benefit of the doubt, it's idiotic. To date, I haven't done a single homework assignment in my Physics class. My grade? 102%. No extra credit, either. Adding on, I've been given 100% on essays that I have never turned in, but the teachers never approached me about them... etc.
The next thing I absolutely loathe are the remainder of the students at my school. Half of them are mentally ill, I assume, from Jersey Shore. (The other day, I heard a girl who told her best friend that she had JUST learned birthdays happen on the same day each and every year. I wanted to slap the bitch.)
I'll spare you the long stories. What are your opinions on school, be it High School, College, or otherwise?
If your high school does that you 100% for sure are located in a shitty-ass school district... NO DOUBT... Top colleges look to the better schools to pick their students from usually. There are ocasional students from sub-par school districts who get in to Harvard/ Ivy league, but its to be not common with those standards...
I think a proper school is great. Its competitive and helps up manage things better in our life (Socially and Academically and Extra-Curricular'ly). We definitely get a lot more needed exposure then those kids that are home-schooled. Those people are, to me, (yes call me a prejudiced halfassed douche bag) are so socially awkward and just hard to be around without feeling uncomfortable. I think we get a lot of discipline too. What we don't eat at home, were sure to get shoved down our throats in highschool...
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Sekwaf wrote on 2012-03-06 11:26
I like to learn, discovering new things gives me a thrill. That said, do I like school? Not particularly. Now I'm only in my freshman year of HS, and I'm also in the most advanced program we offer, have I learned anything this year? Can't say that I have aside from some small details about biology. Why you ask? Two words. Standardized testing. I believe the single most beneficial thing we can do to fix the educational system (and trust me, it's broken) is to remove all standardized testing. I have some teachers who have huge stores of knowledge that they can't teach because it's not going to be tested. Schools are focused too much on outward signs of knowledge (test scores, high GPA's, etc.) when they should be focusing on either increasing or fulfilling people's urge to learn.
TL;DR: Schools focus too much on statistics and test scores (standardized testing) rather than giving people the urge to learn and giving them the knowledge THEY WANT TO KNOW.