Stupidest things that your school system has done

[Celestial Divinities]

My senior year, they take away our study period to give us gym class to help "relieve our stress."

The reason is stupid. A relaxed team will never win. However, if there was no academic component then there are benefits to a structured and dedicated period for sport.

But we need the study. I've never met a senior that doesn't use their study period. We use it for extra help, for homework, writing reports, we're usually in the library. Like, we really really need it. Stupid IB school has massive amounts of homework. I usually fall asleep before I can finish it. Imagine waking up with math homework on your face. That's the last thing anyone wants to wake up to.

[Forsher]

The reason is stupid. A relaxed team will never win. However, if there was no academic component then there are benefits to a structured and dedicated period for sport.

But we need the study. I've never met a senior that doesn't use their study period. We use it for extra help, for homework, writing reports, we're usually in the library. Like, we really really need it. Stupid IB school has massive amounts of homework. I usually fall asleep before I can finish it. Imagine waking up with math homework on your face. That's the last thing anyone wants to wake up to.

I said there are benefits, not that the idea is stupid. It's possible to not do study here but if the dean says no then that's it for not taking it.

[Forsher]

I'm now leaving middle school, but something really irks me about their management choices. OK, so the principal retires. Instead of promoting the Vice Principal, who works his ass off and is very popular amongst students for his ability to solve issues, to the position of principal, they ship some random dude in from California for the job.

The start of that sounded suspiciously like Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Okay, an episode.

[Katyuscha]

Worst thing our school has done?

Hiring a Croatian media teacher who can barely speack english and has no previous teaching knowledge whatsoever.

[Martean]

Worst thing our school has done?

Hiring a Croatian media teacher who can barely speack english and has no previous teaching knowledge whatsoever.

my english teacher knows less english than me

[Katyuscha]

Worst thing our school has done?

Hiring a Croatian media teacher who can barely speack english and has no previous teaching knowledge whatsoever.

my english teacher knows less english than me

The funny thing is that they don't even teach English in English classes. They just make you read a bunch of late Victorian romantic tragedies and then make you analyze them. I've learned more about the english language in my German class.

[Tsuyoi Tekikoku]

our school allowing us to have computers, they always get broken.

[Tekania]

my english teacher knows less english than me

The funny thing is that they don't even teach English in English classes. They just make you read a bunch of late Victorian romantic tragedies and then make you analyze them. I've learned more about the english language in my German class.

That's probably because most late-grade English classes are really literature studies. The assumption is that you know the basics of construction at that point and the elements now being taught are primarily comprehension and language expression.

[Katyuscha]

The funny thing is that they don't even teach English in English classes. They just make you read a bunch of late Victorian romantic tragedies and then make you analyze them. I've learned more about the english language in my German class.

That's probably because most late-grade English classes are really literature studies. The assumption is that you know the basics of construction at that point and the elements now being taught are primarily comprehension and language expression.

Still, English teachers need to learn that there are more genres than just late Victorian romantic tragedies.

[Forsher]

The funny thing is that they don't even teach English in English classes. They just make you read a bunch of late Victorian romantic tragedies and then make you analyze them. I've learned more about the english language in my German class.

That's probably because most late-grade English classes are really literature studies. The assumption is that you know the basics of construction at that point and the elements now being taught are primarily comprehension and language expression.

Which is, quite frankly, ridiculous. The only useful things in English are speeches and, depending on the type, formal writing. That's two things.

[Forsher]

That's probably because most late-grade English classes are really literature studies. The assumption is that you know the basics of construction at that point and the elements now being taught are primarily comprehension and language expression.

Still, English teachers need to learn that there are more genres than just late Victorian romantic tragedies.

What are you reading? Specific books, I mean. The closest we've got to the Victorian Era is Lord of the Flies...

[Tekania]

That's probably because most late-grade English classes are really literature studies. The assumption is that you know the basics of construction at that point and the elements now being taught are primarily comprehension and language expression.

Which is, quite frankly, ridiculous. The only useful things in English are speeches and, depending on the type, formal writing. That's two things.

Yes, reading comprehension and language expression are regarded as ridiculous, as I've come to understand from interacting in these forums. I disagree, of course.

[Cirona]

Stupid hideous uniforms. No wait, that's fine. Just the fact our shoes have to be either freaking white or black with no marks or logos.

And we're a freaking public school.

[Tekania]

That's probably because most late-grade English classes are really literature studies. The assumption is that you know the basics of construction at that point and the elements now being taught are primarily comprehension and language expression.

Still, English teachers need to learn that there are more genres than just late Victorian romantic tragedies.

Yes, some teachers do stick to a theme, my 11th grade English (American Lit) teacher stuck to pretty much the entire naturalist, existentialist,etc. poets and writers..... we had to read a lot of Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau. Needless to say, it wasn't a surprise to me that he ended up a professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee.

[The Holy Twig]

Literary analysis classes in High School - though I suppose everyone has to go through that particular shit-storm.

Most of the class was deficient in knowing what the fuck apostrophes were and how to grammar good. Knowing how to pull the themes and meanings from "The Great Gatsby" and so on and so forth isn't going to help a stable of supposed IB/AP (we didn't have enough IB students to justify IB classes, thus the supposedly 'AP' students filled some 80% of the seats in the IB classes) who likely won't ever read outside of magazines comprised mainly of pictures.

Oh, so they've two separate campuses, right? They used to use the main one as a kind of "Prison-school for plebians" and the other as an International Baccalaureate/Advanced Placement campus. Just this past year they changed it so that years 10, 11, and 12 are cooped up in the concrete-slab-prison-campus and freshmen are all limited to the smaller, nicer campus. Of course, now the smaller campus is its own special variety of hell where rampant bullying and bathrooms of used condoms are ever present. They've even had to declare martial law during lunchtime and physically chain the doors to the lunch room shut. The reason for the switch to freshman-campus was because too many freshmen at the plebian campus were being impregnated by 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. Obviously, the reasoning is that 9th grade sperm counts are too low to have any effect on the girls there.

(That's last year; not sure of the status now. I moved to Saudi Arabia -that's the sentence I use to derail conversations - and now I'm in a relatively sensible school now where the teachers are the only crazy ones. Good teachers but utterly mad)

[Free Newdepolderian States]

Of all the stupid, mean, rediculous, and injust things my district has done, and there have been many, this one thing sticks out.

My brother has severe autism and attends a school for disabled persons run by the local college. But, he was bussed there by the school district we lived in. My parents couldnt get him off the bus because of work,so they looked into the local district's afterschool program, meant specificly for my brother's situation. When they talked to Principal Berkowitz, they were denied because my brother was "not registered with the districrt". This was complete BS, as he had been registered for two years previous! My parents then applied to the district's disability officer. The officer then contacted Berkowitz about the matter, and she replied "Oh, the parents must have misunderstood!" In the end, my brother was denied for no given reason, and I ended up with detention because I went to Berkowitz's office and screamed some not very nice things at her in anger.

BTW, I was in third grade at the time.

I hate Berkowitz more than anyone alse in the world now.

[The Two Jerseys]

That's probably because most late-grade English classes are really literature studies. The assumption is that you know the basics of construction at that point and the elements now being taught are primarily comprehension and language expression.

Still, English teachers need to learn that there are more genres than just late Victorian romantic tragedies.

Don't be absurd, there are only three writers in the entire English Language: William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens.

[Zottistan]

Of all the stupid, mean, rediculous, and injust things my district has done, and there have been many, this one thing sticks out.

My brother has severe autism and attends a school for disabled persons run by the local college. But, he was bussed there by the school district we lived in. My parents couldnt get him off the bus because of work,so they looked into the local district's afterschool program, meant specificly for my brother's situation. When they talked to Principal Berkowitz, they were denied because my brother was "not registered with the districrt". This was complete BS, as he had been registered for two years previous! My parents then applied to the district's disability officer. The officer then contacted Berkowitz about the matter, and she replied "Oh, the parents must have misunderstood!" In the end, my brother was denied for no given reason, and I ended up with detention because I went to Berkowitz's office and screamed some not very nice things at her in anger.

BTW, I was in third grade at the time.

I hate Berkowitz more than anyone alse in the world now.

The moral of the story is:
Don't express feelings. They accomplish nothing. Just keep them in your head, where they can fester quietly as a mental illness.

[Slarvainian]

Of all the stupid, mean, rediculous, and injust things my district has done, and there have been many, this one thing sticks out.

My brother has severe autism and attends a school for disabled persons run by the local college. But, he was bussed there by the school district we lived in. My parents couldnt get him off the bus because of work,so they looked into the local district's afterschool program, meant specificly for my brother's situation. When they talked to Principal Berkowitz, they were denied because my brother was "not registered with the districrt". This was complete BS, as he had been registered for two years previous! My parents then applied to the district's disability officer. The officer then contacted Berkowitz about the matter, and she replied "Oh, the parents must have misunderstood!" In the end, my brother was denied for no given reason, and I ended up with detention because I went to Berkowitz's office and screamed some not very nice things at her in anger.

BTW, I was in third grade at the time.

I hate Berkowitz more than anyone alse in the world now.

The moral of the story is:
Don't express feelings. They accomplish nothing. Just keep them in your head, where they can fester quietly as a mental illness.

The school system does that. They preach free speech and democracy when they’re run like the old roman republic.

[Shadowlandistan]

Locker searches. Just another offshoot of the law enforcement industrial complex.

[Martean]

Locker searches. Just another offshoot of the law enforcement industrial complex.

One day my french teatcher punished me without phon,and a week later when i came tohave.it agai, he had lost it, and he didnt apologize.

I mean.. At least in Spain thats illegal but all yeatchers do it

[Bearlong]

There's a sign, in every hallway, which says that all people on school grounds can be searched, without reason, by an administrator or official at any time. I find this stupid, because if I'm forced to go to school then I have a right to privacy

[Maroza]

Lets see, I failed both semesters of algebra 1 so they put me in geometry any ways. I then failed both semesters of geometry and they put me in algebra 2 anyways.

[Katyuscha]

Lets see, I failed both semesters of algebra 1 so they put me in geometry any ways. I then failed both semesters of geometry and they put me in algebra 2 anyways.

They tend to do that.

[Maroza]

Lets see, I failed both semesters of algebra 1 so they put me in geometry any ways. I then failed both semesters of geometry and they put me in algebra 2 anyways.

They tend to do that.

Wow are you serious?