How was your High School Experience?

[Fartsniffage]

So you'd rather remain uneducated without hope for a future?

To be fair, a standard education isn't the best route for everyone.

My uncle was an utter cretin at school due to a combination of undiagnosed dyslexia and actually being a bit thick in most areas. He currently works for SpaceX measuring stuff, a skill that conventional education would never have picked up.

[Warda]

So you'd rather remain uneducated without hope for a future?

To be fair, a standard education isn't the best route for everyone.

My uncle was an utter cretin at school due to a combination of undiagnosed dyslexia and actually being a bit thick in most areas. He currently works for SpaceX measuring stuff, a skill that conventional education would never have picked up.

i remeber learning how to use a ruler in school

[Saiwania]

I graduated high school back in 2008, I decided to go to college soon after because the job market was really bad. It still isn't great, but this is my one chance. I probably won't be able to get any further education than an Associates of Science.

[Dakini]

So you'd rather remain uneducated without hope for a future?

To be fair, a standard education isn't the best route for everyone.

My uncle was an utter cretin at school due to a combination of undiagnosed dyslexia and actually being a bit thick in most areas. He currently works for SpaceX measuring stuff, a skill that conventional education would never have picked up.

Measuring stuff?


I don't think everyone needs a standard education, I think that everyone needs some equivalent to a high school education (though I think that the standards for high school are too low, actually).

[Fartsniffage]

To be fair, a standard education isn't the best route for everyone.

My uncle was an utter cretin at school due to a combination of undiagnosed dyslexia and actually being a bit thick in most areas. He currently works for SpaceX measuring stuff, a skill that conventional education would never have picked up.

i remeber learning how to use a ruler in school

But apparently not capitalisation, punctuation or spelling......it's "remember" sweetie.

[Blasveck]

Ongoing.

And so far it's going alright.

I've got good classes, dated some nice girls, and I'm loving the Theater program at my school.

So it's good.

[Fartsniffage]

To be fair, a standard education isn't the best route for everyone.

My uncle was an utter cretin at school due to a combination of undiagnosed dyslexia and actually being a bit thick in most areas. He currently works for SpaceX measuring stuff, a skill that conventional education would never have picked up.

Measuring stuff?


I don't think everyone needs a standard education, I think that everyone needs some equivalent to a high school education (though I think that the standards for high school are too low, actually).

I was quite surprised when I went to his place of work about a decade ago. He had the templates for the F-16 and a titanium chassis for a Mars probe in his "office". He was using a machine that relies on lasers to build a 3D model in a computer and confirms measurements are exact to some stupidly tiny amount of an inch (living in the US). Apparently that's important....

[Libertarian California]

It's been good for the first days. And I met Libertarian California, for one.

Go Bells!

[Yumyumsuppertime]

I hated nearly every day of it, and ditched constantly. I was introduced to marijuana in 10th grade, which was fun, but obviously came with its own complications.

[New Rogernomics]

It sucked. Lots of homophobes, some of teachers weren't that great, and I had a vendetta on the school librarian.*

*Some of my friends thought it was fun to put books in bags of other kids to set off the library alarms (as a prank). We got banned from the library as a group, even though I did nothing wrong I was banned simply for being their friends. But without those good friends I would have beaten up by the homophobes at my school (as the 'jock' types hated me), so it was worth a month ban by the library-nazi.

[The Silence of Night]

I hated nearly every day of it, and ditched constantly. I was introduced to marijuana in 10th grade, which was fun, but obviously came with its own complications.

I was introduced to it my 8th grade year. Never looked back.

[Seriong]

I have just started High school and would like to know any tips you might have and how your experiences were in High School.

For me, it was very uncomfortable and I wish I didn't have to go. One of the worst experiences I have ever had. I am also very Anti-U.S School system.

I think the U.S public schools suck. I also think School should not be compulsory.

A) School should definitely be compulsory.

B) How is it one of the worst experiences you had, while you are just now entering?

C) Don't drop the soap.

[Arumdaum]

crap crap crap crap~

[Arumdaum]

It's been good for the first days. And I met Libertarian California, for one.

wait wat

[New Rogernomics]

crap crap crap crap~

Yeah, and what was crap about it?

[Union of Confederate Socialist Republics]

Ongoing.

And better than my earlier years.

[Frisivisia]

I played football and participated in the Civil Rights Movement. It was pretty okay.

[New haven america]

It sucked. Lots of homophobes, some of teachers weren't that great, and I had a vendetta on the school librarian.*

*Some of my friends thought it was fun to put books in bags of other kids to set off the library alarms (as a prank). We got banned from the library as a group, even though I did nothing wrong I was banned simply for being their friends. But without those good friends I would have beaten up by the homophobes at my school (as the 'jock' types hated me), so it was worth a month ban by the library-nazi.

The only homophobes at my old school were a lot of the sophomores.

[Warda]

Measuring stuff?


I don't think everyone needs a standard education, I think that everyone needs some equivalent to a high school education (though I think that the standards for high school are too low, actually).

I was quite surprised when I went to his place of work about a decade ago. He had the templates for the F-16 and a titanium chassis for a Mars probe in his "office". He was using a machine that relies on lasers to build a 3D model in a computer and confirms measurements are exact to some stupidly tiny amount of an inch (living in the US). Apparently that's important....

oooooo he builds scale models for designs.
same concept as this

[Stern des Meeres]

It sucked. Lots of homophobes, some of teachers weren't that great, and I had a vendetta on the school librarian.*

*Some of my friends thought it was fun to put books in bags of other kids to set off the library alarms (as a prank). We got banned from the library as a group, even though I did nothing wrong I was banned simply for being their friends. But without those good friends I would have beaten up by the homophobes at my school (as the 'jock' types hated me), so it was worth a month ban by the library-nazi.

The only homophobes at my old school were a lot of the sophomores.

One of the pros of an art school: because the overwhelming majority of people are liberal, we have very few homophobes. Maybe 10 or 12, at most.

[Gold state]

I have just started High school and would like to know any tips you might have and how your experiences were in High School.

For me, it was very uncomfortable and I wish I didn't have to go. One of the worst experiences I have ever had. I am also very Anti-U.S School system.

I think the U.S public schools suck. I also think School should not be compulsory.

How young are you exactly?

[Sarzonia]

It was OK.

Elementary school and middle school were times I'd rather forget. I did not relate well to kids my own age. I started getting better at it in high school.

[New Rogernomics]

It sucked. Lots of homophobes, some of teachers weren't that great, and I had a vendetta on the school librarian.*

*Some of my friends thought it was fun to put books in bags of other kids to set off the library alarms (as a prank). We got banned from the library as a group, even though I did nothing wrong I was banned simply for being their friends. But without those good friends I would have beaten up by the homophobes at my school (as the 'jock' types hated me), so it was worth a month ban by the library-nazi.

The only homophobes at my old school were a lot of the sophomores.

My school it was the Rugby players, the head of their team said he hated me, but they couldn't do anything because my friends were tough heavy metal types; and there was also this guy that had a gay crush on me and used to annoy me at lunch time.

[Arumdaum]

crap crap crap crap~

Yeah, and what was crap about it?

Well, it's still ongoing, but either way, what should have been the first semester of my freshman year started in Korea, where I failed all my classes due to being unable to speak Korean fluently at such a level (other than English, but all the questions for the exams were in Korean, and the English teacher was horrible at English, which I got a B in). I'd been living in Korea for a while, but had no social life due to my lack of Korean skills, which all ended up pretty horribly, and with me being extremely depressed.

My parents decided to start a business in Korea whereupon we would now live with only either my mom or my dad for a while, and sometimes, neither of them at all for months at a time (so it was just me and my little sister, which was, frankly, pretty horrible, especially when the school asks for a meeting with your parents). We currently live in a tiny apartment that's about a fifth the size of our old house that gets no sunlight, and the weather gets burning hot quite often and can be pretty intolerable.

Then I came back to the US, but my parents decided to send me somewhere that happened to be mostly immigrants from Korea whom also happened to be pretty hardcore Christians, in California's Republican stronghold of Orange County. In Korea I tried to avoid these people, since they thought I was Christian and kept talking to me about God and how much atheists sucked (my mom made me go to church). They also tend to be pretty nationalistic and homesick for Korea, which was pretty much the opposite case for me. It's really awkward, considering I'm an atheist, and I feel really awkward doing those really fast prayer things where people being to go crazy, yell, and start sobbing like crazy.

The "non-Asian" people here tend to be very racist towards "Asians," but some liked me since I "didn't look Asian." I started to avoid people though, since I always felt awkward just being around people but not saying anything. But none of the people I hung out with shared any interests with me either way.

There used to be some girls who'd try to talk to me, but now no one tries to talk to me, since my communication skills have basically fallen to just nodding or saying "yeah" without adding or making any conversation, and since I've basically lost all sense of humor.

My grades fell from straight A's from before I was in Korea to pretty much straight F's to now in high school.

[Gold state]

Why the British school system is slightly better.

1.We have uniforms, so you don't get bullied over fashion.
2.The "popular" crap has not really come across the Atlantic (thank god)
3.Meh

High school, also known as secondary school in the U.K for me is pretty bad because the teachers flip out because of my Asperger's which is a +