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no offense Demaris... BUT ARE YOU A NERD?! I mean most people want a year off... geez...

Well my school system still isn't doin to good. Girl died second week in.

I have felt that for a loong time..
I have a different problem... EVERY LITTLE PIECE OF MATH IS TOO EASY!!!
Im in an honors 8th grade class (middle school)
In all modesty, for my age i am extremely skilled at math and do things a few times harder then most people in my class do...
I practically laugh my way through the class. I dont because its counted against me.
The school doesnt care enough (and they say they will treat us as young adults and everything) to put me into a higher level math class, or just give me all the future tests right then and there so i dont have to worry about math anymore.. its just a waste of time.

Anyway- my other problems.
First-Science class.
Our teacher, not at all modest, who is an extremely good teacher, who had 99% passes, who is a doctor in something, all that, wasted a whole week of school on rules and procedures.
He says he will believe in us and respect us as much as adults
LIES!!!
A Whole Week.
Ill name a few procedures he mentioned- no water drinking, bring ure own towels, no going to the bathroom... the list was over 25 procedures, 6 important rules, and we had to go over that a week while it was burning outside... and he had no AC
Anyway, teachers lie 2 much.. sure i have some good teachers... but some of them, like this one (DR. Coppolla) tries to keep us under his thumb and at the same time lying to us to make us think he 'respects us'

Teachers care 2 much about keeping a clean notebook (im a smart kid, but i have bad handwriting and its 2 boring to write the date and heading every time u start a new page..

Teachers dont undestand that u can't force respect on somebody...

Theres just 2 many problems with the teachers every school hires..

Sorry if i talked to much about things i shouldnt have..

"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."

-Stanley Kubrick

BTW I'm not a person who says Stanley Kubrick = God. But I still think this is a very good quote, because if schools were like that you could always assign 2 hours of homework a night per class and have the kids come up to the teacher the next day saying they did extra credit.

That is a very good quote. It applies very well at my old school. I had one class that I thought was the best in the world. It may have been non required classes, but i think i learned alit from it. The class was pottery. The first thing that I learned in that class was that if you want to do a good job at something, you have to slow down. Now, usually this would have been pounded into your head by life anyway. But in this class, you HAD to slow down or everything you would do looked like slop. Everything you did in that class was slow. I think I learned the most about life in that class then I would have learned from any other class I took that year.


But that is unrelated..... I think

Uh I have ADHD too and so do many of my friends. Please do not stereotype it as that.

That is widely misinterpreted as having add ( not that im saying that you don't have ADD) attention span dose have something to do with ADD that is true. but there are people out there that have really short attention spans that don't have ADD.

When I started gemonetry this year, I learned about lines, oh so interesting. And guess what I'm learning now, If then statements. how the hell do if then statements have to do with geometry?!? Isn't that more of a thing for like a logic class or something.

MMMMM! i love geometry i remember back in good ol freshman year when i had college prep geometry first hour, i think i might have set the record for most hours slept in one classroom i dunno but i did develop a good strategy for being able to nap during first hour and still pass all tests with the highest score:

Step one: Dont be retarded

Step two: Sleep during class on monday thru thursday

Step three: arive to first hour 10 minutes early on friday

Step four: open your book to the chapter covered that week and cram like u never crammed b4

Step five: take the test and get an A-A+ on it (being the first student done and walking up to the hand in basket while wisteling will add to the effect.)

Final step: laugh at the higher classmen who actually payed attention all week and got C's roffle out loud plox

I'm doing so bad in high school it isn't very funny. >_<

My School system is prety :censored:ed up.
well in my class i take pre Algebra (8th Grade)suppose to be in high school They Failed me in kindergarden cause "Your son wasnt Born in the right month"
and when i was old enough to understand what that meant im like WTF...


Also where i live (the state of Florida) they started giving us 4 test every quarter from the test and its like a half as long as Fcat is, most likey we are getting this is because a gay state i think was in 7th place for smartest state and went to spot 4th
because they got 4 test every damn quarter its pissing me off.

yep.

8th grade really does suck for me...it takes up so much of my life out....
i have like 10 pages from my history book every nite, and like 50 math problems and english hw of reading a book, answering essay questions to the pages i read on the history book...spanish hw almost every nite, and moon observation for science every nite....
they all up to like 1:30+ hours....and to think in 7th grade i only had like 1 or 2 homework assignments everyday and almost none on weekends...man i wonder how high school will be next year

In grade 8, I barely ever got homework, and when I did, I finished it in 10-20 mins. then again, I had a good teacher so meh. Grade 9 doesn't seem that much harder, maybe even easier than grade 8.

well homework is my main problem in school
it always brings my grades down
i have never done hw properly so i would really like 9th to be much less homeworky

1 thing... Stop Complaining.


My notes in math are around 64% - 66% in regular. I can understand that you want to learn more about maths, but you know every year the first month is about review what we've learn some year ago, to refresh your mind.

Really, you take advanced math, you review easy things, at the end of the year tell you that you've passed through... if it was like that at my school I would be happy like a F*ck.

im in the advanced math class
but every new lesson get more and more confusing to every1 in me class
but eventually we start to know how to do it and stuss

The biggest problem in math classes is how they do not go over how the functions relate to real life. I took functions corrispondence and that was how I actually learned the relevance of mathematical calculations. Once you find uses for them in real life you can actually start understanding how they work better.

English one the other hand I just don't understand. Its quite worthless in my opinion, its simply assigned reading and reporting on what you read. Basically we all know the language we use, and after that everything simply becomes reveiw.

math is really used by the scientists alot and about english you are right plus reading is like the same thing as english too.
all you do is read books and write stuff about them
which i find useless because of your reason