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Thank you, GAPAs! Unfortunately, I can not comment more than briefly because one thing that is required of me since going to school is that I leave for the bus rather early.
On the bright side, I’ve noticed that I really don’t need to get up at six if I don’t want to. I could get up at six-thirty and be perfectly fine, I think. As long as I didn’t spend those twenty minutes getting dressed.
WASLS STINK.
WASLs = Washington Assessment of Student Learning = Washington Assessment of Student Languish = Washington State’s Standardized Test
WASL Prep = Preparation for the WASLs = What we’re doing all this week in school = Blech
Other then that, my school rocks.
Oh, and not really school related, but academics related, I find out tomorrow how I did in the eCyberMission competition. -nervous- If we win, I will be on here posting in all capital letters on every thread I can find. Seriously.
2- *agrees* *crumples up WASL* *throws in mouth and chews up* *spits out on floor* *stomps on WASL* *lights match and burns WASL* *throws ashes in pool of acid* *watches them dissolve to nothing* *maniacal laughter*
2, 3 – I take it this is Washington state?
IOWAs are evil.
Evil evil evil.
EVIL.
4- Yes, that would be about right.
lucky…i’m homeschooled–but..well…highschool, but not for a few years.
Ack! High school next year! I’m kind of scared. Is that stupid?
I hate STAR testing.
My school is awesome but everyone seems to hate it. It’s weird!
And my teachers are nutty.
all teachers are nutty. (“nutty as squirrel poo,” for anyone who’s read harry potter)
SCHOOL???? *faints*
No comment.
BLANK. BLANK. BLANK. BLANK.
2 – I understand what you mean. ISATs (Illinois standardized tests) absolutely stink.
I’m shadowing at the high school tomorrow. Maybe it will make me less terrified of it.
2- ISATs STINK!!!!!! (ISAT is Illinois Standard Achievement Testing!) They are so boring. And our teacher has to repeat all the directions again and again! “Stop. This is the end of this session. Please close your answer booklet and tests and put it in the corner of your desk if you have not already done so. I will come to collect all of you books. Thank you.” We can’t get out of our seats even! My favorite grade was 3rd. It was as easy (kind of) as pie, and fun!! For spring break, I went to Georgia, and my cousin told me that the older you get, the later school starts! Well, for us it’s in elementary it starts at 9:00. In Middle School, bus comes at 7:30. I forgot when Highschool is. Maybe bus comes at, 8:00? My teachers are Nutty. As nutty as nut crusted fruit pie!!
school is annoying.
14 – I thought you were a nerd. And proud of it.
Actually, to be quite honest, I like school. Only I hate homework. I have so many wonderful thing that I would love to be doing with my life and homework makes them all vague dreams. WHich is really sad. My life would be boring without school I think. Plus school gives me an incentive to learn further and a chance to hang out with friends. Life without homework, par contra, would be divine. Superb. Magnificent. Godly. And no tests. Or any of that. Just interesting classes. Optional classes, I think. Ok, I have it. THe ideal school would be a series of lectures and forums which one could choose to go to. The only grade would be based on one’s attendance. That way, it would be possible to learn, be with friends, without foul and disgusting stress, cruel and heartless homework, and potently evil tests.
*chucks homework into pit full of hpb’s*
*laughs maniacally at sight of its destrction*
15- and?
15- I’m a nerd. Also proud of it. And I hate school. School is possibly the place on earth that’s least hospitable to nerdliness.
2,3- Opal had to take WASLs. I did not. *is smug*
I’m going to take the Pre-SAT in October…
18 – Really? I had no idea. *is intrigued*
I think I am generally considered (by myself and my friends and my nemesises, except that I’m too socially disinterested to really have any) to be nerdy, And I like school. But, as I mentioned before, I hate homework. A lot. School is one thing. Taking up all my spare time which could be devoted to better pursuits staring at a computer screen is altogether another.
I like school quite a bit, actually. It hasn’t helped me socially, if anything it’s made that aspect of my life worse, because I’m in constant contact with people and they bug me. But I learn a lot now, more than I learned from reading my books, and I like to learn. The trouble is, I’ve never had a formal education, and as a result when people mention anything they learned in middle school, I can only stare blankly.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha AP test in 29 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes, 30 seconds.
The fact they have a countdown just shows their sadistic tendencies.
school
let’s see…
still seeing….
yep i am not a big fan of our 7 hr containment building
School… oi. I’m currently trying to switch down a level in a math class I’m failing, but there’s no open level 2 algebra 2 math class at the same time as the current one, so I’d have to switch my science class, but the science department is having fits and not letting me.
It’s no fun.
But other than that, school is pretty good. I’ve got a photo calls, learning to print your own photos from negatives you took with an old-fashioned camera. Unfortunately, the high school was built in 1938. Seventy years’ worth of students passing through that building has worn it out a bit.
But the town is coming up with a plan to remodel or rebuild the school. Let’s hope they choose to rebuild it entirely–although construction wouldn’t even start till I’ve graduated. *sigh*
i hate schoolwork
but i love school
except when we work
Continuing the hatred of standardized testing, I hate PSSAs. (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment).
But, I love my school. It’s a creative and performing arts school, and it’s amazing, though I would much rather sit outside and read books all day. Unfortunately, that’s illegal.
*sigh*
BAD NEWS!!! we just got the first of many FINAL EXAM REVEIW PACKETS today in social studies. this is bad omen because they usually start in early may….
If we didn’t have school, we could go more places. And learn more things in 1 day, than in 100 days of school, if we were out in the world. When I went on a trip to Australia I learned SO MANY THINGs in 1 day! We could hang out with our friends more. We could get something REAL to eat. And we wouldn’t stress. At school, they only teach you the stuff like good reading, and how to do math (which is kinda good, but if we didn’t have school, to be sucessful you would need to know just which is your right hand, and which is your left hand. but school raises the standards, like you need to know Algebra, you need to be a good writer, and math) but if we could go different places, we could learn so many cool, and awesome things about our world! Yes, I admit it. I am thankful for school. But we might need some longer vacation to go places we want to!!
4 – Yup.
19 – You stink.
(Not really)
We’re doing pronouns in English, and skits in History. The skits are actually pretty fun, because I’m the script writer for my group. Which rocks, because certain events -coughscriptfrenzycough- have made me think that a 7-10 skit’s script is nothing to write. Which is true.
uuurg – my school is filled with people who b****h about you behind your back!! and my math teacher says I’m a whiny brat because I talk differently than everyone else -well to bad it’s because I still have my US accent. ah dont get me started
but i kind of like school i guess
WOW, popular new thread! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
My school is going into OAT (Ohio Achievement Test) mode less worksheet homework more studying notes and the teachers have gone from teaching in units to packing as much info as possible into lessons to get ready for the OAT! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
My school is sexist!
For the 8th Grade Graduation Dance, the girls are not let in unless they are wearing dresses! I mean, most girls would wear dresses anyway, but why can’t we wear nice pants or something? I despise dresses.
33 – That’s dumb. I can’t stand dresses. (Or skirts, for that matter, and skorts are extremely rare on me)
33 – You think that’s bad. At our school girls have to wear fancy pastel dresses for 8th grade graduation, which they consider to be the most important thing you’ll ever do. Of course, I don’t mind dresses at all…
What we are doing in my live classes at school:
Humanities: We just finished our Renaissance/Shakespeare unit. We are moving onto WWII and read When the Emperor was Divine.
Social Studies: We finished our WWII unit today (though I wasn’t there, I was shadowing). We’re going to start working on stuff for our research papers.
Language Arts: We’re working on our research papers.
Gym: Team handball (probably the most pointless sport on the face of Earth) and volleyball. I don’t like gym very much.
Science Bowl: Supposedly working on the car, actually doing nothing.
I didn’t go to school today. I came out to the country instead.
8-Don’t be scared. It isn’t that bad. *famous last words*
But really, high school isn’t that bad with the peer pressure. In middle school the adults tried to make it seem like the worst possible thing that could happen in high school was someone asking you if you want a cigarette. I’ll have everyone here know that it is not bad at all. This is how it goes:
What middle school tells you it’s like=
Kid: Hey do you want a cigarette?
You: Umm I don’t know…
Kid: Come onnnnnn it’s just one and anyway everyone cool is doing it!
You: Well…
Kid: Fine if you won’t do it then I’ll make everyone hate you and my friends are going to beat you up and you’ll have to anyway.
That was what I thought it would be like. Here is what actually happens:
Kid: Hey do you want to come over and smoke with me sometime?
You: No. I don’t do that stuff.
Kid: You sure?
You: Yep.
Kid: Ok that’s cool.
School?
Ew.
I think that rhymes.
37 – Thanks.
They are trying to make our school year year-round! The first day of school next year is AUGUST 20. I am not even kidding. Its absurd! If anyone’s school starts earlier than this, I apologize and feel very bad for you.
40- I started august 20th this year. for next year I’m starting 18th.
School ends on the eleventh of June! *dies of happiness* I was so worried that I’d have to skip the [kayak event, sorry, can’t tell you details] because I’d be stuck doing finals but no!
well, high school is my first expirience of formal education. i was homeschooled all my life. so far, it has been great. i have stayed on honor roll (kind of easy, even in all honors) and i have done winter and spring track, which is awesome. i have lots of friends, and really no worries. school is not fun, but it really isn’t that bad at all. i am so going to try out for soccer in the fall. i can’t wait. and highschool starts as 7:15!!!
it stinks about getting up so early)
40-my school will start earlier. of course, you don’t really need to feel sorry for me because all the people a year younger than me who have to keep going to high school still start the day after labor day. I’m going to college! and that’s when the freshmen/first years are supposed to be there. All I’ll be doing is a fun freshmen class and meeting people. I’m excited.
my school right now is silly. I’m in the IB program which means I write a ton of papers that get sent to Wales. I’ve learned things but it isn’t that much fun when you’re doing it. and I’m not all that close to my friends at school. I do have some super close friends from a summer class I take and some even live a block away from me so that’s okay.
Question: How early do you guys get up for school?
I get up at 5:30 every day.
45- Well, officially at 6:00, but really not till 6:15.
33, 35 – I feel bad for you. Really.
45 – I sometimes get up at 5 when I have a ton of homework, but normally at six. My alarm clock goes off. You push the button. Two minutes later, the same thing happens until you pick up the stupid thing and make it shut up.
It depends. Usually around 7, but this week about 6:30, since my mom (who usually drives) has been gone with my brother all week.
Oh, and I get to go all the way across the state in about a week.
(Not to Alice’s part of the state, unfortunately.)
45- 6:00. and then I fall asleep and wake up at 7:45
41 – Okay, I’ll quit whining. That REALLY sucks.
50- no it doesn’t. We get out earlier in the year.
I get up at 5 and then die for the rest of the morning.
I get up earlier than most of the high maintenance people. (hair straightening, makeup, take forever to pick an outfit)
I don’t take more than 10 minutes to get my looks ready.
The rest of the time is taken up by me being in a daze and not realizing that it is a school day. It takes an extremely long time to wake up.
I agree that school is an awful place for nerds. Most high schools are not totally about education. At least public ones. Have you ever heard of a public high school where the chess team was more important than the football team? Of course not.
I got my report card today. I have As in most of my classes. In science I have a B because it is hard, and in Geometry I have a B because I didn’t do most of the homework.
I got my report card today.
I have a C+ in Chemistry.
I had High Honors for 6 straight quarters.
And now I’m not even on Honor Roll.
*dies*
40 – Ours starts in the last week of July (which is the week of Projekt Revolution this year! *huge waves of sadness*) since it’s so-called “year-round”.
45 – 6:30.
I got my report card on Wednesday. *dashes off to get it*
As in everything, except Algebra of course. It’s a B-. It was a C though..
Next year I want to get in a lower math class…
So I was one of the students at our school who took the SATs (in 7th grade). And now they say that I got such a high score that I have to go to a ceremony and get a medal and certificate and such.
UGH.
I get out of school early, so that’s good, but I hate stuff like this…
I was asked to join Junior Beta Club, but I declined. It’s sooo boring (I was in it in 5th grade), and as I said, I hate stuff that has to do with how good your grades are.
IOWA testing next week. UGGH. I hate testing. Hate it. Not looking forward to this one bit.
49- you’ve got the right idea! Who needs to wake up at 5:30?
54-you have to go the school year round??!! i feel very bad for you. I really hate standardized testing, but this year, my class didnt have to do it!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My school only goes to the ninth grade, so I get to get out 3 or 4 days earlier that everyone!! YAY!! I think its the last day of may or something.
I think I got all A’s again!!!! Even English!
52 – I have. There’s a school called Metcalf (I don’t go there, it’s a junior high school) and they place more emphasis on chess than anything else.
I feel extremely pathetic. I am most likely practically failing PE. Wow.
Except on the flexibility tests!
In about 9 weeks, I will no longer be a middle schooler. *screams*
The first week of high school will be veeeeerryy weird, seeing as how I don’t even turn 13 till about a week after school starts. I feel little.
58 – I will be 12 all through freshman year. Don’t feel small.
YAY school ends in a week for me!!! then I have a 2 week break and go back for term 2
52 – Yes. The state’s math and science academy, which is a public school (albeit one not open to everybody). In fact, they don’t even have a football team. If I get in, I’ll be going starting in 10th grade.
My alarm clock is set to go off at 5:51. I sit up, turn it off, turn the light on, and lie down again. Usually, I get out my computer and go on the computer for about 10 minutes, before getting up, getting dressed, making lunch, eating breakfast, and walking to the bus stop by 6:40. Sometimes the lying-in-bed aspect of waking up will take more, or less, than ten minutes, depending on the day.
On the bus, I either study for upcoming tests, read magazines (Muse, Smithsonian, or Newsweek), or read another book. Usually it’s Spanish flashcards, since I have thousands of them, which all need to be learned.
54- for the 7th grade SATs, i took them in 7th and 8th through John Hopkins and went to the ceremonies and stuff, the guest speakers were fun but it was a pain to drive to this place we didnt know about (one time i came from indian dance and had to change into american clothes for the ceremony but i forgot to bring clothes and we were far from home so i had to go to wal mart and wear clothes made for a 40 year old because they had no section with things in my size….that was really fun…)
58+59- wow, did you skip a grade? my youngest friends have birthdays in november, so this year (10th) they turned 15 while other people turned 16. mines in august so im one age for the whole school year.
i went to the summer session at Phillips Academy Andover, MA and now I wish i could go there for 11th and 12th grade (too late now, but i was trying to convince my parents in the beginning of the school year. they won’t let me go) because i feel so unmotivated in the public school i’m in now. there are so many people who are ruining their lives.
63 – Yep, started testing early. Since seventh grade I’ve done ACT, SAT, SSAT, and PSAT testing, and I think I’ve repeated some of those. I’m in 9th grade right now, so none of the “officially” count, unfortunately. I got some pretty good scores,
As for school? Right now I am getting Bs in most of my classes because I am a horrible procrastinator and am having some issues at home, just to make things worse. I go to boarding school, which is a great experience, but the school itself is really difficult, not to mention that I’m taking all 10th grade courses as a 9th grader. But I’m having a pretty good time,
53 – Yes, I skipped 2.
64 – What’s the best score you got on the SAT/ACT? I took both this year.
For those who have taken the SAT and PSAT…how do they compare? I got a 221 on the PSAT, but I still have no idea how I’ll do on the SAT. *bites nails*
66 – I think I got a 670 on the SAT math and a 630 on the SAT reading. Total: 1300. ACT? I got 27.
nom…school? rather annoying. homework sucks, teachers are okay, and friends, actually not too many. *pleagh*
Back to school today….
59 – Whoa! I feel tall now! But you may be taller than me so I’ll shut up.
School was boring today. Except when two people in English did an interpretive dance to “Come Sail Away With Me” which was hilarious.
WASLS START TODAY. UGH.
70 – I’m 5 feet tall.
The MCAs stink. But it’s less
boringlong than the SAT.I’m five feet, but I think I might just possibly reach 5″2 before I stop growing. Maybe. If I’m lucky.
.This is my homework:
Science project, due tomorrow, nearly complete.
Spanish homework, due tomorrow, three quarters down.
Math homework, due Monday, not yet begun.
Essay draft, due Monday, not begun because I only got the assignment today.
Lines, due next Wednesday, sort of done.
Spanish project, due the 25th/23rd, not started.
Health chapters, due April 30 for extra credit, one sixty-ninth done.
This is my free time:
Today.
Tomorrow between 3:30 and 5:00.
Many hours on a bus.
A few hours at the Shakespeare Festival when I won’t be thinking about homework.
A few hours Sunday.
I’m dead meat. Particularly given that I’m not allowed to check my email at school, and Mrs. T requires the essay drafts to be typed…
The two smaller Spanish assignments are done, as is my science homework. The essay draft continues to pose a problem. Oh! I have an idea! *runs off*
HHHHHW. The first draft of my ten-page history paper is due tomorrow! Ahhhhhh. I have a first draft but my conclusion is abominable. *goes off to write conclusion* And my citations are missing page numbers. And my grammar is delinquent.
Then there’s the French test on Thursday. The math test on Friday. My dance to choreograph. English vocab quiz tomorrow. *discreetly dies*
73 – Oh boy. I hope my homework load doesn’t look like that next year.
I’m 4′ 10″ or 4′ 11″ ish.
I have a solution! *dances* I write the paper, format it, email it off to my dad, who prints it, sticks it in an envelope, and mails it to me to collect before – Oh, snap. All right, that settles it. I guess I’m walking back to my house after the Ashland trip. I hate sleeping in the house alone, though. Maybe I’ll find a solution. Email it to my teacher?
My homework (for the next two weeks):.
French essay, which was part of the quiz we took today in class: due tomorrow, not even started
History essay, started in class today, assigned to day, due tomorrow, working on that right now
Chem conclusions for last week’s lab: due tomorrow, but done
2 30-page outlines need to be outlined for histroy for next Friday
A French project that I can’t even start until the weekend
An English essay due next Friday
Daily math homework
A poetry workshop/essay that will be started in English tomorrow
Finishing Once and Future King
a Chem take-home test due Friday
and probably more that I can’t think of right now…
And Model UN
2-30 page chapters need to be outlined for history
Jeez, I’m getting typotastic.
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. *gives choklit with infusion of essence of anti-homework* to La Mort and Alice.
La Mort – you do Model UN?! Cool! What country are you? I did three conferences this year, and I represented Russia, Turkey, and Tanzania.
Homework:
Math (42 problems, 95% done)
Spanish (15 problems, 100% done)
HOORAY!
Yay! I did like, half of my homework last night, so now all I have is this:
Math homework, due Monday, not yet begun.
Lines, due next Wednesday, sort of done.
Spanish project, due the 25th/23rd, not started.
Health chapters, due April 30 for extra credit, one sixty-ninth done.
And only the math homework needs to be done soon enough that I’ll be doing it in Ashland/on the bus. And the lines, of course, but I’ll be running them on the bus.
im homeschooled so no homework 4 me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!
2,3- What grades are you two in?
Not really that much homework…except my research report (ugh) outline due Thursday. I’m glad it’s Friday, but in two hours, I will be at school again for the musical, either watching or filling in for my friend, depending on whether she’s better or not.
School kind of sucked today. My teacher was a little irritated at everyone today, which is never good. PE was actually a little bit fun! *gasp*
That’s pretty much it.
The MCAs must die.
Die.
Die.
Die.
Die.
Die.
Die.
Die.
*repeats*
Homework…today I was bored so I did my Science vocab. I have to write a rough draft for a Geography paper due on Wednesday, and I think it’s a freakishly long amount of pages or something. I’m not sure.
Anyway, I have the huge dilemma of whether or not I want to go to school again next year, or be homeschooled again. I’m going to have to do something drastic to decide. Maybe. Ugh.
They have to die. The MCAs, I mean. They’re not hard. Just boring.
Die.
Die.
Die.
Die.
Die.
*repeats*
Argh! I just finished registering for highschool classes. I wanted to take verything, but they impose stupid schedule limitations on one. Grrrrrrrr! *growls omniously* SO UNFAIR!
91- I know. It’s really cruel.
92-Mr. Joe is probably behind it. ; )
93- Figures. *glares at Mr. Joe*