Before I myself support my BAD attitude toward High School, I wish to know: what does the rest of the world think? Mayhap my craziness is shown in this scenario, but boy!...thinking back it... it almost seems like a complete waste of time and painful suffering for a young mind.

High School has the education of daycare and the useless conformity of military school. However, that's just me. What do you people think?

I hate high school. to much work

I had a great education in high school, but I've never worked so hard in my life (even compared with actual boot camp, and I have earned three university degrees since then). Also, the social climate is ridiculous, but that's inevitable with all those young hormones flying around. Discipline is the only thing that can actually alleviate the problems of bullying, cruelty etc.

The worst part of school is the people who annoy you to near-insanity, yet you cannot do anything to them because they are younger than you and a girl.

One day, she shall be smitten, but until then all I can comfort myself with is the fact that I'm not lowering myself to her level.

:flaming: :flaming: :flaming:

SYoM- check out Sprite's post: http://www.sorcerers.net/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001640.html

i think you're suppressing your undying love for that girl. :grin:

Oh God, I truly hope not. That is worse than anything I can think of.

It's not so bad...

Being labled gets annoying...

Being rejected by a girl you've had a crush on forever can be depressing...

But hey, what are you going to do about it?
Complaining isn't going to get you anywhere, right?

High school is ok but I cant make the grade so I'm not a big fan of it. I've had many bad days in short fressman year so far. I rate high school as a 60%.

I hated school and work and life:mad:

What's so bad about high school? The work's not as hard as at Uni (or a real job, but I wouldn't know), everything's organised for you (less responsibility = less stress)and you're not running up debts for the privelege of being there.

thats cause you were probly popular! i hate high school! its espescially gay because its a catholic school, and my priest dude is always talking against DnD, and we are forced to move to anothe table because that jocks want a "change of pace". i [profanity edited out].

[Watch that foul tongue lest it be cut out and ritually sacrificed.] -Tal

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Sprite disipline might have worked to stop(or slow) bullies but in my school the current principal is a bully himself. We have had one principal a year since I got into high school and I am now a senior(12th year for you not American peoples). But we've managed to make him realize that he is not respected by NOT respecting him to his face. So he's learning but I doubt that he'll be there next year:p

Well as a to be teacher for the graded after "highschool" I must say that highschool seems like a keeping a sifting place for the kids. They dont seem to learn **** and teh only purpose seems to be to sort out the kids that arent meant for higher eduacation. The knowledge they have when they get to the "gymnasium" is abysmal. And from what I understand it is in either case alittle better in Sweden than in many other countries, where are the world heading?
You must be really motivated or truly smart to leave highschool unscathed.

I hate it even more now that I'm on the brink of failing two classes, German and World History. Why do you ask? World History is a chapter a week and I cant keep up! German, well to be frank I dont pay very much attention. But I do pay more attention then most of my class does. I take the notes our teacher gives us. But still I fail the class. And you know why?! Because I cant spell as many of you probley know. And thats how you pass the class, by spelling:flaming:

That is nothing...

My history class is meant for a college level education and is a chapter every two days...(45 page chapters, about 1000 words a page, you do the math.)

I'm not failing, but I'm not making an 'A' either.

I take a college-level humanities course. My regular classes are all a year up...*wail* don't talk to me about suffering! I gotta graduate, SOON!

Highschool is just a training ground for being an adult. Just like life it has it good and bad parts. Its not so nice people (the popular, the bold, the bully) and its too nice people (referred to as door mats.)

You just have to take it in stride and learn from it as much as possible. Life is hard----that is something you should have learned in kindergarden. :)

I hate high school as well. I am in the IB, and everyone else... well, except for one other girl, I think, are complete poppie snobs. Poor me.
And, I fail Swedish and Math. Poor me, goodbye higher education...

Edit: On Ironbeard's suggestion, i add the one reason why I love being in school: I get to use the internet! The only saving grace of this Hell...

Ara
(Sniffles and sore throat... hate life)

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OK, so I've left school. OK, so I did have a relatively easy time of it. It was in some ways the best part of my life so far. No responsibilies, no real hassles, no worrying about money (yeah, I know we all want more, but it was still my parent's job to worry about it), etc, etc. Life was EASY!

Now: I work, I have a responsible job, so I work far to many hours. I have a house and a mortgage so I'm up to my ears in debt. I've got a car that costs me almost as much as the house, but hey, it's a nice car that I strictly speaking can't afford. I've got a girlfriend who will want to get married in the next 12 months or so which I assume means bye, bye batchelor life-style and probably kids in the next few years.

Nope, life was certainly easier at school.

Having said that, I'm pretty happy as it goes, but life carries more stress than passing exams in my opinion.

wish i'd understood a little more about how people think when i was at high school.

for example, its only in retrospect that i realised that a few attractive (but shy) girls were coming on to me at school, unfortunately i couldn't read the subtle signals back then.

*sigh* missed opportunities... ;)

Well, I took close to forty credits in school and I was seventh in my class...I'm not being smart or anything my father was a teacher, and it helped a lot.

Just smile and bear it, believe me, college is worth the trouble. I've had more and better friends in college than ever before in my life. I was a nobody in high school...Star Wars geek, computer lover, son of a teacher...and in college I was deemed the most eligible bachelor (by some very close female friends) on the campus and have close to thirty close friends. Hang in there guys and gals, the experience is well worth the blood and sweat of high school.

I know that it's financially easier to be at school but i find the emotional strain to be to much somtimes. In all schools you get the few popular idiots who manage to make life hell for people who are different to them.




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You just need to think positive about life. A wise Spanish teacher once told me this. If you think positive you might just pull High School off.

(no sarcasm intended)

I've got it! The reason I was more positive about high school than anyone else is because I live in Scotland - home of the dumbed-down Higher Still farce, whereby any idiot can get nine As over two years. The work I did was so nonsensically easy I had plenty of time to waste my life playing computer games. And of course, unlike most people I like having things easy instead of looking for a challenge. I'm currently in the first year of University, on a course which supposedly isn't challenging until third year - and I'm already suffering for trying to take it as easy as I did in high school. Also I don't tend to be very sociable - I go about in a little bubble of ignorance and shyness, and can't possibly follow the Byzantine politics that supposedly exist in every classroom - so the whole social aspect shich I have heard is so important has completely passed me by. I want to go back, or rather I want to have been through differently and come out as something other than a compulsive mouse-pusher.

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It's the high-school system that really sucks, not the high school itself.

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High school...
every day is terrible when you are labled or when you dont feel like working. Its really tough when you move from a place that passes people with a 50 to a place that passes people with a 70. trying to raise all your grades by 20 points on different teacher expectations is tough.

I have no idea what you're talking about, place of suffering? High school is great! The biggest problem I've encountered has been the whole like-the-girl-so-much-it-hurts-but-she-doesn't-like-you-that-way issue, but it didn't take more than a couple of weeks to deal with that (Wait for the feelings to subside). Anyways, high school is what you, and your friends, make of it. (Of course, due to changes in the provincial school board, I get to be a senior for two years, grade 11 and 12!! Of course, I get a year taken away, but hey, that means university in 1 year less!).

Just an onbservation born from months of skipping classes in favor of hanging in SP/otherwise misusing the school computers:

If one wants to find a calm place that doesn't have that many people in it, go find the classroom with computers.

Ara
(Insane enough to admit it and use it as an excuse for not doing homework.... seriously!)

Interesting: at university it seems to be the opposite: the computer room is the center of social interaction, the focal point of student life and VERY NOISY!

Anyway, on topic: I thought high school was great. Did little or no work, lots of free time... ahh nostalgia...