Senior year of high school. Best year of a young adults life, right? Walking around the halls like you own the place, by the way, seniors do own the place. ;) And of course, most seniors have that ONE class that they HAVE to take in order to graduate. It normally comes down to an english class, unless you were smart enough to start high school english in middle school, but most of us aren't quite that bright at the time. So considering I'm a senior, I happen to have that ONE class that I HAVE to take so I can graduate... and of course it comes down to that last english class.
So, I walk into my english class thinking 'hey, this is gonna be a breeze. Regular english is nothing compared to honors english.' I take a nice chair towards the back of the class and wait for that stupid bell to ring. When it finally does, the teacher comes in. She had a very distasteful look on her face (like she just had a bite of something horrible) and it never did leave... She introduces herself... And then gives us a 20 minutes lecture about how to pronounce her name and why its spelt the way it is and all the background history on it... Mind you, this has nothing to do with what I'm gonna be learning in her class. After she is done with that, she says, "I know you really don't care about all of that, but I'm just putting it out there for you."
So I'm thinking 'Great, the woman is crazy!' Well, she is! I've been in this lovely senior english class for two weeks now, and come to think of it, the only thing I have learned is how to say her name and why it is said like that and all her family history. Now, you are probably thinking that I have had to learn something in there... No, I can honesty tell anyone at this moment, that I have not learned a single thing that will help me in the future! Not even for an ACT test that I have already taken, or anything to improve my writing skills. Everything has been review from my honors 11 english class. Pretty retarded, huh? So I'm not too happy with the schooling system at this point...
No child left behind... yeah thats really doing much. I think the teachers should smart up and start teaching instead of reminding me how to use a comma (in 12th grade)! The goverment should stop giving out tests if they are about things that the student should have known for five years now. And for heaven sakes, if a student should HAVE to take that ONE certain class for them to graduate, please let them at least learn something in there.
Maybe YouR english teacher sucks (in which case I'd recommend going to your counselor and begging for a different one), but I wouldn't apply her failure with the words "we" and "system". It's way too specific.
As for me, I had two essays and tests in the first week. We've been discussing our summer homework in class (as we will be starting a thourogh analytical project on both books soon) and I am beyond impressed with my teacher (whose name for the life of me I cannot remember). Not only do I actually have to work to keep up in his class, but my mind is actually being challenged when I step past his door. He's an intellectual.
But then, I'm taking AP 2, and should expect different than the regular english teacher that students only go to so that they have a lighter work load. While it's a sad case, those who do nothing to better their education tend to end with teachers that do nothing to better their students' education. And there aren't really enough teachers these days to fill all of the public schools with the cream of the crop.
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STAND for SOMETHING.
Like I said in the blog, I was in honors english classes... But I was distracted last year because I was working 30 hours while going to school and never had time to do homework or essays.
And it isn't just the teacher... I have talked to some of the people in the class who are smart people, but they have not seen have of the things presented to us in class. If these seniors got into a college next year, they would not make it... Not because they are not smart enough for a college education, but because they have not learned enough before their college education.
High school sucks. If your life doesn't get better after high school, you're doing it wrong.
And by the way, you should have learned in your English class that "spelt" is bread. The word you were looking for is "spelled".
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Well, you could use this as an initiative to do some self-studying.
Yeah I think that the school system is really corrupted! I think that most of the things in highschool are irrelevant to real life situations that I go through almost every single day. I just think that no child left behind is a bunch of bolony, because there's always going to be children who can't simply learn because they have a different learning style and teachers will never understand it. I think that Highschool never really prepares us for College and that's why there's soo many young people who are struggling as we speak and get really stressed out about school, life, proscrastination on assignments etc. I just don't think our School system is doing a bad job growing up was no fun because of the problems that I had learning and the slandering of teachers and peers it's just not far that the school system will not take enough initiative to assure everyone to equal education and to better prepare us for the real world and give us more hands on training to life after highschool. it's just bull crap anyways hope this helped any and I hope that the school system can do a better job of teaching students, because as far as I'm concerned they've done a very poor job!!
My senior year, I also had to placed back in regular English after 3 years of honors, due to scheduling conflicts. For months, I felt like I was too good to be in that class, and scoffed at what the teacher taught us. The teacher (who I was close with because she was my debate coach for a few years) knew I wasn't supposed to be in there, and she consequently didn't care to challenge me.
I was complicit in wasting my time in that class. I could have taken that free time and been thankful, and I could have studied something else so that I could feel enriched. So don't limit yourself to what you learn in school, because you could do so much more for yourself.
Yes, that was stupid for that teacher to tell her family history because how is knowing that going to help you in the future?