How have I gotten the shaft in my high school career? Let me count the ways . . . In the school's ever-dwindling music department which the entire school completely ignores unless it has to do with Pep Band. Then the student body goes and practically worships this weird group called "Holy Rollers" that seems to literally grow in number at every performance, and got together at the beginning of this school year b/c someone finally decided to act upon the fact that the student body needs some sort of group to lead it at Mass and prayer services (yep, it's a Catholic school). I'd say at least half of the people in this thing aren't in band or choir, and have little musical training outside of this group. The worst part is that they've sung the EXACT SAME six or so songs all year. Yet for some reason, they all get to go and practice for like two hours before every performance. It's agonizing and asinine . . .
In the fact that the adminstration is phasing out the French department, and in two years they will have only the basic Spanish classes (for some reason they're getting rid of AP Spanish online, too). In the fact that every year that I have been in high school I have wanted to simply take an art class, but even that was too difficult for the imbecile of schedule coordinator. The school only offered non-online AP classes to juniors and seniors, until my junior year. In eighth grade they had us take American History, in ninth grade we took World History (most of which focused on Europe and the U.S.), we DID NOTHING sophomore year, we took U.S. History (either regular or AP) junior year, and government (regular or AP) and econ. I found out my senior that the school now gives sophomores the opportunity to take AP history. I didn't take any AP classes when I was a junior because I had a hard enough time concentrating and was intimidated by the class descriptions, but I had way too much time on my hands sophomore year and could have taken AP history then (had they offered it to sophomores).
My senior year has been a final, ultimate manifestation of the administration's uselessness and failure to really work at educating students whom they just don't feel like encouraging. One measly math class was too much to ask because too few people are interested in French, choir, and AP Biology. It would have been okay if hadn't been for some idiot's idea to move choir from eighth hour to seventh, which was the only time I had left open that I could take a math class. Then, they had to find some other class to put me (the administration had come up with another bright idea to have the Art II classes -- the only ones for which I was eligible -- during the first 2 periods of the day, when I had to have French and English). So they first railroaded me into Current World Affairs -- which I might have enjoyed had it not been with two of the overachieving assholes of which my school is so proud, and one guy that hardly talks at all, and then into Creative Foods, which was with some of the most uptight closed-minded ignorant simpletons I have known.
They also kept me out of AP macro online b/c they didn't think I was good enough and didn't think I'd be able to keep up . . . regular government and regular econ. are just like sitting in on that guy's class in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
I also found out they're going to start offering AP Art History next year . . . Those mother fuckers . . .
