high school

No.

See how easy it is to say that? No. It's not difficult at all. It's only one syllable, two measly letters...so why in the hell is it so hard to say.  Read More »

I was talking to my Debate coach today about my school and his first/renewed impressions. He had very little good to say about the administration, which was expected since the Debate teams seems to be the only people expected to follow the asinine rules, but he did say one thing about the students that sparked my interest.  Read More »

Who: Me and my senior class (some Juniors because they just don't care.
What: Senior Skip Day
Where: Cocoa Beach
When: April 14th
Why: Last day for our senior class to be together and have fun at the beach.

The Plan  Read More »

Being A Senior Sucks...

We all just want to have fun, go out, get to know our friends a little bit more before parting for college.  Read More »

Today, I went into the restroom with my friend, Ashley, during lunch, and a while after I'd stepped into the stall to take care of my business, I heard another girl, who at the time I'd assumed was Ashley, go into the stall to the right of mine, and make fairly odd noises. I didn't know what to think, but I was fairly suprised when I saw Ashely standing outside of the stalls by the sinks.  Read More »

High school is so confusing. You have to hop a bus, find your locker in the masses of students, fumble to get your locker open, acquire books, go to class, if you can find it, with all the confusing room number. Unfortunately, I didn't experience that. I am from a small village that only has about 300 students total, K-12. I'm just glad that I didn't have to experience the above.  Read More »

Experiential Teaching & Learning… Is it really important?

Actually, I got the idea for this post from my last one on my youngest daughter’s class project concerning global warming. This is a bit different though, but still holds true to the principles concerning how teachers teach, and perhaps more importantly, how students learn.  Read More »

Underground Popular, that pretty much describes my social life. Underground popular means that you are friends with the most popular kids, they think you're cool, but you're not main stream popular (IE hot girls don't want to be seen with you.) I find that the reason that I'm not main stream is that I don't party like a fool. I don't know about anyone else but parties at my school are lame.  Read More »