High School

[savage388]

Can't be bothered with school tomorrow... For those in the same frame of mind, just remember this:

"We're near the end of the year, so 🤬 all"

Yea but it goes fast especially when your in your senior year. I've been going just to hang out because real life begins in two months.

 

[Slash]

We have an alternative school for high school and junior high kids in the junior high. For a lot of people it's more of a reward because it's only from 8am-noon.

I do the same hours the other building does. The paid 16k to kick me out. I was like wtf. I find it a reward though because there is no damn homework now. Lunches still blow though. Not thrilled about having to go back tomorrow.

 

[Crumpet]

Yea but it goes fast especially when your in your senior year. I've been going just to hang out because real life begins in two months.

All I want is a car, so I can drive around the world. The quicker that comes, the better.

 

[Lizard]

All I want is a car, so I can drive around the world. The quicker that comes, the better.

Good luck with that. Your going to need a lot more than just money for a car.

 

[Techy]

I think I've asked this before but I'm not sure if anyone actually responded, but is anyone in a magnet high school? I'm actually trying to get in one in 9th grade, specifically the IB program.

 

[Crumpet]

Good luck with that. Your going to need a lot more than just money for a car.

Of course.

I wonder how high priced fuel will be by then...

 

[Lizard]

Now can I annoy everyone?

I left school 2 years ago and its great (Still in education but college is alot better)



Sorry.

 

[E28]

Of course.

I wonder how high priced fuel will be by then...

£3000000000 a litre.

Thankfully I've got 2 more days of holiday before I go back to school, but when I go back to school we'll be starting GCSE Courses in:

• Maths
• English
• RE
• French
• Spanish

Science we're already doing GCSE, and IT is mandatory for 1 lesson a fortnight, so we're kind of already doing GCSE. Everything else is optional, so that will start when I go into Year 10.

People in the UK, what have you got as your GCSE choices? I've got Engineering, Spanish, Computing, Business Studies and History, plus the mandatory ones (Maths, English, Science, RE).

 

[Lizard]

^ For premium I can do your History to an A level B grade standard

JK I am not in the buisness of helping people cheat.

 

[Ross]

People in the UK, what have you got as your GCSE choices? I've got Engineering, Spanish, Computing, Business Studies and History, plus the mandatory ones (Maths, English, Science, RE).

I have the Mandatory ones and Art Photography, Spanish, GCSE PE, Geography, Additional Mathematics and Core PE.

 

[Guml8all]

People in the UK, what have you got as your GCSE choices? I've got Engineering, Spanish, Computing, Business Studies and History, plus the mandatory ones (Maths, English, Science, RE).

I'm not in the UK but I'm doing IGCSEs, which is pretty similar I guess .

I'm doing the exams for them in May, (9 more days of IGCSE remaining, after a long 2 years) with the subjects being:

English
French
Spanish
Math (Ext. Int.)
Physics
Economics
History

Our school doesn't offer anything 'cool' like engineering, which is too bad considering it's a private school and you'd expect a lot more, but oh well..

Oh, the school's also charging 150 chf per exam .

Finally, getting ready for IB (heard so many good things about it), where I'll be taking:

Math (HL)
Econ. (HL)
Physics (HL)
English Lit. + Lang. (SL)
French (SL)
History (SL)
Theory of Knowledge

 

[E28]

^ For premium I can do your History to an A level B grade standard

JK I am not in the buisness of helping people cheat.

*sticks nose up in disgust* Ugh, a B?! I want an A***, one could not deal with the trauma of merely an A.

What did you do in your GCSE history course? I think I'll be learning about life in 1930s Germany under the Nazi's, but my history teacher says it was Henry VIII up until recently.

Our school doesn't offer anything 'cool' like engineering, which is too bad considering it's a private school and you'd expect a lot more, but oh well..

Oh, the school's also charging 150 chf per exam .

Yeah, I'm pretty lucky to be able to do engineering (that's if they pick me for the course) as it's not very common for schools to offer it at GCSE.

And your school's charging for exams?! That's crazy.

 

[Lizard]

*sticks nose up in disgust* Ugh, a B?! I want an A***, one could not deal with the trauma of merely an A.

What did you do in your GCSE history course? I think I'll be learning about life in 1930s Germany under the Nazi's, but my history teacher says it was Henry VIII up until recently.

Yeh but a B at A level so I would say that is near 100% at GCSE. (I know it was a joke but still)

For GCSE history I did the Nazis, Two pieces of coursework on britain during the war (home front ) The soviet union Stalin onwards, Vietnam and American civil rights.

For A level I have done British politics 1918-51 got a B. And got a sourcework exam on Germany 33 to 63.
For my 2nd year it will be the russian revolution and




American civil rights again

 

[Crumpet]

I wonder why it's mandatory you must go to school. I've learnt more from the Internet than I have from school... Tomorrow, I'm back, and tomorrow night, I'll have forgotten everything learned that day...

 

[Lizard]

I wonder why it's mandatory you must go to school. I've learnt more from the Internet than I have from school... Tomorrow, I'm back, and tomorrow night, I'll have forgotten everything learned that day...

Because if you get a good teacher you will learn more than off the internet if you want to have jobs in basic manual labour fine don't go.
And its to do with socialisation.

 

[Emptyone]

Ah History GCSE we did WW1, inter war stuff, the liberal reforms and Womans rights and suffrage, which was entertaining in an all boys school. Did german politics as coursework.
AS we do poverty and public health in the 19th century, which is the most dull topic ever conceived. But we get Italian and German Unification too, which is fun. Cold war at A2 next year, not so bad.

 

[rhys159]

I'm taking Spanish, French, Economics, and History for GCSE. I'm not too bothered about going back to school tomorrow, I always have a laugh with my mates so it's not all bad.

And Jai, school is mandatory because it attempts to get you into a position where you can get a decent job or follow on into university...If you're not going to bother with school then have a nice life as a bin man .

 

[cgr-10]

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[Guml8all]

And your school's charging for exams?! That's crazy.

I always thought it was because Cambridge charges our school for the exams, but my school took some commission from it anyways (private sector = profit motive = anything for the $ $ $ ).

I wonder why it's mandatory you must go to school. I've learnt more from the Internet than I have from school... Tomorrow, I'm back, and tomorrow night, I'll have forgotten everything learned that day...

In school you learn a lot more than knowledge (: . Although it is a lot of knowledge. Let's face it, you don't want to become a Sheldon do you? *prays that you understand my Big Bang Theory reference.

Although on a separate note, on one of our Mock Exams we did in March, there was a passage about this guy who was home-schooled and got accepted into Oxford .

*insert Obama not-bad meme.

 

[Emptyone]

If
you're not going to bother with school then have a nice life as a bin man .

Never know, might come up with something decent from missing school, I mean Einstein developed Special Relativity and General Relativity without doing well at school, just goes to show.

 

[Crumpet]

Because if you get a good teacher you will learn more than off the internet if you want to have jobs in basic manual labour fine don't go.
And its to do with socialisation.

I've also made more close friends online than I have in school. My best friend is an online one, known him for 5 years. School is stressful, and once you hit a certain year, you feel the kid inside you slipping away. I know part of that is to do with getting older, I'd love to be able to play out, make things using old junk and stuff, but I'm too pressed for time. Tons of homework, no sleep, etc. Would be so much easier if I could just drop out for a while.

I got schooled at home a few years ago, due to being so badly bullied at the school of which I was present. It wasn't the best, a lot of the days I did nothing but 1 hours worth on the Internet. And I've still got good grades. As for manual labour, I'll probably be doing things among those lines. I do want to get into restoring older cars if possible. Exams annoy me, remembering homework annoys me, remembering everything annoys me, other students annoy me, teachers annoy me, the conditions annoy me. I may sound a little over the top, but I don't like being in a hot classroom, full of kids who target me, and a teacher who won't leave me alone.

You have to get up early, often eating nothing, get there, get back, which for me is a 1 hour walk. Then I'm doing homework until the early hours, and get little sleep.

Probably why my vision is going blurry in class, signs of fainting?

EDIT - Took longer to write than expected, reading other posts as you view this.

 

[Lizard]

I hate homework. (you get more at college arghhh) But when you leave school you will be greatful you have left but also greatful of what you did there. 1 great thing college has over school though is teachers respect you.

At least your not in my situation where the school 🤬 up my education but thats a long story that im not disscussing.

 

[E28]

I wonder why it's mandatory you must go to school. I've learnt more from the Internet than I have from school... Tomorrow, I'm back, and tomorrow night, I'll have forgotten everything learned that day...

Jai, can you read this post? Yes. Could you recognise the number of posts you have, maybe add up change while buying food? Yes.

And all because you are lucky enough to have an education. There are children who would love to be in your place in your classes, learning about algebra and past wars and how a volcano is formed, even just learning to read and count higher than the number of fingers they have. Which sometimes isn't even 10, because they are forced to work in sweatshops, making trainers and cheap clothes that'll end up in Primark. A dangerous environment with no health and safety, toxic fumes and no masks, goggles or gloves.

We're the lucky ones.

 

[Guml8all]

^ Amen.

Oh, and Jai:

"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing."

- George Bernard Shaw.

 

[Crumpet]

Jai, can you read this post? Yes. Could you recognise the number of posts you have, maybe add up change while buying food? Yes.

And all because you are lucky enough to have an education. There are children who would love to be in your place in your classes, learning about algebra and past wars and how a volcano is formed, even just learning to read and count higher than the number of fingers they have. Which sometimes isn't even 10, because they are forced to work in sweatshops, making trainers and cheap clothes that'll end up in Primark. A dangerous environment with no health and safety, toxic fumes and no masks, goggles or gloves.

We're the lucky ones.

I understand, I am grateful for the education I have. I do however, feel I've learnt enough, nothing is going inside the mind these days. It's all too much to be honest, I know it could be much worse for some, but this is as bad as it can get for me. I know the alphabet, I can add and subtract, and that is all I need to be honest. As for algebra, ugh, they could've made up something more interesting.

 

[Guml8all]

I know the alphabet, I can add and subtract, and that is all I need to be honest. As for algebra, ugh, they could've made up something more interesting.

You say that, and yet you want to restore old cars when you're older? Wouldn't that require a specialization in engineering? Which, in itself, requires some advanced maths, physics, and yep, I think the alphabet. See, you're already 33% there!

Forgive me if I'm mistaken btw..

 

[Lizard]

Algebra I will admit is something that isnt that useful at your level however you must learn if you need to study maths to a higher level and thus why you do learn it because otherwise A levels would have a near 100% fail rate.

 

[mattythedog]

I like algebra, I think it's pretty interesting. Though I am a bit weird....

 

[Lizard]

I like algebra, I think it's pretty interesting. Though I am a bit weird....

Algebra? Are you nuts?

At college I like history so much I consider it like another break. (Get tons of breaks as it is )

 

[mattythedog]

I am probably nuts. But yeah, I enjoy it.