Oh that is IT

[ZorBrak]

If you read this whole thing...you get a cookie :p

I'm SO SICK of this school. This is going to sound whiney but I don't think there is a more disgusting, corrupt school in my entire state! Ok get this.....already got my stupid rank 191/486...and my overall GPA for the whole time here is only...3.5 :mad: ...now that pissed me off enough already and really I DO blame it on the school and it's like I can't do any better because of their own faults. But Get this, I was out for like almost a week because I was so sick 2 weeks ago, and in marketing they were working on this in class project, which consisted of four parts. Well, I missed the second part, so when I got back I offered to make it up. The teacher said it wasn't necessary and that she would base my grade on the other two parts. Now I actually do work pretty hard so I got a 100 on the third and first parts. But NOW she's decided to cancel the project and not do the fourth part. Yet she says she wants to give us grades based on our already completed work, and SHE'S PENALIZING ME FOR THE PART I MISSED. I told her she had excused me and that I was SICK, I even got it "officially" excused by the office (stupid ass facists make you bring doctor's notes now)....and she told me it wouldn't be fair to people who did the three parts. EXCUSE ME?! NOT FAIR?! I'd like to talk not fair, telling me NOT TO DO something and then trying to NOT GIVE ME A 100 WHEN I EARNED IT IS NOT FAIR not the BS she was spewing at my ears. This is just one example of the crap that goes on constantly at this school.

And so now I've had it. I REFUSE to go here senior year. I mean I don't like not being with my friends but even they want outta here. So I have a few options...I don't know much about any of them...

-I can go to military school
-I can go to an art magnent school
-I can try to get in to a private school
-I can live with my grandparents a year and go to the highschool there

I'm not going to do homeschooling though blah, I doubt colleges would be too fond of that...and I really don't like any of these options...at all...but all I know is my grades are being mauled by someone else's faults and I can't stand for it anymore. I mean it feels horrible to know I am 191 when I should be AT LEAST 91. This thing about the project, that's not an isolated thing, all the teachers and stuff are like this here. I don't think I have disdain for any place as much as my school because it has already kept me out of my first choice colleges (hoping I can make up for this with next year's grade and on my SAT but the hour is quite late..prolly have to go to second choice then transfer), it is filled with disease and low-lifes, potheads, gangs, coke sniffing teachers err yeah anyways...any advice?

[Lucky Bob]

Homeschooling isn't a bad option. Colleges generally don't have a problem with them, provided that you fulfill all your requirements. Most of the homeschoolers I know have placed very well in their college entrance exams.

[Pilmedium]

I would not recommend taking extreme measures, such as going to military school or art school. They do not offer exactly the same kind of education. If you are completely unable to work out the problems, think about going to a different school, as long as they teach all of the same subjects.

[Joe Tully]

Sorry to hear that you're so frustrated with your teachers, but you have a 3.5? That's pretty good. I'm assuming you're on the scale where 3=B and 4=A? So you're just on that B+/A- boundary. That's like 90%. It sounds like you just have one crappy teacher that's making things crappy for you. If that's the case, you might be blowing this a little out of proportion.

I'd consider staying at the school but taking things easy the next year. I remember being really burned out senior year too. Just take the few classes that you have to. Give yourself some study breaks/free periods. :) You probably have more credits than you need already, if your school works on that system. Try to sign up for classes that have teachers that are easier or at least nicer. If you're like me, you've spent high school busting your ass and you probably need a year as a kind of breather.

[ZorBrak]

Originally posted by Joe Tully
Sorry to hear that you're so frustrated with your teachers, but you have a 3.5? That's pretty good. I'm assuming you're on the scale where 3=B and 4=A? So you're just on that B+/A- boundary. That's like 90%. It sounds like you just have one crappy teacher that's making things crappy for you. If that's the case, you might be blowing this a little out of proportion.

I'd consider staying at the school but taking things easy the next year. I remember being really burned out senior year too. Just take the few classes that you have to. Give yourself some study breaks/free periods. :) You probably have more credits than you need already, if your school works on that system. Try to sign up for classes that have teachers that are easier or at least nicer. If you're like me, you've spent high school busting your ass and you probably need a year as a kind of breather.


Thanks for the advice but...actually almost all of my teachers are like that. My German and Algebra 2 teachers are even worse in fact...they just haven't robbed me of a project grade worth 25% of a quarter grade >_<

And the school like gives out statistics (they're like report cards for the school's overall performance and teaching skills) and like on average people were failing in like the 50s in all math departments...in fact we were 20 points below the state average. Luckiky I am doing OK in Alg but I litteraly have to teach myself German and math at home because the teachers don't do it....it's bad....

[Andy Mancini]

You have one more year, don't worry about it. My high school teachers were the exact same way, especially my German and Algerbra II teachers.

I had three German teachers. One retired due to cancer, one left because she couldn't speak German at all (she was there to teach French), and the other couldn't teach German at all. I end ended up passing by correctly translating and interpreting Rammstein lyrics. (How I got away with this I still don't know.)

My Algerbra II teacher was fat. Have you ever seen pictures of John Popper or Carnie Wilson before they got their stomachs stapled? She was that fat. Her theory on Algerbra was "it doesn't matter if you get the answer, just as long you do the problem exactly the way I do". The problem was, she never taught us her way. I had my dad teach me. This is how I could get every answer on the test and still get a 63%.

I know first-hand that this is tough to do, but I say just grin and bear it. I suggest finding something worthwhile to do at school. The only things that saved me from going insane were my computer "classes" (which were more like wired study halls that I would get a grade in), band, and my friends and family.

[czyznyck99]

You are blowing steam, that's all. I hated my high with a passion, and didn't have any friends, but I decided to finish. I didn't even have a 3.5 going into my senior year. If you are having a problem with administration (i.e. principal, staff other than teachers), then I think you should leave.

Later.

[DJ Raza]

Well, if I were you I would either try to get into a private school or go live with your grandparents. If the school is going to keep screwing you over in certain places, and you want to leave, I'd recommend you do it.

When I was in high school I had problems like this all the time. After seventh grade, my middle school lost all information on me altogether over the summer. I had no school records, no previous GPA averages, no medical history, no proof of Hepatitis shots and all other information on me was somehow lost. Since I was out of the system altogether, that meant the only thing I could do was re-enroll. Then they wouldn't let me re-enroll because I had no previous information. Finally someone found my information and I was allowed to re-enroll after missing the first five weeks of eighth grade, and not being excused from any work that I missed.

Then during eighth grade, I had an Algebra I Honors class that wasn't required since it was worth a high school credit. Well, this was the year I figured out I needed glasses, but unfortunately I figured it out after I failed my Algebra I Honors class because the teacher always used an overhead projector in a room full of darkness and she never used a textbook. So I was SOL for getting anything done that year in Algebra. At the end of the year, I had five "A"'s, and an "F". Of course, the "F" was in Algebra, so I was like "So what? I'll take it next year. It wasn't required."... but they still weren't going to let me pass regardless and said they were going to hold me back. So I ended up going to summer school.

Then, the grand finale of all school's disasterous mistakes to reign upon me, in the beginning of eleventh grade they lost all my ninth grade records (which they were all "A"'s and "B"'s). So, here I am, a juinor, having just completed English II Honors with a 99% "A", sitting in English I Basic with a bunch of freshmen. Not to mention all the other classes they had me repeating again, but English I was the most degrading. Finally, nine weeks into my junior year, they discover my ninth grade records, and I get all new classes such as English III Honors in which I missed over 27 multiple page essays to which none of them I was excused. I wasn't excused from any work in any of my other classes either.

So after sticking around and trying to put up with the school's follies, I ended up totally slaughtering my GPA during my juinor year and ultimately failing every single class. After that I went and got my G.E.D and I'm attending Valencia presently making up for all my high school classes and then I plan on going to UCF (University of Central Florida).

Its very common that schools accidently screw people over. I remember this guy I worked with at Best Buy had a 4.0 GPA and it was his senior year. Two weeks before graduation, the school sent him a letter telling him that he needed a credit in P.E. (which he already had two P.E. credits), so he wasn't going to be able to graduate with all his friends in two weeks and that he would need to attend another year of high school. He told them he already had two P.E. credits, but they could find no records of him taking a P.E. class.

When they looked over his scedules for from ninth grade to present, there were two holes (where the P.E. classes should have been). After finding absolutely no way that he could graduate, he withdrew from school and went for his G.E.D and then applied to Rollins University. Five weeks after he dropped out of school (three weeks after graduation) the school sent him a letter telling him that they found his lost P.E. grades, and they also enclosed a diploma. He then tore it to shreads, and sent it back to them with a letter telling them off.

So the point of my long ramlbings are, if your school just keeps screwing you over, they're probably just going to keep doing it. I never had the chance to attend another school, but it looks like you do. I'm not saying it'll end up as bad as it did for me, but I'd definitely look into your possibility of going to another school. I know you may be partial to all your friends at your school, but believe me, education is worth a lot more than just hanging out with your friends. You can always make new friends, but you can't always get an education, especially a free (for the most part) one like this.

[Damien]

..... :rolleyes:

[Nightflower]

Originally posted by Damien
..... :rolleyes:
You're going to have to elaborate on that. O_o

[jeffrey 228]

Originally posted by luckybob1985
Homeschooling isn't a bad option. Colleges generally don't have a problem with them, provided that you fulfill all your requirements. Most of the homeschoolers I know have placed very well in their college entrance exams.

Well that is knia impossable in my area, because if you wish to do home schooling I think you need to be in a alternitive school first and if you are on a full paid job too.