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School's starting again!!!!!
Yeah... On one hand, I can't wait to get my textbooks (I love textbooks! I'm really weird!) and I like school and all, and I need to be around people again, as I've been really jumpy at noises and I've been talking quite animatedly to book characters, so it will be good for me. On the other hand, I'll have to put up with people. I don't like people. At all. I mean, I have friends, but if I don't get any classes or at least have lunch with any of my friends (for the third year in row, I swear, my school is conspiring against me) I'm going to become a hermit with books. You know, that doesn't seem like an entirely bad deal. My school is just full of jerks. And the only jerk I've had to put up with this summer is Luca (one of my book characters) and I can always threaten him with water chesnuts (he has an irrational fear of water chesnuts). Oh, and there's Claire.... but I digress.
Anyhoo, the point is the first day of school is coming! Tell me all about your first day! I want to laugh! Tell me about everything that happens! And I'll hunt this post down and post about my first day too.
I can never think on how to end a post. I'm terrible at endings. Anyhoo, buh-byez.
submitted by Sakura C., age 13, School
(August 7, 2012 - 6:18 pm)
(August 7, 2012 - 6:18 pm)
Hey, I play alto sax too! *nodnod*
I had the WORST. SCIENCE TEACHER. EVER. Last year. Halfway through the year, the school district told her she wasn't coming back next year. YAHOOEY!
She calls us "cool kids." She calls our weekly quizzes (which are PATHETIC, by the way: half a sheet of paper with four questions and one extra credit so that everyone ends up with, like, 105% at the end of the year) "Quizzles," and she calls our tests "Testy-tests."
"Okay, cool kids! Get out your writing sticks for our testy-test!"
AUUUGH!!!!
She made us put on laboratory goggles before putting FOOD COLORING in WATER! *begins to hypervenilate*
While we were taking the STAR tests at the end of the year, she ate a bunch of donuts while we were testing. (Really?)
Deepbreathdeepbreathdeepbreath
Okay, now my unnecessarily long rant is over. If you read all of that, I commend you.
(August 22, 2012 - 11:51 am)
My school isn't starting for two weeks. I want to see my friends again, because for some reason I have quite a few good friends that I haven't seen for the duration of the entire summer.
I'm going into seventh grade. Is the workload in seventh grade as bad as they say?
Also, I have a zero period extra band class, so I will now have to go to school at 7:30 every morning. *facepalm*
Which means I am going to have to start waking up earlier. *grimaces*
I will post the details of my first day in . . . two weeks.
(August 9, 2012 - 1:51 pm)
Mwa ha ha! Prepare to die under a homework load! And if you thought 7th grade was bad, go into eighth grade IBMYP like me!
(August 10, 2012 - 11:20 pm)
*nodding sagely*
Ahh, yes. Take it from an almost-junior: Things are never as bad as people say they are.
-SW
(August 13, 2012 - 1:02 pm)
I'm starting middle school and like Melody said, It's huge! I took a tour once and we covered half of the school I think--Just that half was big. I took band, chorus, drama camp, and swimming lessons so I will know lots of the people. I am sooooo excited and nervous! One question--How hard is band in middle school because I hardly practice my trumpet!
You really should practice, Blue Fairy. You'll enjoy the group more if you do.
Admin
(August 9, 2012 - 8:44 pm)
Thanks Adimn!
(August 10, 2012 - 8:37 am)
I homeschooled from kindergarden to third grade, then went to school 4-8 grade, now I'm homeschooling again for 9th. Because of my peanut allergy. =)
(August 10, 2012 - 11:57 am)
I am going into 6th grade and am looking forward to it. Mostly. I know that I am starting zoology
(did physics last year*makes face with tongue out and eyes tightly shut*). What is public school like? I have only set foot in a real school two times. Once for my town's high school sale (like a HUGE garage sale) and once when my mom went to talk about Japan for a second grade class about two\three years ago? And in the high school, I only got as far as the entrance. So . . . yeah, I suppose that college will be the first of a school that I will get into.
Anyway please tell me about public school.
(August 10, 2012 - 5:34 pm)
I go to a semi-public school. It's really just an alternative school with state funding. I wouldn't know much about the regular sort. But my school is awesome ^.^ It doesn't have different periods or anything, it just has different classes at different times. Sometimes I go home in the middle of the day and go back again later for a different class. It's pretty small so I always recognize pretty much everybody. There are kids there grades K-12 and parents on campus all the time, so for the most part everybody is pretty well-behaved.
But yeah, I wouldn't know much about the regular sort of school. For me as well, college will be the first time attending a typical school.
(August 10, 2012 - 7:13 pm)
@ True S.
I am going into 6th grade too! In a public school. But a different one from the past four years because of redistricting. DX Stupid Beagle-McCaw Board of Ed! But, anyway:
Public School Advice:
Firstly, are you coming from a private or charter school? Or were you home schooled? If you are coming from a private of charter school, be prepared to see a wider variety of kids. And special ed kids.
If you're coming from home school, there is a lot less one-on-one teaching. Oh, and homework. Lots of it.
Good Luck.
(August 11, 2012 - 10:24 am)
Ah, public school. The horror that I will now reveal. In public school, not all the teachers are good, so you will have to learn at least two of your classes by yourself. Also, you will have weeks when the teachers are cramming so you will receive an insane amount of projects. As for the competition, if you get any lower than an A- the class will shun you. Also, you will be picked on and called stupid if you are only one grade ahead in math as opposed to two or three. Cheers.
(August 11, 2012 - 11:07 am)
Alright, back up, no scaring people. *smack smack smackitty smack*
Again: Things are NEVER as bad as people say they're going to be.
But don't take this the wrong way and put on your rose-coloured glasses. Sometimes, teachers are bad, and you have to rely on Google for some stuff (not always the best option *shudder*). There are some kids who will be nasty. Suck it up. Find some good friends.
I used to live in New York. I moved to Nova Scotia when I was ten, and I got picked on, I got bad teachers, I got a locker that wouldn't shut. But seriously? Don't just go by what people say. I thought my head would be stuffed down a toile, first day of freshman year. Here I am 2 years later and it never happened.
Focus on the bright side of public school! You'll meet new people, do new things (just never ever eat the cafeteria food) and all kinds of stuff.
@Sakura-- Eesh. Way to be cheery. Do you seriously want to scare people away?
(Dude. I sound like a girl. Ouch.)
-SW
(August 13, 2012 - 1:13 pm)
"Way to be cheery?" Are you trying to sound like a little anime fangirl?
(August 13, 2012 - 3:54 pm)
Because if you are, you're succeeding.
(August 13, 2012 - 9:18 pm)
I told you... I sould like a girl... This is not a good thing.
(August 14, 2012 - 7:24 am)