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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)
Public schools are normally big. The teachers may be bad, top but there is almost always a plus-side to a bad one. I had a teacher in sixth grade who piled on work, which I thought was bad, but he was a really nice, funny person and now everything seems easy. Except for A.P. Bio:(. In public schools, you are often with people who live close to you. You meet new people on the first few days. If you are in a school with a biggish district, you may get to meet some people not necessarily from that part of the city, which is cool. There will be people you don't mesh with, but you get through it. And let me rephrase what SilverWing said: cafeteria food is poison.
(August 19, 2012 - 11:47 pm)
@ Sakura
Honestly, you're scaring her unnesesarily. Public school isn't like that, that's private school.
Public school: It doesn't always have good teachers, and there are normally more students that are more diverse. The school-wide grade point average is lower. Honestly, it depends on the public school.
About myself: Registration was the day before yesterday. I don't know about friends in classes, but first of all, all of the girls in my school have classes like art, PE, music, etc. together, and second, most of my friends are in the advanced classes, which is where I am too. Plus there's break and lunch.
I'm starting seventh grade, junior high, yay. First time I'll ever have to take exams at the end of the year.
@ Ima
Wow! That sounds awesome.
(August 12, 2012 - 5:15 pm)
My school is definetly a public school, but it is filled with lots of ultra -competitive people. We start again on Thursday. I wonder if I have classes with any of my friends...
My schedule: IBMYP Japanese II, IBMYP English 8, Plane & Solid Geometry, IBMYP Science 8, Technology Interaction, IBMYP History 8. Yay.
The captcha said yyzx. YYZ is a Rush song.
(August 13, 2012 - 11:22 am)
I SHALT HUG THOU AND THY CAPTCHA.
Why can't put school have Japanese as an option? (I'm gonna be a freshman btw) We just have Spanish and German (and French, but that's mandatory and started in elementary school). What does IBMYP stand for?
YOU LIKE RUSH TOO?
Where do all of you people hide when I begin my rants?
Garthwumpian Flopp says rhdx. Mrr.
~Quintus!
(August 13, 2012 - 5:00 pm)
It stands for International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. It's a really advanced academic thing; I'm sure Sakura knows more about it than I do. I really wanted to do that when I went into 8th grade, but there was no school in my district that had it.
(August 13, 2012 - 8:39 pm)
No, you got it wrong. IBMYP stands for: It's Big aMounts of Yucky Projects. Enough said. Yeah, that was a stupid acronym, but I spent 5 seconds on it, so who cares?
The captcha attends the prestigious OFKV program. Obviously Far too Kind to its Victims (a.k.a. students)
(August 13, 2012 - 9:30 pm)
Ha! I have the exact same schedule! Now we can complain together, annoy each other, help each other with insane English essays, and play Egyptian War in the middle of class!
Did you infiltrate the captcha? It's crying; it just said whah.
(August 13, 2012 - 6:08 pm)
Are you serious? That.Is.The.Third.Year.In.A.Row. I have all my classes with you! The school office is evil!
Office Guy 1: Now what classes should we put Sakura in this year?
Office Guy 2: Well, far away from Sakura's close friends. And all of Red's classes!
It doesn't help that we always end up picking the same electives. I hope we don't end up with Pyun-chan again....
@Quintus: I love Rush! And no one has ever heard of it! The only other person besides my sister who I know likes Rush is Red. Because I bugged him into listening to a couple of songs but then he liked it. Best.Band.Ever.
(August 13, 2012 - 6:57 pm)
Okay thanks! Some of the posts seemed to be saying that I would be going to public school, happily and, as you may have seen from my posts, I have been home schooled since the beginning.
(August 12, 2012 - 6:23 pm)
I'd like to post my own schedule, too:
-Biology PreAP
-Geometry PreAP
-World Geography PreAP
-English 1 PreAP
-Computer Information Systems (I'm not so excited about this one, but it's for college credit.)
-Service 1 (which isn't really a class but going to volunteer every Friday instead taking of classes and getting high school credit for it)
-I'm trying really hard to test out of Spanish 2 PreAP, but if I can't, I'll have to take it. If I do test out, I'll be taking Spanish 3 PreAP, and if I get a good enough score on another test, I'll get college credit for it.
Probably the worst thing about my otherwise-awesome school is that 9th graders don't get elective, but I might take AP Environmental Science online.
(August 13, 2012 - 9:04 pm)
What's pre-AP? I know what AP is, but what's pre-AP?
(August 13, 2012 - 9:16 pm)
In our school, it means "AP prep". I don't know what it means in other schools.
Mein schedule:
Homeroom
Wind Ensemble
AP Chem
Honors English 10
Lunch (B)
Stagecraft 1B
APUSH
Homeroom again
Yay end!
Two AP classes, one honors class... garr.
(August 14, 2012 - 7:31 am)
It's the same at my school. It's basically the same as honors, though: Something might be labeled PreAP even if there's no AP course in the same subject just to give the impression that it's preparing you for AP coursework in general. At my school, we don't actually have AP courses; instead, we go to a community college, take the college equivalents of AP courses, and get credit for the college course and its high school equivalent. (This is true of a few other courses, too), although we don't have that option in 9th grade. But we still use terms like PreAP because the district sets the course names, not the school.
Oh, and in the list of excellent things about my school, I forgot to mention that we're allowed to audition for any plays we want at the community college. Not that I would actually get in, at least in 9th grade, but even auditioning would be good practice. And when I went to see Little Women (which happened to be at that college), there was a junior from my high school playing Meg.
Also, we get discounts at museums and such for technically being college students; I'm sure the look on their faces when I show them my college ID will be amusing.
(August 14, 2012 - 4:20 pm)
I got my schedual!!! Here it is:
Algebra 1 prt 2
European History
Biology
Latin 1
English VII (My school was evil and didn't put me in Honors English even though I never got BELOW A 90 AND READ LIKE EVERY BOOK ON THE READING LIST EVEN THOUGH WE WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO READ 3!!!) GRRR! Oh and my headmaster just sent a letter about "Leadership" and "Taking charge of our community" and the "Responsabilities of being a Senior" ugh.
So anyway, has anyone started school yet?
(August 14, 2012 - 8:03 am)
I forgot to list one class: Pathway to Success. It's a mandatory organization/study skills class for college credit.
(August 15, 2012 - 10:16 am)