What do you mean "haha"? Depression isn't a joke! Yes Sam is the one I've been talking about. I can't talk to him. I'd make a fool of myself. He is avoiding me and when my friends told him to talk to me he was just like HI BYE. Yes it was only Sam. I'm kinda worried that one of these days someone will ask me why I know so much about mental disorders (depression, bipolar, anorexia, etc.) and I won't have an explanation because I'm not supposed to tell people Tess is depressed (my two closest friends found out by accident). I've been trying to talk to Sam but HE WON'T TALK TO ME!!!!!! L, help me please! I can't talk to people.

I think I might have social anxiety... I am fairly certain I'm depressed, because I took some online tests that said I'm severely depressed: (and besides it's genetic and my mom is depressed so yeah...

 Maggie, I wouldn't rely on a diagnosis from an online test. You should talk to a parent or other trusted adult (teacher, doctor, minister, etc.) about how you feel. It may just be normal "growing pains" that many people experience. And if conversing with Sam is too stressful, practice with more casual friends. Think of a few questions or topics in advance and be a good listener. Then you may discover that when you talk to Sam it feels more natural. Anticipating a situation/event is often more stressful than the actual event. Once you get going, you'll be fine.

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I can't speak for anything but my own experiences, of course, but as a general rule movie-watching in public schools happens because (a) it's an English class and the teacher thinks that watching film adaption of something the class has finished reading will encourage a greater range of analytical thinking about the work in question (i.e., reading the Scottish Play and then watching one of the myriad of movies of it), or (b) it's a science or social sciences class and the movie is a documentary pertaining to the subject at hand (i.e. biology classes showing videos about immune systems, or a world history class watching something about, say, Stonehenge). 

The practice helps those students who are visual learners, because the information is presented with much better visual aids than would be available on, for example, a powerpoint presentation. Generally speaking all (good) teachers are looking for more ways to reach all their kids, not just the ones who can magically stay awake and absorb adequate amounts of information during lectures. 

One reason that homeschooling can be great if done correctly is that there's so much one-on-one time between parent/teacher and child/student, and of course the parent knows their child better than a teacher in a public school could by fact of having raised them, so they have both the means and the time to tailor the education to the child's needs. Homeschooling also lends itself better to educational field trips like visiting museums or maybe even actual historical sites, if financially feasible.

That can't happen in public schools, because there's a much greater ratio of students to teachers and personalization of instruction simply isn't practical. The aim of public school teachers, then, isn't to reach every kid on a very individual level, but to convey the same information in as many ways as possible so that general understanding of each concept will be consistent, i.e. so no child falls behind as a result of not being able to learn strictly from working out of a workbook. 

Further, there do exist social science classes where the entire point is to watch movies, i.e. film study classes. A lot of times these are more college-y type social sciences, but I bring it up because my high school offered one. 

Rambling aside, the point I'm trying to get across is that watching movies in class isn't automatically condemnable, IF the movie pertains to the material being taught and is, you know, educational. Any teacher who let their students watch movies for no reason but entertainment is really bad at their job, and shouldn't be accepted as indicative as public schools as a whole.

As to why The Hunger Games would be an admissibal movie to watch in a social sciences class: the whole point of the Hunger Games is to critique problems with modern media culture and offer a dystopic future extrapolation of current trends. Watching or reading it in a humanities course would be no different from watching or reading Brave New World or 1984 or even more YA-targeted work like The Giver.

That said, it was the end of May when Maggie mentioned this. It might have been a hooray-it's-the-last-week-of-school-let's-have-a-party thing, too.

TL; DR: I'm weirdly defensive of public schooling because my childhood education until I was ten was a Christian school run by my church and then homeschooling, and I hated both of them and was pretty much miserable the whole time and it took me until I was eight to even learn how to read more than monosyllables because I was so anxious all. the. time. that I couldn't process information correctly. Public school went a very long way to correcting that, bad hormone years in middle school notwithstanding. 

Oh, yeah, just a footnote if I was didn't say this before.  Don't just walk away.  Say something before you do, and not just "I don't want to hear it."  That will definitely make it worse.  Use homework as an excuse if you absoutely have to.