High School

When I was in eighth grade, I remember people saying "High school is the best four years of your life!"

High School:

There are many issues to be addressed.  One, Freshmen.  Two, Seniors.  Three, Sophomores and Juniors, four, Teachers and five, grades.

       Freshmen year was great, they babied us and put us all in one group of people to avoid confusion and make new friends.  This was okay in middle school, but in High School it's almost insulting.   By making our schedule the same as one group of kids, we were only isolating ourselves and for some reason, the school board does not realize that.  And besides, it's not like this whole "new friends" thing worked but for a few people.  It didn't stop the emos from going here, the preps and jocks there, the potheads in the bathroom and that's pretty much all there is except for the weird kids and the loners.  Then, the teachers were being forced to baby you, even though they said they weren't going to.  The only thing this seemed to prove is that teachers are liars.  They let you turn in work a week late, talk back, screw off, etc.  The worst part of all though was just knowing you were a freshman.  Because they are made off to be immature and stupid.  The only thing they don't tell you is there are only a handful that, by the time they graduate, are any brighter or mature than when they were a freshman.  Seniors have it great too, I can't wait to be a senior!  They get to push everyone around like their scum, take the easy classes, skip school, get their own patio, and get all of the fun privileges because "We're going to miss you next year"  Right.  They get over confident and don't deserve anything more than sophomores, freshman or juniors!  They are still people as well as everyone else, but when you are a senior at my high school, you are everything but human.  because you are a senior, which in my opinion is almost an insult. 

       So your first and last year are awesome.  But everything in between is a real life hell.  You get so much homework that you dream about it, you can't get it done and then your pulling your hair out to get it done and no one babies you anymore because you are so insignificant that you may as well be stepped on, oh wait, you are.  Oh and how could i forget?  Standardized testing.  Oh the fun!  You get to sit there for nearly two hours writing about something ridiculously unimportant like school uniforms.  I mean, maybe if our opinions actually mattered and it was about a subject actually worth defending, then yes, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.  But it's unlikely.  

      Teachers, boy oh boy are they something.  Only paid $33,000 ish a year and they have to deal with idiots like us eight hours a day for five days a week.  However, we have to deal with them as well, and we don't get paid.  There are a variety of different teachers at the high school, like those who read power points the whole period because we aren't smart enough to be able to read them ourselves.  Then there are those downright insane ones that yell at nearly everything and lectures us on when to approach a teacher (none of which included something about needing to be taught)  Or the ones that talk really fast and monotone and get frustrated when we don't really pay attention and gives us a truck load of homework as punishment.  And then of course there are the incredible ones that give it to you straight, not to fast, not to slow and can relate tot he kids and understand problems and the fact that maybe you actually have a life outside of school and respects that despite how little they care.  I also learned that if you have one year full of amazing teachers, your next years going to be hell, no one's luck is that good.  

     Grades are important to me but only because of the future, right now i really couldn't care less, but i try anyways.  But the thing is that you really don't have to try.  You don't fail until a solid F, and the fact a D- is passing is just ridiculous!  I think a D should be failing, i mean after all, you are raising the future of America!  And is we all got D's because that's passing, think about the future of America.  I mean, REALLY think about it.  It scares me, honestly.  

      So, all in all, High School is no more outstanding or fun than the other grades, in my opinion Elementary was the best, but that's another post for another time. 

With much love, 

Ophira Reice <3