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Post by Damian Yoshi on Sept 27, 2007 10:59:15 GMT -5
Right.. so I started Sixth Form (similar to college) a couple of weeks ago, and it would appear I've managed to survive it. Now.. we're expected to stay in school during free lessons, which for some people means staying in school for 6 hours when they only have a single 1 hour lesson that day. The head of sixth form says that's so that we spend more time studying. As well as this, we have to give up two free periods a week for "private study" where we go to the quiet room and.. study. And finally, they've introduced a "peer mentor" scheme. Basically, we are forced to spend one free lesson a week tutoring students who are either younger than us, or those who go to the 'special' school they built in the feild.
Anyway... all of this got me thinking... What seemingly bizzare things to other schools do? Forcing students to bring their own paper because the school spent it's budget on somthing else for example.
Has anything like this ever happened to you?
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Post by Yoshi on Sept 27, 2007 12:08:29 GMT -5
Highschools are weird. My old one had some money problems and still managed to find the cash to put neon lights up on the cafeteria.
For KU... I really don't know what they spend my tuition on. Sure isn't spent on fixing these buildings, I can tell you that. I probably don't want to know either; those numbers would be far too large for my simple understanding.
Then again, if this school spent as much money on academics as it does on lawn care then we'd be the highest rated school in the country.
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Post by Enrique on Sept 27, 2007 17:28:09 GMT -5
My high school has a bit of a history with money issues. Too much astroturf practice putting green and not enough money for teachers' salaries.
The part that bugs me is the fact that students who come into school before 7:57 must be packed in the lower cafeteria like a bunch of sardines. And the school makes a greater effort making sure that happens than it does updating the pathetic computer lab in the Spanish wing. Or making sure the morning announcements are heard, for that matter.
Also, they make us wait 5 weeks before giving us senior privileges. And using the Internet at school is practically impossible, thanks to Websense.
Finally, I can't tell you how many teaching assistants are employed in the school, but there seems to be more of those than the entire remainder of the faculty. All for students which I can't imagine ever making past a community college. And my high school isn't geared for those kind of people. Hell, New York State isn't geared for those kind of people.
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Post by Damian Yoshi on Sept 28, 2007 13:53:23 GMT -5
We have a pretty strict internet security thing, and they've got it set up so that using anything embeded in a web browser that uses flash automatically locks our accounts. It also stops us from going on websites we may need for research because it has the word "chat" somewhere on the site.
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Post by red.yoshi on Sept 28, 2007 14:07:07 GMT -5
Culprit: Money issues. My Highschool is using slow as hell Dell computers which must be 7-10 years old at the least. We don't have air conditioning around the school. There isn't even air conditioning in the computer labs! I wonder sometimes why all of the special offices need AC...
The Caffiteria bumped prices up 10c on nearly everything. That might not sound like a big deal, but it adds up. A lunch that I used to be able to buy with $3 and a quarter now costs $3.35. It angers me.
I attend Highschool at Cardinal O'Hara, which is a private, Catholic Highschool. After the huge tuition bill each year, the school still craves more money for God knows what. In order to participate in sports, or any other activities, one must pay an additional fee of $180. For my Technology course this year, I had to pay a fee to the school in order to use the computer. Also, out of 2,000 students who attend the school, I'd say more than half buy their lunch everyday, (the food isn't that bad,) pouring in more unneccisary cash. I don't know why the school needs all of this money! The last thing they did was add padded seats to the Auditorium, although now students aren't even aloud in there for study sessions anymore. The school is afraid the students will deface the new property. AC would be a great + on the school with all of that money, even if a little more than half of the year is spent enduring winter's chill.
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Lance
New Yoshi
So much Int... So little Wis...
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Post by Lance on Oct 1, 2007 21:55:13 GMT -5
For my 3rd or 4th year of middle school (can't remember exactly), there was a new middle school opening up near my house, so I was zoned to go there instead so I could just walk instead of taking the bus. When the school year started, it wasn't ready enough to start working with students, so they decided to extend our summer break by about 3 weeks and something stupid like adding an hour to the school time to make up for it. In addition to that, I tool some computer class as an elective, but when classes finally started, none of the computer labs had any computers... for a whole -month-.
Crappiest... shool... ever.
Oh, and the school colors were dark blue on sickenly pale yellow.
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Post by red.yoshi on Oct 2, 2007 14:13:41 GMT -5
Wow, those were the same colors as my old grade school!
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Eddie
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Never stop dreamin'
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Post by Eddie on Oct 22, 2007 13:53:40 GMT -5
I go to 6form/college and it's quite good actually =D
We get to go home and go to the high street and stuff in our free periods and because we are only doing subjects we want to do everyone is much happier than compulsary school! The education system for under 16s in this country is a pile of crap (my school became a "sports college" so they would get extra money and everyone had to do PE for gcse even though most of us hated PE and it meant we had to pick one less subject that we were good at and likely to pass for gcse... other things too but i cant be arsed to say right now ) but college is ok! yeah! The only thing that annoys me is that you are not allowed to smoke, except for in the "smoking shed" which is a crumped lump of transparant plastic outside somewhere.
I have made some really good friends tho and I'm seriously happier than I have ever been in my life!!! (except for a certain drug-related day of fun 2 years ago hehehe)
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Post by emvee on Oct 22, 2007 16:31:55 GMT -5
We've always had to furnish our own supplies in school. They'd even give us lists of things they expected us to have. Anyone who came to class unprepared received demerits.
Though I do remember when our school was so broke no-one had to take the final - budget cuts XD
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Post by Yoshi on Oct 23, 2007 11:34:56 GMT -5
I'd punch a whale in the face to get out of finals, you know.
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Al
New Yoshi
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Post by Al on Oct 23, 2007 23:12:51 GMT -5
Lazo where would you get a whale from LEVEL UP ! !
It seems like my school spends all of its money on the sports team which sucks. We don't even have enough text books for the freshmen this year. We also have a beehive somewhere on campus and they won't pay to find it and take it down.
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Post by Yoshi on Oct 24, 2007 0:05:43 GMT -5
Lazo where would you get a whale from LEVEL UP ! !Seaworld, obviously. There's one around here somewhere... |
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Post by yoshark777 on Nov 13, 2007 3:11:37 GMT -5
My school's one of the many strict internet schools. For god's sake, almost everything is blocked. It seems they track where you go and block any sites that don't have the word "education" somewhere on them. My friend's completely empty forum is blocked! D:
Has anyone noticed that every school there is seems to think they have the 'best education' around?
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Post by red.yoshi on Nov 13, 2007 15:34:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I've noticed that. My school has a horrible reputation for a few events which are rather quite adult and don't need my addressing on. Today, I had to do a brochure project for 8th grade day, when all the little 8th graders hang out with the freshmen to see what the school is like. The sad part is, only freshmen report to school, and I'm a Junior. Its a day where the freshmen think they're all so tough, stomping around the school like its theirs, but thats leading away from my point. I noticed that my school won't allow you to look up any images online while using the Google search engine. I tried only an hour ago and it blocks " images" as soon as you click the link. My school probably thinks that they blocked pornography or any other explicit images for good from its students by blocking a huge chunk of Google all together. *Applause.* Not. When I was a little freshman, I took a technology course. I learned about many of the web's search engines. Great job O'Hara! You blocked one of many! Should I call action news? I got around finding images for my project using the "Yahoo image search." |
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