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Post by bubbles on Aug 12, 2007 17:00:39 GMT -5
I have, actually! =o
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Post by Aindel on Aug 12, 2007 18:22:31 GMT -5
Plus, the people you hang out with in the beginning of high school may not be your friends the whole way through. You're not attached to the people you meet from the first day. I started high school hanging out with people who I'd gone to elementary school with, and then one day said "Screw this! I'm finding me some new people!" So I walked up to a girl from homeroom, ate lunch with her and her friend, and now our group is made up of more than a dozen people, and we're all still really close. Even if you don't -try- to, you're going to make an impression on someone just by being you. Stick to those people who like the impression they get from you, and life will be good.
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Post by child-of-fae on Aug 13, 2007 20:04:35 GMT -5
private school kicks major ass, poppy.
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Post by limbowoman on Aug 13, 2007 21:31:06 GMT -5
*Glares at Poppy* Lucky thing...
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Post by bubbles on Aug 14, 2007 11:31:36 GMT -5
I have -visited- a private school! =D
Then the bastards kicked me out cause I wasn't a student. </3
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Post by Aindel on Aug 14, 2007 14:02:08 GMT -5
*rolls eyes* Poppy, why would you visit a private school in the first place?
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Post by Spammich on Aug 14, 2007 20:26:07 GMT -5
Poppy private schools have visitor passes...
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Post by limbowoman on Aug 14, 2007 22:41:10 GMT -5
*Rolls eyes* It's just a piece of land...
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Post by bubbles on Aug 14, 2007 22:56:33 GMT -5
I know they have those, I went to get one, but they didn't wanna give me a pass. D'=
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Post by Clover on Aug 15, 2007 14:00:46 GMT -5
Actually---to be honest, private schools are a little bit different. I remember my private school being smaller classes and more intellectual freedom. The school I went to didn't have the age=grade philosophy... if you were advanced in language/writing, they'd advance you to the appropriate grade, while if you needed more help in math, you'd be put into the level that was appropropriate. It wasn't 'You're 10 so you're in Grade 5".
When I moved up to Canada, I was ten, and doing grade 12 world history and literature, and very advanced science and math. And then I got held back because 'I'd do better in a class of my age peers, rather then be advanced'. I much prefer the private school idea---but my high school was relatively 'elite' because of the auditions, so it was basically a private school without the tuition and uniforms.
I guess I prefer it. If I ever have kids, I'm sending them to boarding schools. XD
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Post by Aindel on Aug 15, 2007 15:41:06 GMT -5
Yeah, schools can be dumb like that. I remember we did standardized testing in Grade 4 (why, I have no idea. We never did the Grade 3 one, though.... Just Grade 6 and 10 after that), and when my results came in my teacher told me I was at a Grade 12 reading comprehension level, and everything else was really high too (but my reading level has always been higher than any other skills). Did they do anything about it? Nooo. That would be the -smart- thing to do. Oh well. I think I would've turned out differently if they'd moved me up a grade or anything, and I like the person I am now. Plus I may not have met a lot of my friends then. And that would make me sad.
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Post by rachle on Aug 15, 2007 16:08:20 GMT -5
Something that bothers me about my school system is that the teachers all call you something different. Depending on my teacher I can be called: Miss Ferrero, Soco, Captian, 609180, Rachel, Miss, and Ferrero. It bugs me because I never know when they are talking to me because I am not use to being called most of thoes names :[.
I'm trying to convince my mother to let me go to the private school they sent my brother to, but she said no :[
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Post by Trey on Aug 15, 2007 17:48:32 GMT -5
Lol. I don't know why but reading your post reminded me of Mr. Mole, probably the greatest history teacher EVER.
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Post by Spammich on Aug 15, 2007 20:28:18 GMT -5
I wish there was a music school down here... I would have gone, now my pretty instrument is just collecting dust T.T
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Post by Clover on Aug 16, 2007 2:12:15 GMT -5
Mrr.. It makes me sad. You could have come up here and boarded with a family in the area. We had one girl from Minnesota come up and board with a family of a student, and another girl come up from Miami. Y_Y
Ah well. What can ya do.
And yes, Aindel, same thing. "Oh, your tests show you're what we call 'highly gifted'. But its too late to do anything about it, lawl, kthnkzbai." And ironically, I would have PREFERRED being a younger student in an older grade. The vast majority of my friends are older anyways--I honestly have no clue how to talk to my age-group peers. Its kind of pathetic.
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