SCHOOL SUCKS.

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School is one of the most boring parts in a teenager’s life… no, sorry, it’s the ONLY part, and it still sucks.

I’ll take the courses one by one:

ENGLISH: SUCKS. Today, we did something that had NOTHING to do with English. Get this: We were doing a “time capsule” of what we think of the school year (last day, BTW… woot & **** simultaneously). Best movies, best books, blah blah blah. Not to mention a kid was imitating Bill Cosby and doing his “Noah” sketch and a drag-racing one. Umm… I thought “English” meant “literature?”

MATH: SUCKS. There’s nothing COMPLICATED. You get to do fractions and percentages and that junk… where’s the good stuff, like in “Cube” or “A Beautiful Mind” or “Pi” or even “Schoolhouse Rock!”?

PE: SUCKS. Wow, we get to run around in circles, do jumping jacks, and other stuff that won’t matter? Sign me up! Yeah, right… WHY? Athletics will mean nothing later in life unless you’re “lucky” and manage to sign up with some big team or whatever. And to those who have dreams of computer apps or working on TV, the only thing like athletics is like in “Broadcast News…” Joan Cusack-style!

GEOGRAPHY/SOCIAL STUDIES: SUCKS. I have an advanced class. The teacher is sarcastic and insane–she hears that I like weird movies, and she recommends “A Clockwork Orange.” You think it’ll be rewarding for me to watch rape? Anyway, she’s also sarcastic–we’re watching “Gandhi” and they mention lemon juice, so she says, “They call it lemon juice…” And the class is incredibly hard… the reports can’t have contractions, and they can’t be in the first or second-person. Wow! If you’re going to try to convince someone on something, shouldn’t you REFER to them? And depsite how sarcastic she is, she doesn’t like humor in reports: I write one in about torpedoes and mistaking it for “Star Trek,” and she didn’t appreciate that; I write one in about cloning either a dog, cat, dragon or walnut, and she doesn’t appreciate THAT. Sheesh.

SCIENCE: SUCKS. We have a teacher who’s somewhat insane–she thinks “Bill Nye” is a good way to teach us science. He’s annoying as hell. He thinks he’s the best, but he sucks and is a total idiot/psycho. Oh, he’s talking about… breathing? Hahaha. Zzzzzzzzzzzz…

READING: SUCKS. We were forced to read a book called “Island Of The Blue Dolphins,” which I hated either because it was BORING (it’s about an Indian girl stuck on an island alone for 20 years or so–can you say “dull?” Not many can), or because we had to ANALYZE it. Who cares what happened to her brother? Who cares what happened to the bull whale? Bull**** is more like it.

ELECTIVES: SUCK. Art’s okay; we have a degree of freedom. We can sit at other tables, we can do art projects the teacher doesn’t know about (I did the main character of “Waking Life,” and she had to ask me the name–he doesn’t have one). But computer class is the opposite. They don’t allow fun or talking, or even breathing. They don’t allow anyone online (sshhh, don’t tell them I’m online), and they don’t have a single game, not to mention they hate it when you have mistakes in a pre-written report YOU have to retype. For every edit, they bring down your grade.

LUNCH: SUCKS. The cafeteria is boring. One girl there is interesting, which isn’t saying much about the cafeteria. They serve Doritos, Zebra Cakes, cookies, and Gatorade/water. Those are the best things they serve–everything they make themselves is awful, aside from the cookies.

LEAVING: RULES. Duh.

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Well, first of all, I have been out of school for 10+ years now, (and that includes college), so BAH!!

Next, if you ever plan to get anywhere in life, you need school whether you think it sucks or not.

From what you have stated in your post, it seems that you are like in 2nd or 3rd grade by what you are doing. So on that point, (if you are in grade school), then yes it does suck. You won’t really start learning anything interesting until about grade 7+, or high school. That is when the fun starts. Well it did for me anyway.

Just relax, sit back and wait for the good times ahead.

BgDM

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Well, math was easy for me and I grew up on computers, the best thing ever happen to me in school was taking a course in AutoCad, even thoe it mostly had to do with blue prints, I quickly went ahead of the teaching and started messing around with 3D mesh. Revsurf, revoulve, boolean operation, extruding, arrays, so percise and somewhat easy to make. Anyways, I never learn much english, special ED fail me there, I got F’s and D’s in History, but look at me now, ever since I got into politics and the Liberty of my country, I found alot of impose ignorants that they never teach me in history. Example, we kick the chinese out, Gerneral Custord murder indians men women and children, then sold the land for profit. The 14th admendment was illegal, the definition of Gross income tax was change, by the IRS and the jurys right of an impartial jury were ignored. Cubefan, educate yourself on this and then let your history teacher let him had it when he refuse to educate the class of the truth.

And don’t forget, you can learn allot more on TV then you do in Class, watch the history channel, TLC, Discovery, PBS, Freespeech TV and World Link TV.

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stop complaining and drop out :slight_smile:

Just relax, sit back and wait for the good times ahead.

in all honesty, i think i beleive it when my parents say “school was the best time in our lives and youll realize that too once you get to be my age”… that doesnt really leave much to live for now does it :< :<

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Cubemate,

Leave if you want. I decided to leave school right after they kicked me out! But since then I have learnt 10 times what I would have if I had stayed in school.

I wouldn’t have attained my teaching certificate for one, nor would I have run my dance night at local night clubs. (Good profits to be found here :slight_smile: ) Plus I wouldn’t have ended up in the TV industry working where I do now. :smiley:

School is good if you want to get anyway later in life. I spent 16 years at school which was far too long in my opinion, but the courses that really appealed to me were not available at the college, so I had to find a college that offered them.

Cube, you seem to do what you want most of the time around elysiun, I think you should understand what career you want to go into (3d?) and then find a way to recieve the best coaching possible to become the best you can in that area. If this means leaving your current school, so be it. Move on to a school/college where you can study the one subject you like the most, without having to put up with the subjects you hate.

I’m sure you will enjoy school if you are learning a topic you are passionate about.

Stick with it mate, things will turn out for the best, and the sun will always be out tomorrow,

Sonix.

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That’s, right, it’s your god giving right to decide to go or not and don’t let tyrrants tell you otherwise.

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Actually, I’m in 7th grade, and I was mostly sarcastic. I wasn’t on a few issues. Here’s the list of things I’m serious about in that post:

  1. English class today wasn’t even work for a grade,
  2. Math is just way too simple,
  3. PE is incredibly pointless,
  4. The whole geography thing is TRUE,
  5. In science we have to watch a science show made for kids younger than recently fertilized wombs,
  6. Reading sucks the fun out of reading,
  7. The electives are wildly varied and can be free one time, strict the next,
  8. The cafeteria food sucks, and
  9. Leaving school rules.

In fact, why not just have a class where you can do anything within certain rules–i.e. the average school rules–without any kind of lesson? It’d be a bright spot for the weak idiots who can’t pass any other classes, and it’d be fun. Not to mention if it was an elective or 5 (maybe there’d be a FEW smaller rules to restrict what you do, or maybe for different IQ levels), everyone would take it–more girls I have crushes on, more often. Woot. “Homeroom” just isn’t the same–we’re basically restricted to schoolwork. Yawn. Let us do what we want, and maybe we’ll be a bit less rebellious.

In fact, we need a new educational system: One that works more efficiently. My idea: Test your IQ every year instead of making you do pointless tests “to see where you are.” If your IQ is at a certain level, they should upgrade you a little more literally, like if you’re a 7th-grade 13-year old with the brain of a 10th grader, you get updated to 10th grade. This way, you might actually be able to meet someone who’s more like you, and you cut out all that shit that you already know. Incredibly challenging, yet still somewhat enjoyable–that would be better than our current one, a strict dictatorship with no chance of leaving but waiting for your parole hearing.

Well, first up, my current/past geography teacher (s) were all female, but I get your point, and you’re not a stalker. And, I think they want us to grow up to be all-American, patriotic people. There’s no better way to avoid the possibility of rebellion against that than to elminate a few bad bits from the cirriculum. In fact, next year we have essentially a strictly American-history class instead of our all-around-the-world one we currently had. (That sounds weird, grammatically.) I’ll try and introduce a few things… supposing I remember that stuff and if my teacher is as egotistical as our last one. (She thought she was so good because she knew who won “Best Supporting Actor,” and for what, and didn’t allow me to deflate her ego when I told her it wasn’t called “Adaption,” but “Adaptation.” I don’t remember why it was even in our class, though.)

Oh, and I don’t watch much TV, and probably wouldn’t if it was educational, but my parents do watch a lot of “The History Channel,” and the occasional “TLC.”

stop complaining and drop out

[quote]Just relax, sit back and wait for the good times ahead.

in all honesty, i think i beleive it when my parents say “school was the best time in our lives and youll realize that too once you get to be my age”… that doesnt really leave much to live for now does it [/quote]

I don’t think it’s legal for me to drop out until around 11th grade. That sucks. If school is the best time of your life… I’d hate to see the rest of it. I agree with you on that one, blengine. (Whoa. I agree with blengine for once.)

What is your obsession with calling me “CubeMate?” Sorry, just had to get off my chest, since it was starting to try and imitate a scene from the second/first “Indiana Jones” film. (It’s hard to explain. Ask me and I’ll explain later.) And I explained why I can’t drop out yet already.

Tell that to the people who replied to “Youth Rights” angrily.

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It’s youth right that takes away your right in the first place, this isn’t a matter of youth, it’s a matter of indivisial.

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I agree with you on that one, blengine. (Whoa. I agree with blengine for once.)

two people brought together by a comment hatred… its… its beautiful man… if only everyone could have the passionate hatred we do :slight_smile:

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I had a hard time in school in my youth. I got kicked out about 15 times. Got in trouble with the cops. School sucked, some teachers were pricks, I could hear Alice Cooper’s “School’s out for Summer, School’s out forever” echoeing in my mind all through class.

Later on, I went back to school in my mid- thirties, but it was to university. I really enjoyed the experience because I was surrounded with great professors, some cool students, and I was learning something I was interested in. Hang in there Cube, summer’s almost here and school will be out for summer.

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don’t worry about math course being too easy, it will soon be a time when you’ll be glad if those days were back.

Martin

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Cube:

  1. In science we have to watch a science show made for kids younger than recently fertilized wombs,

How is a womb fertilized?

%<

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I really sympathize with this person.

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I really sympathize with this person.[/quote]
I’ll second that.

Martin

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with all respect Cubefan, I’ll side with your geography teacher. Clockwork Orange is a good film- one of Kubrick’s best. Sucks if you’re not mature enough to watch it yet (I saw it at a young age ~14-15) but you should revisit it when you’re older. Don’t get too stuck on Cube - Its concept may have some interest but the movie is crap. Hypercube is even worse (then again, most sequels are).
You may have some (or many) points that are valid. But overall, your teachers are way ahead of you in age, education and knowledge, and if you’re dismissing most/all of them chances are its you who is the problem, not them. Just focus on getting as much education from them as possible, whether you agree with them or not, and keep some of that ego in check.
one retraction: Clockwork Orange isn’t a good film. Its a great film.

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Ok, first of all, middle school is the worst segment of your education. At least, that was how it was with me. Though my teachers were nice, classes were boring. Also, the kids teasing each other and playing tricks on teachers is the worst in middle school, which may be why the teachers are so dull too.

I just finished my Freshman year of high school, and I have to say that it was about 10 times better than Middle School. Classes can acually be entertaining, and for some reason it didn’t really seem like school.

I do agree with you on one thing though, some classes are extemely pointless. Science, for one, has absolutley NO use unless we’re going to become some sort of scientist. They shouldn’t call Geography, History, or Science a core class, it should be an elective. Hell, English should be an elective. I don’t think that I need to know wtf a predakit is, a noun is, a verb is, a conjunction is, it’s all pointless. I like reading and writing, but i hate writing English. They should teach you how to develop better ideas in your writing rather than all the technical stuff.

Stick in there Cubefan, it’ll get better.

Pooba

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It’s true that we need a better educational system. They should remove all the useless stuff (the stuff we only hear about in school, and after that, never again) and make classes more interesting.

I mean, how fun can it be to copy from the workbook to notebook? That’s all we do in class. It’s boring, depressing, and…takes away 15 years of your life (i say 15, because pre-school is fun. all you do is play :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: ).

They should give us the right to choose. Of course, the really necessary stuff (basic math, language [writing,pronounciation,etc], history, etc) will not be our choice, since they are really necessary. But if you want to learn sciene, physics, algebra and boring stuff like that, you can choose to go to a speciall class to learn what you want.

Ok…i guess i’m done. No that this is a significant post…

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Hypercube is AWFUL? I didn’t know that… (sarcasm)

Cube rules. I like it, though now it’s not my favorite movie ever. (That would be the even weirder “Run Lola Run,” followed by the not-so-weird “High Fidelity” and “Shawshank Redemption,” then “Cube,” then “Waking Life.”)

Here’s the thing: “A Clockwork Orange” is a movie about brainwashing. I thought teachers were sworn to not reveal that secret.

Also, she hates “2001” (or thinks it’s simply “okay”), when in fact, it’s one of the best films ever, and can rule all over “Star Wars” in age and simplicity… not to mention logic. (Come on, Luke lands essentially right next to Yoda, the exact person he’s looking for. How did that happen on a huge planet? “The Force?” Please, I don’t think it would have told him “You’re on the wrong side of the planet,” and so he’d fly right over. Yawn.) She likes “Dr. Strangelove,” which makes sense, since it’s so funny, but “2001” is at least just as good.

And you’re right Friday13, so for once you ARE lucky. :wink: We should learn things we NEED to know, and get rid of things that are just wasting time and money, like PE. As maddox put it, “The jocks were getting excused to go practice football, but I was never excused to go program or anything useful,” and “Part of our fees went to buying our crappy teams new uniforms. Here’s a hint: I don’t think it’s the uniforms, you idiots!”)

Yesterday was one of the worst days of my life, for a different reason than the “test torture” method teachers want to patent. (I’ll explain: Every other period is a test, and your stomach is eating itself in anxiety, knowing that you’ve probably not studied properly… Ugh, I hate that. Which for some reason reminds me, when my mom goes back to Blockbuster today, I’m going to try and rent “Before Sunrise.”) I’ll post about in about… I don’t know, a minute or two.

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Is this a dicussion about movies or school/teachers?
in regard to teachers not liking/liking movies: Ok why does it matter what movies they like? They are a diffrent age and have diffrent tastes in movies.
then theres this humor/dull teachers, comeon Cubefan, there teachers they arnt supposed to be funny and so forth.

And the thing about thinking its all boring, sucks, dosnt matter and so forth: To an extent you are right. You want to finish school, and go to collage.

There are many reasons for the problems that you are experencing in school, due to corrupt systems, lack of reforms, and to an extent the students them selfs.
The systems tends to be inherently corrupt in that students have no rights, and thus administrators an such can take advantage of the system.
Also typically teachers only need credentials in teaching, amount of experiance, degrees in what they are teaching and such dont matter (Therefore a PE teacher can become a lets say Calculus teacher quite easily).
Many reforms do need to be made in to the system (make it not mandatory for students, what is teached, etc…) so thus other problems arise from that.
Finally theres the students themselves, were many have an attitude of anti-education, that leads to teacher expectations dropping and them being annoyed which creates a vicious cycle wereby the classes get worse and worse.

But what do you care to hear the rant of some idiot in the elysiun forums?
Just be aware that there really probably are allternatives for you, your not really as stuck in school as you think. I have now totally transfered out of standard puplic schools, and am going to Collage now. :smiley: :smiley:

To long rants forever :<
Bye cheers whatever,
RogerM3D

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School no sux but can be sux some time, i can learn VB, PB and can use some cool softwear and stuff for free…and oh u can play football there but i hate to do homework that is repeating…bleh and alot and the thing i know and dont need anymore and it waste my time and also copying stuff from the textbook and so comment stuff:D

Personaly…i dont want to go to school but in reality, i need school, to go to collage (on programing and multimedia…hell yeah) u need ceteficate, good ceteficate, then when u in…u have alot of freedom and do something u want to do and enjoy. So u need to learn hard now.

good luck