On School

[Hi no Seijin]

School is now under session.  For me, I've been going to classes since August 24.  For others, they've been going to classes since September 6.  A great deal of you have been complaining about it.  And I'm sick of it.

Many complain that the teachers are evil.  No.  Teachers are not evil.  They are people trying to do their job, and students disrupting the class prevent them from doing it.  It is within their power to punish disruptive students, and a good teacher is going to remove the disruption so the other students may be able to learn.

Others complain that the teachers are bad at teaching.  I have a few bad teachers myself, but I'm not letting that stop me.  Try to bear with them.  If you need to, get tutoring.  My high school offered tutoring during study halls, and my college has free tutoring I can take advantage of if I need it.  I don't see why your school won't offer free tutoring.  You can even get together with your fellow classmates and see if they're getting the material, and if they are, I bet you they will help you if you ask politely.

Some of you just hate learning.  Well, suck it up.  Someday, you may actually need to use what your school is trying to teach you.  Besides, you should be learning something new everyday.

Then there are those of you who don't like who you have to learn with.  Well, ignore these people.  If they are disruptive, the teacher will take care of them.  If the teacher doesn't, let a vice principal or the principal know.  They will talk to both teacher and student, and if you ask them not to reveal your name, then they won't.  Also keep in mind that these kids are going to be spending the rest of their lives flipping burgers or taking on some other minimum wage job while you're holding some high end job because you gradutated from high school (some of you may have graduated from college).

Sometimes you may feel like you're not learning anything.  Well, don't give up.  If you give up, then you won't learn anything.  If you fail, then try again.  Ernest Holmes once said, "Not failure, but low aim is a crime."  It has also been said, "Fall seven times, stand up eight."  Then there's Vidal Sassoon, who said, "The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary."  Work hard and don't give up, and you'll do fine.

Finally, also keep this in mind:  "What you get out of school depends on what you put into it."--Miss Wormwood, Calvin and Hobbes.  If you put no effort whatsoever into any aspect of school, then it is going to suck horribly for you.  Then you'll have no one to blame but yourself.  But if you put your absolute best into everything, then school will be something you look back on with fondness.  What's it going to be?  Is school going to suck because you did nothing in your power to improve it?  Or is it going to be one of the best years of your life because you made an effort to make it better?  It's your choice.

[Nabooru]

)And if you really go to a crap school then find a reason to go...just keep thinking in your head...cant wait to get to 4th houror something. I get up for my friends and go to maintain high grades.

[alical]

Yeah schools good for me.
I love all my friends and our teachers aren't bad this year. Also I want to go to one of our countries two top Universities, so I kinda have to work hard..

[darkphantomime]

Heheheh... motivation... you knw, my school is horrible. And i'm not just saying hat. My school is really low performing, only like half the studenst meet grade level. I really want my school to close down, and have some new management, si U wiydb;t hjave to deal with the extremely ignorent teachers and  faculty. It's horrible and a joke. BNut a lot of the work is reallly easy. Even then, it still is very disillusioning because no one seems to really care about anything and you start to become a zombie...

[Vaati]

The kids in my school are pretty nice, there's one girl who's in a couple of my classes who used to gang up on me in 7th grade along with a bunch of other girls, but she's the only one in those classes, without the other mean girls, they can't do anything to me!  ;)