So how are you liking school?

[MagmarFire]

I am a senior, but that doesn't mean my curriculum of choice has to be like everyone else's, and it certainly doesn't mean that the requirements are the same. I'm currently taking honors trigonometry, which I heard has precalculus in there. I really do not wish to overwhelm myself.

I may very well take calculus in college, though, but even then, I'm only going to want to take one step at a time.

[darkphantomime]

Eh, most of us didn't really have much to choose from when it came to cirriculum, so whatever. We didn't do european history for one, and we had only one foriegn language (spanish).

Poor schools suck. I'm glad to be out of that hellhole.

[Carpet Merchant]

Cant....breathe......
Suffocating under Statistics and Psycology!


Someone get me a juicy juice, or something else to wash the taste of failure out of my mouth.

[Fishalicious]

School's okay so far. It's a little stressful because of the people I'm stuck with, but... eh. I'll get over it. Being the president of a club is annoying as hell, because apparently the writing head thinks I'm not trying hard enough to make the club work.

Pre-AP Precal is my first class. It's not too hard- but on today's test, (f/g) (x) got me... I couldn't figure it out for the life of me for some reason. After that I've got Pre-AP Physics... not hard at all, but she won't let us use calculators. Then it's Apparel, and then AP English 3, Art 3 Drawing, Dance (which should be called "Sit," because we don't do a whole lot of dancing XD) and US History AP and German 3.

I'm making almost all A's - History and German are high B's.

[Mysterious F.]

I have:

Biology
Power Point (next symester it will be Art)
US History
German
Gym (next symster Home Education or whatever it's called)
Geometry
Honors English

My Power Point teacher is a cranky old woman who is easy to get on anyone's nerves. I'm doing good in it, though.

We only had one graded assignment in Geometry so far, and I didn't do so well, so right now my grade is a D. But there is a test next week and I'm actually good at this chapter now. I should also mention that I'm not into mathematics at all. Usually, the explanations in the book for how to do problems are easy to understand, but the problems are super-hard and are almost completely different from what we just learned. (Especially in 8th grade, where I almost got two F's in a single nine-week period. Luckily, these were minor tests, so I had a low C)

German is a C. I'm just not really into it, and our teacher isn't so great. Mabye I should transfer into Spanish before it's too late, because the teacher is supposed to be much better. Plus, the German book gives no information on what words mean in English, so... yeah.

Gym is hell. The sexist gym teacher gives guys a huge disadvantage over girls (for example, in this one test to see how fast we are, girls had to get 10.5 seconds for a perfect score, and guys had to get 9.2 seconds for a perfect score. I got 10.7 seconds.), and being a weakling, I'm probably going to fail. While this is understandable, if I see such sexism taken to the extreme, however, I will quit the class altogether and just take an F.

I'm doing impressive in English and History (as I usually do), and in Biology I have a low A right now. If I get my Geometry and German grades back up, then I'll be happy. I couldn't care less for gym, it's completely useless in today's world anyway.

Also, based on what you guys are saing, if I ever get assigned to Calculus, I'll request being transfered to another class. It also sounds like I won't use it in real life, either, especially considering how most people use calculators fo that stuff anyway.

[darkphantomime]

Umm... about your gym teacher being 'sexist', you know how the records for women in sports like track are slower than guys? Yeah, that'd explain  the difference. That happens everywhere, the guys' stuff is usually more rigorous because we're known to be stronger than women.

[Mysterious F.]

But in terms of strength, I am actually around that of the average girl my age. And I know girls stronger than the average guy, too. By all fairness, such tests should be taken in terms of strength level, not gender.

As I said, though, I do understand why he did that, though, but I do not think that girls should be rated below guys just for being girls, or guys be ranked above girls simply for being guys. Such is discrimination, which is illegal in the United States.

[darkphantomime]

Dude, I don't think anyone's gonna take seriously your claims of discrimination just because you flunked PE. I mean, loads of nerds/geeks are no stronger than the average girl, it's our destiny to be bad at Gym.

[Mysterious F.]

Of course they won't take it seriously; sexism, compared to racism, isn't taken seriously at all.

And I don't mean just because I flunked Gym they'll take it seriously, I mean that they should take it seriously because under United States law it is illegal.

[darkphantomime]

But the example you just cited hardly counts as sexism!

And also about 'strength level', then there would be no need to have standards be made in relation to physical fitness, everything would be so easy, and some people wouldn't have to do jack! Do you really think that's fair?

[Gamefreak]

Hey, easy you two.  This topic's not the place to be debating what's sexist or not.

[Fishalicious]

I'd also like to say, dearest Whocares, that because someone says Calculus is hard is NOT a reason to get out of it.

I'll be taking it next year- YES, it's going to be hard, but it's also going to be worth it. I won't take it in college, either, because of it. I'm not really a mathematical genious, but I'm taking it nonetheless.

:V Just saying, you know. You'll have to take it some time (assuming you're going to college), and running from it sure as hell won't soften the blow.

[darkphantomime]

It's not necessarily true that you'll have to take it, even in college/if you're going to college. Most colleges require only 1 or 2 credits of math, that's it, and doesn't have to be calculus.

[Pale Dim]

The 11th grade is already a challenge for me. I'll get used to it.

[Baka Nezumi]

I'm in 9th grade this year. But since I go to a junior high, not a middle school, I'm not in high school yet.

My schedule goes like this:

1st- PE (I hate being sweaty for the whole rest of the day. *sigh*)
2nd- Language Arts (I tried out for honors and was ONE postion away from making it in. One *bleeping* position!!!!!)
3rd- Social Studies (The teacher wears reall, really tight clothes *shudder*)
4th- Science (Have you ever watched Ferris Bueler? Well, my teacher and the teacher on the beginning have essentially the same voice)
5th- Advanced Algebra (11th grade math, and still not hard)
6th- French 2 (It's my favorite class by a longshot)