Back to school!

[Kouji - Hikari no Shiro Okami]

Anyone dreading it as much as me?

It's that time of great learning, when days get shorter by nature and longer by experience.

School sucks.

At least, that's my opinion.

What's yours?

[Gensayce Zidjiai]

I win. It's 'Back to college!' for me :3

[glitters]

Wait until you have to work a 40 hr/week job for the rest of your life. See how much school sucks then.

Learning is something that people in the western world take for granted. We have all the information right there for us to indulge in and so many shrug it off. I'm not saying everyone should be an A+ nerd or anything, I'm just saying so many kids go to school and don't appreciate what they have that other people wish they had.

I like working. But I also know that for the rest of my life I can't stand never learning anything else. I love learning. If you can't learn something new nearly every day then what's the point in anything you do?

Not to mention there are only too many times after highschool that you get to a point and go "dammit, I knew this once, I had read/talked about it in ____ class in __grade, and now I can't remember D:" so it's not like things in school you learn about all become "unimportant" or "irrelevant to everyday life". SOOO far from the truth.

[Andy Jammer]

Ahh hehe, I remember hating to do school. Every kid at some point dreads the school day. We're grateful to learn, but we also enjoy being free too.

Ahhh life, you endless mysteries of how we love and hate something at the same time. The wonder known as school.

[Aya Dauzi Invargas]

I gotta say: I hate school. I know it means well, but for me, knowledge shouldn't come with a huge price (In relation to college?) Like really? Some colleges gotta pay 45000-100000 a SEMESTER.

And furthermore, public school and such, I remember those days alright: The days where teachers would pick on the nerdy kid, the Best looking prep girl, and pass people like us by. XD;; Popularity contests go on every single day: Let's see the best honors kid: Ah yes. The preppy girl/Jock with an awesome smile. These are just my examples of some of my high school day problems. XD;;

I think life is its own learning experience, and that people take school as something majestic and awesome, when it's just more of an institution that forces us to feel we NEED Them in order to live life: I.E: You need a degree for a lot of jobs in the world, now I understand if its a degree for being a doctor, but even then: You screw up once, and its over.

Im rambling now, BUt i suppose I view school as a double edged blade, and I'm on the wrong edge of it.

[glitters]

lol I'm not saying school is THE greatest thing on the planet of course, and it certainly isn't for everyone this is true. I'd have to agree with you on that one, Aya ;; Schools also have a bad system for trying to push math/english on people as THE most important subjects and some people just aren't good at those. if they don't pass those they're labelled as stupid.

Which is so wrong. Though where I live education is viewed in a very different way--particularly in the province I live in when I was training to be a teacher they were heavily pushing us to use a system to create a curriculum/units for students to learn that didn't focus on only one subject.

But rather? Incorporate everything in in some way or another and then from there grade the students on "multiple intelligences". Because we're not all good at everything or the same things; some students fully shine in others and it more than compensates for their weaknesses in another subject. IE: I am absolutely horrible at math and nearly failed three times in my life. It WASN'T fun.
However I OWNED at art, english, and science (and in highschool information processing) *shrug* Those were my subjects anyway.

^^ I get annoying when I talk to people about school as I always viewed it almost like a church. I'm an odd exception as for nearly 15 years school was a saviour, a happy and the only safe place I knew haha.

[Aya Dauzi Invargas]

Hah. School for me overall, was this:

"Huh. New funds.

Oh. Lookit that! A handicap ramp for those that need it. Thats nice!

Oh wait. Just a new parking lot for teachers. V.v; "

I have had the experience of going to a very rich public school, and them screwing kids out of scholarships and such because of state rules, and when they DO get money, its not for better textbooks and such, its for better food for the teachers, and slight upgrades for the students. It's a very bad industry Here, so I view it as the same with the government: Pretty corrupt, with the rare exception.

I guess you have the rare exception. XD;;

[glitters]

lol it's because I'm Canadian.


Or more specifically, because of the province I live in =p Kind of. When it comes to elementary/junior/high school we've got a pretty solid system (even if some things are a little weird or corrupt--EVERYWHERE will have their own issues, though) and it's changing for the better, even some things we have to fight for that is. Our province actually writes the curriculum for a couple of the other provinces in Canada on top of our own |D; WE'RE THAT AWESOME, DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU ALBERTA IS BETTER EVER.

Unfortunately in the province I live in we happen to pay some of the highest university tuition fees in the entire country =/ Which is just stupid really. We're really fighting for that to be lowered but we keep only getting "tuition freezes" which is just a bandaid solution and completely useless when it's gone on for three years straight.

Loser government.

[Gensayce Zidjiai]

Thank the god's for public colleges

So yeah I just got my GCSE results (which are fairly important here) and recieved the following
- English - C
- English Literature - B
- Maths - C
- Science - B
- Additional Science - B
- Religious Studies - C
- Citizenship - B
- IT - Pass
- General Studies - B
- Media Studies (Unit 1) - C
- Media Studies (Unit 2) - C
- OCR IT - Pass
- Creating Computer Graphics - Pass
- Young Enterprise - Credit

Mwuhahahaha, That's good enough to get me into college me thinks, and best of all, I did better than Leo and my sister :3

As for the topic of School I know for a fact that I will miss it, I don't know about you guy's but here in the UK College has a more casual atmosphere than School and whilst it will make the work I do in Drama and Theatre a hell of a lot easier, they won't chase me up on missing work meaning procrastination is going to be a hell of a lot easier. ='/

[Andy Jammer]

Math is pretty much a struggle with me, I breeze English pretty well...cause if I was getting D's in English I'd have to reconsider my career as an Author. But luckily, I don't.

[Gensayce Zidjiai]

Math's is dead to me now I don't need to take it anymore

[Kouji - Hikari no Shiro Okami]

I'm taking a lot of interesting classes next year.

I used to view school as horrible, and I honestly don't really like it even now, ut it's hard when you're the girl who's too smart and too poor to have friends.

I have awesome friends now and school is bearable. I'm just sad that all my interesting subjects won't start 'till next semester - I'm taking Law & Order for my Social Studies elective and Forensic Science for my Science elective

[Gensayce Zidjiai]

I was tempted to go further into science but science isn't going to be too much help in the worlds of acting an music so I opted for Drama and Theatre Studies, History, Films Studies and music technology I think

[Kouji - Hikari no Shiro Okami]

Oh, awesome!

Yeah, my school requires a certain amount of science credits and I really didn't want to take Physics this year, so... yeah.

But it's awesome that you got to take drama! We don't have any acting classes at our school and the school plays are all directed by this really creepy/scary guy who likes making actors cry.