High School

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Ah the first few weeks of high school, new teachers, new rooms and new friends.....well not really. Still have the same old friends, still have the same History teacher just a different subject, and still have the same French teacher (that is to be expected). But what makes junior year so different then the previous years of high school? The shit loads of books they pile on us (Be aware I'm in an IB class sort of like an above AP class). I have four books for US History, 3 books for English (not counting books we have to read, 2 books for French, thankfully one for Physics, Math, and Art. My locker can barely hold any of them. The amount of homework we get piled with these days is just ridicuolous. Granted our nation has one of the crappiest public school systems but even kids in Belgium have a social life out of school!

"Hey man want to go see a movie?" "Can't I have to write a manuscript on Puritans during Pre-Revolutionary America and then get started on 40 physic problems" That's basically what I say when one of my friends in the normal classes have no homework to do on a Friday. Me? I'm sitting at the computer writing a paper of Puritans. PURITANS for gods sake! Gone are the days when kids have time to do their homework and go to the movies with friends or go get a job! Homework 24/7 that's how it is these days. We even get too much that we can't keep up with the teachers who keep on piling and piling. Damn it! What happened to the McCarthy era? Then I can out my teachers as communist, that'll show 'em! Alas, I am bound to the school forever.