I don't want to go back to school...

[leftist_rebel1569]

I don't want to go back to school...
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Yeah, tomorrow I go back to school. It sucks, a lot, for a multitude of reasons. First of all, I start school at 7:45 AM. I've been getting up at 10:00 AM recently, so it's gonna be a huge shift in my sleeping habits. Secondly, I have to go back to classes that offer assloads of daily homework (Algebra II Honors, AP American history, etc.). Third, As of right now, I have no way to get home. I told my parents to call the bus company last week, but they never did. In my school district, if you live within, like, 3 miles of the school you have to pay 200 dollars to ride the bus. I have no other way to get to school, so I have no other choice than the bus. Also, when I do get around to riding the bus, the girl that I asked out but never said anything back would be also riding my bus home (she got off on the same stop I did). It'd be good for a first confrontation on why she never said anything, but then after that I would have to put up with her and her friends for the rest of the year. Thank god i was the first stop and I really hope they don't change the routes enough to change that fact....and finally, I left my schedule they sent me in the mail in my shorts pocket one day, and it basically disintegrated. So, I have to pick up a new one. I aslo have to get my locker info back, my lunch account info back, etc....DAMMIT! AARRGGHH!!!

:argh::mad::puke::argh::mad::puke::argh::mad::puke::argh::mad::puke:

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[JohnKleeb]

1. Ive been there

[Cha]

2. You'll be Okay! I think you got a lot of it out just posting about

It! It sounds worse than it is! You can laugh about it as you're actually living it! School is Good!

[JVS]

3. When do you graduate?

[leftist_rebel1569]

5. 2006

i'm a Sophomore in HS now...

[roguevalley]

4. hang in there, honey

your teachers don't want to go either. <G>

RV, a retired teacher.

[1monster]

6. Tough tiddley winks honey...

We started back to school on August 8 and as a teacher, I have to be in the classroom at 7:30 and sometimes earlier.

Bite the bullet and go to bed earlier. :evilgrin:

[undergroundpanther]

7. School

I myself despised school.I see it as normalized cruelty.

It has been said "School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit."
-- Martin Luther King
And that is why we go to school for so long.

School creates good obedient,competitive,insecure,little worker/consumers out of vibrant strong willed kids.

It makes workers out of us especially ones who are terrorized by fears of failure and inadequacy and who can stay on a boring ,unfufilling task,and don't know how to think in a creative defiant way to be able to ask all the wrong questions or out innovate thier taskmasters. Those kids who do ask the sticky questions and cherish their own freedom and uniqueness too much are treated as dangerous or they are scapegoated.
It happened to me even though I harmed no one.

All that rote memorization and grades who or what is it for? Whom is it designed to please? What does it get you in this world except prepped and preferred for wage slavery in a crazy sick out of control economic system that profits from human deprivation and misery,and destruction of every living thing it encounters as it crushes the life and love out of the human soul by using that innocent hope for a better future and hope for stability as the awful hook.
Do we buy into it and believe because everyone else does.
Or do we buy it because we are trapped and are unable or unwilling to see no other way to sustain ourselves?

That is why corporations helped make and fund public schools and sold it to the public in the turn of the century.Lots of people hope for a better life and it is thier hope that binds them.School's actual purposes and goals has very little to do with helping kids grow up,question authority or question the status quo,learn how to live,create,become self responsible and self motivated ,self suffiecient,secure or love thier own life.

School almost killed me because I would not get with their program.I still refuse to play that way.My life hasen't been easy,but at least I am still free and I do not fear what others may think of me or that I may not be productive or useful to someone else who would profit from me and my mind.
If I had my way school would be very different than it is now.

"Breaking stuff can be a very effective way to learn."
-- Karl Perry

Chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are to strong to be broken.


"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."
-- Sallust (86-34 B.C.)

"Beware those who seek to control knowledge, for they already see themselves your master."
-- Unknown

No one can liberate the slave who loves his chains.

"They begin in Bondage. They then go from Bondage to Spiritual Faith. With that Spiritual Faith they develop great Courage. That Great Courage leads to Liberty. Liberty then leads to Abundance. Abundance then leads to Selfishness. This Selfishness then leads to Complacency. The Complacency grows into Apathy. Apathy then degenerates into Dependence. This Dependence brings them full circle back into Bondage."
-- Tyler wrote of great civilizations....


Underground Panther in the Sky.

[psychopomp]

8. Enjoy it while it lasts!

You can have a good time knowing that, aside from booklearning, it is all pretty meaningless. The lessons that you can learn from school do not all come in the classroom, though. I think I learned more outside of class...though the class-personality dynamics and modes of authority will be part of what you have to deal with in your adult life, too.

Having said all that, I am still studying (learning a lot here at DU) in my free time and you may want to try to find the bright side of being in a school at this point in your life. There is a reason why most young people are choosing some kind of educational program even after they graduate from HS. There is a lot to learn!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. I don't know if this helps, leftist_rebel, but I know exactly how you feel

I HATED going back to school. Just the thought of it makes my stomach wrench all these years later. It took until seventh grade for me to not cry on the first day, and I felt like it even then.:cry:

We moved a lot when I was a kid, so it seemed as if I was always the new kid in school. As soon as I made friends and began feeling comfortable, I had to start all over again. I never got used to it. Also, as I got older, I did very well in school and got picked on because of it.:shrug:

My reaction to all of this was finally to become a combination of class rebel and class clown. The teachers no longer adored me, but I became more popular with the kids.:evilgrin:

My dad's reaction was to send me away to a girls' boarding/prep school for my last two years of high school. I had a lot more in common with the girls I met there and made a lot of friends, but a lot of good that did me in a place where the rules were practically Victorian. I couldn't read Jane Eyre without identifying! I still have the occasional nightmare.
:scared:

Several years ago I was riding with my dad near my old school and he took a sudden detour to drive through the campus. I knew I wasn't staying, but I had the same reaction, racing heart, difficulty breathing, nausea and the urge to leap out of the moving car! And it has been many years!
:puke:

So, leftist_rebel, I know how you feel and don't blame you a bit. If you can take a few minutes away from homework after your first day, check in with us and let us know how it went. You know that DU is always here for you if you need to vent. I know that this probably isn't helpful, but at least you can go home at the end of the day, and that includes your home on DU.:pals:

[bicentennial_baby]

10. LOL

I live 10 min from NMH and I still feel that way too...you should see me when I run into faculty members at the grocery store...Don't want them to catch me smoking! Old habits die hard :P

[Breezy du Nord]

11. Wow, I'm a freshie and I have ride!

Sorry, don't mean to rub it in. If it makes you feel any better, riding in a car with my brother early in the morning isn't exactly a picnic either.

[LWolf]

12. Me neither.

But I had to anyway. Man,what a day.

And a quote of the day, from a 5th grader who introduced himself to me by saying:

"My dad works at the mortuary. He embalms people."

After his dad shook my hand before school.

[leftist_rebel1569]

13. okay, thanks...

and I have an update...

So, I went to school today and I got all of my problems worked out in the morning. To no surprise, the school screwed me over AGAIN when it came to lockers and the time I eat lunch. The schools ALWAYS give me the worst locker possible for my grade level and I've only the last or next to last lunch my whole time in HS...this year being no exception. I eat last lunch (i'm sooo hungry by the time I eat lunch) and I have a grand total of 2 friends in that lunch, despite the fact it's the most crowded lunch...

The class I have 1st period, Sculpture I, seems kinda nice, despite the fact I know NO ONE in the class. But, there's this girl that sits next to me that seems kinda nice...

2nd period, I have biology. It seems really easy, just like science last year (I had A's in science last year). And, we aren't disecting crap, as far as I know, so that's REALLY a good thing

3rd period I have Phy Ed. Hate it, 'nuff said.

Then, I have lunch because I have Phy Ed 3rd period. I hate school...

Finally, I have AP history. Nice class, already over my head even though we don't have homework yet (well, not really, but...yeah). But, it's worth it...

Then, after school, i'm taking the bus home. Yesterday, I was able to bum a ride home, but the buses are free for the next two weeks, which is really nice. I could find someone to give me a ride home from school (it's possible) and not have to pay insane amounts for the bus....

So, there's my school day. Hell, i'm gonna need a daily membership to a spa and massage center...

[HEyHEY]

14. Sounds like you could use a beer...

About the femme, act like it doens't bother you that she never got back to you...it'll drive her nuts! And maybe back your way ;-). As for the rest...are old enough to start doing illegal drugs?

[leftist_rebel1569]

15. beer me up

oh, she won't come back, believe me...i've acted like that for the last month, hasn't worked...

[HEyHEY]

16. You have to

Try to be friends with her...while at the same time silently rejectng her romantically...if that doesn't work hire a 5'10 blonde escort girl named Candy to ride the bus with you one day, that'll for sure get her!

[LuLu550]

17. I work in a school and some of us don't want the kids back!

Sorry leftist, I work in a school in a non-teaching job and the best time of year to be there is in the summer when all the kids are gone!
So peaceful, so quiet...so easy to get your work done without those damned bells going off and kids walking around and coming into my office and stealing pens...and telling me I'm old and not getting any of my jokes... and wondering why I have funny sayings and pictures on the walls...and trying to hack into my computer...

Darned kids....who needs them in school anyway????

Well, try to have a good year, anyway! :yourock:

[zekeson]

18. Cheer up

it make suck now, but one day soon you'll have to be to work at 8:00 every day, get two weeks off all year long, and get to take shit from some repuke supervisor. Not to sound like your Grandpa, but these are your Golden Years. Have a beer and enjoy it!

:cheers:

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Okay, If this doesn't happen to you, you know you are going to be alright!

David Letterman's Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear From Your Teacher On The First Day Of School: (I liked number one!)

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/

10. "Your grade will be determined by how well you wash my car"
(Pre-kindergarten teacher, Laurie Kesselman)

9. "Parent-teacher conferences at 3:00pm; if your mom's hot, it's dinner and drinks"
(Tenth grade teacher, Keith Allene)

8. "If my methods seem unconventional, it's because I forged my teaching credentials at Kinko's"
(Ninth and tenth grade teacher, Paul Frisch)

7. "I'm not good with names, so I'm going to call all of you 'Skippy'"
(High school teacher, Tracy Morena)

6. "Is it just me, or is chalk delicious?"
(High school teacher, Anna Piquero)

5. "Study, don't study -- honestly, I only care about tonight's Lotto numbers"
(Elementary school teacher, Mary Nicolas)

4. "I'm just a substitute -- your teacher is being detained at Camp X-Ray"
(First grade teacher, Danielle Capeck)

3. "Screw math -- just cheat off the exchange student"
(High school teacher, Chris Couglin)

2. "Hey everybody! Looks like we got a bed-wetter!"
(High school teacher, Mike Cannone)

1. "I was George W. Bush's English teacher"
(College professor, Robert Kaplan)