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Re: home ed
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2012, 05:15:28 PM »
Reading through this thread is starting to make me remember my days in public high school...

As I said before, I went to a private Christian school for 7th-10th grade.  My parents would threaten to send me to public school if I didn't make good grades at said private school (tuition was crazy expensive!).  After 4 years of only having one good friend and constantly being picked on and sent to the headmaster for being the odd-kid out (I was the weird kid who liked anime, manga, and video games.  People at that school thought all of that was "the devil".) I'd finally had enough and I asked my parents to put me in the public high school in our area.  It was fun for a while.  I got to meet up with people I hadn't seen since 6th grade and we sort of formed our own little "clique".  To me, it was much better than private school.  I actually had friends and I wasn't being picked on for being odd.

Now that I look back on it, I really don't think it was all that great.  Sure, I had friends, but I don't really feel like I learned anything and just the atmosphere was... It felt like I was in a prison.  I saw people being put in handcuffs by the security guards on several occasions, there were fights, I saw kids being outright disrespectful to the administrators when they were being escorted to the main office for causing trouble, there was a rather large drug problem... One guy in my math class in 11th grade had a rather large back of weed in his pocket and he felt the need to show it to me! ><

My biggest gripe was that some of the teachers just had no idea how to teach.   My 11th grade US history teacher would just read off of PowerPoint slides and make us take notes.  There was nothing interesting or exciting about it and this is coming from someone who LOVES history.  Even though the class was a subject I liked, the teacher's teaching method just made it so dry and boring.  Half of the class was failing!  Then there was my 12th grade math teacher.  Math is not my strongest point, so I picked the senior math class that everyone said was a breeze.  They must have had a different teacher because this guy was just... ugh!  His teaching method was just deplorable.  He never explained anything clearly and when someone asked a question, he'd repeat what he'd just said, ask the person if they had been listening, then move on with the lesson.  He always said he was available after school for extra help, but when I went to his classroom after school, he was NEVER there!  I had a friend who was in another one of his math classes, and he got a recording on his phone of the teacher practically screaming at the class and calling them stupid because they didn't understand the material.  Not sure if the recording was ever presented to the principal or not.  I asked my guidance counselor if I could switch to the lower level of that class (the one with the better teacher.  I don't remember what the level below CP was at my high school) and she flat out said no even after I told her about all the problems I had been having.  I ended up failing the class and had to take it in summer school, meaning that I didn't get to graduate with m class and had to graduate out of summer school.  I'm also convinced that teacher stole my cell phone.  I left it in his classroom and when I went back to ask him about it, he said he didn't find a cell phone anywhere.

*breathes*  And there's my public high school horror story.  I shudder to think what that school is like now.  I want to go back and visit my crime scene science teacher but I'm afraid the kids there now are much worse than the ones I went to school with. ><

I wouldn't wish public high school on anyone's children.
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