Topic: Rant on State End of Course Tests

[Plugabugz]

I went to the second worst secondary/high school in the borough. I applied for 5 schools, 4 rejected me, 1 said i "lived too far away" (despite my friends living on the same road 200 feet away going there), and the 7th which i never applied for accepted me.

And yet i just finished my exams and i should be graduating this year. I did alright i think?

[stevey]

I just find it really amazing and hilarious that nearly everyone at NWR is, more or less, way smarter than me....

My public school is the worst it gets. Not only did it make global news over parts of it's horrible school policy, they had the most evil Administrators you can imagine, had biweekly bomb threats, and was openly mocked on Saturday Night Live; the only success story and the smartest person to ever go there was Jon Stewart.......... 

During highschool, I was the laziest, smartest person in class. I was the biggest dick you could imagine. Unlike everyone else who was basically a chump, I, on more than one occasion, blackmailed my teachers into giving me an 'A'.

I was basically mafia. I had little kids steal me cookies and bring them to my class; I had teachers hook it up with things that they'd confiscate (like a GBA); and I skipped class at least 3 times a day; not to mention I was high all the time.

Now my highschool is public but is far from ghetto. It is renowned as one of the best in the state. We produce like 99% graduates or something like that. I had 8 valedictorians for God's sake (who each had a speech to give *blows brains out*).

If there's one thing that I'd like to pass on it's this: Learn how to manipulate your teachers. Each teacher has different rules and different expectations. Find their weakness and exploit it.

For instance: My English teacher and I would always get into arguments. He was a prick and hated me for no apparent reason. And for every paper I would write, he would give me a 'C-' no matter what I did. To prove my point, the next paper due I literally wrote one page that pertained to my topic, then switched the next three pages into how much I would love to be a penguin, and then switched it back to my original topic to close it out. This paper should have gotten an 'F'. Half of it talked about how hilarious it would be to slide down glaciers and waddle around like a jackass. But nope...I got a 'C-'. I showed it to him and he flustered with rage. He promptly gave me an 'F' and yelled at me until other teachers had to break it up.

Of course, for making a fool out of him, I got suspended.....

But I wasn't done. Little did he know I videotaped that fat **** making up the final grades on his computer (no seriously, he'd make it up according to how much he liked you). I showed it to him (after making a copy) and told him that if he didn't give me an 'A', that I would show this to the principal and he would fire his ass. Needless to say, I got an 'A'.

This happened a couple more times to the point where none of the teachers fucked with me. But it's not like I hated them all. I really like a few of them (I even smoked with one them after they had retired). I just wasn't a chump and you shouldn't be either.

I ended up graduating early and leaving for 6 months.

Now college: DON'T **** AROUND IN COLLEGE. That's serious **** and you need a serious attitude. Party and bullshit, but don't let girls take over your life. Chasing girls is really fun, but it's really easy to get distracted from your goals. Plus, there's nothing like the feeling of accomplishment.

Still, college is about experimentation and finding out WHO ARE YOU, REALLY? Don't let life's little lessons pass you by. Turn people down if your busy, but if your not, go out and have as much fun as possible. You are constantly dying, so act accordingly.

College is also the time to make long time friends that will help you succeed later in life. Keep an eye out for those people that have the innate quality of charm, sophistication, and success (don't dick ride though). Those are the people who are necessary to take shortcuts. And shortcuts, my friend, shortcuts are the American way of life.

Now I'm about to graduate and finally start the second phase of my life (the first was schooling). *Sigh* I can't wait!

This is probably complete BS, but if any part of that is true, then you're a God among men.


Getting back onto topic, I would recommend not to sweat over test or exams. I never studied for an exam back in HS and ended up with a GPA of a 4.4. The laziest way off going through school isn't Ian ways; it's paying the **** attention to the teacher the first time they teach and actually learning everything you need to know and not just what is on the next exam. If you don't, then you will constantly find yourself either failing future exams or wasting the night before the exam or week before the final trying to learn it all. Doing Ian method, you'll constantly be playing catch up for every exam/final after that if it's a class the builds on the earlier matreal of that class. Not to mention, you're going to need all the skills that are taught in school if you want to do anything worth while in real life like build a building or finding the cure to cancer to just be a functioning member of society with the skills need to make a living.

And One last thing. Even if you do fail the Geometry test, don't worry, I never had a Geometry class in my life and I'm double majoring in math. Everything, beside Pythagorean theorem, you can do by using simple Algebra or elementary HS Calculus...

[kraken613]

I passed my Exam. I get strait A's. Right now for this year I have a 4.2 GPA. I wasn't really that afraid of it just pissed off after 7 Exams....

[UncleBob]

While public schools aren't that demanding and are only really there to make you a functional person, there are always extra things you can do if you wish to extend yourself. Hell it's even possible to skip a year. The extra you do doesn't even have to be related to school.

So, the solution to government school is to do extra stuff outside of the school.

[ThePerm]

when i think of how education should be this is what i think of



i mean Merlin gives the type of one on one education a child deserves

[Stogi]

I just find it really amazing and hilarious that nearly everyone at NWR is, more or less, way smarter than me....

My public school is the worst it gets. Not only did it make global news over parts of it's horrible school policy, they had the most evil Administrators you can imagine, had biweekly bomb threats, and was openly mocked on Saturday Night Live; the only success story and the smartest person to ever go there was Jon Stewart.......... 

During highschool, I was the laziest, smartest person in class. I was the biggest dick you could imagine. Unlike everyone else who was basically a chump, I, on more than one occasion, blackmailed my teachers into giving me an 'A'.

I was basically mafia. I had little kids steal me cookies and bring them to my class; I had teachers hook it up with things that they'd confiscate (like a GBA); and I skipped class at least 3 times a day; not to mention I was high all the time.

Now my highschool is public but is far from ghetto. It is renowned as one of the best in the state. We produce like 99% graduates or something like that. I had 8 valedictorians for God's sake (who each had a speech to give *blows brains out*).

If there's one thing that I'd like to pass on it's this: Learn how to manipulate your teachers. Each teacher has different rules and different expectations. Find their weakness and exploit it.

For instance: My English teacher and I would always get into arguments. He was a prick and hated me for no apparent reason. And for every paper I would write, he would give me a 'C-' no matter what I did. To prove my point, the next paper due I literally wrote one page that pertained to my topic, then switched the next three pages into how much I would love to be a penguin, and then switched it back to my original topic to close it out. This paper should have gotten an 'F'. Half of it talked about how hilarious it would be to slide down glaciers and waddle around like a jackass. But nope...I got a 'C-'. I showed it to him and he flustered with rage. He promptly gave me an 'F' and yelled at me until other teachers had to break it up.

Of course, for making a fool out of him, I got suspended.....

But I wasn't done. Little did he know I videotaped that fat **** making up the final grades on his computer (no seriously, he'd make it up according to how much he liked you). I showed it to him (after making a copy) and told him that if he didn't give me an 'A', that I would show this to the principal and he would fire his ass. Needless to say, I got an 'A'.

This happened a couple more times to the point where none of the teachers fucked with me. But it's not like I hated them all. I really like a few of them (I even smoked with one them after they had retired). I just wasn't a chump and you shouldn't be either.

I ended up graduating early and leaving for 6 months.

Now college: DON'T **** AROUND IN COLLEGE. That's serious **** and you need a serious attitude. Party and bullshit, but don't let girls take over your life. Chasing girls is really fun, but it's really easy to get distracted from your goals. Plus, there's nothing like the feeling of accomplishment.

Still, college is about experimentation and finding out WHO ARE YOU, REALLY? Don't let life's little lessons pass you by. Turn people down if your busy, but if your not, go out and have as much fun as possible. You are constantly dying, so act accordingly.

College is also the time to make long time friends that will help you succeed later in life. Keep an eye out for those people that have the innate quality of charm, sophistication, and success (don't dick ride though). Those are the people who are necessary to take shortcuts. And shortcuts, my friend, shortcuts are the American way of life.

Now I'm about to graduate and finally start the second phase of my life (the first was schooling). *Sigh* I can't wait!

This is probably complete BS, but if any part of that is true, then you're a God among men.

I still have the paper to this day.

[Pale]

Maybe it's just the area I live in... but when I think of private schools I think of bureaucratic crap holes.

To me, the best education is a rural public school combined with great parenting.

[UncleBob]

Great parenting is, of course, a major requirement.

However, here's the thing with private schools - they want your business.  If you aren't happy with your child's education at one private school, find one at which you will.

Unlike government schools, you aren't forced to go to one school based only on where you live and you don't have to continue to pay into that school even once you've decided to move your child to an educational facility that you feel will do a better job at educating your child.