User	Comment
bill	posted 6-Oct-2008 4:29pm   good enough... I could have gotten more out of it if I'd applied myself more.
Melf	posted 6-Oct-2008 4:30pm   Hm. I'm not sure. It was perfectly fine for all the subjects apart from German and Music - but I passed German and didn't take Music anyway. I'm totally happy with my school, but I'm not as happy with the curriculum - what we learned of poetry was abysmal. No Shelley, no Keats, no Wordsworth, no Yeats, no Tennyson, no Burns, no Hardy, no Eliot, no Betjeman, no Auden, no Thomas, no Hughes. One Edgar Allen Poem* and he was American. * Heh
LindaH	posted 6-Oct-2008 4:35pm   No. High school does not prepare students for life. Half the classes (or at least 1/4) should be replaced with classes that are occupationally and socially relevant to the adult world.
Enheduanna	posted 6-Oct-2008 4:35pm   I think I got an excellent education.
LJD	posted 6-Oct-2008 4:55pm   What is a good solid education?
cerealkiller	posted 6-Oct-2008 5:03pm   Yes, but school didn't and I don't know if they do now teach you how to deal with REAL life, as in managing money and finances, forcing more public speaking and human interaction, etc.
LindaH	(reply to LJD) posted 6-Oct-2008 5:08pm   That would make a good survey
Galomorro	posted 6-Oct-2008 5:18pm   No, because school was very traumatic to me throughout all the years -- I blanked out most of it and never learned much of anything that I can recall. I hated every minute of it. I had autistic tendencies along with learning disabilities and they didn't know what to do with me back then. So I was put in "easy" classes and passed from grade to grade anyway. I think I should have gone to a private school for kids with problems or been homeschooled, but my parents weren't a good choice for homeschooling. I feel all my school years were a waste of time and that they did nothing to prepare me for adult life.
LJD	(reply to LindaH) posted 6-Oct-2008 5:20pm   You want to ask it, or shall I?
LindaH	(reply to LJD) posted 6-Oct-2008 5:20pm   Go ahead.
llamamama	posted 6-Oct-2008 10:45pm   I do think I'm getting a great education. We have wonderful technology and all of that other wonderful stuff teachers like to remind us that we know how to use. Most of the teachers have higher than a bachelors. I don't know why I need to explain..Isn't some of it what you put into it (granted not all, but some) And to those that said we need more real life classes..They do exist. They do have financing and things like that. They also have classes on how to be a welder and a nurse..Those classes are at the Tech Center down the road, and the financing things are held at school. I'm currently in the Teacher Cadet program which gives me training to become a teacher..So, yeah, those opportunities are there, kids just have to take them. Oh and I'm taking keyboarding Wow, that was long.
romkey	posted 6-Oct-2008 11:14pm   Yes, I had a very good education.
JessicaWoman99	posted 7-Oct-2008 2:14am   Yes about average back in my school days
Matty	posted 7-Oct-2008 8:09am   Yes, I think the cirriculum was excellent. The teachers...well...that's a different matter. Let's just say that calling teachers heroes doesn't congrue with my experience.
jettles	posted 7-Oct-2008 9:53am   for the most part i think you make the most of your education......
they	posted 7-Oct-2008 2:42pm   When I chose to enter the Vocational portion of the school, I was written off. No one even told me about the SATs. I didn't know where or when or why. The district is known as one of the best in the city... but I really can't figure out what standards they determine that with.
cloudhugger	posted 7-Oct-2008 3:39pm   I don't know...I was pretty stoned most of the time. I still graduated with honors and I didn't get why anyone there would struggle.
Cain	posted 8-Oct-2008 5:39pm   No, because I was a good student. My school was very small, only about 100 people in total. The emphasis was put on helping those who struggled, which is no bad thing. However, I was a good girl, I worked hard and I strived to learn - I didn't do it for fun, I did it because I craved notice by the teachers 'Well done, Leah, good job!'. You can tell by looking at my exam results which classes had teachers best suited to my particular need for attention, because they are the classes i did really well in. Thankfully by the time I went to university, it wasn't about what other people thought, but about how much I could achieve.
southernyankee	posted 16-Oct-2008 7:47pm   For the most part, yes. The only thing I know I was missing is that my literature / English teachers in high school really sucked. I mean to the point we still copied sentances from our grammar books when I was a senior, instead of doing something more meaningful, like writing essays, making arguments, etc. It didn't help that I got arbitrarily put in the non-honors class with all the dilinqents. In college, my literature teachers sucked pretty bad too, in that they would spend half the class time talking about analyzing hidden symbols (including the Kite Runner where there weren't any) and the other half lecturing on how richer our lives would be thanks to their class, rather than using that time to actually do so. My history teachers (ironically all teacher coaches who'se "real" jobs weren't teaching to begin with) were probabbly the best though. So was my high school physics teacher, who although as a person decided to become a dick to me arbitrarily some time after graduating high school (for reasons I don't care to go into), but as a teacher was pretty awesome.
southernyankee	(reply to Matty) posted 16-Oct-2008 7:51pm   Which teachers you thought were the worst of the worst? Math, English, History, etc. Teacher coaches, regular teachers, the principal?
LindaH	posted 16-Oct-2008 8:14pm   How to deal with stupid idiotic morons. That's something they'll never teach in school. Or how about "How to take a freakin joke" That's something seriously lacking in society.
Joanne	(reply to Cain) posted 16-Oct-2008 11:01pm   > No, because I was a good student. > > My school was very small, only about 100 people in total. The emphasis > was put on helping those who struggled, which is no bad thing. > However, I was a good girl, I worked hard and I strived to learn - > I didn't do it for fun, I did it because I craved notice by the teachers > 'Well done, Leah, good job!'. > You can tell by looking at my exam results which classes had teachers > best suited to my particular need for attention, because they are > the classes i did really well in. > Thankfully by the time I went to university, it wasn't about what > other people thought, but about how much I could achieve. That's really interesting to me about your motivation. Especially where it became less them and more you. I'd like to know what you thought in grade school - when did you become aware you were working for them, for their appreciation? I'm glad it wore off - to me, that's the essence of learning . . . for fun, to satisfy curiosity and to grow your brain.
Joanne	(reply to LindaH) posted 16-Oct-2008 11:06pm   LOL We were dealing! Lots of us learned FROM stupid idiotic morons. In school. They taught "how to deal" as a by-product. Still LOL
LindaH	(reply to Joanne) posted 16-Oct-2008 11:45pm
Cain	(reply to Joanne) posted 17-Oct-2008 7:44am   Early on, I think. To be honest, it was only when I went to university that I really started to care - partly because I was studying something I was interested in and partly becasue the vast number of students meant there was little one-to-one interaction with any of the lecturers. I left high school feeling quite disillusioned, and took a gap year to get back on an even keel. It's strange - I often have recurring dreams about things that trouble me, and recently they've been themed by returning to my last year at school to do the exams again and do a better job of thrm!
Matty	(reply to southernyankee) posted 17-Oct-2008 7:56am   History/Social Studies teachers were, without a doubt, the biggest jerk-offs of the bunch.
Joanne	(reply to Cain) posted 17-Oct-2008 11:17am   Whoa. Don't trouble yourself. Get good sleeps. You're hired!

 
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