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Planetes. October 1st, 2010 4:32 PM

uh, lets see....

-PWN ALL DAY IN D1 (High School) Basketball and other sports, but mostly basketball
-Lots of Vending Machines
-Nice Facilities
-98% Graduation Rate, or maybe 99, but somewhere around there
- Hot baaaaaaaabessss

Guy October 1st, 2010 5:11 PM

Not much of a discussion thread to be honest. :\ It's more like people are just listing the better qualities of their school rather than discussing the differences between them. So, seeing as it won't hurt, I'll shift this over to OVP.

As for mines, I went to my high school for the first two years before transferring to home school online; something I wish I could take back. My high school wasn't the best and to be honest, it didn't have anything that makes it compare to most. It was small, it had terrible cafeteria food, and they didn't offer a wide variety of classes like other high schools do. The only thing that mattered to be though was that I had my two best friends there and I'd take them and a low class high school over one that stands at higher standards.

So, did my high school have the best of things making it better than others? Probably not, but it did have my friends, who I care for a lot and still do. It also had some of the best teachers there, in that they worked at a personal level with the students, took things into perspective, and really made me enjoy school - which usually most students just want to get out of school; for me it was the opposite.

My high school also took me down the path that I wanted to go towards and allowed me to figure out the right career choice for me. That, along with teaching me how to grow as a young adult and prospective student. I regret having to move and revert to home schooling, but it's two years I wouldn't forget in the best school I've been to thus far.

alisaie October 1st, 2010 5:20 PM

Let's see... My High School...

Bad Points
- Fail!Football School.
- One little accident happened like... nine years ago, and it gets a permanent bad name for it.
- It's full of idiots

Good Points
- MCCA Program (It's an arts program, for all you guys to know)
- Dual-Enrollment Program
- The other Sports teams were pretty good.
- Superior Marching Band, and an Excellent Symphonic Band
- Awesome people to balance the idiots
- Only 'B' (or was it 'A'... XD) School in the county.
- Good Graduation Rate

There are more bad points in my school, but it's pretty much the bad points for every school, like the school lunches not being the greatest in the world, and all that jazz.

Eucliffe October 1st, 2010 5:37 PM

We've had four different strange people take refuge on our grounds. Earliest person I know was a streaker, second person was someone who brought three girls from elsewhere onto the field and proceeded to assault them in you-know-what way, third person crashed their car into a fence and ran onto our grounds where they were tackled by the cops, and the fourth person came in a gown with stuff attached from the hospital right by us :D

Oh, and we're required to join clubs, but our classes are shortened so we fit them in before the end of the school day. And now we get food from a restaurant every other Friday if we want it. And it actually has a program helps girls with learning differences, unlike most schools, which don't really give a crap if you have dyslexia or ADHD or something like that.

Katie_Q October 1st, 2010 5:48 PM

My school has a few good teachers. It spends WAY to much time focusing on sport.
But there are small classes, usually between 15-20. My school goes from prep to year 10 (don't ask me why they didn't add 11 and 12). In the highschool, (year 8-10 for us) theres is about approx. 100 kids. I like it because it means I can easily ask a teacher for help and get some good one on one teaching. And I can hang out with just about any group when my own group is playing sport. Like I said, way to much sport. They tend to make a lot of sport comps, and most people in my group are sporty. So I hang with other people a lot.
It's really not a great school though and they seem to focus a lot more on sport and uniforms then they do on learning. I tried homeschooling, but I missed the social side of school and I was way to relaxed at home.

yung_link October 1st, 2010 6:24 PM

My school is only good in comparison to a REALLY bad school. We have about 700 or so. Our lunch food is terrible, if it IS food...D: Our football team sucks, the teachers are mediocre, we have gang members/drug dealers in our school, and I think some of the staff members are a little racist. ehh but it could be worse, or at least thats what the principal says...>_>

Planetes. October 1st, 2010 7:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yung_link (Post 6196064)
My school is only good in comparison to a REALLY bad school. We have about 700 or so. Our lunch food is terrible, if it IS food...D: Our football team sucks, the teachers are mediocre, we have gang members/drug dealers in our school, and I think some of the staff members are a little racist. ehh but it could be worse, or at least thats what the principal says...>_>

dude that sounds rough 0_0

インフェルノの津波 October 1st, 2010 9:09 PM

My SCHOOL is better because it's

#1. A alternative school
#2. The student voice counts
#3. The teachers are uber nice
#4. IT'S FREAKING AWESOME

sabapple October 2nd, 2010 6:46 AM

Hey Guys~ I declare that my high school is better than all of yours~

-We have a half-day program and full day program. (Half day kids go back to their home schools around mid-day)

-We specialize in mathematics and science, here's some pretty neat classes that our school offers:
AP Electricity and Magnetism, Nuclear Physics, Thermodynamics and Fluid Flow, AP Classical Mechanics, Molecular Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Linear Algebra, Multi-variable Calculus, River Ecology, Astronomy, Meteorology, Geology of National Parks, and Robotics.

-We go to school from 7:30 to 4. Oh yes.

-We offer breakfast. What could possibly be better than that?

-We have an arts program, so we get to take two art courses (from actual experienced arts people from the arts school near us) for 1 1/2 hours a day, pass or fail.

-We get a speaker to come in every month to talk to us about what we are studying and future career areas

-We have a small student body

-Our teachers actually know what the heck they're teaching and have experience in their field

-We get school laptops and a set of textbooks for home

-We actually have a program set up so in one of our labs, we can have a live video chat with people who actually work at NASA and stuff. You know one of those NASA missions sent out last spring? Our students were some of the first people to see the photos. Cool, right?

-We only offer honor classes

-No Detentions

-We're just awesome.


Some Downs for My School:
-No Library
-No Cafeteria
-... This year is our first year of juniors... So we've never actually had a graduating class yet... ^^;
-No school colors, mascot, or clubs (besides the Robotics Club)


Yeah, I think my school is better. XP Try to beat that.

Saltare. October 2nd, 2010 8:30 AM

My high school isn't very interesting. But let's see...
  • A girl got tased
  • Senior Skip Day
  • Senior Prank Week
  • Spirit week is always awesome
Yeah...mine isn't very interesting at all...

Ho-Oh October 2nd, 2010 8:39 AM

Kaaay... let's see. This is about my Uni, btw.

Um. For me, our lecturers and tutors are actually people who are currently in, or have been in the media, so we're getting exposure to people who were in the media, rather than people who have studied books, etc about the media. The same goes for the other courses, too, we have industry professionals who know just about everything. Everyone there is really nice, too. All the students are willing to talk to you, like when you want to interview them, no matter what they're taking.

We've got wifi everywhere, a radio station there, gym, ATM, three level library, many computer labs we can access in nearly every building, elevators in some buildings... Tutorial sizes are max 20. In lectures, Youtube videos are played, we're asked to do strange things such as dance, lol, aaand... oh yeah, we can access all our assignments, lecture notes, everything online. They're having revamped housing next year, so that maaany more people can live at campus. There's also BBQ's there every Wednesday - and other days, too! There's also like 4 cafe's at the uni, or something. Oh and a vending machine in every building and water refills everywhere. There's also this little park there, too. The carpark is way large, too.

Aaaand as for the education in general, we learn a lot. I've actually discovered a lot I didn't really know about from just going to each unit, so yeah. Plus our lecturers / tutor's are laid back. We can hand in assignments in any format just as long as it is the due date - and last semester there was this unit where you could hand in an assignment weeks overdue, because we actually got to call people up and interview them, which took a while to get people. The tutorials are lots of fun too -- OH AND. The second/third year students are nice to the lower ones. And they have movies you can get out there and the book shop even has birthday, fathers/mothers day cards, etc. It has pretty much everything. There's a lot more but I can't think of it atm!

And I only go to uni 3 days a week for 12 hours in total. :D

My university is better than all of yours.


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