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[Elephant Parade]

This didn't seem to exist, so here we go. (I'm guessing the reason for its nonexistence was because most stuff probably fit in to the emotion threads. There were a couple of threads, but they were about specific school-related things and dead for a month anyways.) Talk about the declining state of education, how kids these days have it easy, complain about annoying homework, whatever.

To begin with, I have been recently wondering if five days of school and two days off is really optimal. Personally, I find that I focus better with breaks (though I have no idea if this is true for others) so I was wondering if a 6-days-a-week schedule would be better. Of course, adjusting would probably be difficult, and I expect it would cause a variety of other problems, but still, it would be neat to have longer breaks between classes or shorter days.

Also, every time a teacher uses the wrong form of it's/its, I die a little inside.

The only thing I'm really disliking so far this year is moving to a different school than everyone I knew, including my two closest friends. There's one person I sort of knew and one person that I barely knew, but I don't see them too often in a school of 1000.

[mastahcheese]

The only thing I'm really disliking so far this year is moving to a different school than everyone I knew, including my two closest friends. There's one person I sort of knew and one person that I barely knew, but I don't see them too often in a school of 1000.

I never had this problem because I didn't exactly have "friends", but one of the things I did in high school was let people know, very early on after meeting them, that I had absolutely no intention of meeting up with them after I graduated.
Some people didn't like that, so I didn't hang out with them, but there were some who were totally fine with it, and I talked to them at times throughout school.
When I graduated, I went around, and told everyone goodbye, and that they would likely never hear of me again, and I wouldn't be surprised if I forget them at some point in life. The people I had hung out with had known this from the beginning, and said they were fine with it.

Reading back over what I wrote, I'm not entirely sure how that ties in at all, but still, something to say.

Also, yes, education seems to be declining as of late.

[Xantalos]

English.
Poetry analysis.
people who invented this I'll shank you with a simile and garrote you with a metaphor

[Jopax]

English.
Poetry analysis.
people who invented this I'll shank you with a simile and garrote you with a metaphor

This, in highschool, tho it was a different language (English being secondary, and me going to a tech school, it wasn't much of a focus, plus the teacher appeared to be heavily sedated most of the times and my English was good enough that I could get away with almost anything). The teacher was this tiny woman with a god complex that believed that the only true interpretation of a book or a poem was the one she had (which was almost always done by someone else, usually some great old critic or a teacher of hers or something), if you dared to disagree you were an idiot and bound to get a bad grade.

[Xantalos]

I have the opposite problem in that I hate analysing literature. I don't know why, it's not that hard - just slap any sort of justifiable connection on there and you pass - but I grow to hate any subject material we examine.
I dunno why.

[Skyrunner]

I live in Korea. When I was young (middle school) ), we had school six days a week. A law was passed year before last year that makes it a 5 day week.

And lemme tell you this: I love my Saturdays.

[Elephant Parade]

Term 2 started a little while ago, at least in Canada.

Didn't change my classes at all, though. Yay for semester courses.

[Xantalos]

Wait it did?
Huh. I still got a few months.

[Elephant Parade]

Wait it did?
Huh. I still got a few months.

Term two. Each semester is divided into two terms.

[Xantalos]

...
I no see this difference at any meaningful level.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Like quarters, but instead, half semesters. So four half semesters. There really isn't anything meaningful, on second thought.

[Elephant Parade]

Like quarters, but instead, half semesters. So four half semesters. There really isn't anything meaningful, on second thought.

Most electives (in fact, pretty much everything in Grade 10 other than French) take a term instead of a semester.

[Skyrunner]

My semester 2 started in August. O.o

[Elephant Parade]

My semester 2 started in August. O.o

My school year started in September.

[Skyrunner]

Pfff you late westerners starting school a whole 6 months after we start.