I feel an obligatory post about school coming on.
This year, I'm a junior. At the tail end of last year, I had signed up for all Honors/AP classes, but because of my poor grades due to a lack of work ethic, the administration dumped my down into all of the CP classes. Luckily for me though my guidance consellor (who is actually the nicest woman) was able to get me put in Honors Physics, Honors French IV, and Honors Calculus A. Now I can get to my point for writing this.
!!! My physics homework: only four questions, yet I can only answer one. How am I supposed to answer these when I don't even have an adequate amount of information? God, this is so hard. AND I AM SUPPOSED TO BE A SCIENCE PERSON. If all of the work is going to be this hard then I have to drop this class. It's all just way too hard. (Or over my head I suppose.)
I just feel so bad about not getting this work; science and math are supposed to be "my thing".
Then there are the classes for which I am stuck in CP, American Studies I and English III. Those are the classes in which I have the most to say - the classes that I spend hours upon hours mulling over - and I am stuck with people who give zero thought into what they say. It's not even that the people come off as compete idiots (because most of them do) or that the class progresses at the slowest pace (which it really does), but that in those classes, I constantly feel like I am being babied.
Our English classes have a vocabulary requirement, and for our first unit my teacher handed out a chart and went over the words in powerpoint. She is requiring us to fill in the chart and one of the boxes per word is supposed to contain a picture ~symbol with which we identify said word. Honestly, what is this, fifth grade or something?
I understand the people in the CP classes aren't supposed to be the real academic super-stars, but it's not like they're actually that dumb either. TBH, most of them are smart and just don't apply themselves. They can comprehend things without hand-holding. It just seems like the biggest insult for the teachers to run classes in that way.
I cannot wait to get transferred into AP classes and to be treated like an adult again.
!!! My physics homework: only four questions, yet I can only answer one. How am I supposed to answer these when I don't even have an adequate amount of information? God, this is so hard. AND I AM SUPPOSED TO BE A SCIENCE PERSON. If all of the work is going to be this hard then I have to drop this class. It's all just way too hard. (Or over my head I suppose.)
I just feel so bad about not getting this work; science and math are supposed to be "my thing".
Then there are the classes for which I am stuck in CP, American Studies I and English III. Those are the classes in which I have the most to say - the classes that I spend hours upon hours mulling over - and I am stuck with people who give zero thought into what they say. It's not even that the people come off as compete idiots (because most of them do) or that the class progresses at the slowest pace (which it really does), but that in those classes, I constantly feel like I am being babied.
Our English classes have a vocabulary requirement, and for our first unit my teacher handed out a chart and went over the words in powerpoint. She is requiring us to fill in the chart and one of the boxes per word is supposed to contain a picture ~symbol with which we identify said word. Honestly, what is this, fifth grade or something?
I understand the people in the CP classes aren't supposed to be the real academic super-stars, but it's not like they're actually that dumb either. TBH, most of them are smart and just don't apply themselves. They can comprehend things without hand-holding. It just seems like the biggest insult for the teachers to run classes in that way.
I cannot wait to get transferred into AP classes and to be treated like an adult again.