cross posted to forrest's journal as well.
a certain "fiasco" happened this morning which almost endangered forrest's research paper from being completed on time. Mrs. Kokas was refusing to let me, forrest, and liz out of the cafeteria WITHOUT A PASS and told us if we wanted to go to tutorials of any sort we had to have gotten our passes the previous day OR we could get one from the office but would have to walk all the way around the school saying "she couldn't let us pass through the hallways to get to the office."
After asking if she thought that rule was ridiculous and if she wouldn't let us go by ourselves, could she at least ESCORT us to our destination, Mrs Kokas refused that as well, saying she couldn't leave her post and then started to insult our "work ethic" saying the paper should have been finished already since we are SENIORS and should be responsible even though we HAD COME TO SCHOOL AN HOUR EARLIER THAN USUAL, JUST FOR SOLE PURPOSE OF PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON OUR PAPER INSTEAD OF DOING THE BARE MINIMUM. She said that this type of behavior, our "procrastination", wouldn't fly in college, but what college denies you the access to materials needed to finish ANY assignment, let alone a serious grade? Libraries are open 24 hours in most colleges.
She was giving us no other options but to fail english. after forrest left saying "thank you for being completely useless", i refused to leave the hallway, saying i would wait until another teacher came by to either escort me to the office to get a pass or to a classroom with the necessary materials to finish the paper. Thankfully Mrs. Kimball came and was kind enough to help us out.
Who else thinks this is ridiculous? By denying us any other options this rule sets us up to FAIL and then they come back to us students with other rules such as "no pass, no play" or just denying us the chance of getting the needed credits to graduate!!! Why are they punishing us for trying to learn??
We realize that some restrictions are needed during the morning but this RIDICULOUS rule is only hurting the people who actually want to LEARN. A compromise should be made and another "rule" should be used.
Forrest and I have been talking about it and we are fed up with how everyone complains but never does anything. Does anyone have any ideas or are interested in helping us stop the stupidity of this rule? We have been talking about flyer's, our parent's getting involved, and petitions: anything to make administration take us seriously.
Doing anything is better than just sitting on our asses and letting this rule continue.
-Sarah and Forrest,
two angry rebellious and angsty kids.
After asking if she thought that rule was ridiculous and if she wouldn't let us go by ourselves, could she at least ESCORT us to our destination, Mrs Kokas refused that as well, saying she couldn't leave her post and then started to insult our "work ethic" saying the paper should have been finished already since we are SENIORS and should be responsible even though we HAD COME TO SCHOOL AN HOUR EARLIER THAN USUAL, JUST FOR SOLE PURPOSE OF PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON OUR PAPER INSTEAD OF DOING THE BARE MINIMUM. She said that this type of behavior, our "procrastination", wouldn't fly in college, but what college denies you the access to materials needed to finish ANY assignment, let alone a serious grade? Libraries are open 24 hours in most colleges.
She was giving us no other options but to fail english. after forrest left saying "thank you for being completely useless", i refused to leave the hallway, saying i would wait until another teacher came by to either escort me to the office to get a pass or to a classroom with the necessary materials to finish the paper. Thankfully Mrs. Kimball came and was kind enough to help us out.
Who else thinks this is ridiculous? By denying us any other options this rule sets us up to FAIL and then they come back to us students with other rules such as "no pass, no play" or just denying us the chance of getting the needed credits to graduate!!! Why are they punishing us for trying to learn??
We realize that some restrictions are needed during the morning but this RIDICULOUS rule is only hurting the people who actually want to LEARN. A compromise should be made and another "rule" should be used.
Forrest and I have been talking about it and we are fed up with how everyone complains but never does anything. Does anyone have any ideas or are interested in helping us stop the stupidity of this rule? We have been talking about flyer's, our parent's getting involved, and petitions: anything to make administration take us seriously.
Doing anything is better than just sitting on our asses and letting this rule continue.
-Sarah and Forrest,
two angry rebellious and angsty kids.