OACs Suck Ass.
Alright.. a seperate post for OACs. I graduated high school last year, and I should be finished with high school, like all of the other people across the country. However, I decided to take OACs to keep my options open. In Ontario, if you want to go to a university, you have to have at least six OAC credits. (College doesn't require OAC credits to apply.) If you want to go to a university anywhere in the country, you have to have OAC credits. So, even though I plan on going to college, I thought it was a good idea to "keep my options open" and go back to high school to take three more OAC credits.
Bad idea. I'm a very anti-social, opinionated person. All of my school life, I've been picked on by my peers. I'm sure there are other cases that are worse than mine, but even so I've grown to hate society because of this. On top of that, I view high school to be a joke. Sure, I've learned a lot in various classes but a lot of the classes that I've taken have been a joke. English class... you suspect that you would learn how to speak English properly, but noo.. we have to write essays according to how one person prefers them to be written. On top of that, how does Shakespeare effect our modern use of English? If I wanted to study plays and poetry, I would have taken a play and poetry study class. :P I'm getting off topic here though.
Not only are classes a joke, but the way people behave is a joke as well. While I'll admit that there is a difference in age as to how much a person knows (generally), wether or not you're 13 years old or 14 years old seriously doesn't matter. There are people in grade nine or ten who're more mature than people in grade twelve. Age differences matter so much in high school that it's disgusting. When you get into the "real" world (work), age isn't viewed as being overly important. You can't goof off and make fun of your peers. You're getting paid to do your job. Yes, you can dislike people, but you can't just go make fun of them in public. It's sad that these people in high school think that's what the working world is going to be like.
I ask myself this: WHY the fuck do I want to go back to that environment? I could take a year off to work and get money. The shifts I'd be working would be in the evening, and I'd be working six hours. Tay says that it was hard to work six hour shifts in the evening when you had to deal with going to school for six hours earlier in the day. I can believe it. So.. I'm seriously considering dropping OACs. I'm going to talk to my mom about it, and tell her my decision. I think that she might be dissappointed that I'm not going, but since I'm seriously going to get a job, I think it'll help her a lot. Right now, she's the only one working in the house and has to support three people total. While I don't think I'd like to be spending all of the money I get on food for myself, I think that it's only fair that I use my own money to buy stuff for myself. I want that kind of freedom, and I'd like to taste it before I move out into the world by myself, and have to pay for rent, food, etc.
I'm going to post this in my livejournal, so those who know what it is can go post their opinions on what I should do there. I'm not asking for opinions because I can't decide for myself, but because I want to see if there's any good reason I should stay in school. (I'd have a total of 2 or 3 classes for the entire year [8 classes total], if they don't cancel one of them.. and all things considered it's not worth it.)
Bad idea. I'm a very anti-social, opinionated person. All of my school life, I've been picked on by my peers. I'm sure there are other cases that are worse than mine, but even so I've grown to hate society because of this. On top of that, I view high school to be a joke. Sure, I've learned a lot in various classes but a lot of the classes that I've taken have been a joke. English class... you suspect that you would learn how to speak English properly, but noo.. we have to write essays according to how one person prefers them to be written. On top of that, how does Shakespeare effect our modern use of English? If I wanted to study plays and poetry, I would have taken a play and poetry study class. :P I'm getting off topic here though.
Not only are classes a joke, but the way people behave is a joke as well. While I'll admit that there is a difference in age as to how much a person knows (generally), wether or not you're 13 years old or 14 years old seriously doesn't matter. There are people in grade nine or ten who're more mature than people in grade twelve. Age differences matter so much in high school that it's disgusting. When you get into the "real" world (work), age isn't viewed as being overly important. You can't goof off and make fun of your peers. You're getting paid to do your job. Yes, you can dislike people, but you can't just go make fun of them in public. It's sad that these people in high school think that's what the working world is going to be like.
I ask myself this: WHY the fuck do I want to go back to that environment? I could take a year off to work and get money. The shifts I'd be working would be in the evening, and I'd be working six hours. Tay says that it was hard to work six hour shifts in the evening when you had to deal with going to school for six hours earlier in the day. I can believe it. So.. I'm seriously considering dropping OACs. I'm going to talk to my mom about it, and tell her my decision. I think that she might be dissappointed that I'm not going, but since I'm seriously going to get a job, I think it'll help her a lot. Right now, she's the only one working in the house and has to support three people total. While I don't think I'd like to be spending all of the money I get on food for myself, I think that it's only fair that I use my own money to buy stuff for myself. I want that kind of freedom, and I'd like to taste it before I move out into the world by myself, and have to pay for rent, food, etc.
I'm going to post this in my livejournal, so those who know what it is can go post their opinions on what I should do there. I'm not asking for opinions because I can't decide for myself, but because I want to see if there's any good reason I should stay in school. (I'd have a total of 2 or 3 classes for the entire year [8 classes total], if they don't cancel one of them.. and all things considered it's not worth it.)