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RE: Been awhile
September 14, 2011 at 4:35 pm
I don't know how they did school in Alaska, but in Virginia if you didn't do the work, you failed. If you didn't succeed on the tests, you failed. I disagreed heartily with their rules regarding standardized testing, but when it came to the IB courses I took they were, as promised, college level in work load and in content. It's a pity I suck so badly at math that I had to drop a few of the better ones.
There are things I took away from both the art, chemistry and literature classes that I still use to this day - a product of the curriculum and the teachers. Of course, I'm saying this now nearly a decade after graduating - at the time I was extremely ready to be done with high school. On the other hand, going back to school at 25 made me realize that college wouldn't have been much different except for not going home to my parents at night and being able to drink more. If you really want to argue, there are classes I've taken in college so far thinking that I was going to learn something and realized that life, even this forum, gave me more pointers on how to succeed than those classes did - and they were geared toward my major! So that knocks college out for being much more useful than high school.
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RE: Been awhile
September 14, 2011 at 5:05 pm
(September 13, 2011 at 11:18 pm)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't been on in quite awhile. I've missed the forums. I've just been really busy plunging head first into my freshman year. I've been pondering ALOT lately. May elaborate in future posts. Good to be back, none the less
Freshman year is going good for me so far :p I take it they have thrown a shitload of work at you?
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RE: Been awhile
September 14, 2011 at 7:25 pm
(September 14, 2011 at 5:05 pm)MilesTailsPrower Wrote: (September 13, 2011 at 11:18 pm)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't been on in quite awhile. I've missed the forums. I've just been really busy plunging head first into my freshman year. I've been pondering ALOT lately. May elaborate in future posts. Good to be back, none the less
Freshman year is going good for me so far :p I take it they have thrown a shitload of work at you?
Actually, the work load has not met my expectations. I imagined metric shit tons of busy work. At my highschool I only have 4 periods a day, and I usually only have work in maybe 2/4
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RE: Been awhile
September 14, 2011 at 7:27 pm
(September 14, 2011 at 7:25 pm)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: (September 14, 2011 at 5:05 pm)MilesTailsPrower Wrote: (September 13, 2011 at 11:18 pm)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't been on in quite awhile. I've missed the forums. I've just been really busy plunging head first into my freshman year. I've been pondering ALOT lately. May elaborate in future posts. Good to be back, none the less
Freshman year is going good for me so far :p I take it they have thrown a shitload of work at you?
Actually, the work load has not met my expectations. I imagined metric shit tons of busy work. At my highschool I only have 4 periods a day, and I usually only have work in maybe 2/4
4 periods? I have 6, do you all only do core classes? I'm still expecting a shitload of homework, but the only thing that I have right now is to read To Kill a Mockingbird. How many hours do you spend in each class?
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RE: Been awhile
September 15, 2011 at 6:48 am
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4 periods? I have 6, do you all only do core classes? I'm still expecting a shitload of homework, but the only thing that I have right now is to read To Kill a Mockingbird. How many hours do you spend in each class?
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I spend 1 hour and a half in each class except Algebra, which is cut in half for our Inrichment period.
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RE: Been awhile
September 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Clearly it's not working, as it is enrichment. 
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RE: Been awhile
September 15, 2011 at 9:08 pm
(September 15, 2011 at 6:48 am)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: 4 periods? I have 6, do you all only do core classes? I'm still expecting a shitload of homework, but the only thing that I have right now is to read To Kill a Mockingbird. How many hours do you spend in each class?
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I spend 1 hour and a half in each class except Algebra, which is cut in half for our Inrichment period.
I couldn't spend an hour and 15 minutes in 1 class, they have to mix it up or it gets boring for me 
I take it Enrichment is reading for 30 minutes?
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RE: Been awhile
September 18, 2011 at 10:48 pm
(September 15, 2011 at 9:08 pm)MilesTailsPrower Wrote: (September 15, 2011 at 6:48 am)TheYoungAtheist Wrote: 4 periods? I have 6, do you all only do core classes? I'm still expecting a shitload of homework, but the only thing that I have right now is to read To Kill a Mockingbird. How many hours do you spend in each class?
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I spend 1 hour and a half in each class except Algebra, which is cut in half for our Inrichment period.
I couldn't spend an hour and 15 minutes in 1 class, they have to mix it up or it gets boring for me
I take it Enrichment is reading for 30 minutes?
Yes. They alternate during the week. Monday and Wednesday, you go to the book club of your choice. The other three days everyone does laps around the building for 30 minutes.
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