My mother almost punched my guidance counselor for saying that I would never get into college and never be a teacher... just because I did not get good grades. I was a lazy student... but that was due to being bored and not being challenged... except for math, where I did the work... teachers didn't understand how I passed the tests with great grades and didn't do the work...
In my history class I was the only one to pass the Constitution Test the first time they took it... They had me in a class room fool of kids who were on drugs and who knows what else... some of them weren't but they were the ones who were in Special Education...
I hate how schools spend more money on their sports teams than on the music, art, band, or drama department... Also, why they don't get updated books or anything. My drivers ed book was published in 1990.
My school paid for a million dollar football field and a 3rd gym that they did not need. They took out the swimming pool since it "cost to much" and put in the 3rd gym. That school needs more classrooms... They have teachers that have to go from room to room each period... We had classrooms with 35 students and 26 desks... Even the lunch room was bad.. I remember standing at a garbage can for the first month of school cause I didn't have a place to sit... At least I got to know the security guard! lol
Our concert choir was huge, When I started freshman year, we had maybe 35 members... by the time I got to Junior year, we had a 96 member Concert Choir, I was a part of both the Concert Choir and the Honors Swing Choir (which sat at 15 members at all times and was hard to get into) Plus they added on a pre concert choir class due to the fact that the choir was so huge. so there was an extra 35 members. More kids liked choir than they did sports. Our teams were horrible never won a thing... no big awards or anything... They tried to fail my sister since she missed so much school, but her absenses were medically excused (she suffers from severe migrains...) Mom pulled her out due to the doctor telling her to try that, which has helped, she is now home schooled... I was pulled out of school when I was a junior and was still considered a freshman by the school, I was going to be 18 (i repeated 8th grade due to transferring problems) and the fact that we could not afford for me to go to a public school that charged $500 a year... so I dropped and took my GED test last year at 21, I studied on my own for three years. I passed the first time taking it.
That is basically my remember when of my teen years... it was a great time for me! Except for when I went to California for a month... that was fun!