It’s ok, I’m a senior this year. I’m taking classes that are pretty hard but I want to do well in them. Socializing has become a chore which sucks, I wish I could actually enjoy time with friends.
Socializing is so energy draining. I need a break, and it’s not helpful being a listener. People love to go on and on about themselves when talking to me. Once had a conversation with a teacher, she had interesting topics, but it was absolutely dreadful. I just couldn’t bring myself to enjoy the convo, it felt like a difficult chore.
I finished HS a few years back and as shitty as US public schooling is, I miss the regular peer interactions that aren’t just about work or how we’re being screwed with a new tax or gas prices. And some schools are different but I barely did HW and I was fine. My favorite part was making friends and hitting the weights in the school gym after classes and doing cross country. Always do your best to stay healthy and you probably should do your HW unlike me
This school year might be harder for me. 9th-10th grade I’ve cheated on my assignments. Every homework assignment I’ve had, I cheated. I never studied anything. The most I studied was before big tests, and that big exam at the end of the school year.
I’m currently a loner, but I hope I can make some friends. We don’t have cross country but we do have track.
Running is great bc there’s usually a wide group of people. The top runners(usually a bit stuck up and brown-nosers), the average runners(that was me and my friends) and then the back of the pack is people who are slower and less motivated but usually really fun people. Everywhere is different tho obviously, so be yourself and have some fun, because in all seriousness, that’s basically what these programs are ACTUALLY for, fun and bonding.
I always thought the track team was very competitive. I’m quite afraid to join because I feel I’d be a burden or something. Maybe it would actually help me out. I do have asthma but I know I can improve that if I try. I might think about joining track for fun and seeing if I can make some friends.
I would just try it out, there are always people who are new to it and since it’s individual, you don’t have to worry about burdening others, it’s just your own personal goals
When you say homework assignment, are these assessed? Do they count towards your grade?
They’re probably like 10% or 15% not sure.
The only part of school I’ve enjoyed since starting 6th grade has been having conversations with my former PE teacher, who has enough knowledge about computers to have a good conversation with me. I am autistic, which makes it difficult to talk to anyone, and this PE teacher was the first person to initiate conversation with me when I first arrived at that school. He is the only one at my school that I felt comfortable talking to due to the fact that I knew him best. However, the effect school had on my mental health was simply not worth that. I cannot describe the extent to which school destroyed my mental health. It was horrible, and my grandma dying at the beginning of the year certainly didn’t help. I took California’s CHSPE and left early.
That’s good that you took it upon yourself to help move things along. You’re a lot braver than I am. It’s also great to hear that there are still teachers like that in the US. My uncle is a teacher and I respect the hell out of the occupation for what they have to put up with(telling teachers what they can and cannot teach or rushing lesson plans), I hope you’re feeling better, I know how HS can affect people mentally, and it’s very rarely for the better
Having a teacher to talk to and have a great relationship with is pretty amazing. I remember being close with my 3rd grade teacher. I would sometimes visit her after going to 4th. She changed grades in 5th grade. She was everyone’s favorite, and extremely young.
I’m sorry for your loss, comrade.😔 I hope you’re doing okay!
My school doesn’t start for four more weeks.
YOU ARE SO LUCKY 😭😭 Mine starts Monday… I have a few online friends who start school in September. I assume you might live up North?
I live around 45ºN in the United States.
How is it there? Is the weather good? I’m planning on moving up North. I’d love to see snow every year.
I despise it…
It’s an abomination
Literally
Don’t go. I didn’t.
Luckily I’m home-schooled
I use GPT-3 to do my homework.
What’s that? It seems interesting…
GPT-3 is an AI model that can take the beginning of some text, figure out the patterns, and then continue it. So, for example, this article was created by giving GPT-3 a bunch of prompts and then selecting the best answers: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3
Thanks! This is interesting, I’m definitely gonna put good use to this 😉
Can that do my tefl assignment?
It would require lots of programming and prompt engineering know-how, but theoretically, yes! I’m currently using the API to program a prompt-chaining system making use of the semantic embeddings that can take any list of text sources, then use it to write an essay answering a specific question (and cite the sources accurately). I’m still a long way off though (at least from doing it efficiently), so really what GPT-3 is best for is aiding you in doing assignments. I would recommend the channel David Shapiro who does videos about this stuff.
Interesting!
On the one hand, if school motivates a pupil to program something like this and they figure out a way to automate e.g. TEFL answers, they’ve picked up enough from school to survive in the adult world, even if they only pass due to the AI.
On the other hand, if they know that what the AI produces is good enough to submit, then they probably also know the materials well enough to pass the old fashioned way.
At the same time, if they manage to get close with GPT-3, whether it’s results are good or not good enough to pass a test, they’re still ahead of the game and would probably do super well in the adult world especially with decent grades as well (passed the old fashioned way).
It seems worth adding a bit of old fashioned studying in the mix.
Absolutely. I think it’s important to challenge the current education system a bit though.
Incredibly boring. I should be in Honours, but those classes give too much homework for me to handle with my busy home life. Luckily, my favorite fantasy novels are the perfect size to slip in and out of my coat pocket. In spring, I also discovered that no one bothers you after school if you hide under the bleachers. Me and the gays hang out under there and chat.
I finish high school ten years ago at Parkdale CI in the Toronto city of Canada and it is hellish for the ableism and Principal’s Chewchak absolute authority over the law. That racist principal will do anything to slander and stage incite violent assault against disabled students including blackmailing of mother with armed gangsters. Despite his bold move to misuse his authority in the school and obstruct the justice system, Chewchak will play the victim with his claim that some gang of armed Tibetan Canadian boogymen are forcing him to commit all his criminal acts when he can no longer hide his childish criminal activities. To further evade consequence of his corruption, he even claimed that Canada is under the control of the armed Tibetan immigrant gangsters and that even the Canadian police will obey the armed gangsters.
To make things more absurd, the whole Parkdale community are censoring whistleblowers because they do not want anyone to expose the real existence of the fake refugees who consist of the victims of Communism that commit crimes against their own people, fled their country before Communist takeover, and blame Communism for all the crimes from the self-victimizing victims of Communism. The fact that the whole Canadian community will defend the toxic practices of war criminals prove that human right and rule of law are nothing but lipservice to the Canadians.
What the hell?! This man is awful and should be punished immediately. I can’t believe he did shit like that!! It’s sad how the police don’t even protect their own people, proves that they’re useless.
To make things more absurd, the whole Parkdale community are censoring whistleblowers because they do not want anyone to expose the real existence of the fake refugees who consist of the victims of Communism that commit crimes against their own people, fled their country before Communist takeover, and blame Communism for all the crimes from the self-victimizing victims of Communism. The fact that the whole Canadian community will defend the toxic practices of war criminals prove that human right and rule of law are nothing but lipservice to the Canadians.
They do the same shit in Florida. I think DeSantis recently passed some bill honoring “victims of communism” and forcing children liberal propaganda. It’s utterly disgusting…
It’s best we arm ourselves to protect ourselves. I do not feel safe letting everyone I see know that I’m a Marxist without protection. I’m not even physically strong yet. These fascists are getting more bolder day by day. Soon the police are gonna go back to showing their fascist colors again. I’m glad you’re out of that school, had you stayed there any longer, it might’ve gotten extremely dangerous for you.
I am in California, so I took the CHSPE and got out in 11th grade. Best decision I ever made. This was in March of this year, and my mental health has already improved DRASTICALLY. I can’t even describe what school did to me mentally, it was horrible.
That’s great! I’m glad life is going well for you :)) How hard was the test?
Some people said the test would be really difficult, so I was really nervous, but I took it and it wasn’t hard at all. The English section was the same as the standardized tests we got every year, and the math only got to beginner-level geometry and even gave you the formulas. It was essentially just getting surface area and the like, no proofs or anything like that.
That’s a lucky situation right there! I took the PSAT at my school and it was ridiculously hard! Maybe it’s because I wasn’t taught properly.
Proofs are extremely an abomination!! I never learned surface area because it was too hard. So I cheated all geometry year.
Don’t go. Skip school. Do GED, whatever.
I’m in America :'((
And?
Well, many states do not allow students to leave school until they’re 18. Luckily, California has the CHSPE which allowed me to leave early, but not all states have something like that.
that’s what I did. but I left the traditional school system when I was 13/12. CHSPE couldn’t have come sooner. they should lower it from 16 to 14.
Yeah, if I could’ve left school before experiencing a year and a half of never-ending, unbearable mental pain, that would’ve been nice. I was in a very bad state when I finally got out of it. That could’ve been prevented if the age for the CHSPE was lower. Unfortunately, I had to wait until I was 17 to leave because it would require community college to complete the prerequisites if I wanted to go to a university, which is very stigmatized, and my parents believed that I would not be successful if I did that (not to mention the fact that I don’t particularly want to go to a university). I had to spend a year convincing them to let me leave because you need parental consent even if you pass the test, and they only agreed when they finally saw how bad a state I was in. I felt so relieved when I finally received the email that my school account was suspended because I was no longer attending, it was unreal.
Basically the same. I got pretty suicidal at one point. I was lucky to pass first time at 16. Then I got a job for a little while with my dad and it wouldn’t been nicer maybe if I could be in the mental state to stay longer.
I still have extended family harassing me about university. It’s offensive because where the f*ck were they when I was having a hard time.
Your not missing out on anything. The empire is falling and the people who can’t figure that out are going to have a rude awakening.
You’re right, I might need to try harder
Some states allow you to leave early if you pass a test. This is what I did in California, and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made.
Leaving early might not suit me due to being in a toxic household and having to scramble to find college opportunities. I might have to wait it out.
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