School

[ThreeEyedBoy]

Who is in school right now? I am and it sucks!

[crazywolf]

I am currently finishing up my first year at OCC, Oakland Community College. I plan on getting an associates degree there.

[Hammurabi]

I'm at the end of my second year here at Central College. It's great.

High school, on the other hand, sucked in just about every way possible.

[Homebrew1709]

Im finishing my junior year at Arizona State. I'm probably gonna be a five-year guy because i switched majors mid-way through sophomore year. Getting my degree in Construction Management. It's tough and i'm forced to take a bunch of classes i'm not interested it, but i guess that's just the way it goes...At least its 90 degrees today and the girls will be dressed down...waaay down :D

[chucklivesoninmyheart]

No school for me.I did one day of highschool(seriously).Its amazing I was never bothered by truant officers...college hopefully though.

[crazywolf]

No school for me.I did one day of highschool(seriously).Its amazing I was never bothered by truant officers...college hopefully though.
Homeschooled?

[guitarfreak141]

I am currently finishing up my first year at OCC, Oakland Community College. I plan on getting an associates degree there.

is it in Michigan, in Oakland County?

im in 7 grade

[Akira]

I finished School last year, it was the crappest institution i've been to.

Did you know the governments change the schooling methods and curriculum according to what big companies want?

Now there's an interested topic for debate.

[Hammurabi]

Did you know the governments change the schooling methods and curriculum according to what big companies want?

In Iowa the teachers pick the curriculum. I can't think of any other state that does this, although for some reason I'm thinking Texas might.

[crazywolf]

is it in Michigan, in Oakland County?

im in 7 grade
Yep! The Auburn Hills Campus.
Where do you live?

[7-stringer]

For those of you who think school is bad... You have no idea what I went through(excluding the academics portion) for the 1'st 7 years of my school life, I went to a catholic/private school.My mom scraped up barely enough to afford it, while I hated it because lots of people there were rich snobs and everybody there is Mr.Prep and I never found anyone there like me to befriend. That was 2'nd - 8'th grade. Now I'm a junior at highschool and though it may not be the most joyous of all past times its noticiably better than those first 7 years.
I never understood why my mom sent me there, I argued with her alot about it, I considered it a lose/lose situation because she spent all of her money towards it while I absolutley hated it.

[chucklivesoninmyheart]

Homeschooled?

No,I just didn't go...I had to sit in a court room a couple times,but that was just minimal system protocol ushering me to the legal age(to drop out).Had a truancy officer tried to physically force me to school or something,I would have flipped and pulled a colombine...

[Homebrew1709]

...Had a truancy officer tried to physically force me to school or something,I would have flipped and pulled a colombine...

...not a cool thing to joke about IMO...

[DreamRyche2112]

I'm in highschool, I think it's pretty fun.

[chucklivesoninmyheart]

...not a cool thing to joke about IMO...

Who said I was joking...

[elklandercc]

Junior in high school, I was on here earlier around the same time, but then the bell rang. High school is fun, although the classes are bull and rediculosly boring often. But me and my friends make the best of things and have a great time i class. One time i sat in front of my friend and we started rowing like we were in a boat for like 5 min before the teacher saw us. She was like, what are you doing? Your not even taking notes! As we look at her with confusion we kept rowing, she then kicked us out and we rowed out the door, then busted out laughing the whole way to the office. We didn't get in trouble since the vp tought it was hilarious also.

[7-stringer]

I just remembered that my freind goes to a charter school he tells me all the about that place all the time, omg I've fallen in love with it from what he tells me. The teacher hands out all the answers to their tests and some of the teachers just sound crazy.He was telling me his art teacher looked like some kind of hobo with a huge white beard and at the start of class, he would most of the time say "ok Y'all do whatever ya want I dont give a ****" and they also get out of school at noon everyday. I'm taking a day off tommorow just becuase I want to and I'm gonna go get a visitors pass and spend the day over there. Cant wait! :D

[PonyOne]

...not a cool thing to joke about IMO...
not necessarily a joke. it sounds callous and cold and what they did was wrong but at the same time i'd be lying if i didn't say i felt some comradrie with the shooters because i went through similar torture for much of my school career.

i've storied my school life in here ad don't feel like retyping. school blew, but, it was a necessary evil in many ways. i'm going back to school this summer and ultimately plan to be a lawyer.

[guitarfreak141]

Yep! The Auburn Hills Campus.
Where do you live?

sweet, I live in Farmington Hills

[Homebrew1709]

not necessarily a joke. it sounds callous and cold and what they did was wrong but at the same time i'd be lying if i didn't say i felt some comradrie with the shooters because i went through similar torture for much of my school career.

Those two guys were not normal kids. They built bombs in their garage. They didn't go looking for particular people, they just went and started shooting at other kids. I don't care how much you're picked on at school for whatever reason, there was something wrong with those kids that was much deeper than being picked on or made fun of. I can't see how anyone can feel for those two guys.

Am i the only one here who feels this way? Somebody?

[Jolly McJollyson]

Those two guys were not normal kids. They built bombs in their garage. They didn't go looking for particular people, they just went and started shooting at other kids. I don't care how much you're picked on at school for whatever reason, there was something wrong with those kids that was much deeper than being picked on or made fun of. I can't see how anyone can feel for those two guys.

Am i the only one here who feels this way? Somebody?
I agree, those two kids were far from normal.

Feeling hurt or upset over getting picked on is one thing; killing a human being is entirely different. These guys were sick, twisted individuals who, IMO, deserve the worst. I honestly see no reason to feel comraderie with a couple of punk murderers who think it's ok to start killing innocent people.

[Raskolnikov]

Those two guys were not normal kids. They built bombs in their garage. They didn't go looking for particular people, they just went and started shooting at other kids. I don't care how much you're picked on at school for whatever reason, there was something wrong with those kids that was much deeper than being picked on or made fun of. I can't see how anyone can feel for those two guys.

Am i the only one here who feels this way? Somebody?
Sorry, but I've been close enough to my breaking point to have a real good look at it, so it's very easy for me to understand what they did.

I don't condone it and in a way, I look down on them for taking the coward's way out but I know what got them there. There wasn't anything especially "wrong" with them; they were simply pushed too far with too little guidance or support to get them through it the right way.

[R. Shackleferd]

In Iowa the teachers pick the curriculum. I can't think of any other state that does this, although for some reason I'm thinking Texas might.

Ya know, I don't think my cousin who lives in New Mexico had to take Texas History 3 times like me..."Remember the Alamo!":rolleyes:

[Jolly McJollyson]

There wasn't anything especially "wrong" with them; they were simply pushed too far with too little guidance or support to get them through it the right way.
I hate to argue with you, Rask, because I know I risk getting pwned in the worst way. However, I think when someone resorts to mass murder, there is something terribly wrong with him, be it depression, schizophrenia, whatever, that person likely, if not definitely, has pretty severe psychological problems. I agree that these guys had far too little guidance and support, but I think they would need more guidance and support than normal kids because of what I see as deep-seeded psychological problems.

Sane kids don't shoot random classmates because they're social outcasts.

I think that these kids also probably had bad parents who did not pay NEARLY enough attention to their children, but I think it was more bad parenting coupled with psychological problems that helped fuel this incident. Not merely poor guidance and lonely dejectedness.

It is a perfectly normal thing for young people to crave attention, even use devices to get attention. But when that device is the slaughter of innocent classmates, I think it's safe to say that sanity has gone out the window.

[chucklivesoninmyheart]

I simply used that incident to give an idea of the extent of hell that would be paid on the schools part,not mass murder exactly had I been 'cornerd' so to speak.

The magnitude of my inabilty to 'do' school was eventaully recognized by the courts and like I said,I was pushed along until I could drop out.

I can't identify with those involved with the colombine incident for the random nature of the slaughter.It would make more sense to me had they taken out a conference meeting or people on the board of education to leave their blood to scream for actual change/reform...not classmates.They didn't accomplish anything...not that killing for anything but your own preservation is EVER good or justified,but slightly more understandable than misplaced rage.

[Raskolnikov]

There wasn't anything especially "wrong" with them; they were simply pushed too far with too little guidance or support to get them through it the right way.
I hate to argue with you, Rask, because I know I risk getting pwned in the worst way. However, I think when someone resorts to mass murder, there is something terribly wrong with him, be it depression, schizophrenia, whatever, that person likely, if not definitely, has pretty severe psychological problems. I agree that these guys had far too little guidance and support, but I think they would need more guidance and support than normal kids because of what I see as deep-seeded psychological problems.

Sane kids don't shoot random classmates because they're social outcasts.

I think that these kids also probably had bad parents who did not pay NEARLY enough attention to their children, but I think it was more bad parenting coupled with psychological problems that helped fuel this incident. Not merely poor guidance and lonely dejectedness.

It is a perfectly normal thing for young people to crave attention, even use devices to get attention. But when that device is the slaughter of innocent classmates, I think it's safe to say that sanity has gone out the window.

Check your PMs -- I'm not posting my response here.