Friday, July 30, 2010

Apperantly we fucked up our school?

So i think i mentioned that we got a block schedule in HP High. This block schedule would do 2 things, produce diplomas like crazy and save some money. Teachers voted (teachers voted, im just saying) and decided to pass it. Now if you trace the history of this block scheduling it's been bad. Mr.Correa who is our principal has been pushing this for a really long time. I guess teachers just gave in and gave the man what he wanted. The block scheduling passed and Mr.Correa totally knew he got what he wanted. He held a meeting in where he explained to parents. Many parents were skeptical about the idea but of course, he did not give a fuck because it was already in. All he had to worry about was making sure the school did not go charter. SO CREATE THOSE DIPLOMAS!
Here is how it works.
Many, many schools have this schedule. Ours is slightly different.
*One thing you should know, we are in a track system. I am B track. I go into school for 2 months and go on vacation for 2 months and so on through out the year.
Before we had 6 periods.
a semester was done in 4 months.
We have 2 semesters. making that 8 months for our classes to be over.
Now.
We have 4 periods.
In that time period in which we had 6 classes (4 months)
we now have 8 classes!
Meaning we only have 2 months to finish 2 semesters of work.
After the semester is over, we get new classes.
I have personally always been in honor classes. All of our grades from A-B's have now turned from C's-D's. The work has to go so fast that we have no capacity to understand. I'm greatfull im barely making it.
Currently my grades are...
B
C
C
A
Every grade except the A which is only an elective have not been earned.
I have cheated as much as possible on everything.
Now, since this is so fucked up that not even teachers can handle they decided to blame us. And i quote Mr.Wilkinson "You got yourself into this mess, if you wouldn't have screwed up so much in your CST's we wouldn't have been here in the first place, so stop complaining" This is where i should have received a record player and scratched the record.
So our school has been putting extreme pressure on us because we need to score atleast 601 on our CST's.
Thing is we can't, if we do it again we will be taken over and be converted charter.
Now i have a really BIG problem with this. It's not that i under estimate the student's, it's just the school system got everyone into this mess.
This is where my never ending fight against social promotion comes in.
Social promotion is when a student is moved up a grade (even if the curriculum is not understood)just because they must be with their age group.
I personally think this is unacceptable because i totally recognize i should not be in this level of math. Just to let you know how behind i am, i still don't know my multiplication tables, how to divide and especially how to borrow from a number! Many of the students in many schools are in these same situations. My teacher told me about meetings that he wants me to go to in where they make proposals for the school and other stuff so it made me glad to hear. He really wants Youth Action to voice opinions and be involved in the meetings.I got alot of people wanting to join the group because they want to talk about how they can get out of this mess. Im glad they are looking to Youth Action to stop shit like this, they found their outlet! Tuesday will bring new students to the club and we will decide what we want to do!
Next step for HPHS:Split the school into small schools. One which is being developed as we speak. How will this benefit/affect us? Youth Action will be present.
Now i need to get my mind off of this and listen to some jamzzz...
My sister has been playing this constantly.
SHE FIXED THE COMPUTER!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Home is where ever im with you.

Hey everyone!
Is everyone still there?
Im not sure if you still read this blog because of my constant absence, but i can say i had a small following at first. That felt good. I started Junior year and it sucks really bad. It's an amazing amount of work, my social life was taken away in a matter of days. It's all homework now, morning to night. I can't even organize with the YEJ homies anymore, it sucks. I need to breath sometimes. I went to my first CBE board meeting! Im a board member yall! The meeting was 7 hours long but it was pretty cool to be able to make decisions. The trip, im sorry, but it sucked. It was pretty boring. I liked the way back. Oakland, i hate you and i will always hate you. Iv'e been getting into wanting to review things and posting my mixtapes but im left with no time. Im really suprised i stayed home this saturday, but i just need rest. I also stretched my septum to a 10g if you care. I also saw Defiance, Ohio play! they fucking sucked, and their new album sucks too. I'm so happy i did not get a D,O inspired tattoo, thanks steph but i will totally pass. I wonder if anyone is reading this. I guess it's okay if you don't, it will be my therapy.
GUILTY FUCKING PLEASURE, I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

I think the correct thing to do is grow up before you tell anybody to grow up.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Was that like, a compliment?

Jen: "Oscar, you should do a workshop on talking shit since you do it so much"
Me: "ok?"
Jen: "You should start planning"
Me: "Planning? im ready"

Do i talk shit?
I see it more as REALLY constructive criticism.
If it hurts you then oh well, im not sorry at all.
I heard i should be a counselor.
Fuck that, some answers are just really easy to find.
If you ask me questions you will notice my answers are shit you could have figured out yourself but damnit. I give some good ass advice.