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!

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