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to those who have graduated high school or went through high school:

now that you think about your high school years,

what do you wish you took more advantage of?
what do you regret the most?
what did you consider the 'best part of high school'?
any tips you'd give to current high school-ers to help them enjoy their high school experience or do well during their high school experience?
are there any mistakes that you made then learned from that you'd want to tip high schoolers about?

any response is great, whether it be deep and thoughtful, or straightforward, any response is welcome.

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The reason I ask is because I feel like I'm having this 'falling out' right now, and I feel like time is slipping by too quickly. I know I'm only 16 and all, but I feel like in a matter of seconds, I'll be 30 and whatnot. Not that I'm saying 30 is a bad age, but I wish I knew how to stay youthful in my mind instead of drowning myself in thoughts concerning my future and later years. I can't help but not think about failure, rejection, becoming unsuccessful...

any ideas/words/thoughts are appreciated. but I'd be grateful enough for a response for my questions above.

I'm thinking, maybe other high school-ers on this forum could also read and learn to help make their high school times enjoyable as well :)

Thanks a lot. (for some reason, just writing this post and asking the questions took a load off my chest. :happy: )
 
This is coming from someone who is in early 30s even though i dont look like that and i dont feel like that(more like your age:)
So, from the perspecitve of someone who is not that mature ...
I dont know.....I didnt think life is so hard sometimes. At your age i was fearless, but that is teenage spirit!I can tell you ...i was going out from the age of 14 until now and that part of my life is more than fulfilled. My regret is ..i wish i was more aware in the sense...you really have tons of possibilities. For example, i suggest to be active in many ways. Dance, join Amnesty , do volonteer work, go out, just do whatever you can for your development and to keep your spirits up. I never thought i would end up like this...no real job, no real boyfriend. and here i am in my 30s!But when i was 16, it seemed far away.I am glad you dont think that way because it really isnt that far! I guess this is my way and for some reason i have to go through more temptations than maybe someone else...I hope you will go through life differently.But there is A LOT you can do for your confidence right now. I suggest:stop dreaming and start doing!because,,,,,dreaming with the tears in my eyes is getting nowhere...i spent too much of my life in dreamers disease even though i did many the things i wrote above in my 20s...
I hope some of this makes sense
P.S. The best part is that feeling of freedom and carelessness...I really had so much fun. Sense of adventure, joy , and....also ....other extreme which is desperation and bad. It was all very intense but thats the beauty, because you really feel so ALIVE. I was in love with Elvis, 50s, boys.....
Enjoy your youth.
 
BonoVoxSupastar said:
I wish I hadn't cared so much about what others thought.

I'm 16 too and that's one of my biggest problems. I feel like I'm getting over that right now, though. I'm myself outside of school, but in school I care too much what other people will think of me (the clothes I wear, etc.)
 
I wish I hadn't cared what other people thought about the way I acted rather than the way I looked. I had no self-confidence - I was too shy to speak out in class and I convinced myself that certain people didn't like me, and instead of changing myself I just became introverted. I wish I'd done the opposite; I wish I'd been myself and just been more positive! I think the attitude I should have had is "this is me, I'm going to be me, and if other people don't like that then fuck them." Now I know that those people I thought I wasn't good enough to be friends with are people I am just as good as (if not better ;) ).

I feel I missed out on loads of fun in my teenage years because I was miserable all the time - I wish I'd made the most of that time when I had no real responsibilities and could get away with messing around. I wish I'd been more rebellious because some of the funnest times I had were skipping classes, drinking and just doing things I knew I shouldn't do. Sharing those kind of experiences with friends are great. But then I guess it would be so easy to go completely off the rails. I think I probably got the balance right in that respect.
 
I know my opinion is probably not worth much as Im only 19 and left college in the summer myself but I agree that you shouldn't care too much about what other people think and how you look.

I spent my whole time at college trying to change myself to fit in and worrying about how I act and looked like - because of this, I found my time at college to be absolutely miserable.
My confidence shot to pieces, I was afraid to speak out and became shy and quiet in college (Im not shy outside of college, but in college I made trying to "fit in" with the rest a priority... and it ruined my time at college).

My advice is simply to just be yourself, be confident/ positive and try to enjoy life during college/ high school.
 
youtooellen said:
I'm thinking, maybe other high school-ers on this forum could also read and learn to help make their high school times enjoyable as well :)

I will for sure be reading! :yes:


I also feel like high school is flying by, and pretty soon I'll wake up and be 30. Right now, everybody's thinking so much about their future-- careers, colleges, life after school, :blahblah: . I'm worried that I'm thinking so much about the future that I'm missing out on the present. I'm already feeling regrets about not 'living' last year! And, as I only have about a year and a half of high school left, I can really feel it slipping away... :|
 
I graduated in 2002...

what do you wish you took more advantage of?

Nothing that I can think of, maybe joining a club, but all my time was spent working and doing gymnastics which I respectively needed and enjoyed more.

what do you regret the most?

Not trying harder to develop better studying habits

what did you consider the 'best part of high school'?

Gymnastics and friends. The friends part was nice b/c just when you're sick of spending nights and weekends w/ friends, you have classes all day that give you space.

any tips you'd give to current high school-ers to help them enjoy their high school experience or do well during their high school experience?

Get over the middle-school drama, grow up and while school is still relatively easy (compared to college), get a job b/c you need to develop responsibility, accountibility, and independence and also a job gives you time away from school work and friends that might be getting on your nerves.

Also, try and do fewer things with more energy. I poured all my time and energy into gymnastics and loved every second of it, still miss it every day. I didn't have time for other sports or clubs, but gymnastics became my "home" and as a result, I developed some lasting friendships and never had to feel bad about myself over how I thought I looked or how people thought I looked. I never thought spending so much time in a leotard in front of mirrors would give me so much self-confidence!

are there any mistakes that you made then learned from that you'd want to tip high schoolers about?

Even if classes are easy, or if you think they're too hard for you to succeed or you think they're not important and you can slack off....take the opportunity to develop good habit with composition, note-taking, and studying b/c unless you're picking a college/university simply b/c it's easy, college will be WAY harder (not so much that the material is harder, but the style of grading/testing is different and expectations are different). Besides technical schools, most high schools are called "college prep" so treat it as such.
 
On the one hand, I say high school isn't nearly as hard as teens like to think it is. It's nice to always be home by 3(ish), to know what you're doing for the next few years, to have some sort of stability.

On the other hand, there's a lot of garbage in high school that I find really irritating.

1.Towards the end of your sophmore year, the teachers and administrators start hammering this 'YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE, IT'S ESSENTIAL THAT YOU FIND A PATH IN LIFE ETC ETC' line into your head and doesn't stop until you graduate. And it's bullshit. There are countless students who change majors once, even twice and three times during college. There are 40 year olds who don't know what they want to do when they grow up.

2.High school teachers/administrators are hypocritical in the sense that one the one hand they tell students that they need to 'be responsible' and 'know what they're going to do with their lives' because 'you're young ADULTS now', etc etc, but on the other hand, they treat students like children with detentions for things that need no detention, not allowing students to have discmans(even just during lunch or breaks between classes), not allowing students to chew gum in class(depending on the teacher), using proxy servers with the schools' internet connection so that students are blocked from any websites containing foul language, lude photos, etc(because we all know 16 year olds never see or use the word fuck). So, they tell students to be adults but they treat them like children.

3.The whole 'cool' thing. Cool is bullshit. Stop caring what people think and do it as quickly as you can. You won't see 99% of the people you go to high school with ever again, so don't spend so much time, energy, and money trying to impress them. Your real friends are the ones who get upset when you try to change your physical appearance or the music you listen to or your attitue just to fit in with somebody else.
 
namkcuR said:


2.High school teachers/administrators are hypocritical in the sense that one the one hand they tell students that they need to 'be responsible' and 'know what they're going to do with their lives' because 'you're young ADULTS now', etc etc, but on the other hand, they treat students like children with detentions for things that need no detention, not allowing students to have discmans(even just during lunch or breaks between classes), not allowing students to chew gum in class(depending on the teacher), using proxy servers with the schools' internet connection so that students are blocked from any websites containing foul language, lude photos, etc(because we all know 16 year olds never see or use the word fuck). So, they tell students to be adults but they treat them like children.

[high school teacher]

Okay, I take issue with this. :wink: I don't believe it's hypocritical to tell a student to take responsibility for his/her actions and then punish them for breaking a rule, whatever the rule may be. Now, I don't care if kids chew gum or eat a piece of candy. Occasionally I'll let them listen to headphones or whatever but if the rule is no headphones/cell phones in school then follow the rule. :shrug:

As for firewalls on school computers, imagine if students could look at any webpage they desired. (porn, download music, videos, games...) Is that how computers in schools should be used? Didn't think so. In addition, websites contain references to weapon, explosives, drugs etc are also blocked for good reason. I don't consider this unreasonable or hypocritical. Schools have the responsibility to students, parents and the community. Allowing students to access sites that tell them how to make a bomb isn't very responsible.

[/high school teacher]

That being said, you coud not pay me to go back to high school. Don't get me wrong, my own high school experiences were great. I only wish I would have gotten better grades. I got into the college of my choice so it doesn't matter in the long run but my college study habits suffered as a result. :wink:
 
I wished I wasn't such a :nerd: and studied and got good grades and stressed over SATs. I had no fun in high school because of that. I wish I was part of the cool crowd. If I had to do it all over again, I would definitely take up smoking so that the other kids would think I was cool.
 
I graduated from high school back in 2000.

what do you regret the most?

That I didn't bother getting autographs in my senior yearbook.

what did you consider the 'best part of high school'?

Any time I could get to have fun with my friends...whether it was passing notes in class or driving around town and complaining about how everything was boring.

any tips you'd give to current high school-ers to help them enjoy their high school experience or do well during their high school experience?

Stay true to your real friends.

are there any mistakes that you made then learned from that you'd want to tip high schoolers about?

I have nothing more to add.
 
I graduated in 2005.

what do you wish you took more advantage of?
Not much. Maybe spend a little more time after school with the teachers in my harder subjects, but that's about it.


what do you regret the most?
No regrets.


what did you consider the 'best part of high school'?
Being President of my Young Democrats club, and making friends.
any tips you'd give to current high school-ers to help them enjoy their high school experience or do well during their high school experience?
Make sure to keep your grades up. You don't need to be straight As, National Honor Society member, etc. to get a decent college, but maintaining good grades will make high school less stressful. Also if you get used to slacking off in high school, you will sink in college, since they do not monitor study habits at all. In high school, you could save a project to the night before, and have it done by 2AM, in college you do that and you'll be lucky to have it done by the begining of class.
are there any mistakes that you made then learned from that you'd want to tip high schoolers about?
No mistakes...
 
I graduated in 1998. I wish I'd actually made some effort in high school, and that I'd taken more than just a handful of AP tests. I never studied or prepared for any exams, and as a result only graduated with a 3.7 gpa. I could have easily been in the top five in my graduating class, but instead ended up 17th because I was too focused on personal issues to bother with school. I don't think it would have changed anything about my life now, because I had a 4.0 in college, graduated early, and was top of my class and that's made absolutely no difference in my life, but I still look back at my high school transcripts with a lot of regret. :slant:
 
Re: Re: back in the day...

I graduated in 2005...

what do you wish you took more advantage of?

I should have interacted with people more, so as to find out more about myself. I was going to say to go out with more girls, but, ultimately, my conclusions remain the same: I don't like young people, in general :shrug:. And yes, I am a young person. I like myself, but I dislike being young and having a lot of foolishness left in me

what do you regret the most?

I should have spread my talents out more, and gotten more involved, even though I dispised how things worked in HS. I should have just dealt with it anyways. I have no regrets as to what i wanted to do, but there is always room for improvement. Overall, HS made me greatly aware of what I was better at and what I was worse at, so it was valuable in experience

*regret: I should have chosen better friends. I have loyalty issues, and I subterfuged them over my weaknesses and hesitency to move up/on from them. They are good freinds, but I ened up becoming isolated in certain cliques. I should have, as I do now, let myself go and be free and who I really am. I conformed to the status quo too much, and, for my personality type, that put me in a position where I could not excell. If I could tell myself one thing as a kid, it would be "Not only is it okay to be an individual (which I was fine with), but that you MUST be an individual, and allow yourself to grow in to your natural you".

This may sound strange coming from me. But I earnestly feel that if I followed such advice, I would actually be able to interact better with other people. Since HS graduation, and late in my senior year, a new kind of confidence has overtaken me, and I would have liked to have developed that sooner. But i was very...... environmentally aware, and never felt like I could be myself in school. That, in and of itself, is half the battle that I lost, because I actually felt that way. Therefore, I never was

myself.

what did you consider the 'best part of high school'?

n/a. But I will thinkabout an answer for you all.... :hmm:.......... besides graduating and moving on with my life, I liked the people. There were a lot of hot girls in my classes, so that was always nice. *I've come up with a regret*

The best part was walking down the halls to my classes. So many reasons.

any tips you'd give to current high school-ers to help them enjoy their high school experience or do well during their high school experience?

Find your own way, and be daring and bold enought to take risks to expand your views and learn about yourself. It is fine to be shy or reserved, and it is fine to be loud and outgoing. But do not limit yourself.

And no matter waht, realize the importance of education. Stop thinking about HS so much, and try to prepare yourself for the real world. However, this is somewhat impossible, because you are not there yet. So in all reality.... just be aware of what you do not and cannot know at this point in your life.

Deal with what you have at the moment, though. Most of all........ there really isn't much you can do wrong. The failure is not learning from your actions and decisions. If you make no progress, you will always stay "in highschool". I would advise against that.


are there any mistakes that you made then learned from that you'd want to tip high schoolers about?

Well, I've already said much in this regard. ..... :hmm: ..... if you are planning on college, then don't be afaid to work. Don't smoke. If you venture into recreational drugs, like alcohal, as you wish, but be responsible. But smoking is just annoying to me.

If HS isn't going so great....... realize that it will be a very insignificant part in your life very soon. If it is going great, realize that it will be a very insignificant part of your life very soon.

Explore and find out what you like. If nothing more, you will check off some things that you DO NOT like, which is just as important.

Relationships mean different things to different people, and are forms of growht. That being said, understand the values of honesty, and avoid BS/drama that is unneccesary.

Most of all..........

KNOW that you are in highschool.
You are NOT an adult.


I say this, because I tried toom uch to be one, and totally detached myself from being a young person, in a negative way. I am not telling anyone to behave like a child or be immature to an extreme, no. Striving for maturity, cultivating oneself, improveing, becoming better, wiser, etc.... is all good.

But understanding that you are a young person is increidibly neccesary. However.... I am unsure of ...... how much one can reall understand this whilst one is in highschool.

Someone told me this several times, and I didn't really understand or care to understand the real message behind it.



Oh, and, if you are ever uncertain when to start a conversation with someone, then that means it is time to do right then. Learning comes in many forms.


One more thing: become aware of your personality. Diversity is important, so being different or fitting in is rather insignificant in the real way of things. We are all connected no matter what. But my point is.... if you learn about yourself, and who you are as far as tendancies, preferences and such...... you can better make decisions about/for yourself, and furthermore, live a more fufilling life, in my opinion.

Personality tests can be helpful in such ways.....
 
namkcuR said:

2.High school teachers/administrators are hypocritical in the sense that one the one hand they tell students that they need to 'be responsible' and 'know what they're going to do with their lives' because 'you're young ADULTS now', etc etc, but on the other hand, they treat students like children with detentions for things that need no detention, not allowing students to have discmans(even just during lunch or breaks between classes), not allowing students to chew gum in class(depending on the teacher), using proxy servers with the schools' internet connection so that students are blocked from any websites containing foul language, lude photos, etc(because we all know 16 year olds never see or use the word fuck). So, they tell students to be adults but they treat them like children.

I agree with the first part, although at my school we could chew gum, have discmans, and usually were allowed to eat and drink during classes unless it bothered someone. My main issue was the administration was never very up front or transparent about serious issues, like bomb threats or deaths or the teacher that was arrested for being a peeping tom (big deal, I went to a private Christian school). They guarded information like nobody's business even though WE'RE the ones paying over $7000 a year for that education.

Anyway, about the porn filters, I've learned through my time as a computer technician for a college that this is mainly for liability reason. For example, say a kid goes home from school with porn pics in his backpack, his mom finds them, grills sonny, sonny says he got them from a friend who printed them in the school computer lab. Now mom is POed that these boys can spend their study halls printing porn at school. So, it's easiest for the school to simply make any chance of that situation disappear. For my college, a small private one costing $20,000 a year and not getting gov't money, we're basically whoring ourselves to the big donors when it all boils down. The donors are wealthy, elderly conservative Christians and don't like it when the residence halls can access porn through a network their donations pay for. It sucks, but that's really how it goes.
 
what do you wish you took more advantage of?
My own brain. It took me until I was in my 30's to realize, I am just as smart as the next person.

what do you regret the most?
I wish I did better in school and not just hung w/friends. I should have taken advantage of the extra help and resources the school offered. Also, I should have furthered my educational college years.

what did you consider the 'best part of high school'?
I actually met my husband to be in high school, but that doesn't happen to everyone.

any tips you'd give to current high school-ers to help them enjoy their high school experience or do well during their high school experience?
Just be yourself don't cave into peer pressure even though it is hard. "Stand up for your rights" Believe in your own ability to accomplish. Stand firm in your beliefs of whats right and wrong, you will be a stronger person for doing so and be respected among your classmates.

are there any mistakes that you made then learned from that you'd want to tip high schoolers about?
The entire school was not going to be my best friend. I shouldn't have tried so hard for people to like me. I didn't care if I was popular but I wanted to be liked at school, because I felt that no one liked me at home. Choose your friends wisely, they can be lifelong if you do so.


I know I'm only 16 and all, but I feel like in a matter of seconds, I'll be 30 and whatnot. Not that I'm saying 30 is a bad age, but I wish I knew how to stay youthful in my mind instead of drowning myself in thoughts concerning my future and later years. I can't help but not think about failure, rejection, becoming unsuccessful...

"Theres no failure here sweetheart, just when you quit."

Okay, heres the dish...I will be the big 40 in the summer, But I feel in my head no older than 19. Thats not easy, considering I'm raising 2 kids. You can't worry about what you don't know will be.
At 40 I am married to that high school sweetheart for 15 years, 2 kids, a house, a dog, I take care of myself very well so I hope you would think I look younger, I wear stylish clothes, Been watching MTV since it first came on, Remember when U2 were just teenagers, I still do not comprimise my beliefs in anyway or form and became a stronger person. I just took up snowboarding 3 years ago and do rather well. I still love u2 and alot of current music. I try not to let things harbour or carry resentments, That will make you old inside and out.

You have got to keep yourself physically active and take care of the body as well as your brain and keep the 5 year old child inside of you where you can reach it.

My husbands says that by now I'm only 27 because he says he married a 12 year old, so 12 + 15 years of marriage = me at 27.
(But the birth certificate says 40)

:giggle: :giggle: :giggle: :giggle: :giggle: :giggle: :giggle: :giggle:
 
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I really milked high school, enjoyed it as much as I could have really.

Advice I would give is don't pin yourself to one group. Teenagers tend to become a stereotype they find the mold they feel most accepted in and fill it. Be more open minded and interact with as many "types" as you can. I know that's not always easy though.

Be a good friend

Realize that you don't know everything and don't grow up faster than you have to. There is no rush.

Oh and DON"T go out the night before your SAT's ... Apply to many different universities :yes:
 
LivLuvAndBootlegMusic said:


I agree with the first part, although at my school we could chew gum, have discmans, and usually were allowed to eat and drink during classes unless it bothered someone. My main issue was the administration was never very up front or transparent about serious issues, like bomb threats or deaths or the teacher that was arrested for being a peeping tom (big deal, I went to a private Christian school). They guarded information like nobody's business even though WE'RE the ones paying over $7000 a year for that education.

Anyway, about the porn filters, I've learned through my time as a computer technician for a college that this is mainly for liability reason. For example, say a kid goes home from school with porn pics in his backpack, his mom finds them, grills sonny, sonny says he got them from a friend who printed them in the school computer lab. Now mom is POed that these boys can spend their study halls printing porn at school. So, it's easiest for the school to simply make any chance of that situation disappear. For my college, a small private one costing $20,000 a year and not getting gov't money, we're basically whoring ourselves to the big donors when it all boils down. The donors are wealthy, elderly conservative Christians and don't like it when the residence halls can access porn through a network their donations pay for. It sucks, but that's really how it goes.

That is THE reason for all of the hypocritical behavior I have described on the part of teachers and administration. They tell the students that they should act like the young adults they are, but when it comes down to it, the students are simply the children of the people who are ultimately paying the salaries of those teachers and administrators, and they simply want to take away any chance they can of the students doing anything that the parents can blame the school for.

It's all about money.
 
namkcuR said:


That is THE reason for all of the hypocritical behavior I have described on the part of teachers and administration. They tell the students that they should act like the young adults they are, but when it comes down to it, the students are simply the children of the people who are ultimately paying the salaries of those teachers and administrators, and they simply want to take away any chance they can of the students doing anything that the parents can blame the school for.

It's all about money.

:tsk: Please. If it was all about money more people would be teachers.

FYI: When students are at school, the school is acting as guardian. As guardian, the school has the right to make decisions about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate. Moreover, young adults do not have the same rights as adults. AND, as taxpayers parents have the right to have input on school rules, which I have already referenced. If students' parents don't want them looking at porn, and teachers and administrators don't want students looking at porn, young adult or not, they will not be allowed to look at porn.
 
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namkcuR said:


That is THE reason for all of the hypocritical behavior I have described on the part of teachers and administration. They tell the students that they should act like the young adults they are, but when it comes down to it, the students are simply the children of the people who are ultimately paying the salaries of those teachers and administrators, and they simply want to take away any chance they can of the students doing anything that the parents can blame the school for.

It's all about money.

as a first year teacher, i dont see how we're being the least bit hyprocritical...we do what we do and we enfore the rules we do for the protection of the students. We're responsible for them from literally the moment they walk out their door in the morning until the moment they set foot back in their house. while it might be ok for one kid to look at porn, little sally sitting next to the little hornball might be offended by it. We take away things because it endangers others and doesnt promote a good learning environment.
 
WildHoneyAlways said:


:tsk: Please. If it was all about money more people would be teachers.

FYI: When students are at school, the school is acting as guardian. As guardian, the school has the right to make decisions about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate. Moreover, young adults do not have the same rights as adults. AND, as taxpayers parents have the right to have input on school rules, which I have already referenced. If students' parents don't want them looking at porn, and teachers and administrators don't want students looking at porn, young adult or not, they will not be allowed to look at porn.

Regarding money, I was referring more to the money that belongs to the school district - going back to the liability thing, schools don't students to do anything that will make parents unhappy enough to do anything that would cost the school/school district money to resolve. That's what I meant.

I am and have been aware of the guardianship thing. I don't like it, but I am aware of it. Take the internet example: I don't think any 16 or 17 year old is dumb enough to look for porn at school - the main problem with the proxies is that legitimate web sites that students might need for school purposes are sometimes blocked because the word 'shit' might be used one time or something - but for this example let's imagine they are. Let's imagine I'm in high school, 17 years old, with parents that don't want me looking at porn, and I do look at it at school. My parents somehow find out about it. Now, if they want to punish me, they can go right ahead, they're my parents and that's what parents do. But I hate it when principle or vice principle or anyone like that, an adult that I barely know, tries to tell me what is and isn't good for me. He/she doesn't know me, how can he/she know what's good for me? Let my parents decide that. As far as my parents go(keep in mind this is all a scenario, I'm 21 now), I can't stand parents that blame the school. No teacher or administrator forced me to look at the porn. I did it. I opened the web browser, I typed the web address in, I pressed enter, I saved some of the pictures I saw. I did it. I knew what I was doing. Nobody forced me into or told me to do. I did it, knowing you didn't want me to. So ground me. You're my parents, I broke your rule, ground me. Doesn't that make more sense than whining to the schools about it? WHY should it be their responsibility? It's YOUR responsibility because YOU are my parents. YOU are my rolemodels. YOU are the ones that know me well enough to decide what's good for me or not. NOT the school.

That's my point of view anyway. You'll probably disagree, and that's fine.
 
It's not that I disagree. It's just that while a child is a school, the school is responsible. In fact, I wish more parents would stop treating schools as daycare centers. But, the sad fact is that in some instances schools are the most stable places for kids.
 
WildHoneyAlways said:
It's not that I disagree. It's just that while a child is a school, the school is responsible. In fact, I wish more parents would stop treating schools as daycare centers. But, the sad fact is that in some instances schools are the most stable places for kids.

well said. i teach in a city school, and most of my students are on food stamps or have a parent in prison or dead. They certainly dont have good role models at home...thats why teachers need to build good character traits and help make them model and viable citizens in society. we need to be the role models for them and we need to show them what is right and what is wrong. otherwise, they'll never learn it
 
I graduated in 1997 (Man I feel old saying this after seeing so many having graduated in the 2000 years,lol)

what do you wish you took more advantage of?

Though I got pretty good grades I wish I had taken advantage of my teacher's advice more. My first year of college was a MAJOR wake up call!

what do you regret the most?

Letting petty drama end some friendships and caring too damn much about what others thought

what did you consider the 'best part of high school'?

Defininetly have to say friends! Personally for me the last 2 years of high school just got even better in that area. Have so many great memories.

any tips you'd give to current high school-ers to help them enjoy their high school experience or do well during their high school experience?

Just be yourself and enjoy the time while you are there! 4 years really does fly by fast. Also don't slack on your studying or fail to creat good work habits. You really need that preparation for college. I attended a technical high school so I was lucky enough to get early training in the cj field. Gave me a jump start on my chosen career field. Whatever advice your teachers have listen to them as they have been there and done that already!
 
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