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I don't know about your highschool, but mine was possibly the most liberal highschool on the planet. I'll give some of the examples I remember.
My Ancieny History teacher carefully explained to us why Christians were idiots and how a good knowledge of the origion of religions proved they were all just evolutions of previous beleifs.
My English teacher was a vegan, lesbian, hippy who believed every aspect of Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.
My Drama teacher called in month sick to become a human sheild in Baghdad. My Music teacher spoked pot in her car between classes.
We once staged a schoolwide strike over the War in Iraq. Rather then suspending us, as was the Department policy at the time, the Pirncipal broakered a deal whereby we went back to class to complete assesment only. Then if we did that he would join. True to his word he did.
My art teacher had us make anti-whaling picket signs.

There's more, but you get the jist. I very much doubt there is a more liberal highschool out there. Anyway, tell us about your High School.

Pretty libbie...

LEt me guess, the Northeast or California?

And?

By the way: gist*

dang that sounds like a pretty awesome school.

uhhh...i used to hang out at my literature teacher's house and we'd have a couple beers or get stoned and watch ren and stimpy. nothing else really of interest, just a bunch of horribly inexperienced and dumbass teachers...that's why i left.

From what I can remember, most of my teachers, well, the few that expressed political opinions, fell on the independent/Republican side of the fence. The parents in the town in which I grew up wouldn't have tolerated that hippie stuff from the teachers. My school was like 15% Mormon. No joke. We even had a hill called "Mormon Hill" where all the Mormons congregated to have lunch. No Protestants allowed! But seriously, yeah, you've got a weird school.

I'm surprised you learned anything. :D

Mine? I couldn't tell you, as I kept my head down, didn't answer questions, and just passed tests. I got out and I'm busy forgetting I ever attended that hellhole.

dang that sounds like a pretty awesome school.

uhhh...i used to hang out at my literature teacher's house and we'd have a couple beers or get stoned and watch ren and stimpy. nothing else really of interest, just a bunch of horribly inexperienced and dumbass teachers...that's why i left.

Ren and Stimpy is a most exellent show to watch while stoned.

My school was apolitical. The teachers never gave away their political stances, and followed the national curriculum emphasising democracy, equality, human rights and education as close as they could.

I liked my school.

It's funny, but I go to school in SoCal, but my school is extremely conservative, but it promotes free thought and half our students are Jewish...On the other hand, just about all of my teachers are right wing...

Edit: No, the teachers weren't supposed to give away their political stand point, but it's obvious from their lectures...

I'd agree with Rush on this. He states that public high schools are liberal breeding grounds. :headbang: No more libs! :headbang:

Ren and Stimpy is a most exellent show to watch while stoned.

indeed it is. you have good taste, my friend.

From what I can remember, most of my teachers, well, the few that expressed political opinions, fell on the independent/Republican side of the fence. The parents in the town in which I grew up wouldn't have tolerated that hippie stuff from the teachers. My school was like 15% Mormon. No joke. We even had a hill called "Mormon Hill" where all the Mormons congregated to have lunch. No Protestants allowed! But seriously, yeah, you've got a weird school.
My school was like 70% Catholic, which probally explains the hippines... Catholics really are the worst Christians...

I don't know about your highschool, but mine was possibly the most liberal highschool on the planet. I'll give some of the examples I remember.
My Ancieny History teacher carefully explained to us why Christians were idiots and how a good knowledge of the origion of religions proved they were all just evolutions of previous beleifs.
My English teacher was a vegan, lesbian, hippy who believed every aspect of Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.
My Drama teacher called in month sick to become a human sheild in Baghdad. My Music teacher spoked pot in her car between classes.
We once staged a schoolwide strike over the War in Iraq. Rather then suspending us, as was the Department policy at the time, the Pirncipal broakered a deal whereby we went back to class to complete assesment only. Then if we did that he would join. True to his word he did.
My art teacher had us make anti-whaling picket signs.



There's more, but you get the jist. I very much doubt there is a more liberal highschool out there. Anyway, tell us about your High School.

Your school didn't receive any public funding, I assume?

My history teacher was openly conservative, yet refused to discuss current events with any of the students and did not let his political views affect how the classes were taught.

My chemistry teacher was anti-Bush, and it annoyed the hell out of me that she felt it was important that her students know how dumb Bush was. I don't know what annoyed me most about this. The fact that her rants had nothing to do with chemistry, or the fact that she wasn't exactly the brightest teacher I'd ever had (as I was the one teacher my chemistry class, and she got pissed when I asked questions she couldn't answer, although, those were the only questions I asked, because all the questions she could answer, I already looked up in the text book).

Your school didn't receive any public funding, I assume?
Indeed we did. We also managed to negotiate 2/3 of a neighbouring schools sports budget for our drama department. Our Principal had... friends.... *sneaky glances*

I'd agree with Rush on this. He states that public high schools are liberal breeding grounds. :headbang: No more libs! :headbang:

Rush "The Women and Gays and Liberals and Heathens Caused 9/11" Limbaugh? Rush "My cereal is pain medication" Limbaugh? You agree with this junkie?

Bwahahahaha!

liberals? more like a bunch of idiots...

but then again, they were/are teachers...

I'd agree with Rush on this. He states that public high schools are liberal breeding grounds. :headbang: No more libs! :headbang:
BS, I go to a public high school and it's like a damn prison...we are pretty much as opressed as it gets...I actually started a protest of new school policies and had a good portion of all four grades (about 500) and they called the police...even though it was peaceful protest....

at my high school we got a new principal and we named him mr. stalin cause our ole principal was called mr. Machitler because he outlawed being mean to freshman :(

Rush "The Women and Gays and Liberals and Heathens Caused 9/11" Limbaugh? Rush "My cereal is pain medication" Limbaugh? You agree with this junkie?

Bwahahahaha!




Actually, Rush is right. One of the main reasons for the attack by the the terrorists was American immorality. As they were the ones who made the assault, I think they would know why they did so :p

BS, I go to a public high school and it's like a damn prison...we are pretty much as opressed as it gets...I actually started a protest of new school policies and had a good portion of all four grades (about 500) and they called the police...even though it was peaceful protest....



Because you do not have the right to protest in school. School is an authoritarian system, not a democratic one. The rules are decided by the school board and not dissenting students. The sooner you learn to accept it, the better :D

at my high school we got a new principal and we named him mr. stalin cause our ole principal was called mr. Machitler because he outlawed being mean to freshman :(

I remember stuffing my first freshman into a locker like it was only yesterday.


Memories...

Most liberal policy our school had was it's attitude to Health and Safety regulations. I still remember the Chemistry departments first-class fume cupboards. They whisked away all the noxious chemicals and poisonous subtances and pumped them safely and humanely into the Maths classroom above.

What about the dress codes?

My High School wasn't really intelligent enough to develop anything that might be considered sophisticated political beleifs. I never really got the chance to discern anyones' ideologies: the teachers likewise refused passing such judgement in most cases, although I don't remember any real objections to my libertarian propaganda.

In 10th grade, my history teacher was the only one in the room who understood the reference when I banged my shoe on my desk like a gavel for attention during a [comparatively] heated debate between capitalism and communism.

Capitalism won.

What about the dress codes?
I've seen Armies with less strict drees codes then ours was...

My school was like 70% Catholic, which probally explains the hippines... Catholics really are the worst Christians...

The second sentence really wasn't necessary at all. That statement is considered trolling, by simply stating that, you're bound to upset a lot of other people. Don't do that again.

OH! I miss the mock UN thing they made us do in Social Studies... Except they gave us too much free reign and ended with trade sanctions against America... that and the made the mistake of making me France.

The next one we did went a bit better, except they made me Indonesia, big mistake. I intended up convincing everyone that East Timor was a rogue communist state breeding terrorists and that Indonesia should be able to re-occupy it.

The second sentence really wasn't necessary at all. That statement is considered trolling, by simply stating that, you're bound to upset a lot of other people. Don't do that again.
I'll reword it. Because I'm actually refering to myself and my friends, who are all Catholics.

Well, I recently started taking the class European History AP and the entire class failed their first two quizzes...literally...

Well, I recently started taking the class European History AP and the entire class failed their first two quizzes...literally...
A true tribute to your education system... :p

No, but seriously that's a little concerning.

It was expected actually...The course was particularly challenging...Only 6 people out of a class of 38 passed the quiz today...

My school was pretty 'liberal.' not like that, though. My US History teacher was a Gulf War vet, my Physics teacher was a former frat boy and jock, we had teachers from other countries(usually our sister schools in Mexico & Japan), we headed the MUN in our city which we also participated in, had a sohpmore trip to mexico, annually had fundraisers for some cause or another, had mock elections. no one was stupid enough to be a 'human shield' in Iraq. (yes, i said stupid. ask a grunt and they'll tell you, you're insane to stand in front of bullets) although, one of the smartest girls i knew did smoke pot... other than that, it was a regular 15-student a class school.
ahh, ISA, how i miss thee...

A true tribute to your education system... :p

No, but seriously that's a little concerning.

Anyone teaching any subject can easily make their students fail. It doesn't mean they are stupid...I'd be more concerned about the teacher's ability.

During my undergrad, the physics department went on "probation" for failing too many students. The tests for intro. were freakin' impossible.

Wow, that almost tops mine.

- K thru 12
- Over half the high school is openly bi or gay
- Social Studies teacher's door is covered with bumper stickers such as "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people"
- Classroom itself filled with posters of quotes such as "When I give food to the poor they call me a saint; when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist."
- Math teacher makes no pretense about preferring you to skip class rather than attend and be disruptive.
- The school psychologist, 7th/8th grade science teacher, and one of the 1-2 mixed class teachers are all openly gay.
- In 9th grade English, we got a book set in Afghanistan in 1976. Then Africa in 1959.
- Out of almost a hundred people voting in the student mock election, 6 voted for Bush.
- When the actual results came in, the phenomenon that swept over the school quickly had a name: election depression.
- The school was started in 1968. It was dubbed "experimental" until the 80's.
- Above the bathrooms the mural is of a man and woman opposite each other, completely nude with leaves and the woman's hair strategically placed.

I sorta understand what you're talking about Rotovia, I went to a Catholic HS and it was pretty left wing although our teachers (at least the lay ones) were for the most part competent and kept their politics out of the classroom. We had a few (well 2) rightwingers too, including our physics teacher/debate coach who was somewhere to the right of Friedman. We used to get sister Sxxxx (ex-nun) onto politics sometimes after school and she was a pretty straightforward Marxist. Serious alcholism among the teaching brothers though, the staff got seriously depleted whenever they had to run a detox retreat during the school year.

Ah High School...that was about ten years ago. The area that I live in, all the private (Catholic and Lutheran schools) and 1 room schools (yes we still have them and now I pay insane taxes on one) would converage on the public school at 9th grade. Which made it quite interesting...because until then, it was basically WASPie city kids in the school.

None of the teachers were overly political, but the two biggest issues I had was the policies against showing any affection in school and the Drama club was privatized. I actually got a lunch time suspension for three months where the girl I was dating and I had to be at opposite ends of the school during lunch, so we wouldn't hug each other in the open. The stupid part was, even after we broke up, we still had to stay away from each other (well...actually that was kinda nice).

I live in a heavy farming and industrial community, so 90% of the schools funding went to agroculture classes or math and science. Which was ok, but any art or expression classes got nothing. Our drama "teacher" was actually a volunteer who didn't work for the school and after rehearsals, we had to go around and solicite money from people and business's for money to do the plays.

The hardest to get money for was "Godspell". It wasn't so much that a public school was doing a semi-religious play, but the fact that the only person we had who could properly play the part of Jesus was a woman. So the whole Mary Magnalin (spelling?) thing turned into a huge lesbian scene. The highly religions sects in the area where on the verge of protesting the play.

My technology teacher would come back from lunch with burnt fingernails because he forgot his roach clip. We made monkey-shaped bongs, and inhaled plastic fumes in class. We also stole the physics teacher's cigarettes and made her cry on a weekly basis. The French teacher paid me $10 to clean his desk and not destroy any of the porn. I regularly found vodka bottles, cigarettes, and dirty forks in the desk drawers. The Spanish teacher was a dirty old man with a closet full of porno magazines.(Another paid cleaning attempt)

When I was a sophomore, the Latin II teacher had a nervous breakdown and left.

I'm on my 3rd high school right now (Not counting the year of homeschooling). Rather liked both of the first two and I don't start the 3rd until September 12.

The first one - Self paced program. This is a BAD idea for Neaness, as she is TERRIBLE with self control and ended up spending 3 years doing grade 9. At the end of the year, you didn't start over, you just carried over everything you hadn't finished. It was a nice school, though - everyone was friendly. Half of the student population was gay or bi, and about half that weren't even doing it for the attention. The last year I was there, the Home Ec. teachers put together the 'Bathroom Beautification Team' and hired some of the better artists to paint murals in the bathroom. One particularly narcissistic artist painted a nude of himself ... in the girl's washroom. Nobody complained. They BBT also kept fresh soaps and various hair products in the girls' bathrooms. Dunno about the guys'. Of the 2 major local high schools, it was the arts one, where everyone was nice to eachother and most people were talented at some form of the arts. The other high school is the sports school and is famous for getting people beat up. Nobody stopped you from taking off during the school day (self paced, remember?), and since the school was near a river and a bunch of forests, you could often find huge clumps of students smoking pot in a totally picturesque forest clearing. People went swimming, and I damn near got laid once. So not much incentive to go to school.


Second high school: A small alternate school (not to be confused with an alternative school). Mostly for people who don't do well in regular school, or for teen parents (There's a daycare program.) The kids were mostly idiots (I say this because it was a school of 100 and I knew the half that attended,) and a lot of them weren't too nice. I was amused at the grasp of the language (or lack thereof) demonstrated. I never got up the nerve to publicly air my rant: "Pimp is a NOUN, not an ADJECTIVE! When was the last time you saw that girl's shirt hire out women for profit? Never? Damn straight." Also, some things said by my classmates totally bewildered me, and have stuck in my mind forever. For example, "The 49th parallel is OFF THE HOOK." The teachers were pretty cool, though. The science teacher burned the first season of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays onto discs for me, and he allowed me to write tests completely in pig latin (I got 100% on that one.) The social studies teacher just knew how to totally captivate a bunch of uninterested 15-18 year olds, and everyone loves his class. The english teacher ... well, a lot of people didn't like her, but I did. She appreciated me because I was smart and she was frustrated. The TAs were awesome, too. The school didn't have anyone qualified to teach Math 11, so one of the TAs was basically my 1-on-1 teacher for the entire course.



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When I was a sophomore, the Latin II teacher had a nervous breakdown and left.


My grade 8 homeroom teacher was awful. Her previous students warned the class to beware her wrath and she was considered the worst teacher in the whole school. I made her cry on a weekly basis and she left the school district at the end of the year. She cited us being the 'worst class ever' as her reason.

I kinda feel bad about that.

My grade 8 homeroom teacher was awful. Her previous students warned the class to beware her wrath and she was considered the worst teacher in the whole school. I made her cry on a weekly basis and she left the school district at the end of the year. She cited us being the 'worst class ever' as her reason.

I kinda feel bad about that.


I don't feel bad about it,lol. The guy was wound too tight, and I wasn't even in his class. Seriously, he broke a couple of yardsticks over desks before he finally cracked.

Wow, that almost tops mine.

- K thru 12
- Over half the high school is openly bi or gay
- Social Studies teacher's door is covered with bumper stickers such as "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people"
- Classroom itself filled with posters of quotes such as "When I give food to the poor they call me a saint; when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist."
- Math teacher makes no pretense about preferring you to skip class rather than attend and be disruptive.
- The school psychologist, 7th/8th grade science teacher, and one of the 1-2 mixed class teachers are all openly gay.
- In 9th grade English, we got a book set in Afghanistan in 1976. Then Africa in 1959.
- Out of almost a hundred people voting in the student mock election, 6 voted for Bush.
- When the actual results came in, the phenomenon that swept over the school quickly had a name: election depression.
- The school was started in 1968. It was dubbed "experimental" until the 80's.
- Above the bathrooms the mural is of a man and woman opposite each other, completely nude with leaves and the woman's hair strategically placed.
Not bad, but a clsoe second to mine my friend.

I sorta understand what you're talking about Rotovia, I went to a Catholic HS and it was pretty left wing although our teachers (at least the lay ones) were for the most part competent and kept their politics out of the classroom. We had a few (well 2) rightwingers too, including our physics teacher/debate coach who was somewhere to the right of Friedman. We used to get sister Sxxxx (ex-nun) onto politics sometimes after school and she was a pretty straightforward Marxist. Serious alcholism among the teaching brothers though, the staff got seriously depleted whenever they had to run a detox retreat during the school year.
lol. This is just an observation, but Catholics seem to sit more left of centre then protestants

Ah High School...that was about ten years ago. The area that I live in, all the private (Catholic and Lutheran schools) and 1 room schools (yes we still have them and now I pay insane taxes on one) would converage on the public school at 9th grade. Which made it quite interesting...because until then, it was basically WASPie city kids in the school.

None of the teachers were overly political, but the two biggest issues I had was the policies against showing any affection in school and the Drama club was privatized. I actually got a lunch time suspension for three months where the girl I was dating and I had to be at opposite ends of the school during lunch, so we wouldn't hug each other in the open. The stupid part was, even after we broke up, we still had to stay away from each other (well...actually that was kinda nice).

I live in a heavy farming and industrial community, so 90% of the schools funding went to agroculture classes or math and science. Which was ok, but any art or expression classes got nothing. Our drama "teacher" was actually a volunteer who didn't work for the school and after rehearsals, we had to go around and solicite money from people and business's for money to do the plays.

The hardest to get money for was "Godspell". It wasn't so much that a public school was doing a semi-religious play, but the fact that the only person we had who could properly play the part of Jesus was a woman. So the whole Mary Magnalin (spelling?) thing turned into a huge lesbian scene. The highly religions sects in the area where on the verge of protesting the play.
lmao

My technology teacher would come back from lunch with burnt fingernails because he forgot his roach clip. We made monkey-shaped bongs, and inhaled plastic fumes in class. We also stole the physics teacher's cigarettes and made her cry on a weekly basis. The French teacher paid me $10 to clean his desk and not destroy any of the porn. I regularly found vodka bottles, cigarettes, and dirty forks in the desk drawers. The Spanish teacher was a dirty old man with a closet full of porno magazines.(Another paid cleaning attempt)

When I was a sophomore, the Latin II teacher had a nervous breakdown and left.
That's funny and scary at the same time. I'm not sure which side I'm leaning to more.

I'm on my 3rd high school right now (Not counting the year of homeschooling). Rather liked both of the first two and I don't start the 3rd until September 12.

The first one - Self paced program. This is a BAD idea for Neaness, as she is TERRIBLE with self control and ended up spending 3 years doing grade 9. At the end of the year, you didn't start over, you just carried over everything you hadn't finished. It was a nice school, though - everyone was friendly. Half of the student population was gay or bi, and about half that weren't even doing it for the attention. The last year I was there, the Home Ec. teachers put together the 'Bathroom Beautification Team' and hired some of the better artists to paint murals in the bathroom. One particularly narcissistic artist painted a nude of himself ... in the girl's washroom. Nobody complained. They BBT also kept fresh soaps and various hair products in the girls' bathrooms. Dunno about the guys'. Of the 2 major local high schools, it was the arts one, where everyone was nice to eachother and most people were talented at some form of the arts. The other high school is the sports school and is famous for getting people beat up. Nobody stopped you from taking off during the school day (self paced, remember?), and since the school was near a river and a bunch of forests, you could often find huge clumps of students smoking pot in a totally picturesque forest clearing. People went swimming, and I damn near got laid once. So not much incentive to go to school.


Second high school: A small alternate school (not to be confused with an alternative school). Mostly for people who don't do well in regular school, or for teen parents (There's a daycare program.) The kids were mostly idiots (I say this because it was a school of 100 and I knew the half that attended,) and a lot of them weren't too nice. I was amused at the grasp of the language (or lack thereof) demonstrated. I never got up the nerve to publicly air my rant: "Pimp is a NOUN, not an ADJECTIVE! When was the last time you saw that girl's shirt hire out women for profit? Never? Damn straight." Also, some things said by my classmates totally bewildered me, and have stuck in my mind forever. For example, "The 49th parallel is OFF THE HOOK." The teachers were pretty cool, though. The science teacher burned the first season of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays onto discs for me, and he allowed me to write tests completely in pig latin (I got 100% on that one.) The social studies teacher just knew how to totally captivate a bunch of uninterested 15-18 year olds, and everyone loves his class. The english teacher ... well, a lot of people didn't like her, but I did. She appreciated me because I was smart and she was frustrated. The TAs were awesome, too. The school didn't have anyone qualified to teach Math 11, so one of the TAs was basically my 1-on-1 teacher for the entire course.



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I want my cookie...

My grade 8 homeroom teacher was awful. Her previous students warned the class to beware her wrath and she was considered the worst teacher in the whole school. I made her cry on a weekly basis and she left the school district at the end of the year. She cited us being the 'worst class ever' as her reason.

I kinda feel bad about that.
Call it karma

The thing that sucked about my highschool was that all the students were so average. No goths, no punks, no skins. Everyone was just.... mediocre :(

The thing that sucked about my highschool was that all the students were so average. No goths, no punks, no skins. Everyone was just.... mediocre :(
That WOULD suck. Mine had it all. Goths, Punks, "Gangstas", Jesus Freaks, Teeny Boppers, Uber Nerds, etc. They were all there... good times.

They espoused the vitures of Communium and how Nuclear war would kill mankind. Our Social Studies teacher once held a demonstation with us by setting up 50 matches lined up head to head on every desk !

He said it is fool hardy to wage war by nukes you would destroy everything ! He had paper buildings made up around each match pile and boasted no one would start the war.

I lite the first match in a pre-emtive strike to kill his country and free my people from his aggrisive overlords! The ensuing paper fire set of the smoke alarms and cleared the school! I was proud to have nuked his arse.

He never used that teaching tool again.

My school had too many perverted teachers. I found it quite amazing that the only people in my chemistry class that passed happened to wear really short skirts, and tops that showed alot of cleavage, on test days. The same went for my algebra class. My Calculus class wasn't bad at all. As a matter of fact my calc teacher was awesome. He was a member of the NSA back during the cold war. He definatly had some interesting stories.

BTW you wouldn't happen to be from Oregon, somewhere near Eugene, would you?

They espoused the vitures of Communium and how Nuclear war would kill mankind. Our Social Studies teacher once held a demonstation with us by setting up 50 matches lined up head to head on every desk !

He said it is fool hardy to wage war by nukes you would destroy everything ! He had paper buildings made up around each match pile and boasted no one would start the war.

I lite the first match in a pre-emtive strike to kill his country and free my people from his aggrisive overlords! The ensuing paper fire set of the smoke alarms and cleared the school! I was proud to have nuked his arse.

He never used that teaching tool again.
That reminds me of my science teacher Mrs Chan. Not because of the Vietnamese thing, because she was Chinese, but because she was insane. Every lesson started with "ALL RISE AND REMAIN STANDING FOR FIVE MINUTE!!!! KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! SCIENCE IS KNOWLEDGE!"

The best lesson was one where she tried to get us to light matches with a magnifying glass... after just completing an exteriment involving highly flamable liquids... in a flimsy wooden building (not science labs)...

My school had too many perverted teachers. I found it quite amazing that the only people in my chemistry class that passed happened to wear really short skirts, and tops that showed alot of cleavage, on test days. The same went for my algebra class. My Calculus class wasn't bad at all. As a matter of fact my calc teacher was awesome. He was a member of the NSA back during the cold war. He definatly had some interesting stories.

BTW you wouldn't happen to be from Oregon, somewhere near Eugene, would you?
If I told you, I'd have to kill you...

If I told you, I'd have to kill you...
well somewhere near Eugene is unspecific, coming from someone like me, it means everything in the southwest corner of Oregon

That WOULD suck. Mine had it all. Goths, Punks, "Gangstas", Jesus Freaks, Teeny Boppers, Uber Nerds, etc. They were all there... good times.
Yeah. I had hair to my ears and suddenly I was the rocker. I mean: wtf?

Once some Pikies set up camp on one of the football/rugby fields.
They buried a dog in our long jump pit. Memories...

My grade 8 homeroom teacher was awful. Her previous students warned the class to beware her wrath and she was considered the worst teacher in the whole school. I made her cry on a weekly basis and she left the school district at the end of the year. She cited us being the 'worst class ever' as her reason.

I kinda feel bad about that.
I' was in a few classes that earned that distinction! HEHEHE

My school was 99% white, but half full of wiggers. (no offense intended, don't know how else to phrase it!) Odd thing is, they were like wierd wigger/skater hybrids. The rest were all farmers and country boys. Oddly enough, EVERYONE got along, and we had some big ass parties. Basically, EVERYONE was on drugs.

I don't know about your highschool, but mine was possibly the most liberal highschool on the planet. I'll give some of the examples I remember.
My Ancieny History teacher carefully explained to us why Christians were idiots and how a good knowledge of the origion of religions proved they were all just evolutions of previous beleifs.
My English teacher was a vegan, lesbian, hippy who believed every aspect of Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.
My Drama teacher called in month sick to become a human sheild in Baghdad. My Music teacher spoked pot in her car between classes.
We once staged a schoolwide strike over the War in Iraq. Rather then suspending us, as was the Department policy at the time, the Pirncipal broakered a deal whereby we went back to class to complete assesment only. Then if we did that he would join. True to his word he did.
My art teacher had us make anti-whaling picket signs.

There's more, but you get the jist. I very much doubt there is a more liberal highschool out there. Anyway, tell us about your High School.
sounds pretty damn cool to me - kinda wish i'd gone there :)

mine was a secondary school (equivalent of high school i guess) called King Edward VI School. it celebrated its 450th anniversary the year i left having been founded by the king way back in 1554 - while i was there i used to like telling americans that my school was older than their country :P
it was a selective private school and got loads of money from the dude who discovered penicillin... cos he went there - so our science dept was huge. conversely religious education was compulsory till the 3rd year (out of 7) but we only had 2 teachers for the subject to cover over 1400 students... lets just say it wasn't high on the adgenda ;) after 3rd year it turned into philosophy which was faaar more interesting

teacher-wize, pretty boring lot - mostly oxons (ex-oxbridge people); we had one millionaire biology teacher who taught for fun (and he was a fucking pervert); a typically strict set of rules and a suitably over-strict deputy head to carry them out; a music teacher who got fired for having an affair with one of the sixth formers (she was hot as hell... i don't blame the dude :p); and my economics teacher turned out to be (and get fired for being) a homosexual pedofile. shame, that, cos he was a really good teacher :(
though i swear the art teachers smoked pot, too :P

all in all, quite strict and establishment-esque school, really; but not everyone who went there was posh/'upper class' (myself and my friends certainly aren't for a start)




edit: i'll never forget what one of my mates, who transferred to the school in the lower 6th form said to me... "my parents sent me to this posh school to try and sort me out and get me some discipline, but the reality of it is all these rich kids can just afford more drugs!" :p

My highschool was pretty good, albeit run of the mill.

- Music teacher changed every 2 years.
- Unenforced authoritarian (ie they had quite authoritarian rules but never enforced them. Example: not going across the road for lunch).
- Decent teachers.
- I was the one who would correct the teachers spelling.
- I was the only one with my surname for the whole time. I was also the only person with my first name for a few years.

Mind, one of my English teachers wasn't the world's best spellers. Sure as hell knew what she was on about though (ie knew the course, which is what matters).

My Ancieny History teacher carefully explained to us why Christians were idiots and how a good knowledge of the origion of religions proved they were all just evolutions of previous beleifs.

This one is not a "liberal" view. "Liberality" is defined as presenting a multitiude of arguments, and allowing the audience to define their own views from the multitude presented. Statement and proof of one singular view, does not make one "liberal"; it makes one highly conservative.


My English teacher was a vegan, lesbian, hippy who believed every aspect of Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.

Also not a "liberal" view.


My Drama teacher called in month sick to become a human sheild in Baghdad.

They also should have been fired for violating contract....


My Music teacher spoked pot in her car between classes.

I'm for the freedom of people to do all they want. Your music teacher should also have been fired for not living up to their required duties.


We once staged a schoolwide strike over the War in Iraq. Rather then suspending us, as was the Department policy at the time, the Pirncipal broakered a deal whereby we went back to class to complete assesment only. Then if we did that he would join. True to his word he did.

School strike? Y'all should have been suspended. School is a learning enviroment.


My art teacher had us make anti-whaling picket signs.

As long as she doesn't use them, that's fine.


There's more, but you get the jist. I very much doubt there is a more liberal highschool out there. Anyway, tell us about your High School.

Except, not one single item even approached "liberal", not by what "liberal" actually means. My H.S. was far more "liberal"..... Our teachers remained neutral, gave us students all the information, allowed us to form our own independent ideas, which made Kellam far, far, FAR more liberal...

I graduated in 1984. Our teachers varied quite a bit in personality and teaching style but their political and social commentary were quite bland. I can't really blame them though since a teacher could be fired back then for expressing a personal opinion or preference with regard to those issues.

My highschool was pretty diverse. I met and hung out with black folks, Asians, Jews, Hispanics, and various types of White folks. No real racial problems. People got along as people, not as races.

Being on the wrestling team was cool too. As the school's only decent sports team we got a pass on most of the trouble we got into. I once got in a fight and slammed a guy's face into a brick wall a few times, only got three days suspension. Also I once brought homemade napalm to school on a bet, then decided to napalm one of the toilets. Got caught before igniting it by Coach Capone, the freshman wrestling coach. What should have gotten me expelled was downgraded to "smoking in the boys room" and only got me another three day suspension. My teammates and I were like royalty in the faculty's eyes. It's good to be the king.

I don't know about your highschool, but mine was possibly the most liberal highschool on the planet. I'll give some of the examples I remember.
My Ancieny History teacher carefully explained to us why Christians were idiots and how a good knowledge of the origion of religions proved they were all just evolutions of previous beleifs.
My English teacher was a vegan, lesbian, hippy who believed every aspect of Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.
My Drama teacher called in month sick to become a human sheild in Baghdad. My Music teacher spoked pot in her car between classes.
We once staged a schoolwide strike over the War in Iraq. Rather then suspending us, as was the Department policy at the time, the Pirncipal broakered a deal whereby we went back to class to complete assesment only. Then if we did that he would join. True to his word he did.
My art teacher had us make anti-whaling picket signs.

There's more, but you get the jist. I very much doubt there is a more liberal highschool out there. Anyway, tell us about your High School.

Wow. I don't really go to a high school, but I get correspondence, and I'll say this, and only this: It's a christian school. No other info is necessary...

Convo with a guy up in Auckland (who had only been to Wellington once).

Guy: so what school do you go to?
Me: [school name]
Guy: oh right, the stoner school...


There wasn't actually that much smoking up considering our reputation. Schools in New Zealand often have quite big grounds surrounding the school, too, meaning there are a lot of places to hide.

Liberal schools? Conservative schools? When did indoctrination replace education?

Lucky! my school is probably one of the most conservative, and it really sucks. I'm scared my computer class teacher is going to suspend me for being on forums where the word 'gay' can be read :o (lucky for me shes to busy combing her hair in the back of the class room?)
My math teacher constantly makes comments about how the only 'liberals'(sometimes he substitutes the word 'liberals' with 'democrats') in the area don't have as large of an inheritance as him... (does it matter...?)
My physics teacher constantly reminds us of his 'First priority' christian club (wtf...)

My high school was weird, a bit. You started the competition (i.e. your freshman year) with 100 students including yourself. Through four years you were allowed to do what you wanted in class as long as it was pertinent (i.e. my American History teacher helped us to write a petition about the Right to Wear Shorts during a 90 degree spring where kids were literally passing out from heat). Swearing was allowed as long as you could recite the First Amendment everytime you did it (this curbed a lot of swearing in class). It was great, looking back. We learned more than most students in this city, but the school board only likes numbers. The first three graduating classes were like this:

1991: 2 people
1992: 6 people
1993: 30 people

We were the final and largest graduating class before the program was shut down. People who couldn't compete left to go to other schools. Of the people who made it, most are in great jobs and doing well.

Lucky! my school is probably one of the most conservative, and it really sucks. I'm scared my computer class teacher is going to suspend me for being on forums where the word 'gay' can be read :o (lucky for me shes to busy combing her hair in the back of the class room?)
My math teacher constantly makes comments about how the only 'liberals'(sometimes he substitutes the word 'liberals' with 'democrats') in the area don't have as large of an inheritance as him... (does it matter...?)
My physics teacher constantly reminds us of his 'First priority' christian club (wtf...)

TRANSFER NOW BEFORE THEY MAKE YOU INSANE!!

In the senior year of my high school, the vice principal brought sexual harasment charges against the Superintendant. The Superindendant was responsible for re-newing her contract and did not for obvious reasons. The Principal cam out in the papers in support of our vice principla then the superintendant went to the papers and said that was only because the principal and vice principal were sleeping together and fired the principal at the end of the year too. The school paper tried to run an article clarifying all the rumors going around and was promply shut down.


The next year there was a new superintendant, vice pricipal and principal and I was in college so didn't have to deal with it. :p

Liberal schools? Conservative schools? When did indoctrination replace education?About 399BC when Plato took over Socrates school and changed it a place of investigation into the nature of the universe into a machine to churn out Platoheads who blindly followed his dogma. There are scattered reports of earlier incidents, but this is the first one well enough documented to be sure of.

Schools tend to vary wildly throughout the world and within most contries. Some are places where children are given basic knowledge, some are places where childen are warehoused to keep them off the streets and so on. Given the nature of bureacracies (which education tends to become) the more "controversial" teachers tend to be assigned to the schools which have the least ability to control them. (Good bureaucrats ensure that "controversial" subordinates are transfered out of their control without firing them so they won't screw up the bureaucrats record, and the person who gets stuck with all the "controversial" subordinates is the person who is least skilled at playing the bureaucracy.) Even where there are unified cirricula, having staffs full of screw-ups makes a difference.


I'm nor certain where you come from that this seems odd to you, China?

My high school was a 100 year old conservative Christian school. There are several stories that are in it's history, a guy and the headmaster's dog being the most noted, but before my time alas. We had this one bastard teacher, a reverend who's name I shall not mention here. He tried to make the school drop teaching evolution and only teach creationism, but then he was arrested for pedophilia.

School strike? Y'all should have been suspended. School is a learning enviroment.



Suspend an entire school?

My high school, John-F.-Kennedy School (http://www.state.gov/m/a/os/1407.htm), is unique. It has an agenda of its own being a bi-lingual, bi-cultural school in Berlin, Germany. It's still part of the school system of the state of Berlin but also has all the necessary currucular aspects to hand out American high school diplomas. Unlike most international schools, my school offers the chance to get the American Diploma and/or the German Abitur, instead of an International Bacaleureat. So it was completely different from any German, American, or International school, while those were the only ones that compared to it.

The school itself consists of a High School starting at 7th grad and going to 13th grade (that may be subject to change soon, since the German school system is being overhauled) and an Elementary School starting with a preparatory "Vorschule" (literally "pre-school" but it's the equivalent of "kindergarden" in America) and goes from 1st to 6th grade.

It's pretty leftist. We usually hold mock elections (German and American ones) prior to the real ones, and the left usually wins overwhelming majorities.

My high school was a 100 year old conservative Christian school. There are several stories that are in it's history, a guy and the headmaster's dog being the most noted, but before my time alas. We had this one bastard teacher, a reverend who's name I shall not mention here. He tried to make the school drop teaching evolution and only teach creationism, but then he was arrested for pedophilia.

The former leader of the NZ Christian Heritage party wanted to only teach creationism in schools, and he was arrested for mollesting children. Maybe there's a link? ;)

The former leader of the NZ Christian Heritage party wanted to only teach creationism in schools, and he was arrested for mollesting children. Maybe there's a link? ;)

Could be, was he a total bastard too? This priest was a nasty peice of work, nasty.

TRANSFER NOW BEFORE THEY MAKE YOU INSANE!!
Haha, I think I can take it for only another year and a half (I've lived here since I was two... don't ask me to recall my 4th soap box on evolution *shudders*) and I think I've learned to keep myself sane... though you can bet after a half semester in the community college (that's all I will need for my associatives) I will be out like...trout or something :D

I'll give you an idea of how liberal my high school is-

Yesterday I went after school to the assignment meeting for the newspaper. I was talking with the editor and he said he was doing a "two sides of the issue" thing where there would be 2 articles for 2 sides to an issue. He already had the liberal side, and so he asked, to a room of about 40 people "Anyone here a conservative?"


The room went dead silent.


"Can anyone here pretend to be a conservative?"


"Ah screw it, I'll just find something on the internet"

I live in a town about 25 miles about New York City. A good 75% of the students are either Jewish or Asian. The school encloses a good sized area, but most of it is very rich. The parents are doctors, lawyers, etc. Very, very liberal.

I've only had one conservative teacher that I know of. My math teacher last year, but he was conservative in the traditional and religious sense (he was Jewish). He was great- captivating, loved teaching, and utterly brilliant. He also had 10 years of experience in Harlem, which lent itself to some pretty good stories.

I probably go to the only school in the country where nobody gives a flying fuck about the football team. Varsity has a game tomorrow so all the assholes were strutting about in jerseys (which are purple and yellow- nothing funnier than a macho guy wearing bright purple). They'll lose, probably 52-3. We easily have the worst football team in the section, which includes 3 counties and about 40 high schools.

This one is not a "liberal" view. "Liberality" is defined as presenting a multitiude of arguments, and allowing the audience to define their own views from the multitude presented. Statement and proof of one singular view, does not make one "liberal"; it makes one highly conservative.



Also not a "liberal" view.



They also should have been fired for violating contract....



I'm for the freedom of people to do all they want. Your music teacher should also have been fired for not living up to their required duties.



School strike? Y'all should have been suspended. School is a learning enviroment.



As long as she doesn't use them, that's fine.



Except, not one single item even approached "liberal", not by what "liberal" actually means. My H.S. was far more "liberal"..... Our teachers remained neutral, gave us students all the information, allowed us to form our own independent ideas, which made Kellam far, far, FAR more liberal...
Two things: Firstly, it's abundant I've used liberal stereotypes and not actual liberesque veiws. It's funny, let it be, get a life. Secondly, you stole my title... I've been the only Constitutional Republic for two years now... :(

Well, my Science teacher tried to hide the fact that she was pregnant for 7 months. apparently only me and my friends noticed.
My art teacher regulary fell asleep during class
The entire class once caught my P.E. teach commiting statutory rape.... IT IS A TRUE STORY!!!!!
My english teacher was a satanist
My math teacher hid weed in his desk (found it when i borrowed some shit from him, didnt really care, just told him i found it, blackmailed him in to giving me 50 dollars, :D , wouldnt have told anyone wheter or not he gave me the 50 bucks)
Im pretty sure my history teacher was skitzophrenic.

These are from all my years, not just one.

I forgot something.

I know a lot of American schools teach abstinence only sex-ed. Not here. I walked into my health class last Wednesday, and one of the many posters was a picture of dozens of condoms, with some writing on the bottom.

I forgot something.

I know a lot of American schools teach abstinence only sex-ed. Not here. I walked into my health class last Wednesday, and one of the many posters was a picture of dozens of condoms, with some writing on the bottom.
We had the best sex ed classes ever. I remember when the school nurse came in and began with wrapping a condom around a dildo and explaining the importance of lube. She mumbled something about abstinence at the end as we were leaving. The only thing they couldn't do was give out free condoms, without parental concent... Can anyone say MAJOR FORGE FEST?!

This is my high school Pleasant Valley High School

http://www.pvbears.org/schools/High%20School/images/jcm.jpe

My high-school was not too unusual. I have had some crazy teachers such as an economics teacher who frequently went off subject and talked about the "underground economy" and various other topics. There was also my Calculus/Physics teacher who has an insane love of Diet Mountain Dew. The people in my graduating year are extremely competitive with our soon to be valedictorian having a 4.9 GPA. I am sort of proud that our school is in some ways one of the best. We offer courses such as Interactions of Radiation and Matter, Ordinary Differential Equations, and all sorts of courses that do not exist at most high schools. The truth is that we have decent classes for most subjects but our math and physics is top-notch.

Most of the kids at my school were republican (Which was weird, 'cause most of them were goths.). I say they were republican, but then it became painfully clear that Bush is the worst leader ever. I hate my high school, as the lesson every day is Standardized test. How to take it, what will be on it, et cetera. I hate the CSAP so much. But enough rambling about my High School, let us talk about my middle school a minute. It was the most authoritatian hellhole. Any creativity was squelched early on. The prinicpal stood outside her office every day to catch dress code offenders. The most insulting thin about it, though, was they pretended it wasn't a hellhole. Uniforms weren't required, but they might as well have been. Sorry, that probably didn't make much sense, but I just had to go on an angry ramble.

This thread is making me miss high school. I must be getting old or something. :p

My high school was a small, private, secular school with about 175 students in grades 9-12. It's widely considered to be one of the two best schools in my hometown, alongside the other, somewhat larger, private secular school a few miles down the road.

The only faculty member I recall as actively espousing anything resembling a political position was one of our English teachers, who rabidly hated any and all Kennedys. Beyond that, they mostly just stuck to educating us, being quite talented and funny, and letting us come to our own conclusions.

One math teacher was in the chorus of the local opera company, and regularly sang out equations in a piercing soprano which could be heard from the other side of the school. Another math teacher held some ridiculously high rank in karate and liked to relate everything in life to Bruce Lee movies. The earth science teacher was a Navy man, the aforementioned English teacher an Army man, and they spent years playing pranks on each other, to the point where the windows of each of their respective classrooms were covered in bumper stickers advertising the other's affiliation. The chemistry teacher looked like a teddy bear, made the worst puns known to mankind, used to work as a Russian translator and part-time spy for the CIA, and was, incidentally, the best teacher of any sort I've ever encountered. One of the physics teachers was a quiet man who was known to jump up and down on lab tables when frustrated. Another English teacher addressed us all as "Little [Name]" and "[Name]let." A French teacher once decided to liven up class by teaching us all the can-can, complete with cheap fluffy skirts for all, including the boys. One of the history teachers regularly threatened that if we didn't turn in our assignments on time, one of these days we'd "wake up dead"; the other was so absent-minded that it was a regular practice for obnoxious kids to throw various items on his desk out the window, and in something like 30 years of teaching, he never once figured out where his stapler kept going. In other words, the teachers were almost universally wonderful.

As for the student body, they were pretty much universally either rich or brilliant, with a very few oddballs who were lucky enough to be both. Most of the rich kids were conservative; most of the brilliant kids were liberal, with some exceptions on both sides, of course. Most political debates I recall were very evenly split.

I didn't enjoy high school much at the time (I was a long way from being "cool"), but this is making me bizarrely nostalgic...

The chemistry teacher looked like a teddy bear, made the worst puns known to mankind, used to work as a Russian translator and part-time spy for the CIA, and was, incidentally, the best teacher of any sort I've ever encountered.
It must be those goverment agents gone teacher that are the best teachers out there. My Calc teacher worked for the NSA and was a spy during the cold war, and he was one of the best teachers I've ever had.

My high-school was not too unusual. I have had some crazy teachers such as an economics teacher who frequently went off subject and talked about the "underground economy" and various other topics. There was also my Calculus/Physics teacher who has an insane love of Diet Mountain Dew. The people in my graduating year are extremely competitive with our soon to be valedictorian having a 4.9 GPA. I am sort of proud that our school is in some ways one of the best. We offer courses such as Interactions of Radiation and Matter, Ordinary Differential Equations, and all sorts of courses that do not exist at most high schools. The truth is that we have decent classes for most subjects but our math and physics is top-notch.
How the hell do you pull off a 4.9 GPA? Our highest weighted courses (AP and college equivalent, read: calc 3) are only given a .3+ to the GPA for the class.

My school was the arts high school in Ottawa.

It was the most liberal - though fashion was dated, most of us looking like we were from the 80s.

The art teachers were a bunch of dated hippies.

The science department was filled with old fossils and two young teachers who looked the same - and eventually caved into to pressure and had a contest to prove who was the coolest and dressed in drag during a blockbuster assembly...

The English department was a mix of old fossils and dated hippies...

Math...same as the above.

I don't know about your highschool, but mine was possibly the most liberal highschool on the planet. I'll give some of the examples I remember.
My Ancieny History teacher carefully explained to us why Christians were idiots and how a good knowledge of the origion of religions proved they were all just evolutions of previous beleifs.
My English teacher was a vegan, lesbian, hippy who believed every aspect of Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.
My Drama teacher called in month sick to become a human sheild in Baghdad. My Music teacher spoked pot in her car between classes.
We once staged a schoolwide strike over the War in Iraq. Rather then suspending us, as was the Department policy at the time, the Pirncipal broakered a deal whereby we went back to class to complete assesment only. Then if we did that he would join. True to his word he did.
My art teacher had us make anti-whaling picket signs.

There's more, but you get the jist. I very much doubt there is a more liberal highschool out there. Anyway, tell us about your High School.



all of my teachers are open minded about shit....and dont try to force kids to agree with what they say.Hell most are young and are cool to talk to...and my english teacher is my dad's-girlfriend's-niece(sp)and she is cool.

we are allowed to smoke out side on school premisses.

and i am in quebec man what the hell!? :p

Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.

how the hell do you think that!?


yo and my teacher has this pic above his chalkboard.

http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=godkills1jg.jpg

that is just funny!

I don't know about your highschool, but mine was possibly the most liberal highschool on the planet. I'll give some of the examples I remember.
My Ancieny History teacher carefully explained to us why Christians were idiots and how a good knowledge of the origion of religions proved they were all just evolutions of previous beleifs.
My English teacher was a vegan, lesbian, hippy who believed every aspect of Shakespeare was an attempt to oppress women.
My Drama teacher called in month sick to become a human sheild in Baghdad. My Music teacher spoked pot in her car between classes.
We once staged a schoolwide strike over the War in Iraq. Rather then suspending us, as was the Department policy at the time, the Pirncipal broakered a deal whereby we went back to class to complete assesment only. Then if we did that he would join. True to his word he did.
My art teacher had us make anti-whaling picket signs.

There's more, but you get the jist. I very much doubt there is a more liberal highschool out there. Anyway, tell us about your High School.

My Socials 8 teacher showed us how Judaism, Christianity and Islam were basicly the same religion. He was so fair and resonable that he was the most disliked teachers by the group of kids he taught, afterwards about half the kids liked him. He had the highest fail rate in the district but was considered the best teacher by the other teachers at my school. You litterally had to choose to fail his class. The class as a whole would decide the criteria for projects and let us decide how many marks each criteria was worth(as percents, he decided the total score). For some topics (ie religion) we would break up into groups and spend time working on a specific subtopic (for religions, each group would study a different religion) then we would teach eacgother. You would recieve bonus marks if you were able to provide a good resource for another group.
Three teachers were lesbians and two of them were in a long term relationship.
The student body went on strike to fight for better pay for the teachers. We all got Saturday School; Friday night the teachers went on strike.
The only teacher that didn't teach socials to reveil their any of their political ideals was my french teacher (who was pro same sex mariage).
The smartest kids are considered liberal until proven otherwise.
The History 12 teacher (course is mostly about the USSR) is a socialist and tries to 'convert' a couple kids to socialism while trying to make the others less capitalist. While only the political spectrum is on the provincial test, he does teach the political compass.
One of the PE teachers bikes 45 min to work each day, then goes on a 3K run.

What about the dress codes?
We had the Four B's dresscode (no Butts, Backs, Bellies, or Breasts). We also were not to have swearing, alcohol or marijauna mentioned on our clothing. If your shirt had a speghetti strap across it, it was considered covered and the teachers would not care what you wore as long as it obeyed the previous rules (exceptions being PE and Drama as clothing can hamper perticipation). If your clothing was unacceptable you would have to take it off or put something on over it.

... Jewdism, Cristianinity...
lol, you totally butchered the spelling of two religions there. Sorry, I couldn't resist pointing that out...

lol, you totally butchered the spelling of two religions there. Sorry, I couldn't resist pointing that out...
I guess you know which is my favorite :p

I think I fixed the spellings.

Rotavia, I honestly dont think I would make it in your school. All of the teachers I would have serious issues with, except maybe the art teacher. Cuz according to the stoners at my school, she definatley was a pot smoker herself. I managed to drive her insane, well me and my class. We were her "most deplorable class ever". I, often to modern art to its limits just. By which i mean, pouring a can of grey sculpture glaze all over the oil skin canvas that i had to make a beautiful drawing of. I then soaked one of the water color pallets in water and poured it all over the drawing making it completley soaked in random paterns of the different colors. Or all the sculptures of mine i intentally worked, then managed to convince her that it added to the artistic element of the scuplture and it avant-garde(whateva the hell that means) By the end of the year are class was banned from the following items: Clay, water, paint, any fancy forms of paper, scissors, all forms of glue, pastells, and about any other art tools that could be used as projectiles. Once when a student from another class asked the teacher what we were allowed to use, she responed "crayola washable markers on plain white computer paper"

I left out all the fights that we had involving the materials. Ah, what a great class. I dont rember the detentions, only the glory. Well actually there was one detention where i had to wash paintbrushes for 30mins that made my hands raw, and then i had to run for 3 miles in late november in only a tshirt and blue jeens to a friends house. I lost feelin in my arms by the time i reached his house,(i lived in chicago at the time) and neone up north nos what a grey, cold, wasteland it is during hte end of november. That is if its not snowing.

Retards. Thats what my school is full of.

Seriously.

75% of honours kids cant find the international dateline.
After a three month unit on censorship, a girl puts up her hand (day of unit test) and asks "whats censorship"

and no, its not so we can have a full class - we have 44 kids in two honours socials classes, so WTF?

Whenever we do roleplays involving governments, the popular people tend to be communist, while the smart kids tend to be stalinist, (the moderate kids tend to be capitalist) and we are corrupt. We had to explain why we won the war, and yet the government would be run by the other side, it was because "they bribed us".

All the guys hate the dress code - the hot girls ignore it, and for them, it isn't enforced - yet the not hot girls get burned. Its a female teacher in charge of enforcement.

The only three kids who know what communism is in my grade tend to use it as an insult, but its actually an ironic insult to america, and their commiephobia.

Our school is lax, like we have several days a year where we do little work, and have a massive party, or a concert (talent shows actually. We call em concerts cuz of the insane quality)

Fortunately, my school doesn't have that quite many problems (western Canada, the sea, rain - enough hints), not implying that there aren't. The classes are okay, but the memory of how the idea of letting English teachers to teach history failed so miserably. So much for an experimentation across this school district of ours. The English teacher I got for history/socials was actually quite competent and easy to get along with - but unfortunately, the students that he teaches are quite different. We had someone putting Vietnam in southern Africa. And then there's someone who drew western Europe and Africa as a blob. Don't forget a Japan that is south of China too. Ah, the wonders.

And they only teach modern history (i.e. WWI and later, including WWII) in the last 2 years. What a shame.

Things are more or less interesting in other classes. We have maths classes with averages of 50-60 percent. That should sum it up pretty well.

Don't get started on the PE teachers.

I go to an all boys Catholic skool

so it isnt liberal at all

my teachers openly talk smack about gays (its kinda funny really)

they <3 bush (i dont :cool: )

and other than that

they can actually teach a class very well so it isnt all bad

Two things: Firstly, it's abundant I've used liberal stereotypes and not actual liberesque veiws. It's funny, let it be, get a life. Secondly, you stole my title... I've been the only Constitutional Republic for two years now... :(

You couldn't have been "the only constitutional republic for two years now".... Since I've been a Constitutional Republic (changed from mere "Republic") for over a year..... which would lower your "only" status.

Also, unknown, is the time the following nations have also been "Constitutional Republic"'s

The Constitutional Republic of Craigville -or-
The Free Constitutional Republic of Christianan

The thing that sucked about my highschool was that all the students were so average. No goths, no punks, no skins. Everyone was just.... mediocre :(

sounds like my school, the vast majority are normal-preppy. the teachers are pretty cool and liberal leaning. yum chocolate chip cookie

sounds like my school, the vast majority are normal-preppy. the teachers are pretty cool and liberal leaning. yum chocolate chip cookie
My school was pretty lacking of cliche deversity too. The exchange students were the only unique students in the school (well, except for the punk kid).