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tock172
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Well, my schedule is fucked up.
I have to take spanish, again. Even though I was told I would never be put in it again. On top of that, I am in 3/4 and I never even passed 1/2. I hate that.
I also have 3 AP classes. I have a fucking job, please give me a break.
This is my junior year, I need things to work to my advantage here, not against me. I am switching out of all AP classes, I just can't stand them. I can't stand the stuck up assholes in them, and quite frankly, I don't give a shit what they are teaching me.
My schedule is:
Public Speaking [yay! I am good at this!]
AP english [total horseshit. I hate the people, and this will not improve my writing skills, it will only stifle them]
AP Environmental Science [This is leftist bullshit, I have no room for that in my life]
Spanish 3/4 [give me a fucking break]
Algebra 2 [I need to take it]
AP US history [I hate the people, and the class seems hard. Fuck it.]
If everything goes my way, my schedule will look like this:
Public Speaking
Film Arts
The other advanced english class
Algebra 2
Adv US history
Chemistry
I have a damn good excuse as to why I want those classes. I have a fucking job, and I make close to what teachers make, and there is no fucking way I am quitting my job.
"One cannot make a difference if one cannot express opinions properly" -Eric Harris
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I got public speaking 1st too and I'm NOT good at it AT ALL! What I AM good at though, is ACTING as if I'm good at it. On the inside, I just want to crawl in a hole and die.
Anyway, yeah fuck the AP classes. I was in one last year and all the others were honors. Dropped them all. Who cares? Don't waste your life.
I'm a junior too and gotta do good this year. I don't want to be paying for college so much.
I'm freakin broke.
Good luck.
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chemistry_hater Wrote:I got public speaking 1st too and I'm NOT good at it AT ALL! What I AM good at though, is ACTING as if I'm good at it. On the inside, I just want to crawl in a hole and die.
Anyway, yeah fuck the AP classes. I was in one last year and all the others were honors. Dropped them all. Who cares? Don't waste your life.
I'm a junior too and gotta do good this year. I don't want to be paying for college so much.
I'm freakin broke.
Good luck.
Yeah man, no kidding. Fuck AP classes. I really believe I am wasting my life in school in general. AP classes will only steal more of my teenage years, so fuck them.
"One cannot make a difference if one cannot express opinions properly" -Eric Harris
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Quote:I have a damn good excuse as to why I want those classes. I have a fucking job, and I make close to what teachers make, and there is no fucking way I am quitting my job.
It would be really hypocritical of them to expect you to quit your job, though. Isn't the whole point of an "education" (the school variety) to prepare you for the "working world"?... Which you are already in... and would be just silly to leave that for school's sake. Don't take 'no' for an answer, take those classes even if you have to sit on the floor if there isn't space. That'll show them. 
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