English class, irl trolls, and our prefect principal... gone

[Blackfire]

So... There when I was in fifth grade, they made us go on a field trip to a middle school in our area. I thaught it was going to be great! but I was wrong.

1) IRL TROLLS
well... I am at the bottem of the food chain at my middle school. I was THE one to pick on and throw stuff at. and that was allreaddy decided since I was in 1'st grade. But I cant make any friends there anyway... How they talk is just horiffic. I get sick of constantley seeing people swearing, talking about sex in an abusive way, talking about drugs, and kids toungue kissing behind classrooms... and some time in public. All the people that where my "friends" In elementry school, turned to the dark side... but in 6th grade I found my GF, the one who shared all my thaughts and was just like me

2) our principal. he was so fun, he was the best principal on earth! he loved interacting with kids. People didnt care if they got in trouble, because theyd get to see our awesome principal. but one day... he had an affare (excuse my spelling -.-) with another teacher. but it was completely off campus, nobody knew about it... but the school board, whoever those people are, demoted him. and our new principal was the same ol' chubby lady with dark brown hair, looked to be 50+ years old. made dumb puns, and only interacted with kids if they where in trouble...

3) English class... ohhh english class..
I was soo ecited about it in 1'st grade. a chance to express myself. A chance to show who I am. But no. When I went to middle school, I found out that it offers no freedom at all.
Lets start with the assighnments.
Annoying.. every week we write down the same words over and over again. I just wanna say "Teacher? I know what verbs are, I know how to seperate the subject from predicate in a sentance can you please get on with something more interesting and I have never done before?"
Now lets talk about reading
ya know they always give you this long but not-so-long book. And you have about 2 months to read it and do a report on it. Like this year, my 8th grade year. It seems as though we are studying the revolutonary war all year. I also got a book on it.. What bothers me: Sure I can learn about the revolutanary war, I have no problem with that, but why read this book on it? Cant I have freedom in what I read? I read, and am still reading, a series of books called "The legend of Drizzt" I realy got into those books. Every time I read one, I would to a report on it just because.. not for extra credit (even though thats where they went to) but for the fun of it! those reports that I did where 5-10 pages long. and the minimum limit was 2 paragraphs. now, about the revolutionary war book, just not something I am interested in, and cant push myself to read it

And the part about expressing myself... forget it
my 7th grade teacher allways assighned us poems. I am not realy in to poems, except for ones kind of like the highyman. I like mid-evil, death, blood, and darkness type poetry (no im not e mo... -.-) and I got a huge "F" on every assighnment that I tried to express myself in

I think thats the problem, why many people dislike school. We dont have any freedom. We cant express ourselves, we cant put ourselves into our work. because there a shield blocking us called "The teacher"
Sorry, but I dont want to write about hapy sunshine and cute little animals.

When will the teachers try to see life through the students eyes and understand the meaning of what we say?

Thanks for your time to read my vents if you did read all of this.

[HeartofShadows]

The day school becomes individuality is the day big business shits themselves.

Your principal story reminds me of souls school changing for the worst story.

Might be an interesting read for ya.

http://www.school-survival.net/about/my_school/