New Jersey's Public Education is Beginning to Rival Florida's
Wow, I was thinking (or not, I'm not sure which I do more in this building) and I noticed that my school sucks. You may be saying yours is worse, or that I can join the club, but that's not the point; my school sucks, and that's what this is about, people!
Y'see I listen to music everyday outside. I've done it for the past 3 years (I'm a senior wOOt!) and nobody said anything about it. I've had the principal, the vice principal(s) and any number of teachers walk past me while I was outside on the steps, minding my own business, listening to my music. Did they say anything? Never. But today, one 'teacher' had to stop me. He said I could listen to my music, but then he'd have to take it away from me. I pointed out my previous hitory involving faculty and my headphones, and he seemed shocked that I'd gone unpunished for so long. And he thought I was a new student, even after I said I wasn't. Then the patronizing started; I don't mind honest chating, but this was him saying how he agrees with me totally and I should take it up with the BOE and whatnot. Right, so when I'm in college, the freshmen of 2010 can pretend it's always been this way? Ha! Thank you, but no! I then walked down into the school and quite loudly announced to my friends that the school is run by incompetent f*ckheads, with the 'teacher' behind me the whole time. I went back outside later and resumed my musical education, uninterupted. But it turns out the new teacher was really the new principal,, and I'm only glad he didn't write me up for my bitching.
But on a brighter note, we took a survey in the library (all the classes have to do it) and at the end it says "What would you like to improve about your school?" Half my class put "better surveys" and the other half had "more homework, stricter dress code" (is stricter a real word?). I pointed out the people smoking in the bathrooms and right outside (where I listen to music) and how I get in trouble and hey don't. I'm not normally like that, but the whole day sucked, and I had to vent. If they expected us to take the surveys seriously they were sorely mistaken.
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