The longest week in history

[perpetuity]

And every minute of it... sucked.

Pardon me, I have an extensive vocabulary, but good old-fashioned 'sucked' described it best.

Really, don't ask me what exactly sucked. But it's been a long, miserable week. I was talking in PE today, to Kim and Heather. They suggested I take a mental health day. End of the year blues. Or something.

You know, it might be a combination of things. End of the year blues, my bloodiest DVD being lost, and the fact that most of my friends are leaving next year.

The last one! THAT'S IT! The secret to my lethargy! (God, I was pissing Kim off, how many times I used the word 'lethargic' this week.) I was puzzling on it Mon. or Tues., it's gotta be it.

Strangely, I do not feel better.

To elaborate: Sammy and Kim are graduating, Heather and Fronzia are going for their GEDs, and Xavier is going to Votech. George will graduate next year, and that leaves me with Amanda (Amy) and Michael.

First, I think Heather and Fronzia are being amazingly stupid. My dad has a GED, it does crap. My mom has a two-year college degree-- also crap. (She dropped out when her dad was hit by a drunk driver, and then I was born some months after.) A GED is only good if a college will take it. And, well, they can get into the local Community college. They are only sophmores-- and that's by age. They're so credit deficient, they're considered freshmen. They will be taking Geometry in college, because they won't have finished Algebra |. Math is evil, you need to take it in order. And it's a kindness to yourself to be ready for Calculus by college-time. Anyway... Community college is all well and good, but... Community college degrees are only so impressive, and only good in the state you earned them. (As far as I've heard.) And now, the kicker: Their parents are pressuring them to go for the GED.

*bangs head* What sane parent encourages you to drop out of school?!?!

Sophmoric is an adjective. It means immature.

Kim and Sam, not much I can do. Xavier, I can bitch at him later. He's in, what's-it's-face, Math... a real low-level math class. It might better for him. As for George, again, not much I can do. He has enough credit to graduate this year, but he wants to go out with his class.

Le Sigh.

I have bad luck; every time I make a group of friends... either they leave, or I do.

You know, it's a pain. I tried to make friends in IB (the magnet program I'm in) but all of them are smart (atashi wa), rich (atashi ja nai yo) or both. And a lot of them are just -mean.- I mean, the non-magnet kids are just as bad, but...

Bad luck all around.

Comments

[ruriruri.livejournal.com]

='( Almost all your friends will be leaving....

I can't believe two of them are going to drop out and just get GEDs! That's so dumb-- while they're at high school they should get their high school diploma. Even if it takes awhile. And beyond that, at least get a degree from a vocational school or something, if not a regular four-year college... *sighs* No sane parent would encourage them to drop out.

What's a magnet program? I don't think we have anything like that here, whatever it is... people around where I live aren't very rich at all (even the Abercrombie and Fitch preps aren't really rich)... sigh. It sounds awful. Maybe they'll change their minds... I hope they will.

[perpetual-poet.livejournal.com]

Magnet programs are basically there to 'attract' good students. IE-- their test scores. International Baccalaureate is the one I'm in. *smirk* I had hoped to avoid IB-- the highschool I was going to go to in Florida didn't have it. Although I could have gotten in to Gateway, the HS that DID have it, like the other kids in my classes... Didn't want the work or the pressure. So we get here, my mom brings a huge envelope of all my standardized test scores and tests and report cards and essays... and they invite me to join. Ultimatum-- do or die.

My HS has three magnets-- International Baccalaureate, Travel and Tourism, and Team Action. Vegas schools have the same problem Florida ones do: a good percent of the students didn't grow up speaking English and even more just don't care. *grin* I wonder if it works. I really do.

[ruriruri.livejournal.com]

Oh. Like the Gifted program? There were two things they had for people with good test scores at my elementary school; they called them "Talent Pool" and "I.D.E.A." Talent Pool was for people that didn't pass/didn't take the test to go into I.D.E.A. but were smarter than average... I didn't take the test so I was in Talent Pool. And then in middle school it turned out that I could go into the Gifted program, but I said no to that. They tried to persuade me to go into it, but that teacher just freaked me out ("I knew your mother when she was a little girl!" yipe). Plus it would have messed up my schedule.

But they didn't pressure me that hard. Georgia's about to have the same problem (kids in my class have started to call one of the towns near us Little Mexico), and out of spite about it almost no one is taking Spanish that I know of. I think it probably works.

[perpetual-poet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's about it. I did Gifted in elementary school. All of my friends were in it by third grade, except me. Then I find out that I had been tested (but they didn't tell me, they told my mom) and she didn't want me taking the bus to the school that had gifted every week by myself. n.n' Heh.

Here, white is practically the minority. Which is okay with me. Some of the rougher kids from all groups scare the &^%# out of me. Especially this white trash in my Geom. class. Then again, I have a couple friends from all of them.

My friend Sammy told me about when she was in an Elementary school once, and asked a Hispanic girl how to get to the PE area. The girl turned back to her friends and said something like she wouldn't speak English to anyone, especially if they didn't speak Spanish. Luckily, Sam is half-Mexican and has taken four years of Spanish. So of course, she says "Okay, fine!" and repeats the question in Spanish.

It was a funny story, but not all people are like that. There are Hispanics who never learned Spanish, or forgot how to speak it, or can't read it. And some English speakers are just as bad. It shouldn't be about spite at all.