Sigh. Last registration for me.
 

Today is registration at my school. This year is going to blow so hard. They changed the scheduling this year. We no longer have block scheduling. We now have the same 7 classes every single day for like 45mins. Of course, we still have electives so a couple classes will change to something else at the beginning of 2nd semester(Only 1 for me.. yay routine? :/). We had 8 classes in total before, with 4 every day. We don't even get SRT (Our study time where we can go see teachers/get help/work independently). Our classes were 1.5hrs too.

I'm a senior this year and I don't look forward to it at all. Unlike all my friends and classmates, I don't want to turn 18 and I don't want to graduate. It doesn't help that I don't get what everyone else gets. Senior pictures. Grad party to look forward to next summer. Nope. Nothing.

The only good thing about today is that I got my schedule fixed right there. I didn't have to make an appointment for the next week for once.

Senior schedule:

"Block"----Term-------Class

1----------S1------Eco-Systems
1----------S2------Eco-Systems

2----------S1------Government/Consumer Awareness
2----------S2------Government/Consumer Awareness

3----------S1------Yearbook 1
3----------S2------Yearbook 1

4----------S1------Computer Graphic Design
4----------S2------Natural Resources

5----------S1------Personal and Family Dynamics
5----------S2------Personal and Family Dynamics

6----------S1------Functions, Statistics and Trigonometry
6----------S2------Functions, Statistics and Trigonometry

7----------S1------General Business - School store
7----------S2------General Business - School store

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This class here doesn't count as anything. It's basically on special days when the senior class is doing something, thats where we go, OR when we compete against other grades or something. I don't know or care. I just know I need SRT more than anything since I no longer have internet at my house.

8----------S1------12th grade team room
8----------S2------12th grade team room

EDIT: They also changed the times of lunches. This year you will have the same lunch every day since, obviously, theres no need for 2 lunches with the same schedules every day. The first lunch is at like 10am and the second at 11am. Thats breakfast -.-

I kinda wish I had block scheduling. We have the same schedule style as you guys, but during certain days/weeks we get to have block scheduling. At first I didn't think I'd enjoy it because it's in a classroom for so much longer, but I actually did. Classes where you already have fun in are funner which makes the day much better. Classes where you dont, well you just don't. It's that long period of fun that I really like. I don't mind having it either way though. Your senior schedules seems pretty easy and relaxed, except for the math class of course-_-.

Ewh. Schools out here do it all sorts of ways but I like 4 classes every day for one semester.. and 4 other ones next semester. 8 Classes all year is too much.

Yusss. My schedule is pretty relaxed but I planned it that way since freshman year. My schedules in the past were packed full of core classes and core electives so that I could get a lot of my core-based credits out of the way. I also took all the harder core classes earlier so I could take their easier counter-parts as an upperclassmen. Specifically senior year x]

8classes all year is not a lot with block scheduling. Need 26credits to graduate. lulz

I don't even remember how my schedule was in high school... x)

But would rather be in high school right now.

Ours were in blocks too, called even and odd days. But freshmen year there would be 1 class we had to have everyday, was totally random. Felt bad for those who had to have gym everyday. I had biology everyday. And yeah, Senior year was essentially the make up any credits you don't have year so the more you got done 9-11 the more freetime you had senior year.

I honestly think it's the routine that is going to kill me, aha. I already miss 1-2days a school year because I just can't make myself get up and go through such a routine day...

Kayla's school has block scheduling. I like it more than the all 8 every day I had back when I was in school. Of course, that was when we had to walk to school 10 miles uphill both directions through 5 feet of snow..... but I digress. The block scheduling allows Kayla an extra day to grasp a difficult lesson and seek help if needed, and god knows she will need it this year with Spanish 1. Got to love a teacher that speaks only the foreign language in class to a class of absolute beginners in the language.

Our French teacher was like that. Fresh off the boat from Belgium.

We had a modified block schedule. Seven classes total. Three blocks that alternated every day and a seventh fixed class. Mostly for the jocks to have PE that went right into after-school practice. The block was great for things like band. The time to change classes, prepare, and then put up your horn is fixed, so you end up having more instruction time. I don't know why they'd go back to the old style.

The routine I had in High school was 5 lessons a day on a 2 week timetable which alternated each week. Made it a pain to memorise. Getting my GCSE results next week which decide what college Im going to. No clue what the timetable for that will be.
Wheeewwww

Our block scheduling allowed us to do all that and have 1.5hrs every other day to have independent work time. I think thats what ruined it for us. Kids weren't using that time for work and help. They were using it to walk in the halls, travel to friends' classes and simply just socialize. I knew they were taking away SRT this year and thats why I decided to socialize and such last year in it. Aha

I was going to be in Spanish 1 but I informed them yesterday I took 1 & 2 in middle school~
Because they are idiots. As of right now, most students are thinking it's because they either don't care anymore OR the SRT thing. I don't think they realize what they did though.

I had AP Gov last year. Do you know how each day in that class was planned? You come in, do a warm up, briefly talk about what we went over last time and then the rest of class was basically lecture/notes/discussion. It seriously took the whole 1.5hrs to get through things and stop at an appropriate point. With 45mins, I have a feeling that AP classes like Gov are going to be screwed. Not enough time for thorough discussions and they will definitely be stopping lessons at awkward points.
So like.. you don't even get to apply to whatever college you want? A test tells you what college(s) you get to choose/pick from? @_@ If so, I would not enjoy that.

xD Just got my 2nd to last schedule :P Haha we have 6 periods a day, and if you wanna have 1 more class you can take a 7th/00/"A" period at like 7something in the morning :P Apparently on the day we get our schedules, ppl post like crazy on fb :P I have like no friends in my classes this year...juniors/seniors have the most variety of classes...for me AP US History, AP Bio, AP Literature & Composition, Honors Spanish 4, Honors Precalculus/Trigonometry, and Theatre Arts 1 :o It's weird how 4 of my best friends end up in the same class for history..:.I should've taken regular lol. Ugh SAT and PSAT are coming up :l

I never understood what Honors classes were in highschool. I don't think my school has them, and if they do they aren't common at all. I'm guessing we have them, we just call them Diff? Is it a class where it's harder then the regular class, but not eligible for college credit?

Something like that. It's like going further in the class. As you may know, in classes like Chemistry and stuff, teachers only teach to a certain point if it's just simple/regular chemistry. Honors is for kids that did exceptionally well in the class and would be able to handle the more difficult parts of the subject.

At least, this is what I got from some people I know who have taken honors classes and schtuff. /shrugg

Welcome to my world, 8 classes a day for 6 hours.

Yeah, honors and AP are "weighted classes," and honors and AP are worth 5 points for an A instead of 4 in regular classes. Honors are just faster paced and more in depth. For us, there's honors for chemistry and anatomy/phisiology, and the languages. For languages we go levels 1-5, where 4 is honors and 5 is AP, and you can't take a "regular" level 4 or 5 language. We can take Spanish 1 over 2 years in 7th and 8th grade (Spanish 1A and Spanish 1B), or in one year in 9th grade, but if you do it in one year, you can't get to AP Spanish.

11:30 to 2:30, then 5:30 to 7:00 Monday/Wednesday
11:30 to 4:00 Tuesday/Thursday

I'm lovin' it.

I have an 830 class. =.=

6:00 to 2:00, 8 Classes.

I'm lovin' it too.

I WAS going to have an 8AM class this semester (along with a 11-2 class) before I got into my financial aid issue. Now no classes. Will have to wait for the Winter semester.

1-2 days a year? :o Fuck I missed that a week..

Only thing I will miss is the people and friendly teachers, which kinda made me wish I spent a little more time with them before it was done but hey, making money and having fun seem to be a priority to myself lol.

High school is a joke. 50 % class marks and I've never gotten lower than 78% on a provincial exam, and the only reason I receive 50% is cause I'm not their half the year ...

I had 86 absences in my English 12 class, drank for 2 months straight after my Dominican trip. Missed an Entire section of shakesspear and the entire poetry unit. 57% class mark and 84% on my provincial ... and I learn NOTHING in the class other than when my teacher had class discussions where everyone can lend their opinions.

... SO happy I do not have to return there, new chapter where I can actually be challenged with real life instead of being hammered with some bullshit routine that teaches you minimal things and is just teaching you to be some blue collar schmuck who won't mind doing repetitive tasks like screwing the four bolts on the right tire at a car factory for the next 45 years..

8:30-3:00 -6 classes, and for some, 7:30-3:00 (with a break between 00/A period

Well, you can apply for any college you want, but you need certain grades/marks to meet that colleges minimum requirements.
For example, the college I want to go to, which shall remain nameless I applied to early this year, went to an interview and they gave me a conditional acceptance, that if I get atleast 4 B's then they'll give me a place.

So thats what I meant by GCSEs deciding the college, since you need certain requirements to get into them.

In England Bdex do you guys go to the 10th grade or 12th grade before college?

Year 11,
Ahem;

Primary School:
Nursery
Reception
Year 1~6

Secondary/High School:
Year 7~11

6th Form/College
Year 12+13

Uni:
3 Years (normally)

Ive just left Year 11, Ill be getting my GCSE results on thursday and then going to college sometime early september

So you grad at 11 or you have to complete 12+13?

I was actually going to ask this. Maybe in a different way...


Is there some kind of graduation for completing year 11 then? A ceremony or something? If so, do you get another for completing 12&13 or do you have to complete all the way through 13 before any kind of graduation?