Fellow Floridians in public school: The dreaded day nears

Remember the days of old, where Labor Day marked the beginning of school? Well, today's generation (at least in FL) is not allowed to appreciate this fabled period which used to be three months.

Ah yes, Florida, "The Sunshine State." What better way to enjoy those lazy hours of summer bliss than going back to school?

Tonight I started my third and final book required to read for English, a play, Raisin in the Sun. Judging by the time I actually started the book--and finished the other two (about a week ago)--I can feel the curse coming upon me already. For you slow ones; procrastination. It allowed me to excel in 3 or 4 projects last year with flying colors, although I don't know what its effectiveness will be this school year.

I would also like to give a warm farewell to the beloved block scheduling. Our county superintendent has ousted it in favor of the more traditional schedule (every class, every day) in an effort to homogenize the five high schools within the district. It will be greatly missed, as it greatly complimented my slacker attitude of putting almost everything off 'till the last minute (creating a few sleepless nights printing out reports and such).

I end my sob story with a quite:

"I will stop procrastinating tomorrow" - someone

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Originally Posted by Tones

I would also like to give a warm farewell to the beloved block scheduling. Our county superintendent has ousted it in favor of the more traditional schedule (every class, every day) in an effort to homogenize the five high schools within the district. It will be greatly missed, as it greatly complimented my slacker attitude of putting almost everything off 'till the last minute (creating a few sleepless nights printing out reports and such).

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If they had gotten rid of block schedule when I was in high school I would have gone insane. It's so much better than having 7 or 8 classes a day.

Ah well, I start back school in...15 days. But this time around it's COLLEGE! I think I would be more excited if my school wasn't 20 minutes away. At least it's in the part of town that I'm not very familiar with. That way I can pretend I can't see my house from the top of my dorm room.

Where do you live Tones? I"m near Pensacola. This summer has SUCKED, it's rained nearly every single day.

Can't say I feel any pity for you.

I would kill to be going back to school instead of working every day.

Enjoy it while you can.

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Originally Posted by 88mph

I would kill to be going back to school instead of working every day.

Enjoy it while you can.

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I assume your average school day involved going to school hung over, smoking in the boys room, and giving the finger to the teacher?

Dude, that is so hardcore
/SARCASM
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Highschool sucks. It is a waste of life. You learn everything you need to know before it, and anything else they are going to want to reteach you in collage or you can take in collage.

Doubte me? Why then do you in 7 strait classes for 4 years learn LESS than having 2.5 to 4 classes a day for 4 years?

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

Doubte me? Why then do you in 7 strait classes....

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IronPlant, meet Irony.

Heh. My school's the stupidest.

90% of the schools in England have hour-long lessons. Apart from mine, which (until July this year) had forty-minute lessons, which could occasionally be doubles (two lessons back to back) of an hour and twenty.

This coming year... instead of changing the system and introducing lessons of an hour (possibly with alternate weeks), they've changed it to... wait for it... NINE lessons a day of THIRTY-SEVEN minutes each. Why? Because the deputy head "doesn't like the idea of hour-long lessons".

haha