Another Music Awards Show means another night of Rihanna’s drunk tweets.
“My navy go so hard man. Fuck da Chris Brown Man.”
Just had the discussion with my mom about whether or not she’s voting for the Marriage Amendment (since we live in North Carolina). She went into the whole schpil about how God says it’s between a man and a woman blah blah blah. Basically she told me I’m sinning by believing in gay marriage. I am…
All this amendment one debating and the media makes me sick. If you can’t appreciate love for LOVE, then you’re nothing but scum.
IF YOU’RE NOT A HYPOCRITICAL BIGOT, YOU WILL VOTE AGAINST AMENDMENT ONE. FOR LOVE KNOWS NO GENDER.
High School in itself can be a fine place, where you can enjoy yourself with friends, but still get the education you need to be successful. I understand that in a recession such as America is in now, sometimes it’s not easy to find teachers for the school, but the situation my high school is currently in is sickening, unacceptable, and essentially cowardly.
Due to the State of North Carolina having this AMAZING GOVERNMENT SYSTEM WE LIKE TO CALL BEV PERDUE, North Carolina is currently under a 9.7% unemployment rate. That’s one in ten people who are jobless, leaving almost a thousand people without a paycheck in my small town of ten-thousand people. Most of the teachers do not actually live here, and commute from Raleigh and the surrounding Triad areas, but it still does not make an overwhelming difference.
Teachers have been leaving left and right, not only because of the sickening parasite that is North Carolina Government, but also because of the county school board system.
Our current principal was raised in the hierarchy from her last position as vice-principal, due to a scandal involving the principal and another teacher. This information is ultimately irrelevant in this discussion however. The new principal is a tyrant, to put it modestly. Not because of her strictness, because her backbone is almost non-existent, but because of her selfishness and ignorance.
Seven teachers have already left, with another fourteen scheduled to finish out the year, but not to return the next year. This leaves the staff twenty-one teachers short, which in a high school of eight-hundred students, is a very deep gash in the overall infrastructure.
In the state of North Carolina, there are three classes that have a state-administered final exam, known as an End of Course, or an EOC. These classes are English I, Algebra I, and Biology. These classes are the most essential in high school, because of how important the EOC is. It is unexemptable, and counts for twenty-five percent of your final grade, whereas you can exempt from the other exams if your class average and attendance meets the requirements.
I am currently enrolled in Honors Biology. Our teacher was perfect to teach the subject. She understood the material, and was able to convey to us through simple yet informative methods the information we needed to pass the tests given to us. Sadly, she left us, and on April 16th, we were left with a long-term substitute. Apparently this woman was not properly equipped with the mental ability to basically sit and watch over a public high school class, and left after two days in the building.
Another substitute was given to use, who has sat in here for the past eight school days. Keep in mind the semester we have to learn the material is only ninety days long. Essentially, we have sat here for over a tenth of the semester, trying to teach ourselves the material we need to pass the exam, which accounts alone for a quarter of our final grade.
As a freshman, my GPA is a 4.0 unweighted, and a 4.5 weighted. Honors classes are essentially for someone who is looking to get into a decent college. In-State colleges such as UNC - Chapel Hill and NC State are competitive enough as it is, without the decisions of our school board holding us back even more than we already are, simply just by living in the county we do.
Now, we have a substitute who basically sits in the room and watches us. What little learning we have is done on our own, and what we can manage to teach to each other. Yet somehow, the substitute and authority figures keep asking why we’re having such a hard time in the class.
As fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen year olds, it’s not a simple feat to try and teach yourself completely foreign material, such as Biology is for us. The material we are currently on is completely new, and is still essential to passing the class and the final exam.
The schools solution? Make one of the other science teachers give her classes away to another teacher (who will probably sit in the same situation we are currently in), and for her to take our biology classes in to teach. This is an ideal situation, and IS the best solution, since our principal does not want to hire a new biology teacher for this year. However, the principal has been saying the for a week that this change is coming the following day, and here we are, in class with the minimal instruction we have, trying to teach ourselves. There are literally only nineteen days of instruction left until we are required by law to take the Biology EOC test, to decide our fate of the class. To be this selfish in your decisions, truly reflects a lot on the stability of your school, when it is under your “watchful” eye.
Although no one in the school system will see this, and it therefore won’t make a difference, I would still like for the rest of the world to understand the situation that the North Carolina Public School system is in, and the blazing inferno we’re being pushed into. Thank you for reading this.
