HIgh School Schedules

It's the middle of July.  Vacations.  Trips.  Picnics.

Schedule changes.  

DO NOT tell me that high schools don't have schedules completed.  High schools have schedules completed-- just not the ones the students want.

BECAUSE:

1.  I need to change my gym class from first period.  I don't want to sweat so early in the day.  

2.  I gotta get out of ______'s class.  She's a skank.

3.  That teacher is too hard. 

4.  This teacher is too easy (I've never personally heard this this.)

5.  She's creepy-- she gives tests every week.  She said that if we didn't want to learn something to leave right now.  

6. I need to get in _______'s class-- he's hot. (Well, FYI, that schedule will never be changed.)

7. I can't be in this room.  Its air conditioning smells.

8.  That woman picks her chin whiskers and grosses me out...I need to change this.   

9.  I need to be in Delta company-- I didn't understand this one at first until I learned about rank, loyalty, and tradition in JROTC....I moved this child.  

10.  I read the syllabus and I can't do this.  Too much reading.  Too much writing.  But I still need to take AP History.  Does anyone else teach it?  They all use the same syllabus?  I'll take anything else. Could I substitute weight lifting for history?  Are you sure I can't do this?

11.  Do I have to play an instrument to be in Band IV?  I love the people in that class.  

12.  I heard that if you take _________ third block, you can skip and go to Krystal?  Is this true?   (Not any more.)

13.  What's the easiest thing to take where you don't have to work?

14.  My mom says I can take French II without taking French I.  She took French in high school.

15.  I need a class where I get to leave campus.  Do you have anything where I don't have to come to school?

16.  Nah, I don't go to this school.  I go to _________________.  I'm just waiting for my homeboy.


School is a world onto itself....a magical world.  I walk past the bins of crayons and paper.  I watch parents buying school clothes.  I hear parents excitedly talk about the beginning of the school year and in the back of my head, I hear, "Hey, Dr. Weaver!  I gotta get my schedule changed."

Erin Weaver, Age 18, Senior in High School.  She told her guidance counsellor that she couldn't take history, she had to take Art IV.  She also said she couldn't take math, she had to take Home Ec IV.  She was a scamp.