How to cope with school

[yngcobain]

I’m in my freshman year of high school (year10) and I’m genuinely quite pissed off by the educational system here.

My high school is much better than the ones nearby, but it still sucks, like the educational process.

I used to go to a private middle school but this year I had to switch to a public high school to continue my education.

My biggest problem with it is the structure of lessons and how useless they sometimes are. Most lessons are 70-80 minutes and this is just a ridiculous time for a teenager to sit at one spot and take notes or work on some bs project. I genuinely can’t concentrate for this long on one thing which is terrible.

I got grades above average, I’d say one of the best in my year group, but still the whole system is just killing me.

Most of the times teachers just yap during lessons about stuff that is not even important and won’t come up on the test. Then some of them fail to even put up a comprehensive checklist, which makes me pray that my class doesn’t have the test first because then I’m beyond cooked.

I genuinely think I’m an intelligent person and I can produce high-quality results in the correct environment, but my high school is not it for most of the time.

So I’d appreciate any sort of advice on how to cope with this bullshit and actually spend the 8 hours improving myself day by day intellectually.

 

[LUKE546733]

I’m in my freshman year of high school (year10) and I’m genuinely quite pissed off by the educational system here.

My high school is much better than the ones nearby, but it still sucks, like the educational process.

I used to go to a private middle school but this year I had to switch to a public high school to continue my education.

My biggest problem with it is the structure of lessons and how useless they sometimes are. Most lessons are 70-80 minutes and this is just a ridiculous time for a teenager to sit at one spot and take notes or work on some bs project. I genuinely can’t concentrate for this long on one thing which is terrible.

I got grades above average, I’d say one of the best in my year group, but still the whole system is just killing me.

Most of the times teachers just yap during lessons about stuff that is not even important and won’t come up on the test. Then some of them fail to even put up a comprehensive checklist, which makes me pray that my class doesn’t have the test first because then I’m beyond cooked.

I genuinely think I’m an intelligent person and I can produce high-quality results in the correct environment, but my high school is not it for most of the time.

So I’d appreciate any sort of advice on how to cope with this bullshit and actually spend the 8 hours improving myself day by day intellectually.

I'm pretty sure freshman is year 9

 

[Former Shortcel]

I'm pretty sure freshman is year 9

9th grade isnt the same as year 9

 

[larpcel]

Don’t waste ur time listening to the teachers just learn the curriculum on ur own

 

[yngcobain]

Don’t waste ur time listening to the teachers just learn the curriculum on ur own

That’s basically what I do because most of them can’t really teach which is why I end up using chatgpt to teach me because in my school we don’t even use books, everything is digital. They put out those 100 slides powerpoints every unit but they are 1-2 years old which is why 40% of the material there is irrelevant at best

 

[yngcobain]

I'm pretty sure freshman is year 9

Idk I study in ib so I got myp10

 

[larpcel]

That’s basically what I do because most of them can’t really teach which is why I end up using chatgpt to teach me because in my school we don’t even use books, everything is digital. They put out those 100 slides powerpoints every unit but they are 1-2 years old which is why 40% of the material there is irrelevant at best

ye if u have a pdf of the curriculum contents id just paste it in ChatGPT and tell it to make notes then just read them. teachers are useless with ChatGPT around

 

[yngcobain]

ye if u have a pdf of the curriculum contents id just paste it in ChatGPT and tell it to make notes then just read them. teachers are useless with ChatGPT around

That’s exactly what I do. I get 6-7/8 in most of my subjects. I also feel like some teachers lower my grades because they don’t like because I can’t concentrate which causes me to try to talk or just you know send gestures to my friends who can’t concentrate neither. They have really dumb rules like that you can’t be even 2 minutes late to a class because the teacher just shuts the door and you stand there for 20 minutes just doing nothing

 

[alchemy]

It will be over before you know it; and when it is you'll miss it
-oldcel

 

[larpcel]

That’s exactly what I do. I get 6-7/8 in most of my subjects. I also feel like some teachers lower my grades because they don’t like because I can’t concentrate which causes me to try to talk or just you know send gestures to my friends who can’t concentrate neither. They have really dumb rules like that you can’t be even 2 minutes late to a class because the teacher just shuts the door and you stand there for 20 minutes just doing nothing

I’m in uk so didn’t really get that just exams which are better imo

 

[yngcobain]

smoke weed before class every day and at lunch

trust bro

I’ve seen guys like this
They almost got expelled and were forced to drug test

 

[yngcobain]

I’m in uk so didn’t really get that just exams which are better imo

Dude in ib there are 4 criteria for each subject that make up your final grade out of 7. For example, I got 7,5,7, and 7 in my science course which made them give me a 6 instead of a 7 because of that one dumbass physics lab where I had to sit right in front of the teacher so I couldn’t cheat like the rest did

 

[Daniel zacks]

idk

 

[yngcobain]

damn where do you live?

at my school it was chill asf

Sweden
They are very, like very strict with drugs
We have constant police checkups and stuff

 

[larpcel]

Dude in ib there are 4 criteria for each subject that make up your final grade out of 7. For example, I got 7,5,7, and 7 in my science course which made them give me a 6 instead of a 7 because of that one dumbass physics lab where I had to sit right in front of the teacher so I couldn’t cheat like the rest did

It’s only supervised by the teacher wow. Usually for me there were loads of invigilators

 

[yngcobain]

It’s only supervised by the teacher wow. Usually for me there were loads of invigilators

Yeah this only applies for ib e assessments that are graded by external ib people instead of the actual teachers