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i just wish i knew where along the line America decided to Indoctrinate everybody into a System.... neutral hardly anybody even KNOWS they can make any choice other than Democrat or Republican, and i see both of those parties playing a part in that. and my personal experience with public school screwed me over, because i grew up hippie and when i went to public school i was actual PREVENTED from learning, by the Principle and Dean, because i refused to be Christian, because i wore alot of black clothing, because i am bisexual, and because i actualy want to truely learn. the codebook itself said that nobody is allowe dto discriminate based on race, religion, gender, sexuality, sexual identity or other such things. i expected the students to still do so, and didn't care much if they did. but they were actualy non-discriminating. the tecahers and staff however, THEY discriminated against me on ALL of those fronts, except for being white! and only one teacher cared any bit for my education at all. Mr. Forgione, my American History teacher, who taught me much more than American History. he was a great man! and he is a Hero to me.

seems we've found a real simmilarity.... yeah, i understand your point about not fighting the system too much... i have to be able to survive in it long enough to get my plan stable enough to work. but i still feel that not enough people are fighting the system enough! anyways, gotta go... seeya.

Since the other two intelligent and delightfully insane people are talking about their school experiences, I figure I may as well relate mine too. Mine runs a little happier by the end though. The readers should have a happy ending XD

In kindergarten, I was tested for the TAG (Talented and Gifted) program and scored within the top 1% of the country. At 6 years old, I had a 5th grade math comprehension and a high school reading comprehension. I spent grades 1-3 in a school specifically built for advanced students. I was doing things in early elementary that most kids don't even touch until middle school. From kindergarten until 3rd grade, I was like you Sereth. I'd study for the sake of studying. I'd only watch animal planet, the discovery channel, and the history channel and had no interest in "kiddy stuff" (... 'cept the animals. XD).

Halfway through 3rd grade, I had to move to another district without a special school and was thrown in general ed because there wasn't enough room for me in their TAG program. THIS is where my hunger for education just died, and my personality turned from optimistic and confident to seething, biting, and violent. In a last-ditch effort to keep me stimulated, they put me in a "multi-age" 3rd-5th grade classroom. Essentially, I repeated 5th grade three times. I came hairs from being able to skip into 6th grade, but believed the transition from elementary to middle school would he too hard for me to handle as I was already socially... ******** up. XD (I was such a weird little kid omfg). All my friends in elementary and middle school were teachers (save rajani from 7th grade!) and not peers. To this day, my friends are, on average, 2-5 years older than me, and I have no problems at all socializing with people over twice my age. I feel more comfortable in the company of 25-40 year olds and feel like I have to act like a stern mother to anyone under 20. I can't stand children younger than 13 or so. Do I have a pathological problem? Probably not, although there's a slew of traits I posses that I've spotted in my AP Psychology textbook and winced at.

The only thing I can really remember from middle school was meeting Rajani, who is the single most important person to me alive next to my father.

High school started out a bout of psychological hell, and is only now starting to switch gears from 'just do what I have to do and ignore life' to an actual hunger for education again.

Underclassmen: my uncle and grandmother died within weeks of school starting in freshman and sophomore year respectively. I also had some other personal life hell that I'll spare you guys.

Upperclassmen: Junior year was still rocky, and I was separated from Rajani by a 6 hour drive. Up to this point, I spent equal time amongst her family as mine, right on down to having double-holidays and chores at her house! When she left, I was completely devastated and was definitively clinically depressed (though refused to see anyone about it) as well as turning absolutely VICIOUS on the odd-days I didn't feel like my world was ruined. The depression's lifted, but the attitude problem really hasn't.

SENIOR YEAR IS GREAT. A little stressful since there are only so many hours in the day for attending school, sleeping, and doing homework and between Debate, AP Psych, and Humanities, laziness, and an RP addiction... Yeah I get swamped. XD

I can't wait for college when I can pursue a major in what I WANT (Psychology, criminal) at... a bit more of a relaxed pace. 5 classes a week is certainly better than 6 classes a day!

XD Two. I can't count. Sereth and Zacky.

*edits, grumbling about damn textbook cramming murdering braincells*

I could have graduated next month if I got the papers in, BUT, all the fun stuff happens second semester senior year. Prom... senior skip day... the senior freeze tag day*... senior checklist**...

*Every year, the campus seniors divide into 3 teams (usually black, tie-dye, and camo) based on who your AP is and we play freeze tag. Most teachers actually excuse senior tardies if they're in freeze tag gear since they're standing there in the hall for all of passing. XD

** There's usually a checklist of minor senior pranks. Some from last year were "fishing for freshman" (tagging the freshies with those toy fishing rods. XD once you get to be a senior you can see the freshie aura), putting pinwheels on all the security trucks, and graffiti-ing every avaliable concrete surface with chalk.

>.> My school's teachers are die hard a**-wipes. They think their job it to make our life miserable, instead of teach.

There was a food fight, last day of school last year, the seniors started it, they had to go to 62 hours of summer school if caught helping, same went for the ones that skipped the half-day after that. If they didn't, then they didn't get their diplomas.

I never really got picked on as a freshman, even thought it was so obvious I was one.

I think I'm schitzo sometimes.

But I don't really hear voices....