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15 November 2018
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Getbackintheussr said
I find this so weird. Aren’t schools supposed to prepare you for the future? High schools expect students to make big, life-changing decisions and to know what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives. But they still restrict the internet and make us ask for permission to use the toilet.
Exactly. We’re expected to act like adults, but we are treated like children.
I mean, is there some stuff that could be justifiably restricted? Sure. Is the word “blonde” one of those things? Absolutely not.
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Offline At my school, if they catch you doing anything that isn’t “school related,” they “confiscate your computer privileges,” which sounds like something you’d do to a little kid. If you get banned from using computers, you can’t do anything computer-related at school for a week afterwards so you end up getting it all as homework. I don’t know what idiot came up with it, but it sure as heck doesn’t work, or even change anything at all. All it does is just make people less likely to finish their assignments.
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That’s just stupid. At my school, people get in trouble if they’re playing a game when they’re supposed to be doing their work, but they don’t get their “computer privileges” “confiscated” because that’s ridiculous and how are they supposed to do any work.
Oh yeah, speaking of annoying school-related things, we’ve had the same sub in math for the past three days, and every day he mispronounces my name in a new and different way, even though I SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM how to pronounce it on the first day. And I’m just like Why is it that people forget how to read when they look at my name? It’s not that hard!
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I find this so weird. Aren’t schools supposed to prepare you for the future? High schools expect students to make big, life-changing decisions and to know what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives. But they still restrict the internet and make us ask for permission to use the toilet.
Our school just bans the wifi when we need to use it. Certainly, some people can’t play video games, but more people just can’t do their research either.
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Thankfully our school is quite liberal about the internet – youtube isn’t blocked for instance, and nor is twitter (I think).
Which would be great if it wasn’t SO SLOW!! It’s so slow that my computer times out the connection, so I’ve been forced to use my phone’s personal hotspot for the last one and a half years if I want to use the internet.
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15 November 2018
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Getbackintheussr said
I find this so weird. Aren’t schools supposed to prepare you for the future? High schools expect students to make big, life-changing decisions and to know what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives. But they still restrict the internet and make us ask for permission to use the toilet.
Are you saying you don’t have to ask permission to go to the bathroom at your school? Is it possible for me to transfer?
In all seriousness, I actually don’t mind the bathroom-pass system, because most of the time you can turn your passes in at the end of the year for extra credit. My habit of forgetting to drink water for long periods of time actually comes in handy in this case– I almost never use the bathroom at school. Which is good, because school bathrooms are revolting.
Ah, Holey, yes, I relate– my school’s wifi and service is pathetic. I’m one of the few people whose phone is actually capable of logging onto the wifi, though, I’m very fortunate.
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Offline In the UK, more of the providers of pay-as-you-go Internet are putting adult content controls on as the default, with you needing a credit card to prove your age to have them removed. Fine and easy for those who have credit cards; for those of us who don’t we have to find a shop owned by the network provider and go there to get it removed in person.
My phone and laptop are on different networks. At the age of 52, both networks have put adult content controls on that block access to the most ridiculous sites and I have to go out of my way to get them removed.
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Getbackintheussr said
I find this so weird. Aren’t schools supposed to prepare you for the future? High schools expect students to make big, life-changing decisions and to know what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives. But they still restrict the internet and make us ask for permission to use the toilet.
Are you saying you don’t have to ask permission to go to the bathroom at your school? Is it possible for me to transfer?
No I think gbitussr was saying that they do have to ask permission…
In all seriousness, I actually don’t mind the bathroom-pass system, because most of the time you can turn your passes in at the end of the year for extra credit. My habit of forgetting to drink water for long periods of time actually comes in handy in this case– I almost never use the bathroom at school. Which is good, because school bathrooms are revolting.
Thankfully we don’t have passes and we don’t have a credit based system – that’s basically promoting unhealthy behaviour, how stupid…
Ah, Holey, yes, I relate– my school’s wifi and service is pathetic. I’m one of the few people whose phone is actually capable of logging onto the wifi, though, I’m very fortunate.
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In the UK, more of the providers of pay-as-you-go Internet are putting adult content controls on as the default, with you needing a credit card to prove your age to have them removed. Fine and easy for those who have credit cards; for those of us who don’t we have to find a shop owned by the network provider and go there to get it removed in person.
My phone and laptop are on different networks. At the age of 52, both networks have put adult content controls on that block access to the most ridiculous sites and I have to go out of my way to get them removed.
My goodness that sounds painful… How utterly ridiculous!
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Oh yeah, fun fact; the bells aren’t working so on Monday they replaced them with…. drumroll please… fire alarms!
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Wish my school was canceled when the power was outOh yeah, fun fact; the bells aren’t working so on Monday they replaced them with…. drumroll please… fire alarms!
How long were they going for each bell?
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50yearslate said
Wish my school was canceled when the power was out
Oh yeah, fun fact; the bells aren’t working so on Monday they replaced them with…. drumroll please… fire alarms!
How long were they going for each bell?
Well it wasn’t really… organized… it just kind of randomly went off around the times it was supposed to, there was no consistent amount of time. By sixth period they just quit and went with no bells at all.
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50yearslate said
Wish my school was canceled when the power was outOh yeah, fun fact; the bells aren’t working so on Monday they replaced them with…. drumroll please… fire alarms!
Fire alarms? WHAT????
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50yearslate said
Wish my school was canceled when the power was out
Oh yeah, fun fact; the bells aren’t working so on Monday they replaced them with…. drumroll please… fire alarms!
Fire alarms? WHAT????
They didn’t warn us, either, so we all rushed outside till they explained what was going on over the loudspeaker.
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I wonder why they didn’t just tell you to change classes over the intercom
We’d already gone without bells for two weeks because of AP testing and that worked fine. In fact, that’s what we did today. I don’t know whose idea the fire alarms were, but perhaps that person is not the best candidate for their job.
That said, I hope the bells come back soon 
Why I came: I was spacing out and listening to Isn’t It A Pity and for some reason instead of hearing “Isn’t It A Pity ” I heard “isn’t it a Fiddy” 
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Offline At my school we just don’t have bells during AP or Smarter Balanced testing and we get along fine without them. There’s no reason to use Fire alarms over not having them at all.
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Why I came: I was spacing out and listening to Isn’t It A Pity and for some reason instead of hearing “Isn’t It A Pity ” I heard “isn’t it a Fiddy”
That happens every time I listen to Isn’t It A Pity !
50yearslate said
Oh yeah, speaking of annoying school-related things, we’ve had the same sub in math for the past three days, and every day he mispronounces my name in a new and different way, even though I SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM how to pronounce it on the first day. And I’m just like Why is it that people forget how to read when they look at my name? It’s not that hard!
My English teacher called me ‘lady’ the first few weeks of school, he couldn’t be bothered to learn my name (which is five letters!). Then he called me ‘Anna’ for the rest of the first semester. I stopped using British spellings out of spite for him.
Also, Fiddy, did you get a chance to watch the video?
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50yearslate said
Why I came: I was spacing out and listening to Isn’t It A Pity and for some reason instead of hearing “Isn’t It A Pity ” I heard “isn’t it a Fiddy”
That happens every time I listen to Isn’t It A Pity !
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50yearslate said
Oh yeah, speaking of annoying school-related things, we’ve had the same sub in math for the past three days, and every day he mispronounces my name in a new and different way, even though I SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM how to pronounce it on the first day. And I’m just like Why is it that people forget how to read when they look at my name? It’s not that hard!
My English teacher called me ‘lady’ the first few weeks of school, he couldn’t be bothered to learn my name (which is five letters!). Then he called me ‘Anna’ for the rest of the first semester. I stopped using British spellings out of spite for him.
How awful of him. But of course it’s always the kids with the ten-million-letter names that they get perfectly and the ones with short and simple names get screwed up. I’ve seen it happen countless times. It makes no sense.
Also, Fiddy, did you get a chance to watch the video?
Oh, no, oof, I forgot.
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Getbackintheussr said
I find this so weird. Aren’t schools supposed to prepare you for the future? High schools expect students to make big, life-changing decisions and to know what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives. But they still restrict the internet and make us ask for permission to use the toilet.
Exactly. We’re expected to act like adults, but we are treated like children.
I mean, is there some stuff that could be justifiably restricted? Sure. Is the word “blonde” one of those things? Absolutely not.
yep, it’s crazy. the internet is really great until adults went all crazy on it…
about the whole bell conversation: during our standarized tests (SOLs, does anyone else have these?) half the time they ring the bell and then sometimes the teachers are just like “feck it, go to class, no one told us anything.” it’s so disorginzed. i hate being a teenager so much. i want freedom. let me look at blonde people.
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