Kourtney In The Classroom

High school is a critical time for teenagers, for many, it is a time to find one’s identity in order to know what to do in life outside of high school. Students have the choice to be involved in his/her school and care about what they are doing, instead of sliding by. There is a difference between involved and uninvolved students, one’s experience in high school can say a lot about his/her personality. This is because the uninvolved students are the ones not looking for a challenge, less social, and unable to determine their own path by leading. On the contrary, involved students have a great mindset going through school, are driven, care about the difference he/she makes, and are looked up to as leaders. In every school, there are uninvolved

High school, for many students, is prison. A prison that holds us for seven hours every day, five days a week. This type of attitude is what ruins students. Students with huge potential and bright futures are falling victim to this epidemic every year. It is time we try and change that.

High school is a combat zone. Perhaps incognito, high school is vile in all ways, shapes, and forms. High school is destruction of humanity. From blondes to redheads, and albinos to bronzed beauties, there is no fair play. Manipulation, deceit, lies, and forbidding grades are the fate of these entire helpless quarry. After many devastating centuries, mankind has learned to adapt to this revolution. Fighting for freedom and molding to the staggering state of affairs, students have mastered separation brilliance and competence, creating differences with style, interests, and appetites. One thing that will never change… there is no escaping these dreadful high school cliques!

In reality, high school is probably the worst and best years of your life. It’s kind of fun sometimes and others it’s really dreadful. It really just depends on the day! Some kids look like they are doing great and that they are the perfect popular high schooler, but they aren’t. Trust me. In high school, something is going on with everybody at all times. I think the movies need to figure this out because I was expecting a bit more, but oh well. What do I know, I’m only a

At first glance high school seems to be a fun and relaxed time. A time that you get to hang out with friends and participate in extracurricular activities. Some of your most treasured memories will be made in high school. However, high school is a cruel and unforgiving place. In high school individuals get judged by their appearance, the way they act, and who they hang out with.

High school…what is there to say about it? Many would tell you that it’s like a jungle of sorts, others say it changes you. Many students including myself, go through all four years of high school setting goals and standards for themselves after they graduate. Your teachers and your councilors tell you that it’s a bumpy road but “you’ll get through it”. Well I can personally tell you that high school was none of that.

The media a lot of the times seems to portray high school as something completely far off from the truth. High school students are usually portrayed as immature and irresponsible people who are filled with raging hormones, who are either overly sexual or stoners. On the same note, high school is often portrayed the way we see on television shows or movies, think of Mean Girls, an environment where there are distinct cliques that revolve around drama and gossip. Although this may be true to the smallest extent, as a high school teenager, a can state from my own experience that the media does not do a good job in portraying what high school is really like today.

My high school experiences have become imprinted into my memory and parts of me. I changed entirely from the first day I walked in as a freshmen to the last day I walked across the stage with my diploma. Not only do I look different but I act, think, and understand differently. I realize now that an individual’s character is largely constructed by other people’s opinions, unwritten rules, and a subliminal hierarchy. The reality of high school makes it difficult to escape the ideal image of a perfect student, friend, respectful significant other, and model child. With all these different forces pulling students back and forth, the primary goal is to be accepted; despite how much change one must undergo. From my high school experiences I know how to deal with labelling, peer pressure, alienation, and cliques. Thus my former high school social lessons and knowledge allow me to reshape my perception, values, and self-image to this day.

In a world with different opinions and views comes conflict. Some people bully those who don’t act and don’t look like them. In the world this leads to harsh judgment and nasty comments. In high school, this separation leads to cliques in schools and people feeling lonely. The cliques typically have members who are “popular.” Popular is defined as being well liked and desired among others. I expect the “popular” kids to be well liked because they are compassionate to others, however, that isn’t usually the case. Usually kids

My high school experiences have become imprinted into my memory and parts of me. I changed entirely from the first day I walked in as a freshmen to the last day I walked across the stage with my diploma. Not only do I look different, but I act, think, and understand differently. Our identities are a process of social encounters with different groups of people, contrasting systems, and self-defining moments that we face in high school. I realize now that an individual’s character is largely constructed by other people’s opinions, unwritten rules, and a subliminal hierarchy. The reality of high school makes it difficult to escape the ideal image of a perfect student, friend, respectful significant other, and model child. With all these different forces pulling students back and forth, the primary goal is to be accepted, despite how much change one must undergo. From my high school experiences I know how to deal with peer pressure, alienation, and cliques. Thus, my former high school social lessons and knowledge allow me to reshape my perception, values, and self-image to this day.

My sophomore year, was a big learning lesson. You know how people say when you get to high school you will learn a lot about who people really are? Well I learn that about my old girlfriend, and this one year it just like I met whole new person and it wasn't the one from freshman year. I’m just not going to act like didn’t change, I just let outside opinions affect my life. One thing that I would tell someone that is coming into high-school is, always put yourself and what you want to accomplish first. You will never know what someone true agenda is, you would go to war over with the world over that person. Then come to find out that they wouldn’t even throw water on you if you were on fire. Then you find out that this person was just

The author of this article feels that most high schools across the nation are losing focus on the importance of students’ time in high school. The article takes us through the average day for a high school student, which most people can relate to. It then makes the point of how very crammed the average day for a young adolescent is with a severe lack of down time and the slew of negative consequences because of this. This rushed school day, in combination with the average number of students per class which is twenty or so, causes students and staff members to miss the opportunity to connect with one another. Therefore, teachers do not get a chance to really get to know each pupil and allows for students to fly under the radar as they coast

High School can be a terrifying experience to a freshman, but what we need to understand, is that it can be fun, if you let it be. If you join clubs and get involved then your highschool experience will be a good one, also you need to keep good friends close, but still make new ones, and you have no idea what a person is going through, be nice to everyone because it might be the worst day they’ve ever had.

Being a high school student has never been easy. There are expectations to receive exceptional grades, be involved in many activities, and keep a part-time job. Surviving in high school requires many skills and qualities to make your time easier. Work ethic, perseverance, patience, and responsibility, are characteristics I feel I possess as a high school student and future college student.

High school is rough enough as it is; filled with college prep, standardized tests, puberty, gossip, parties, and drama. Teenagers are struggling to find who they are while trying to make friends with people that are trying to figure out who they are. What can make this process even more unbearably dreadful than it already is, is being a social minority. Being different than everyone else makes it that much harder to find a “place” in high school.