Possible Impending Schedual Change

My high school intends to switch from a 4 block schedule to a 7 block schedule

Some teachers are worried about trying to cram all the material they cover in AP courses into less time, because of the possible schedule change next year.

The administration isn't asking those teachers for their opinions.

You will also notice that nobody is asking about the students opinions either.

Why? because they know what we are all thinking and they don't care. That or their hands are tied.

Even though it won't effect me I can't help but think about it and feel sorry for the people who will get stuck with this crap. and I hate to think about how 20 or 30 years from now when they raise the standards again how kids are going to start having nervous breakdowns, that is of course if this change doesn't do it first.

This is what I was talking about in my last post

Trends of Insanity

educational standards have been increasing exponentially and moral standards have been exponentially decreasing.

I fear that within a few generations teenagers will have even less scruples about premarital sex, and do to an ever increasing amount of information we are expected to learn being crammed into a constant amount of time, many will doubtless begin to question the point of attending school when the vast majority of what they are learning will never be used in their line of work. this has already begun to occur but many will decide that the classes are therefore pointless and stop working or in other cases students may begin to have nervous breakdowns from the immense stress of trying to keep up with their classes

One Fear

I used to be afraid of spiders, now I just step on them.
I used to be afraid of the Dark, now I can't sleep with a light on.
I used to be afraid of my parents, well you get the idea.

Right now their is only one thing I'm afraid off.

I'm afraid of getting stuck on the JV team this year. Whoever the poor unlucky bastard that gets stuck on the JV team this year turns out to be will miss out on all of the challenging bouts, and all the excitement. I do not want to be that poor unlucky bastard. That is the only thing which terrifies. I am scarred shitless of being stuck on that JV squad where I would undoubtedly spend my entire season bageling a bunch of first year fencers. I'm better than that, and I want to prove it.

No Second Chances

This doesn't belong on facebook so I'm posting it here even though the onse that I'm talking to probly won't see it. but here it is. Patrick, Tim, Austin, one of the four of us is going to get shunted into the substitute spot this year. We all new it would come to this, and we are all pretty evenly matched in skill. So from today on I will be doing everyrthing I can to better myself. I'm eating healthy, I'm giving my all at conditioning, I'm going anywhere I think I can get some practice when I have the time. This is my declaration of war. I will except whatever the autcome may be but until the squad is determind even as we help each other improve we are rivals and none of us is gauranteed a spot. Best of luck to us all.

Conditioning

2 and 1/2 hours of nonstop conditioning, one hot shower, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and half an apple later, I'm about to start homework. yet for some reason my brother has been and is still passed out on the couch someone explain this to me please. Also the turnout for conditioning today was pathetic. we saw only two new faces and were missing plenty of old ones

Tournament: the results

eh lost to Austin in the first DE bout, but I beet an A rank who should probly be a D rank in my pool bouts!

One of Those Days

This has been one of those days where you learn something that makes you feel guilty for having an easy life, a life where the only thing you have to worry about is whether or not you did well on a test, or whether or not you will win some game. compared to my tiny troubles their are people in this world who have to worry about whether or not they will live to see tomorrow. Invisible Children came to our school and gave a presentation today and I coldn't even make a donation because I didn't have any money with me. uh right the invisble children are these kids in Uganda who have been ubducted by the Lords Revolutionary Army led by Joseph Kony, the kids are threatend with death and some are forced to kill their own family members they are taking perfectly normal 11 year old kids and turning them into murders. I'm gonna come right out and say this any country worth living in should be pitching in to put an end to this in fact they should already have been doing so for a long time. Find the leader of these child ubducting mass murdering genocidal bastards, Joseph Kony. send in a couple teams of snipers or get his location and fire a predator missles at him and end it. it's been going on for more than 20 years already. and even though i'm 17 i'm only hearing about it now way to go American media you couldn't aford to mention something this important?! Screw the trial, guys like this need to die, end of discussion. He would get the death sentance anyway, so just save some time, and some lives, and rid this world of this demon.