Why high school sucks

The actual class and schoolwork is somewhat important, but the people in school are more significant. High school is a depressing story of drama, hierarchies and unsuccessful relationships.

Distractions are your worst enemy after you decide to actually do your homework tonight. After writing this sentence, a notification on my phone destroyed my will to write this paragraph. The solution: just give in. Let that meme browsing consume the rest of your night. Moral of the story: your high school years are the worst of your life. You should never go to school events or support KHS in any way. Actually, I forgot everything I learned first quarter after the long weekend.

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Down the bleachers. Dribbling past. In-depth: Understaffed, overworked. In-depth: Positively beautiful. In-depth: Discipline disparity. Recognizing race: unexplored issues in Kirkwood. Sad to admit it, but it did. I had a full AP schedule and working at a restaurant 40 or more hours a week.

I played soccer and was president of a club. I was also held responsible for making time for family, friends, and myself. It was the toughest year yet; I was always so tired from work that it started getting harder and harder to wake up every day for classes knowing it was just gonna be more and more work than the previous day.

I was glad to be done with the worst year of high school. My body and mind are worn out of just doing things on survival mode without a purpose. I was also facing buried mental health issues and family problems. Luckily, I had teacher Beth Lifson this year as a teacher. She put my well-being in perspective first and then school. I started getting the real help I needed and I started looking at things differently.

You are allowed to mess up and fail, as long as you make sure to never give up and continue to try. See, the big difference between high school and adult sexual politics is this: Adults generally belong to large social groups and develop sexual relationships within those groups -- punk rockers bone other punk rockers, businesspeople screw other businesspeople who work in the same office, usually , and so on and so forth.

Scientists call it a "hub," and STD breakouts tend to remain isolated to their respective social groups. But high school is different. All those weird social rules force people to diversify their sex-pool, so while adults have hubs, teens have "chains. Adults are actually safer from STDs because they tend to bone more often within their social circle.

Getty "This could take hours. Throw me a fuck? This one is worse in the U. Of course, lots of them will get off with probation or community service or if it involved a car, maybe they'll lose their license.

But a shitload of them go to jail -- the United States seems to rely on Grandad's "lock all the bastards up" course of action, and as such, the USA imprisons its youth at six times the rate of all other developed nations. Getty "I just picked up a summer job. It's called 'taking your shit while you cry. This is done under the guise of scaring the kids straight -- only if you get tough with teens will they see the error of their ways and straighten up.

This works so well that of the teens who are incarcerated, a whopping 70 percent will re-offend within one year of being released.

Which is to say, it doesn't work at all -- studies show that it might possibly have something to do with the psychological and social trauma of being arrested. It turns out that it's actually easier to just stay a criminal than to try to come back from that. Think about everything you've read up to now about growing brains and the effect on judgment. After all, the fact that civilization doesn't just collapse in an orgy of violence is evidence that most teenagers who do stupid shit still grow up to be smart, rational people who contribute to society.

For most of these kids, their thought processes are destined to round into shape regardless of what kind of intervention adults give them.

So it seems like a "one strike and you're out" system might not be the best way to go about it. Getty "Do I have booze in the car? Man, if you'd caught me like 20 minutes ago If this sounds like the kind of bleeding heart "They're teenagers and they can't help doing stupid things! We're just saying that at some point you have to accept that teens are going to be teens. It's biology. So maybe the goal is to make sure they don't do anything during those malformed brain years that ruins the rest of their lives.

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