What anime char would you like to have sex with?

[LadyDoku]

Oh god. Can't they just take numbers?

[jonmartensen]

...The one exception was English. I had great English teachers.

You are quite fortunate. Most of my high school classes were sub par (we didn't even have a teacher for calculus). The defining low point was my Sophmore year, when the teacher had us read To Kill a Mockingbird. Granted, this is a very good book, and should be read Sophmore year of High School. But not for the very first time, nor should it be read aloud in class.

When the first two years of High School are spent preparing children for a test that is quite laughable in it's "Difficulty" you really can't expect much (this is the TAAS test I'm talking about). I wound up reading plenty of Kafka, Bradbury, Clarke, and Sagan (also The Republic), but it was on my own time.

[dwchang]

You are quite fortunate. Most of my high school classes were sub par (we didn't even have a teacher for calculus). The defining low point was my Sophmore year, when the teacher had us read To Kill a Mockingbird. Granted, this is a very good book, and should be read Sophmore year of High School. But not for the very first time, nor should it be read aloud in class.

Hmm..I think we read To Kill a Mockingbird Freshman year, but it wasn't outloud and we did it well..technically not while school was in session..it was our summer reading.

My Sophmore year we read a lot of greek/roman plays, 1984 (my fav. book still), some Shakespeare (I think Merchant of Venice?) and so on.

As for Calculus, I am really glad I took it so early. It also allowed me to take multi-variable calculus my senior year for college credit.

When the first two years of High School are spent preparing children for a test that is quite laughable in it's "Difficulty" you really can't expect much (this is the TAAS test I'm talking about). I wound up reading plenty of Kafka, Bradbury, Clarke, and Sagan (also The Republic), but it was on my own time.

Heh...we have a similar test, but we don't really "practice" for it or anything. My guess is y'all have to take it like we did for the schools to get funding or something.

[kthulhu]

I read "To Kill A Mockingbird" on my own at, I think, the age of 14. Good book.

[Jace Tsunami]

Dude, Jon, the TAKS test is SOOOOOO fucking gay.

I think Taas was efficient. It had good basic knowledge and was a decent test. granted, it's hella easy, it should be. i mean it is an exit test, and if you can't pass that easy test, you need to stay in high school.

But the TAKS, OMG. It's even EASYER, if that's possible. But it's full of the most random unimportent CRAP. And when they ask you questions, they TRY to confuse you. I had a word problem on my math portion, and it was for vocabulary. Vocabulary questions arn't suppossed to be math word problems. That was shit.

The test in general just couldn't be anymore stupid or pointless, and I got tested over a ton of things I've never even had.

Genuine stupid people wrote the new TAKS test. I can't believe they tested it on us, it's a sophmore test, that was pretty anoying to have been taking it all week, just so they can have a bench marker.

[Mroni]

I wish every body knew who I was talking about when I said Narue from Narue no sekai. She is a hot little animated fuck tart.


Mr Oni

[Propyro]

You are quite fortunate. Most of my high school classes were sub par (we didn't even have a teacher for calculus). The defining low point was my Sophmore year, when the teacher had us read To Kill a Mockingbird. Granted, this is a very good book, and should be read Sophmore year of High School. But not for the very first time, nor should it be read aloud in class.

now thats not funny ...because thats what we had done ... and it was my first time seeing that book, in grade school the last books i remeber reading were the Hobbit and Tuck Everlasting (probably in gr7), and Swiss Family Robinson or some thing like that in grade 8 ... all aobut afamily that got ship wrecked on an island and had to survive. Yea my schools were nothing much in terms of good reading material...

Hmm..I think we read To Kill a Mockingbird Freshman year, but it wasn't outloud and we did it well..technically not while school was in session..it was our summer reading.

My Sophmore year we read a lot of greek/roman plays, 1984 (my fav. book still), some Shakespeare (I think Merchant of Venice?) and so on.

As for Calculus, I am really glad I took it so early. It also allowed me to take multi-variable calculus my senior year for college credit.

Merchant of Venice was the shakespear i read in grade 9. My friend likes to think it was writen as a comedy because in the end the jew got screwed. He also sees Romeo and Juilet as a comedy too, he jsut laughs at how stupid those two were because if they just had some patience then they would have been together. But no they were "hoplessly romantic dumbasses" as he puts it and killed them selves.

But any ways, i don't think any one's ever assigned us summer reading here. Not for school any ways.

When the first two years of High School are spent preparing children for a test that is quite laughable in it's "Difficulty" you really can't expect much (this is the TAAS test I'm talking about). I wound up reading plenty of Kafka, Bradbury, Clarke, and Sagan (also The Republic), but it was on my own time.

lol, you should take the canadien grade 10 literacy test ... IMHO grade 10 is a little late to be testing whether a person can read or not. Well in the exception of an immirants case. But i took that test ... god was it ever a waste of ... 2 days? yea i think the test was spread out over 2 days, it was so pathetic. Read story, answer questions ... question one ... what colour was Bills car ... question 2 ... Who is Bill's friend .... 2 days later ... congradulations you can read ...

Heh...we have a similar test, but we don't really "practice" for it or anything. My guess is y'all have to take it like we did for the schools to get funding or something.

are you talking about SAT's? Meh i know nothing about the american systems mandatory tests.

[Jace Tsunami]

He wasn't talking about the SATs. Each state has a maandatory test, that the state writes. If you don't pass that test, you don't graduate from high school.

They're pretty easy.

Like in texas now they're having you take the TAKS (forgot what it stand for) but in the past when we would take the TAAS, it stood for texas Assesment of Acedemic Skills.

So, they're for each state.

[Propyro]

He wasn't talking about the SATs. Each state has a maandatory test, that the state writes. If you don't pass that test, you don't graduate from high school.

They're pretty easy.

Like in texas now they're having you take the TAKS (forgot what it stand for) but in the past when we would take the TAAS, it stood for texas Assesment of Acedemic Skills.

So, they're for each state.

i see, thats ecactaly the same as the Grade 10 literacy test ... not only is it mandatory for getting your highschool diploma, but it's also a total waste of time.

[Timelessblurr]

my god this thread is still alive. I started back when I first joined LOL