Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.218.70.24-20150317164438/@comment-4010415-20150412183836

I live in the USA, yeah. Public school is insane, let me tell yah. Unfortunately, I've heard that a lot of people don't want to hire someone who has been homeschooled. For some reason, that's apparently frowned upon in the job world. As for private school... An awful lot of them are Catholic, so if your parents aren't particularly fond of Catholicism, they're not gonna send you there.

Public high school... There were all types, like I said. One year, toward the end of the school year, a bunch of people made water balloons and threw them between classes as everyone headed to their next class, as well as when school let out. They only did it outside, though, which was pretty much all over campus, since I attended an open campus.

Aaaand we had our share of violence. It's pretty much to the point where the high schools here have lockdown procedures. By 12th grade, you've more than likely been able to figure out how to immediately tell if the lockdown is for real or another drill, unless you don't care or are as dumb as a rock.

To be completely honest, public high school is a lot like prison, and I'm not exaggerating. I mean, hell, as soon as you start elementary school, you are assigned an ID number that is registered with the entire school district and carried with you to each school you attend. Once I got to high school, that number was used everywhere.


 * It was on my ID card, which I had to keep on my lanyard and keep my lanyard around my neck at all times during school hours.


 * I used it when I paid for my lunch.


 * I used it when I went into the library. They didn't care if I was only in there for a minute to see a friend, they wanted me to sign in with my name, ID number, what time I entered, and what time I left.


 * My textbooks were registered to my ID number.


 * Whenever I needed to leave the classroom, even if it was just to go to the bathroom, I had to fill out a form with the date, my name, my ID number, where I'm going, and what time it is, and have the teacher sign their initials on it. I took that form with me in case an assistant principal stopped me to make sure I was actually going where I was supposed to go.


 * If I received some kind of punishment, whether it was detention, Saturday school, or In School Suspension, I had to fill out a form with my name, my ID number, why I was there, and what teacher had me sent there.

I don't even know how many of the 90 something cameras on campus were monitored. I only know that the ones in the cafeterias (big school, we had 2 cafeterias) were monitored. They had said that none of the cameras were monitored and were only there to be checked if something happened (which, some assholes pulled the dumbest prank ever that broke the law in my 12th grade year, so the cameras were useful). I wasn't even supposed to have found out that the cafeteria cameras were monitored, but I caught a sneak peek at a TV showing feed from one when an assistant principal left her door open.

/endrant