First Day is the easiest RIGHT?!?!
 

Tomarrow is my last day of summer.... and its starting to set in that I am gunna be in school in no time. Ugh


So the First Day is the easiest RIGHT?!?! Just sitting around and talking?!?!?!


AHHHHHHH

Re: First Day is the easiest RIGHT?!?!
 

Without school there would be no FIRST.
Don't worry. Be happy.:)

First day is the most boring... @ our school, there's a long block of time in the morning to get handouts, re-read the student handbooks, and fill out information cards. The class day is shortened and in gym, you copy down notes for the semester and take pictures. It's so freaking boring.

Every day at school is a blast, seriously. Especially as a New Media major :]

My first day back, I have Algebra II. We spent the whole block taking notes and left with a hurting, blistered hand and two long homework asignments. She says that we have to get the whole book done in the semester. Another class I have is the opposite. We spent the whole first three weeks or whatever so far going over the rules. We had quiz after quiz over them and we finally had the test, and OH MY GOSH!!!, the test was so hard! We just started chapter one today.

This isn't exactly related, but my school, South Fork High School in Martin County, FL, put a $22,000 sign in front. It is an electric sign that has all of these messages on it. It says stuff like "drive safely", like it keeps us from driving reclessly. Why couldn't they just buy a normal $500 sign and give the rest of the money out as bonuses to teachers or something?

The answer is simple:

It would have made to much sense.

Because then teachers would actually get something they deserve for once.

More seriously, with the way funding works in most schools, money can only be spent on very specific things. For example, my district recently passed a $60 million referendum for building maintenence/improvement. Not a single cent of that can legally go towards teachers, books, after school programs, etc. On the other hand, it means the HS is getting a new roof that (hopefully!) won't leak anymore...

Yeah, and a new Fireplace, and a new Symphonic Theater, and... yeah, enuff said.

A fireplace?
You northerners!
Just kidding.

The idea of the sign, as I later found out, was to charge about $1000 per year for advertising on it. (Keep in mind that it costs that much for a tiny newspaper ad for like a week.) This ad would be displayed to the 2,500 students and so many teachers twice-a-day. It is like very cheap and effective advertising. The money that they make off of the sign would pay for itself in about ten years. (Multiple ads will be shown at a time.) The sign could then be left there as a source of income or donated to the stadium to become a scoreboard or something. They pay off a loan for it so they barely payed any money up front. I don't think they used any funding for it so that little bit extra every month could have gone to the teachers.

I may not know all the facts exactly.

Thats odd my school district pays very very very very well. We have teachers flocking from all over the place. Of course they got the scare of there life when the new budget came around.

Your teachers are very, very, very lucky then my friend :)

those who don't have to deal with California schools are lucky.
My current high school laid off about 15% of its staff since last year.
My former middle school has around a 40% turnover rate every year. There are only around 5 teachers left from when I went there, and it's only been 4 years.

There should be a CD sub-forum where students can complain about their schools---it would quickly be more popular than chit chat.

First day of college: is it over yet? Can it possibly get any worse?

Not really. The new ones were scared this year since the budget was in danger of not passing. They would have been laid off.