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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 2, 2016 22:36:28 GMT -4
So, this year my school instigated this new policy where if you have three or more missing assignments in any specific class you're assigned to the ARC [Academic Resource Centre] to make up the work, no matter how small the assignment is. Attendance is mandatory, and skipping it is like.. skipping a class or something.. I'unno.
Well, I'm not exactly a great student, but I've been keeping my missing assignments in each class rather low so I don't get assigned to the ARC. I don't turn in my poem today in English, and later today my parents were practically blasted with emails, that require me to attend the Arc of the first half of my sixth period [lunch] for the duration of the 7th to 11th, attend the Arc during the first half of my seventh period class [math support] for the duration of the 7th to 11, and stay after school on Thursday the 10th from 2:45 - 5:45 [activity buses leave at 5:00].
The thing is, when I clicked on the 'missing assignments' tab in the online thing, it said I'm only missing one assignment -- my Sonnet from English..
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I'm just kinda pissed off.
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Post by Dex on Nov 2, 2016 22:45:08 GMT -4
So, this year my school instigated this new policy where if you have three or more missing assignments in any specific class you're assigned to the ARC [Academic Resource Centre] to make up the work, no matter how small the assignment is. Attendance is mandatory, and skipping it is like.. skipping a class or something.. I'unno. Well, I'm not exactly a great student, but I've been keeping my missing assignments in each class rather low so I don't get assigned to the ARC. I don't turn in my poem today in English, and later today my parents were practically blasted with emails, that require me to attend the Arc of the first half of my sixth period [lunch] for the duration of the 7th to 11th, attend the Arc during the first half of my seventh period class [math support] for the duration of the 7th to 11, and stay after school on Thursday the 10th from 2:45 - 5:45 [activity buses leave at 5:00]. The thing is, when I clicked on the 'missing assignments' tab in the online thing, it said I'm only missing one assignment -- my Sonnet from English.. .. I'm just kinda pissed off. The school is probably trying to get more people in the ARC so they can claim that students don't get away with missing assignments. Basic fear discipline tactics. |
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Post by The Villa Strangiato on Nov 2, 2016 22:45:11 GMT -4
Petition it? This seems strange, did they let anyone know about it? A letter home?
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Post by Benzo on Nov 2, 2016 22:46:57 GMT -4
If you don't go dressed as Noah, I might be a wee bit disappointed.
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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 2, 2016 22:47:31 GMT -4
Petition it? This seems strange, did they let anyone know about it? A letter home? My parents both got four emails about it, and so did I. I wouldn't have known if they didn't check their emails though. |
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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 2, 2016 22:48:06 GMT -4
So, this year my school instigated this new policy where if you have three or more missing assignments in any specific class you're assigned to the ARC [Academic Resource Centre] to make up the work, no matter how small the assignment is. Attendance is mandatory, and skipping it is like.. skipping a class or something.. I'unno. Well, I'm not exactly a great student, but I've been keeping my missing assignments in each class rather low so I don't get assigned to the ARC. I don't turn in my poem today in English, and later today my parents were practically blasted with emails, that require me to attend the Arc of the first half of my sixth period [lunch] for the duration of the 7th to 11th, attend the Arc during the first half of my seventh period class [math support] for the duration of the 7th to 11, and stay after school on Thursday the 10th from 2:45 - 5:45 [activity buses leave at 5:00]. The thing is, when I clicked on the 'missing assignments' tab in the online thing, it said I'm only missing one assignment -- my Sonnet from English.. .. I'm just kinda pissed off. The school is probably trying to get more people in the ARC so they can claim that students don't get away with missing assignments. Basic fear discipline tactics. My friend's in the ARC on a regular basis and she doesn't complain about the one assignment thing. |
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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 2, 2016 22:48:23 GMT -4
If you don't go dressed as Noah, I might be a wee bit disappointed. I.. don;t know who Noah is, I confess. |
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Post by The Villa Strangiato on Nov 2, 2016 22:49:28 GMT -4
This is shady, like anything any school does.
I'd suggest bringing it to the principal, maybe starting a petition to change or abolish this new thing.
By the way, are you watching the world series?
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Post by Benzo on Nov 2, 2016 22:50:20 GMT -4
Gah, fucking phone almost double posted...
Pun on 'Ark' because close enough.
On another note, be glad you aren't cleaning up football games after 3 days suspension for bringing in hot sauce to lunch. (It was ghost pepper... To be fair, someone had to get their stomach pumped, lmfao)
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Post by Dex on Nov 2, 2016 22:50:21 GMT -4
The school is probably trying to get more people in the ARC so they can claim that students don't get away with missing assignments. Basic fear discipline tactics. My friend's in the ARC on a regular basis and she doesn't complain about the one assignment thing. Ah. Well I still think your school might be having some sort of desperate pull to get some funding. |
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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 2, 2016 22:50:36 GMT -4
This is shady, like anything any school does. I'd suggest bringing it to the principal, maybe starting a petition to change or abolish this new thing. By the way, are you watching the world series? Well, I'm in the other room.. 'working on homework', but my parents get pretty rowdy whenever something happens so I know what's up. REGARDLESS I'M SO FUCKING PROUD OF THE CUBS THIS YEAR, LIKE, FUCK YEA! |
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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 2, 2016 22:51:20 GMT -4
Gah, fucking phone almost double posted... Pun on 'Ark' because close enough. Oh man, how did I miss that, lmao? I think I'm tired. It was a good pun, Benzo. It's not your fault I'm oblivious. |
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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 2, 2016 22:51:45 GMT -4
My friend's in the ARC on a regular basis and she doesn't complain about the one assignment thing. Ah. Well I still think your school might be having some sort of desperate pull to get some funding. I live in a town full of rich people, they have their friggin' funding. |
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Post by The Villa Strangiato on Nov 2, 2016 22:52:35 GMT -4
South sider :/
Regardless, this world series is gonna go in the books, and I'm going to owe someone a couple of dollars tomorrow.
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Post by Dex on Nov 2, 2016 22:53:29 GMT -4
Ah. Well I still think your school might be having some sort of desperate pull to get some funding. I live in a town full of rich people, they have their friggin' funding. So this is likely a pull to get parents proud of their school. This is basically an attempt to draw attention to them so they can say they're the best. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Nov 3, 2016 3:37:08 GMT -4
Move to Finland where not only is there no stupid policy like that but they don't even give out homework in the first place.
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Post by Pawzkat on Nov 3, 2016 13:38:51 GMT -4
Look what I just got.
GG school.
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Post by Death on Nov 3, 2016 15:26:47 GMT -4
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Post by Dex on Nov 3, 2016 16:27:30 GMT -4
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Post by passion fruit on Nov 4, 2016 0:26:50 GMT -4
just go to the teacher and explain the problem.
should be simple enough.
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Post by Duck14 on Nov 4, 2016 9:36:09 GMT -4
On another note, be glad you aren't cleaning up football games after 3 days suspension for bringing in hot sauce to lunch. (It was ghost pepper... To be fair, someone had to get their stomach pumped, lmfao) I kind of want to hear more about this. As for the other matter I agree that it's an annoying rule. To play the devils advocate though it always annoyed me when other students would get away with consistently handing in assignments late. Though I always got stressed out about due dates. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Nov 4, 2016 11:19:02 GMT -4
The last time that I actually got in any serious trouble with my school was when I was thirteen and I punched someone in the face and broke their skull, if discussing stupid policies is the topic of conversation. I mean, I guess in retrospect what I did was way out of proportion for what was necessary but the individual on the receiving end of my fist really pissed me off.
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Post by Benzo on Nov 4, 2016 12:52:43 GMT -4
On another note, be glad you aren't cleaning up football games after 3 days suspension for bringing in hot sauce to lunch. (It was ghost pepper... To be fair, someone had to get their stomach pumped, lmfao) I kind of want to hear more about this. As for the other matter I agree that it's an annoying rule. To play the devils advocate though it always annoyed me when other students would get away with consistently handing in assignments late. Though I always got stressed out about due dates. Haha, I can tell ya the full version; It's a fun story to tell. So I actually ended up poisoning two people over two lunches, the first one being my friend unable to handle a tablespoon of the stuff. Little to my knowledge, he actually ended up sitting in the nurse's office for the rest of that day. Come day two, Mr. Macho heard about my friend's bad reaction to the sauce and, in a fit of testosterone-fueled inspiration, decided he could get two down no problem. So, he finds me at lunch and basically says he wants to take the challenge. I warned him, but it fell upon deaf ears. Downed the first spoonful no problem. Actually, one problem, because he started shaking pretty badly after that. Spilled part of the second spoonful, so everyone at the table browbeat him into taking a third... He wasn't in Lunch for much longer after that. Next class period, now I'm in creative writing. (Actually called Composition because my teacher won't let a lack of proper license stop him from teaching CW... I love that man, haha.) Ten minutes in, Vice Principal shows up looking for me. He had a short argument with my teacher, and then I was ushered away. While escorting me to his office, big man on campus VP takes the opportunity to ask me some dumbshit questions like "Do you know why I got you?" and "There's no rules against having hot sauce, but you know you basically brought a loaded gun to school, right?" (It's honestly at this point that most of my punishment came from, because I all-too-happily explained why that is a completely moronic analogy to make.) "No...particularly because I don't know anyone fucking stupid enough to try dipping French fries into a gun barrel." After that comment I'm pretty sure he didn't have a snarky reply to use, because he just dumped me into his office and said "Think about what you've done." Was kind of hard not to, considering his office shares a wall with the nurse. To this day I'm not sure whether I should have been terrified or found it hilarious, but that room sounded like what I imagine the inside of a Vietnam-war medical tent. "Oh God, it burns! It fucking burns! Get it out! Get it out! For the love of God, get it out of my stomach!" - Mr. Macho not feeling so macho anymore. About fifteen or twenty minutes of this screaming and I hear the ambulances arrive. He gets rushed off to the ER for a stomach pump, and I finally get rejoined by the VP. "Get your stuff and go home. Don't come back until next Wednesday." Simple enough, works for me. (Was supposed to be a full 'week' or 5 days, but I guess some of my teachers were threatening with a strike after day 3. I was back on Monday.) My father wasn't quite as pleased as I was, but that only lasted for the initial day. By the weekend, he was pointing out jails and such we would pass and comment "That's where you'll end up if you don't knock off the chemical warfare, you little shit." (Jokingly, of course.) So, come Monday I'm back in class and being greeted by student and staff as though I were a huge victim. (Poisoned a kid and got a long weekend for it. Woe is me, eh?) VP decided I hadn't paid for my crime, yet, and calls me to his office. Now I'm cleaning football games for the next month. (Only lasted for 2 weeks, or twice.) Even that wasn't bad, because come day 1, I ran into some friends. "You here for that whole hotsauce thing?" "Yeah, what about you three?" "Made the French teacher a Facebook page... He wasn't thrilled." (Wasn't even mean or trying to be. Guy's just a hermit that doesn't like socializing.) And that's the bulk of it. Fun times |
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Post by LNG257 on Nov 4, 2016 23:27:35 GMT -4
I wouldn't be surprised if some of my "followers" at school made me a facebook page without my knowledge.
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Post by Duck14 on Nov 5, 2016 10:34:21 GMT -4
I kind of want to hear more about this. As for the other matter I agree that it's an annoying rule. To play the devils advocate though it always annoyed me when other students would get away with consistently handing in assignments late. Though I always got stressed out about due dates. Haha, I can tell ya the full version; It's a fun story to tell. So I actually ended up poisoning two people over two lunches, the first one being my friend unable to handle a tablespoon of the stuff. Little to my knowledge, he actually ended up sitting in the nurse's office for the rest of that day. Come day two, Mr. Macho heard about my friend's bad reaction to the sauce and, in a fit of testosterone-fueled inspiration, decided he could get two down no problem. So, he finds me at lunch and basically says he wants to take the challenge. I warned him, but it fell upon deaf ears. Downed the first spoonful no problem. Actually, one problem, because he started shaking pretty badly after that. Spilled part of the second spoonful, so everyone at the table browbeat him into taking a third... He wasn't in Lunch for much longer after that. Next class period, now I'm in creative writing. (Actually called Composition because my teacher won't let a lack of proper license stop him from teaching CW... I love that man, haha.) Ten minutes in, Vice Principal shows up looking for me. He had a short argument with my teacher, and then I was ushered away. While escorting me to his office, big man on campus VP takes the opportunity to ask me some dumbshit questions like "Do you know why I got you?" and "There's no rules against having hot sauce, but you know you basically brought a loaded gun to school, right?" (It's honestly at this point that most of my punishment came from, because I all-too-happily explained why that is a completely moronic analogy to make.) "No...particularly because I don't know anyone fucking stupid enough to try dipping French fries into a gun barrel." After that comment I'm pretty sure he didn't have a snarky reply to use, because he just dumped me into his office and said "Think about what you've done." Was kind of hard not to, considering his office shares a wall with the nurse. To this day I'm not sure whether I should have been terrified or found it hilarious, but that room sounded like what I imagine the inside of a Vietnam-war medical tent. "Oh God, it burns! It fucking burns! Get it out! Get it out! For the love of God, get it out of my stomach!" - Mr. Macho not feeling so macho anymore. About fifteen or twenty minutes of this screaming and I hear the ambulances arrive. He gets rushed off to the ER for a stomach pump, and I finally get rejoined by the VP. "Get your stuff and go home. Don't come back until next Wednesday." Simple enough, works for me. (Was supposed to be a full 'week' or 5 days, but I guess some of my teachers were threatening with a strike after day 3. I was back on Monday.) My father wasn't quite as pleased as I was, but that only lasted for the initial day. By the weekend, he was pointing out jails and such we would pass and comment "That's where you'll end up if you don't knock off the chemical warfare, you little shit." (Jokingly, of course.) So, come Monday I'm back in class and being greeted by student and staff as though I were a huge victim. (Poisoned a kid and got a long weekend for it. Woe is me, eh?) VP decided I hadn't paid for my crime, yet, and calls me to his office. Now I'm cleaning football games for the next month. (Only lasted for 2 weeks, or twice.) Even that wasn't bad, because come day 1, I ran into some friends. "You here for that whole hotsauce thing?" "Yeah, what about you three?" "Made the French teacher a Facebook page... He wasn't thrilled." (Wasn't even mean or trying to be. Guy's just a hermit that doesn't like socializing.) And that's the bulk of it. Fun times Haha, nice story. Thanks for sharing. |
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