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[baphometslayer]

Corruption is rampart in all levels of High School. I got in a bit of trouble at school for a website I was running. Despite them completely ignoring the disclaimer, I got in a bunch of trouble.

I got called in to the office, where the Principle and Sheriff were waiting for me. I claimed that they were violating my 1st amendment rights, and the principle just looked at me and said, "When we come to school, we leave the constitution at the front door." This is downright blasphemy!

I went to a pretty small school, but the students were VERY open about their activities, even to teachers. The school board played favoritism with their children whom were in the school. It was all very discouraging. When I have children I'll either home-school them or be very selective with a private school.

[Qittie deKay]

Hmm...sounds like you have it pretty rough, man. I went to two different high schools, one in the deep south and one in urban Virginia. So, as you can imagine, there were different problems with each.

In Virginia I saw a lot of the same problems you talk about. Underage drinking, especially on campus, was a big one. The drug scene was mostly taken care of outside of school, but there were occasional deals during school hours. The biggest thing was fighting between the "groups". We mostly saw gang wars between black people and latinos. There was one between the whites and the blacks, though. It sort of cycled around my freshman year; you never knew who the next target was, or where the next fight was going to be.

My sophomore and junior year were spent in the deep south, in a rural town and a very small school. The biggest thing there were alcohol and tobacco products on campus. With a total school population of around 500 it was easier for them to crack down security-wise, though. However, there were a few racial problems because the kids were predominantly white, and most were prejudiced. I never saw a black family stay in the school district for more than a few years at a time until I got older.

My senior year I was back in Virginia, and the problems I mentioned previously were pretty much stamped out. Most of the prejudice and fighting was relegated to sub-groups, between the goths and hardcore punks, emos and preps, etc. It was really ridiculous, but even the cheerleaders had to pick on people. They tried to trashcan me because I wore a trench coat and combat boots. Apparently dressing in black makes you a goth. To clarify, our group called itself the Trench Coat Mafia because most of our number owned trenchies, and we didn't identify ourselves as any of the subgroups. We just wore what we wanted and watched each others' backs because of all the intra-group and inter-group fighting.

Personally, I think it's ridiculous that so much labeling, stereotyping, and prejudice is still around. Even in college I find it impossible to escape. But, no, I don't wear the trench anymore. Even blue jeans and a tank top can incite some pretty small minded comments. Bother...

[NNNOOOOOO]

Not to revive a topic or anything, but as I read some of these posts, I thought to myself "Good God, I'd hate to go to some of these schools."

The only time I remember drinking at my school happened on my home bus (we have two busses to get to middle/high school). I was in middle school when someone brought some alcoholic drink to school, someone else brought shot glasses. The two people didn't know the other person would bring the other stuff. One of them got drunk on the way to school.

I don't witness any drug dealing, just hear about it going on. People smoke in the bathrooms. Sometimes they close bathrooms on one side of the school to stop the smoking. They even put up signs in the bathroom that give false info on purpose to make you not smoke in school (it never works though).

The most fights we have are about 2-3 a month. Sometimes we go months without a fight. The only people who say teachers don't teach anything are the ones who don't pay attention 90% of the time. 70%-90% of the teacher I had/have are "fun".

We don't have gangs. The groups of people in my school are classifies as:
Smart- everyone says they're smart
Average- 70% of everyone says they're smart.
Dumb- Call themselves average
Brain-dead- The first two groups (excluding [most] teacher) wonders how this group is still alive. Most pregnant people are in this group and the above group. The teachers that make fun of this group are the "fun", "cool" teachers.

As for weapons, some people bring to show off, but don't actually use them. We have a cop that's been hired to patrol inside the school. If you get caught doing something you're not allowed to (includes dress code violations), the teachers do stuff about it. If you get caught chewing tobacco, some teacher will offer a break for it.

One of my current teachers told us a story about how he caught someone chewing, and obviously, the kid denied it. The kid claimed to be drinking the Mountain Dew, not spitting tobacco juice in it. The teacher told him to either drink the "Mountain Dew", or go to the office and get written up for tobacco possession and use. The kid decided to drink the "Mountain Dew", and the teacher held his end of the deal. Apparently, the kid turned different colors throughout the day.

The "boring" teacher will flat out turn you in. That's my high school.

[Iniyila]

hmm i haven't seen any of these mentioned corruptions in my schools except fighting ones. fights are happening in all schools and i don't think there is any school out there that has no fight during a month but the important thing is that how much these fights got violence. in my schools (middle and high) there were no too violence fight at all. small injuries happened like getting punched in nose or month but there were no bloody fight at all. i have heard my friend that in his brother school they have bloody fights which includes fighting with knives which i have heard for the first time from him. this is very dangerous in any school and can cause serious injuries so i think there should be very strong security team in these schools because you can not stop a kid whom has a knife! as the world goes older kids in the schools become more violent. no one likes to send his child to school in the morning and see his kid with an eye blinded in the afternoon (which i have read happened in a middle school) so there should be some restrictions and very precise observation to control environment of these schools.

[AzureMusique]

What I don't get is why this government let some of these schools go to waste. It should be a safe environment that everyone enjoys coming to. Instead, all the government does is "tightening" up learning on students, make school liable if they don't improve standards, shut them down, and more than likely fire all the teachers in that "bad" school. Dude, the only reason why some schools or cities are so bad is because they don't even put enough training into teachers and don't even take into account that the "bad" schools are located in low-income neighborhoods where violence are more than likely to occur. Of course kids aren't gonna be able to concentrate--and the many that are affected show this by disrupting the "safe place" through fights, thievery and vandalism, as well as other forms of delinquency. I'm mad as hell as a future educator.

However, with the school I had gone to, it was in a pretty decent neighborhood, with some healthy bit of rivalry.

Edited by AzureMusique, 08 January 2011 - 05:22 AM.

[contactskn]

Dear friend of mine I have studied in an Army school and it was so disciplined that no one can even think about such activities and due to which I have never encountered such activities not only in my schooling but also in my college. But have heard a lot about that such activities were prevalent in private colleges etc. But in colleges also I was in Military college and again the same condition as my school was there in my college that is fully disciplined and strict.