meggiebeth
WDW, DLR & DLP enthusiast
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- Aug 1, 2011
Ditz said:Where is everyone?
Bonsoir! C'est moi, Meg! Je suis presente!
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Ditz said:Where is everyone?
I totally get where you're coming from. School just isn't easy for some- me or you. It's nice that I know it's not just me now- it seems like sometimes it is. Everyone acts like hobos at my school too so I totally get what you're saying. I can't stand that the school locks us outside at break and lunch, and locks the toilets so we physically can't get in. Feels more like a prison than a school and I can't wait to leave...! I bet it's illegal what they're doing anyway.
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Disney~Cutie said:Yes, homework is quite an inconvenience
Fairywings said:They lock you out? Even when it's cold and/or raining? What happens if you have to use the restroom?
Well, you have to wait till the caretaker comes and let's you in. And you have to get a note from your teacher to get a key to get into the restroom. So if your teacher won't give you a note and you're desperate...? I just think it's cruel.
Yup, we've been pushed out in rain and snow. There is the cafeteria that is open but it's always so busy and no tables are free so we don't have much choice.
As soon as I've left the school I am going to write to the government and ofsted and complain, lol.
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Fairywings said:Wow, That really, really, really, really sucks. Just saying.
Ikr!
Can I just ask... This sounds really stupid... But are your schools just like the ones in the movies? Do you wear your own clothes and leave class when the bell rings and have lockers and get a yellow bus to school?
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Ditz said:Sorry for jumping in. My school is a Private School and yes we have lockers and there is 1 bus that I ride on. We also have uniforms.
Fairywings said:Some of it's true.
Our school buses are yellow, though to me they sometimes look more like yellow-orange.
We have bells that ring at the beginning and end of class.
But, at least where I live, we have uniforms. We can wear solid color turtlenecks, Oxford style button up shirts, or polo(golf) shirts. We can also wear khaki, navy or black pants, capris, shorts and skirts(at least knee length for the girls). Outerwear has to be solid color or school approved(basically school or college sweatshirts), and we have to be wearing a belt, and we can wear any kind of shoe or sock but they have to match. And of course there's rules about hair and facial hair. So, we sort of have uniforms, but we have a little bit of options.
See, that sounds like a good uniform! At least you get some freedom to choose your clothes... But what is the point of having to wear a belt? Lol. I'll have to post a picture of my hideous uniform since it sounds so terrible compared to yours.
When we think of American schools, we think of people wearing their own clothes and getting yellow busses to school. It's interesting that it often isn't like that!
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Ikr!
Can I just ask... This sounds really stupid... But are your schools just like the ones in the movies? Do you wear your own clothes and leave class when the bell rings and have lockers and get a yellow bus to school?
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Trust me, it's not stupid at all, I have these kinds of questions for my friend in Scotland all the time. At my school we wear our own clothes, but no tiny shorts or shirts that aren't at least three fingers wide at the strap, and we have a bell that just sounds like a really loud BOOP noise three times when class starts and ends. We have nice big lockers and instead of yellow buses we use city buses to go to school. Our passing periods are 5 minutes long so we have that long to get back and forth to class which is good considering our campus is pretty big.
Ikr!
Can I just ask... This sounds really stupid... But are your schools just like the ones in the movies? Do you wear your own clothes and leave class when the bell rings and have lockers and get a yellow bus to school?
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Fairywings said:See, I guess the uniform is supposed to help us get used to dressing like that for when we enter the work place or something like that. But I also think they're trying to prevent the students from having gang signs/colors as much as possible. That's why it's a rule that we can only have the really thin headbands, not the wider ones. (And, at least in my school, the belts, while adding to the business factor, helps keep the boys' pants up. It's this really stupid fad for the guys to 'sag" their pants and show off their basketball shorts. As if that's at all cool or attractive and something you're definitely not going to regret doing later off in like. Thankfully not everyone does it. As far as I know, none of the kids in the advanced classes do.)
Well, it does feel kind of free just hearing about yours.
I find it funny, just in general, how sometimes we just get these ideas handed to us over and over about a person/place/thing(maybe I should have just gone with "noun") and then when we see it for ourselves we find there are similarities as well as differences in what we were told. It's actually quite interesting.
StarTunnel said:Trust me, it's not stupid at all, I have these kinds of questions for my friend in Scotland all the time. At my school we wear our own clothes, but no tiny shorts or shirts that aren't at least three fingers wide at the strap, and we have a bell that just sounds like a really loud BOOP noise three times when class starts and ends. We have nice big lockers and instead of yellow buses we use city buses to go to school. Our passing periods are 5 minutes long so we have that long to get back and forth to class which is good considering our campus is pretty big.
Disney~Cutie said:Yup, my school is pretty much like this! We take a yellow school bus, bells that ring when we need to be in class, and no uniforms. (Really, it's not as lovely as it may sound)
But just like Chacha (Startunnel) said, the clothing has restrictions. At our school, no pajamas (which is a rule broken daily anyway), no shorts or skirts or anything above your fingertips and no spaghetti straps. We also have 5 minutes in between classes
I guess no uniform would get boring after a while. So Startunnel is 'Chacha'? (I'm guessing it's a nickname?) nice to meet you Chacha lol. It's nice putting names to usernames.
What do you mean anything above your fingertips? Oh no, no skirts?! That's unfair! So you have to wear trousers basically! Omg who would wear pajamas to school?! Everyone at mine is obsessed with 'onesies'- and I think they're just hideous. Do you know what I'm talking about lol?
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That's the excuse my school uses too- but most people don't work in shirts and ties so I think it's silly. Oh that sucks, so you can't wear thick hair bands or hair bows or anything like that? Oh, I know what you mean about the boys with their trousers hanging down, that happens here and it is just gross. I mean get some self respect people, no one wants to see your underwear. It even happens with our school uniform. Actually, even with girls, they roll their skirts up so short that they look more like belts.
The girls at my school went through this phase of dying their hair bright red, and I'm just like, seriously? My 'friend' (she's mean to me) died her hair black and I think that is kind of gross too. She looks a bit like Ursula now (no offense to her.)
I know- it is interesting. I have never really met and gotten to know an American so I just assume they are like the people in the movies. I spoke to a few Southern Americans in WDW and loved their accents. I have wanted to move to America, thinking it is better than here, but I think is is also more dangerous. By a lot.
What irritates me is that the evil people in movies are often British! I mean what's so evil about us?!?!?! And apparently our teeth are bad- that's the stereotype. A lot of people here do stereotype Americans as being overweight but I know that isn't true. I was depressed at WDW because loads of Americans were really tanned and I was so pale. Our weather is horrid here... Rain rain rain.
You mean your Scottish friend asks you or you ask her? My dad is Scottish and so we go up there a lot but it is pretty similar school-wise to England. Scotland is very patriotic though.
So does that mean that if you had a dress that was perfectly decent but thin on the shoulder straps you couldn't wear it? I have loads of thin-strapped dresses.
We don't have passing periods and our lessons are 100 minutes long so it gets tiresome learning about the same subject for so long. Do you get to choose classes? When we get to age 15 (year 10) we can choose 'options'. We got three because my school is stupid. I chose history, French and art. We also have to do English, maths, science, ict and workskills, and religious studies and PE. I think it's unfair having to learn about religion with no choice and I would no way do PE if there was a choice.
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That's the excuse my school uses too- but most people don't work in shirts and ties so I think it's silly. Oh that sucks, so you can't wear thick hair bands or hair bows or anything like that? Oh, I know what you mean about the boys with their trousers hanging down, that happens here and it is just gross. I mean get some self respect people, no one wants to see your underwear. It even happens with our school uniform. Actually, even with girls, they roll their skirts up so short that they look more like belts.
The girls at my school went through this phase of dying their hair bright red, and I'm just like, seriously? My 'friend' (she's mean to me) died her hair black and I think that is kind of gross too. She looks a bit like Ursula now (no offense to her.)
I know- it is interesting. I have never really met and gotten to know an American so I just assume they are like the people in the movies. I spoke to a few Southern Americans in WDW and loved their accents. I have wanted to move to America, thinking it is better than here, but I think is is also more dangerous. By a lot.
What irritates me is that the evil people in movies are often British! I mean what's so evil about us?!?!?! And apparently our teeth are bad- that's the stereotype. A lot of people here do stereotype Americans as being overweight but I know that isn't true. I was depressed at WDW because loads of Americans were really tanned and I was so pale. Our weather is horrid here... Rain rain rain.
You mean your Scottish friend asks you or you ask her? My dad is Scottish and so we go up there a lot but it is pretty similar school-wise to England. Scotland is very patriotic though.
So does that mean that if you had a dress that was perfectly decent but thin on the shoulder straps you couldn't wear it? I have loads of thin-strapped dresses.
We don't have passing periods and our lessons are 100 minutes long so it gets tiresome learning about the same subject for so long. Do you get to choose classes? When we get to age 15 (year 10) we can choose 'options'. We got three because my school is stupid. I chose history, French and art. We also have to do English, maths, science, ict and workskills, and religious studies and PE. I think it's unfair having to learn about religion with no choice and I would no way do PE if there was a choice.
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The elementary school kids in my area can dress like Chacha(or whatever you're called at this point ), and we've got the same time limit for passing periods.
Our campus has two stories and several "portables" or outdoor portable classrooms, so it's pretty big too. We have 2000+ students maybe, give or take a hundred or two.