What Was Your Biggest Disappointment in High School?

[MIGrandma]

So, tell me, what was your biggest disappointment in high school?

For me, it was coming in 14th place for pom pom tryouts. They only took 12. I was crushed. This was my junior year. You couldn't even try out as a freshman or sophomore. You had to be a junior or senior.

I was also disappointed in only getting a very small part for the junior/senior play. I tried out for the part I wanted, but didn't get it. I guess I wasn't as good of an actress as I thought I was.

[Lisa loves Pooh]

When I found out that I had to move (military transfer) to attend a 3rd high school.


That disappointment was further agonizing when my mother confessed that she wasn't up for transfer but essentially begged for one since she didn't like my high school. (It was a challenging school, but I enjoyed it.) I didn't learn about that until last year.

That pretty much topped any other issues that I may have had in high school and certainly topped the first transfer.

However, it is likely my life would have turned out quite diffently had we not moved to Florida my senior year. (ended up with state tuition scholarship and met my DH at UF which I wouldn't have considered had I not been in the state already).

[princesspiglet]

I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it was 18 years ago. I was a senior and I was the star singer in the choir. In previous years I had advanced to county, district, regional, state and national choir. I was called "the girl with the golden voice" and my whole life revolved around singing.

One day our choir director announced the list of members advancing to regional choir and my name was not on it. After it was announced everyone looked at me and gasped. The director said nothing. Everyone was dismissed and I just sat there in shock. Eventually I started bawling- all by myself in the room- and ended up going to the nurse's office. My entire world was shattered. The choir director eventually came to talk to me and said that she felt I had not "deserved" to go to Regionals this year since I had already been 3 times and she wanted a new person to go. My heart was totally broken and so was my confidence. Without regionals, I couldn't advance to state or national or be seen by college scouts for Julliard.

I went to college at my second choice and got my degree in Musical Theatre. I toured with broadway touring companies for many years and did countless productions locally in Pittsburgh, but I never got over that day. I will probably never forget it.

[Praying Colonel]

I had to quit the baseball team and not go on my senior trip so I could get a job and save $ for college. I was accepted to a somewhat pricey college and my folks just couldn't do any more than what they had available (which wasn't much), so if I wanted to attend that college I had to make up the difference. I definitely enjoyed my time at that college so I really don't regret the decision, but I wish I could've done those 2 things.

[missypie]

Being a "theatre kid" but not being cast in any show senior year. When I think about it, I can't believe the shows they did that yea:.

Fall play: cast of 8, with 3 female roles
Contest play: cast of 6, with 3 female roles
Musical: cast of 14, with 7 female roles (which includes a chorus of 4 girls)

This was a school of 3200 students and there were only 13 female roles the entire school year! (Of course, some girls were in all three shows, so maybe only 9 girls were cast in anything that whole year.)

In contrast, at my kids' school, the musical has a cast of 60. The director casts as many people as she can possibly use.

[missypie]

Originally Posted by princesspiglet

I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it was 18 years ago. I was a senior and I was the star singer in the choir. In previous years I had advanced to county, district, regional, state and national choir. I was called "the girl with the golden voice" and my whole life revolved around singing.

One day our choir director announced the list of members advancing to regional choir and my name was not on it. After it was announced everyone looked at me and gasped. The director said nothing. Everyone was dismissed and I just sat there in shock. Eventually I started bawling- all by myself in the room- and ended up going to the nurse's office. My entire world was shattered. The choir director eventually came to talk to me and said that she felt I had not "deserved" to go to Regionals this year since I had already been 3 times and she wanted a new person to go. My heart was totally broken and so was my confidence. Without regionals, I couldn't advance to state or national or be seen by college scouts for Julliard.

I went to college at my second choice and got my degree in Musical Theatre. I toured with broadway touring companies for many years and did countless productions locally in Pittsburgh, but I never got over that day. I will probably never forget it.

OMG, princesspiglet, that story made my eyes fill with tears and I don't even know you!

Thank goodness the all district/region/area/state process here is not controlled by the choir director - the auditions are literally blind (the singer has only a number and the judges are behind a screen.)

[DramaQueen]

My only real disappointment in HS was not getting into the HS I originally wanted to go to. I wanted to go to the regional arts HS for drama, but I didn't get in. I was REALLY dissapointed about that but it turned out to be blessing in disguise, because going to the public HS I excelled in drama, i got lead roles/awards/excellent marks. had I gone to the drama school I'd have just been another drama student and not gotten the attn I did from drama teachers. (and I won prom queen to boot) so it was definitely for the best.

Probably one of my biggest disappointments though was when I had to take a day off school to go to visit family in montreal, i had told my theatre teacher in advance and he seemed ok with it. but on that day he decided to do a silly little improv exercise for MARKS and I missed out and he wouldn't let me make it up!! I was so hurt because I tried SO hard in that class and he knew that it meant everything to me! But I worked extra hard on my next assignment to pull my grade up. I was just so hurt & disappointed by that though because I was really close with that teacher and I had told him in advance.

[princesspiglet]

Originally Posted by missypie

OMG, princesspiglet, that story made my eyes fill with tears and I don't even know you!

Thank goodness the all district/region/area/state process here is not controlled by the choir director - the auditions are literally blind (the singer has only a number and the judges are behind a screen.)

Ah, thanks for the compassion!

I hated the fact that our process was controlled by the director. It was like that up until Regional, once you got there-it was the same way you mentioned above.

About 10 years later, our school district changed the policy and from District's on up was blind audtions since it came to light that the director was playing favorites.

[Sleepy]

At the end of the school year, you had to choose which classes you wanted to take the following year. Schedules were decided over the summer. Just before the beginning of the next school year, the students picked up their new schedule.

My sophomore year was a good year. I had just finished Spanish 2. I wanted to take Spanish 3 the next year. Most of my life I had wanted to be a cosmetologist. My school offered a 2 year program starting the junior year. My problem was I could not take cosmetology and Spanish 3. My schedule just did not have the room. So, my stupid decision was to take the Spanish 3 and let the cosmetology wait until after high school.

Just before my junior year started, I went to pick up my schedule. Spanish 3 was nowhere on my schedule. Instead, I had study hall. Seems the school system ran out of funding and killed Spanish 3 and 4 that year. I was left with nothing.

[hereyago]

Originally Posted by princesspiglet

I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it was 18 years ago. I was a senior and I was the star singer in the choir. In previous years I had advanced to county, district, regional, state and national choir. I was called "the girl with the golden voice" and my whole life revolved around singing.

One day our choir director announced the list of members advancing to regional choir and my name was not on it. After it was announced everyone looked at me and gasped. The director said nothing. Everyone was dismissed and I just sat there in shock. Eventually I started bawling- all by myself in the room- and ended up going to the nurse's office. My entire world was shattered. The choir director eventually came to talk to me and said that she felt I had not "deserved" to go to Regionals this year since I had already been 3 times and she wanted a new person to go. My heart was totally broken and so was my confidence. Without regionals, I couldn't advance to state or national or be seen by college scouts for Julliard.

I went to college at my second choice and got my degree in Musical Theatre. I toured with broadway touring companies for many years and did countless productions locally in Pittsburgh, but I never got over that day. I will probably never forget it.

I am about to start crying. I was in Chorus in high school. Our Regionals were as another poster stated that the judges were unable to see us. But OMG! Was your Director not thinking or what? My Chorus director is now the Director of Music-not sure the proper title-but he oversees all the music departments in our school district. Now my DD11 has started taking band and her music director is great.

[jx3smom]

Not being invited to the prom by my boyfriend

[TinklednPants]

That it had to end. I LOVED highschool

[missypie]

I'm sure my son's would center around choir auditions, too. Freshman year he was a Tenor I and was second alternate to All-Region, which is fine for a freshman. Sophomore year he was a Tenor II and made it to the last step (Area) before All-State but didn't advance. Junior year his voice dropped during the process so he went nowhere because he never knew what was going to come out of his mouth. Senior year he was a Baritone and got a nice placement in All-Region, but at Pre-Area auditions, he totally spaced out at sight singing, so he was only First Alternate to Area.

The thing is, sight singing was his strong point. I so regret that we weren't smarter. Senior year, he normally took his ADD drugs at about 9:30 am. The day of audions, the director had a special early morning rehearsal, so he took his meds at 7 am. His audition was at about 9 pm and by then his meds had long since worn off... his level of concentration was nil. I'm almost positive that he would have advanced had he taken his meds at the normal time.

To add insult to injury, when he got to college he found out that his roommate, who wasn't even a choir kid, tried out on a lark his senior year and made it all the way to All State.

[a1tinkfans]

UGH, I was so glad to GET OUT of it...............
Went to summer school once in my LIFE, to take an English course I needed to graduate a year early, totally worth it!
I had a SS teacher that was arrested during school hours for drugs.....

My (now hubby) boyfriend at the time literally used to come to my school and sit thru two classes with me almost each day (he was from the next town) was not even registered IN the school mind you......when he was "not there" they'd often ask me ...wheres XYZ today????? Talk about pathetic........It was a running joke for the entire year....they just did not even care!!
There was just no real "learning" just the motions to get you graduated, UGH!

[Cindy's Mom]

My parents pulling us out of school for 15 days to go to Hawaii - and because of that I never learned the lower left section of the keyboard in typing class. ....I still have to look when I type zxcv...(I just looked again)

Curses

I LOVED LOVED High School. No regrets at all