The Hangout Thread: The Teen Board's Hottest Club

[scarscar93]

This girl in my year moved here from Florida in the summer and apparently it's really different for her lol
Apparently school in America is more chilled out as she found it really hard to adjust to how we work and the fact that shops have loads of clothes with American flags on HAHA

hoo boy, that is quite a change.

and from everything you've shared about your schoolwork, american schools (especially florida lol) are definitely way more chill.

fl is one of (i think) the lowest-ranked states in education

 

[scarscar93]

fl is one of (i think) the lowest-ranked states in education

http://www.newsherald.com/news/government/florida-schools-6th-in-education-week-rankings-1.77362

oh. or not.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

North Carolina has the lowest paid teachers in the country, yet makes the top 10 on education rankings... (and we're number one of the southern states)

Education Rankings By State (according to the 18th edition of the Report Card on American Education, 2013)
1. Massachusetts
2. Vermont
3. New Jersey
4. Colorado
5. Pennsylvania
6. Rhode Island
7. North Carolina
8. Kansas
9. New Hampshire
10. New York

 

[scarscar93]

North Carolina has the lowest paid teachers in the country, yet makes the top 10 on education rankings... (and we're number one of the southern states)

Education Rankings By State (according to the 18th edition of the Report Card on American Education, 2013)
1. Massachusetts
2. Vermont
3. New Jersey
4. Colorado
5. Pennsylvania
6. Rhode Island
7. North Carolina
8. Kansas
9. New Hampshire
10. New York

Florida came in 12th. Not bad, but it makes me worry about the states that are behind.

 

[disneygirl520]

Florida came in 12th. Not bad, but it makes me worry about the states that are behind.

Ohio! Lol

 

[disneygirl520]

Ohio! Lol

Guys! Right after I posted this I put my iPod down and it slid into my cereal milk!!

 

[LondonUnderground]

hoo boy, that is quite a change. and from everything you've shared about your schoolwork, american schools (especially florida lol) are definitely way more chill. fl is one of (i think) the lowest-ranked states in education

Ya hahahaha literally the point of school here exams. Primary school builds you up for sats, secondary school builds you up for gcses and sixth form builds you up for a levels. We're actually 6th in the world for education behind places like japan and singapore, but we're constantly being pushed harder by the government and it's horrible lol. When I was doing my gcses in May/June the news was filled with stories about how the exams were too easy and they're going to overhaul them and change the whole system. It wasn't exactly encouraging lol. They change the exams here at secondary level so often, like my parents did different exams to the ones that I did...
But now we're doing a levels which apparently are equivalent to first year of college in America, so people who study abroad often get to skip the first year lol

 

[LondonUnderground]

Even grades are really weird here. Some papers like science, it goes up in 10s. 100 = A*, 90 = A, 80 = B etc but with other papers you might only have to get 50/80 for an A* depending on how everyone else did. If the paper was particularly difficult, the exam boards can't say that everyone did badly so they adjust the grades to make themselves look better lol works for me

We get our actual certificates for our gcses in 2 weeks, I'm so excited lol it's gonna be OFFICIALLLLLL. None of us realised that it's called a general certificate of secondary education because you get actual certificates WOO

 

[LondonUnderground]

I got BCC in my 3 sciences but because we were the first year to do the new syllabus we got totally screwed over and the whole country's science grades dropped by 8% which is terrible lol

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Freaked out because Blair's stepdad on Gossip Girl is played by Wallace Shawn and in this episode Blair is marrying a prince and he goes "there's the princess bride"

...because he's Vizzini from the movie The Princess Bride! Ahhhh I love it

 

[grandfloluver]

I finished all of the infernal devices today. I sobbed so hard at the end. The epilogue of clockwork angel ripped my heart out and stomped on it.

 

[grandfloluver]

In good news, I am so excited for catching fire

 

[I Am What I Am]

justin bieber spray painted a blackface graffiti picture on a building and put a picture of him doing it on his Instagram




the only words i have would get me banned

 

[nerdylightbulb]

the android app for tumblr is so much better than the apple one. i hATE THE APPLE ONE

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Omg I called it! When they said it was their sister that gave it away that they're John and Michael

 

[disneygirl520]

Oh snap

 

[disneygirl520]

Can't they just hurry up and save Henry!

 

[grandfloluver]

the ios 7 update for my phone ruined it. completely demolished it.

i wish I would've never done it

 

[nerdylightbulb]

my tumblr icon is so cute omg

 

[nerdylightbulb]

my rp buddy and i are bringing back our best ship that we've ever played out aND I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

they're reincarnated soulmates through time so we're gonna rp them in different time periods and we're starting with the mid 1950s with sockhops, drive ins and rock n roll ft. greaser!Eli and soc!Ayden

literally otp!!!!