Alternative School

Today in school, a girl (taking Anthropology) began arguing with the teacher about scheduling. Her main argument was that, as a student in an alternative school, schedules should accommodate the students' needs (HER needs), because if they didn't have a problem with schedules, they would be attending regular high school. She thought that the schedules were too demanding, and there was too much work for her to do in such a short period of time.

I go to an alternative school in Toronto. There are two classes, which start at 9 am, and end at 1:15, with a 15 minute break in between classes. I take Law and Family Studies, but other kids in the class take Anthropology, Challenge and Change in Society, and World Issues.

Alternative school is different than regular high school in several ways, the most noticeable being that:

• It ends at 1:15, not 3:10 like most high schools.
• It operates in quads, not semesters. A quad is a semester divided in half, which means you are doing the same courses you could do in high school, BUT IN HALF THE TIME. (Semesters in high school are 5 months each, a quad is 2.5 months.)

The teacher tried to explain this very basic concept to the girl, but she just turned around, sat down at her table with her friends, and began telling the class very loudly about how the teacher is "SUCH AN ASSHOLE!".

After her angry tirade, she took out nail polish from her purse, and PROCEEDED TO DO HER NAILS, while discussing with her friends which clubs they should go to on the weekend, the hot guy who is in the class across the hall (the pothead), and the sale at Yorkdale Mall.

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I'm surrounded by idiots.