Navigating the maze of High School- the whole 9 yards

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Would that book be called Freaks Geeks and Asperger's Syndrome? Good book-I wanna write my own!

I Think it was another one. FGA made me want to write my own, but I hated the way he wrote it! arg! to many Parenthasese.

so far the whole trip through highschool has been a breeze.

I've almost always had good to great teachers.


My favorite teachers are those who teach us as much relevant and interesting information that isn't on the syllabus as they can, and especially those who are retiring and can teach us whatever fascinating and irrelevent material they feel like (I've had three of those at HS level).

I have had a few who were nice, but had no idea how to deal with AS.
One of them tried to teach Ivy League college (by which I mean we had to guess what he wanted to hear), but he was still quite a character so I liked him.

My worst teacher was one I had last year.
My original American History teacher took maternity leave.
The replacement (one of the best teachers I've ever had) was officially retired, and barred by state law (idiot bureaucrats) from making a certain amount of money. So he couldn't continue next trimester.
His replacement. . .
Uggh.
She was terrible, at least as far as my learning style was concerned.
Though to be fair she had only a couple years worth experience.

She was into all this new age "get together in groups and copy the causes of World War One as your book describes it onto this transparency." All groupwork and projects, usually groups working on projects.
The subject matter was so basic (this was supposed to be an honors course by the way) that I could have done a better job of teaching the course than she did.
And agood chunk of the multiple choice questions on here tests were interpretations of the issue of which three or four were valid theories. We had to choose the correct one.

To make matters worse, I was usually alone in this.
Almost half of the kids in my class had shown themselves to be smart under the previous teacher. Under this teacher they either resigned themselves or became grade-grubbers. (My own grade fell from an A under the previous teacher to a B- with Bish average with this new teacher).

They sided with me on tests (we all were grade grubbers over the opinion questions). She'd admit that we were right, but rarely change the grades. This was because there would be maybe one "fact" and two "opinions" and she wanted us to sort out the solid "facts."

I couldn't even be made at her since she didn't recognize these as opinions. Her professors taught them to her as facts, so they mush be facts. It was her class who made me understand the issue that Republicans have with academia, even if I disagree with their conclusions.

I finally contended myself with incessantly correcting her on minor details, going off on irrelevant tangents, and generally delaying the start of group work as long as possible (even though I got my liason to make her let me do the work independently most of the time, it was still so mindnumbingly idiotic that I hated doing it.)

I really would have liked to do an ALPs and actually learn something, but the SS department head seems to hate ALPS, or at least this year she again turned down my plan for an ALPs.

I'm a sophmore in highschool and im glad cause im not the "young" and im not the "old" either which makes my life so much easier.....9th grade was very fast and im glad its over cause i hated all bu t2 of teachers last year.....I like 2 of my teachers this semester...But i hate my other 2 cause theya are so bitchy and my guitar teacher she cant play for crap so i htink that she should just leave cause she can play for beans...

OH just a word in on guys....they are so annoying....all the preppy guys think im so hott but becasue im not in the "in" crowed they pick on me in stead which annoy the hell out of me.....oh well ill deal i guess ill just have to kick their asses afterhighschool lol jk..but yeah it sucks to be one of the "outsiders" so to say because im not really in a crowed i just mingle with everyone usually but i only got like 4 reall good friends the res ar elike aquantences....i dont tlak much in school so i gues tha may be the reason....idk maybe im just too quiest for them

well yeah thats my highschool thing

Well, I'm a sophomore, and this year is shaping up to be more depressing socially than the last. This is because I moved to a new state this summer and thus have no friends (and likely won't unless I find someone that I feel I can trust and am fascinated by--not likely).

Academically, I've been rather lucky with my teachers since I hit high school. My freshman year was spent in a high school where the upperclassmen viewed freshman with a sort of amused condescension, and they had good teachers. I even had an enrichment period where the teacher was delighted to discover I had AS, as she was taking a course on it at the time in order to better understand how to teach Aspies. I was rather nonplussed by this, mind. Most of my teachers were interesting and made me think, and I thoroughly enjoyed my freshman year.

This year, well, I've been less lucky. Because I am wary of strange people and extremely shy if I don't feel I have 'backup' in the form of at least one friend, I've been fading into the shadows when I'm not in class. This is a useful talent and probably is the reason I have not often been bullied; however, it does not help me get to know people. About half my teachers here are excellent (encouraging thinking and debates, among other things, which helps me 'get' the idea--if I didn't have it already) including my first ever AP teacher; unfortunately, my Spanish teacher's class moves too slow for me and I really dislike the teacher.