So lately I’ve been getting the feeling that I’m being sabotaged by the administration at my school. It’s not a random feeling either, it’s due to actual events.
So this is my junior year and I wanted to do some APs but couldn’t get in due to some grade problems I had sophomore year(there’s another thread for that). My school doesn’t offer many APs to Juniors so the only two that really stood out to me were AP Calculus and AP English Lang. My GC told me all the AP Calc classes were full even after I told them the teacher said otherwise so they didn’t put me in. This disappointed me.
For AP English Lang, I had a B all year as a 10th grader but the teacher wouldn’t recommend me for whatever reason. So I was out into normal ELA 11 and it’s a breeze. I decided I would just pay and take the AP test since English isn’t a hard subject for me. March came along, I paid for the test through a deposit on the first day you could apply, and the Controller gave me a receipt. She didn’t input it in the computer or anything which was odd to me and when I asked she said this was how it’s done. Later, when the pre-AP meeting to fill the answer sheet in, the GC told me they didn’t have a n answer sheet for me and to check back with him tomorrow. This was extremely odd to me. I check back the day after and he tells me they never even ordered a test for me in the first place. I was EXTREMELY surprised here. My sister is taking the AP world test and paid after me and she got all her stuff. So the GC told me that maybe I didn’t turn in the application, I told him to go check for himself and my application is on the very top because of my last name and even says I paid. Then, after being extremely frustrated I took this situation to the principal, who acted out his frustration and told me he’d do “something.” I looked at the list myself and everyone who ordered a test got one, except me.
Couple days pass and he tells me that he’ll let me stay on standby and take the test if oameone doenst show up. I was angered by him just suggesting this due to the unfairness of the situation.
Now today, my ELA teacher asked me if I was taking AP Lit since I have an A in her class. I told her yes and that I put it on my course request sheet. She looked at me surprisingly and said I didn’t even see the VP put your name on the list? Once again, I was surprised and really just wanted to lose it on everyone in the front office.
I really am sick of all this. Early this year my Precal teacher started marking correct answers wrong on my tests and not only would she not do anything about it, but the principal wouldn’t either. In fact, the tests he told me to give to him so that he can talk to her about it are still in his possession and he hasn’t given me an updates since.
Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.[1] Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (e.g. “Everyone is out to get me”).
Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.[1] Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (e.g. “Everyone is out to get me”).
People at the office messing up =/= Conspiracy to get you.
People have better things to do with their time than hunting down students and screwing with their lives. They don’t get paid enough for it.
You seriously seem to be both egocentric and paranoid. If you have a 2.56 cumulative GPA, by all accounts you are a bad student. If you aren’t motivated to learn, that’s your own fault, not the fault of everyone around you whom you seem to blame. If you have no desire to learn and think of your teachers as completely useless, it’s no wonder
A)Your grades are bad.
B)Your teachers don’t seem to respect you.
Looking at your entire history, all of it is basically complaints about your school and the people around you. Maybe ask your sister (who seems to be doing fine), how she is able to get through school.
As a final unrelated side-note (just a bit I picked up while looking through your posts)
If you can’t teach yourself, work things out with a tutor, or learn from your teacher, I don’t really see things turning out well for you. It’s going to be the same or even worse in college.
Considering the way you have been speaking to others on CC
in a sarcastic tone,
you really need to get some help with that attitude. Disrespecting people around you, whether irl at school or on CC, isn’t doing you any favors.
My children go to a large, highly ranked suburban high school and students are not allowed into A.P. classes with grades like yours. In fact, not only do you need the highest grades but you need the teacher recommendation. Also, a student is now allowed to pay for an A.P. exam and take the test if they were not in the class. I have never heard of that. Honestly, you need to get to work and earn the grades. You have to play by the rules your school and society has in place. The sooner you do that, the easier life will be.
I absolutely get you, same thing happened to me in elementary. All these people disagree because they don’t know what it’s actually like. Staff sometimes can try to sabotage people they don’t like because staff works at low paying jobs and has no personal life so they often get the anger and stuff on students like me and OP. In 5th grade I had Ds and Es because the teachers didn’t teacher interesting stuff, they just gave us a book and said go read, or they we read together in class which was super boring. So you should talk with your parents, explain the situation. Maybe switch schools if it is as bad as I had it.
@maxim2001 It is easy to blame all your failures on other people. But as you grow up you eventually have to face the real reason for your failure: you, if you ever hope to succeed.
I go to a school with 800 students, every teacher and administrator knows most if not all the students. The principal in particular knows me personally, as I was his TA in 8th grade. Telling me I’m at fault for the school constantly messing up with practically every situation I go to them with is exactly what bothers me. If I’m taking $93 out of my pocket to pay for the test(and btw there is no rule saying you can’t do this), who are they to indirectly mess up the process for me? Even if this school has this rule, No one said I can’t take the test when I asked my GC and the VP.
Me being a “bad student” like you said is completely irrelevant to this discussion. I currently have a 3.8 GPA. Yes, I accept I did not care to do any assignments freshman/sophomore year and it was a bad decision. But punishing me for it 2 years later is the exact opposite point of school.
Ofc I’m going to come off as having a bad attitude when CC psychologists are diagnosing me with paranoia based off the title of my thread. Also, if any of you were in and went through the things I’ve had to deal with, I can 100% guarantee you would be frustrated too.
If you paid for a service you’re not getting, you need to get your parents involved. Can your family contact the AP people directly and request a different test date or do all schools do them the same day?
I have talked to my parents about it and they have also talked to the principal to which he replied with the comments “I’ll do something about it” and when I went alone and explained the situation all he said was “god dammit” under his breath like 4 times.
I believe all schools have the same test day. I don’t think talking to the AP people will do anything cause they don’t even have any record of me applying to take the test cause of the school Controllers irresponsibleness. They did offer to keep me on standby which just angered me more due to the very unfairness of the suggestion
If you have a receipt, your parents should talk to your district superintendent. When is the test? Unless it’s tomorrow I don’t see why they can’t rush order an exam.
If you have a receipt then the school should be obligated to either a) refund your money or b) allow you to take the test. Get your parents involved if needed.
Teachers and admins do make mistakes, but saying that they are “out for you” is a stretch. Have some accountability for your issues.
@Lagging accountability for what? I have done nothing wrong that I have not already made up for. I refuse to be accountable for the administration incompetence
@Ballestlavie Honestly I get why your school did not let you take the AP class. APs are usually for higher achieving students and with your performance in freshman and sophomore year you did nothing to show your teachers/counselors that you would succeed in a high level class. In my school the counselors tried to put kids into classes based on their past results in classes and if they thought the student had a chance of doing well in a class. Based on your past results you are unmotivated and unwilling to give the effort needed to succeed in an AP class. The AP test thing was a mistake and you are looking way too far into it, but since you have a receipt you will probably be able to take the test. Don’t look for problems with other people first, always begin with yourself.