So tell me why I literally just found out that next year, the new high school will not only have an indoor pool, they’ll also have a slide that’ll go with it. :(( On top of that, they’ll have more windows, larger classrooms, and a $12,500 grand piano. They make our school, built in 1975, look like trash! :((
@Ak2018 dont worry, my school was built over 100 years ago and doesnt even have a woodshop or enough classrooms for each teacher let alone a swimming pool. It does have big windows though.
@ak2018 Neither of the high schools in my town have a swimming pool, so we have to take a bus to an aquatic center for swim team. I wish we could get a pool with a slide! And a $12,500 grand piano? I wonder if that’s necessary… Your school has a fancy biotech program though, so I think it kind of evens it out. 
How many of you guys live in a town with multiple high schools? We have a few private schools, and two public schools, one of which I attend. There’s an intense rivalry between them, a fight broke out during a basketball game last year that got state-wide attention. Its so stupid. :\
@LeopardFire in my public school diatrist theres like 6 regular high schools and 2 specialty high schools. Theres also 1 private school. In the area we have like 7 other public high schools and I’m pretty sure we have a charter school. Its a good thing we dont have real rivalries. I mean its like we have a rival school but we aren’t violent about it, at the end of the day we’re friends. I feel like the stronger rivalries happen more in smaller towns.
My district only has one high school, and about 8 K-8 elementary schools. My high school was originally built in 1872, so the building is terrible! There’s no air conditioning in the summer, the heating doesn’t always work in the winter. For the most part, the classrooms are in pretty bad shape, as there are sometimes leaks and power outages, etc. The way I described my school must sound terrible lol, but we do have a pretty decent auditorium and gym!
Also, the district is planning on tearing down our school and building a new one. The schematics so far look great, but they won’t start building it until about March of 2018, and are expected to finish sometime in 2021, so I won’t ever get to see it 
@sewin2music @snowfairy137 Driver’s Ed is a part of the Health and PE 2 curriculum here. The course cost me, more like my parents, $450. If you just wanted to take Driver’s Ed in summer school, it would only be $175 and is a one-week class in the middle of July. The class would only teach me enough to get my learner’s permit. If I wanted to actually go get my license, there is a very complicated and expensive process I’d have to follow. After I get my permit, I’m then required, by the state of Virginia, to complete 45 hours of driving practice. 15 of those hours must be completed at night. I also have to complete a mandatory Behind-The-Wheel course through either my school or a private instructor through a Driver’s Ed company. The course, at least if you do it through the county, is $240. In between all this, the school system requires that you attend a mandatory 90-minute meeting with at least one of your parents/guardians to go over everything about what you learned. They also make you sign some papers saying you won’t text, drink, or do drugs, while driving.
I honestly think the whole Behind-The-Wheel course is B.S. I could just do the 45-hour driving practice with my dad and then the Behind-The-Wheel course shouldn’t be a course, but a test of that practice. Why would my parents pay $240 for something they could easily, and happily, teach me for free? I feel like, since money’s been pretty tight around, my parents will probably just tell me to do the Behind-The-Wheel course when we have money, which means I’m not getting my license for a while. All well, at least I’ll hopefully get my permit before school starts. Then I’ll technically be able to drive as long as an adult is in the car.
@LeopardFire @snowfairy137 @DancingwithStars My county has 58 elementary schools, 16 middle schools, and 12 high schools. We also have two traditional K-8 schools, one STEM Governor’s School, a Virtual High School program, a preschool center (where my baby brother attending preschool), and four alternative schools for those “troubled teens”.
@LeopardFire The reason why they are built the swimming pool is so that way not all of the schools’ swimming teams have to practice in the same place so early in the morning. The schools on the west side of the county will use the new school’s pool, while the school’s on the east side will remain using the pool at the nearest athletic/aquatic center, which happens to be right next to my favorite public library. The pool will also be open to the public, when not in use by the students and when school isn’t in session. A lot of people, as you could imagine, didn’t like the idea of having a school pool because they wanted to keep as much of their tax dollars as they can. You could see people were furious once they figured out the pool was getting a slide.
Also, I believe the $12,500 grand piano is for the large choir they plan to have next year. There is actually a school in our county that has a fine and performing arts program. All of those who want to continue in the program must go to the new school. They even have a BlackBox Theather.
@LeopardFire I go to the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, which is compromised of three high schools on one campus: Plymouth, Canton, and Salem. We are assigned a “home school” by a lottery (I live in the city of Plymouth but I go to Canton High) which matters only for sports teams. We have to walk between buildings to get to each of our classes and we have ten minutes of passing time. This sucks during the sub-zero michigan winters. Like AP Bio is only offered in Salem, so a student has to walk to Salem to get there. Canton and Salem both have pools and I believe the Plymouth swimmers use Salem’s pool.
Well, I got a 60% on today’s quiz.
is anyone else getting bored from khan academy I feel like there is not enough practice
@snowfairy137 That’d make sense, but my town is huge. I guess the small amount of public schools is the problem, at least for high schools. We have three middle schools and eleven elementary schools, and they don’t have any issues.
@ak2018 Do most schools not have blackbox theaters? :o We have one at our school, but we have a huge fine and performing arts program, so I suppose that makes sense. Also, when you say county, do you have towns? I’m sorry if that’s a stupid question, but we have counties, but school districts are sorted by town.
@nyuhopeful44 Having a campus like that sounds cool. It’s almost like a mini college. 
You guys must live in big cities. We have 1 preschool, 1 elementary, 1 junior high, and 1 high school. We have about 14K people living in the city and about 950 high schoolers.
Today in summer school was, once again, lit! I got a 3/5 on my quiz. Then we learned about Road/Traffic Signs and Railroad Crossings in Driver’s Ed. Here’s our daily class schedule, so you can see what I’m talking about:
7:30am - 7:45am: Morning Announcements/Daily Quiz
7:45am - 7:55am: Change Into PE Clothes
7:55am - 9:20am: PE Session 1
9:20am - 9:30am: Change Out of PE Clothes
9:30am - 9:50am: Break 1
9:50am - 11:15am: Classroom Driver’s Ed/Health
11:15am - 11:35am: Break 2
11:35am - 11:45am: Change Back Into PE Clothes
11:45am - 12:25pm: PE Session 2
12:25pm - 12:40pm: Afternoon Announcements/Change Out of PE Clothes
12:40pm: Dismissal
When we’re changing into our PE clothes, we use the locker rooms. The boys go to the boys’ locker room and the girls go to the girls’ locker room. Usually, we start our day with a 5 or 6 question quiz in which none of the questions are multiple choice. There is usually one to three questions on mens’ college and mens’national baseball. After that, we go change in the locker rooms and go to the gym. We start the 1st PE session with a warm-up and then we go outside to the track. The teachers, since both the Health and PE 1 and Health and PE 2 come together during the PE sessions, make us do a certain number of laps around the track, no more than 4. We don’t even run the whole 4 laps, like today when our teachers told us to run the curves and walk the straights for all four of the laps. It’s honestly not that hard. I was listening to country music on a radio station while I was running and I didn’t die. :)) After that, we usually stay outside and do an activity such as basketball, volleyball, soccer, football, or tennis. I usually participate in tennis, even though my amateur skills have nothing on Arthur Ashe. :)) After that, we go back to the locker room, change out, and go to break. During our break, we usually play card games like Spoons, but with pens and pencils, and B.S… After break, we do classroom Driver’s Ed. After that, it’s break and then PE again, and then we go home.
@LeopardFire We technically do have towns, but we also have neighborhoods. In my county, I live in what’s the called the Neabsco District, which is one of technically 7 districts in my county. I live in Prince William County, VA, so we technically only have 7 districts. We also have two separate counties inside Prince William County, which technically would count as the with district. I go to school in Manassas, Osbourn Park High School, however, my school is still a Prince William County school because it is within the boundary of Prince William County. The two other counties inside Prince William County are Manassas City and Manassas Park counties. I don’t know how many schools are in each district. But I would guess at least 5 elementary schools, one or two middle schools, and one high school.
I believe most schools do have BlackBox theaters.
Today in summer school, for our 2nd PE session, we played a variation of the kickball called matball. The only differences are that in matball, the bases are mats, once you kick the ball you can either run to 1st base or 3rd base and go around from there, if you step off the mat at anytime during the play, you must run to the next mat or risk being tagged, you must run through all of the bases twice in order to get a home run, and if you hit the scoreboard, which we didn’t do, it would count as an automatic home run. We were playing against the Health and PE 1 class and won 4 - 3.
At the end of class today, we were told that tomorrow during our second PE session tomorrow, we will be playing **Capture The Flag ** against the Health and PE 1 class. The classes are going all out for it too. Tomorrow, everyone in our Health and PE 2 class must wear red because it’s our class/team color. A girl in our class will be bringing red bandanas for everyone so we can all match! I’ve honestly never been this excited for PE ever!
I was just group-chatting with my HPE 2 class friends and it’s official, we’re getting war paint. The black paint that you put in lines on your face.
Been awhile y’all. Everyday after I intern, I just fall asleep. Might just do so rn…
@ak2018 That’s awesome how summer school is LIT!