<p>Thisyearsgirl, Sigh and me go to a small Christian school in Taiwan. Our entire high school has around 200 students, and although our school “claims” our courses are modelled at a Honors level, the courseload except for certain classes is ridiculously light. We are constantly stuck with half-hearted amateur teachers that should go teach elementary/middle school where teaching isn’t exactly that important. The biggest joke – our English teacher reads out of Spark Notes word for word as his “lecture”. Believe it or not, we got through Jane Eyre, A Separate Peace, and Silas Marner that way (all three books which less than 5% of the class actually read because the teacher was so slack). His quizzes/exams were all derived from Spark Notes and Grade Saver, and everyone could get 100%'s on them because all you had to do was log on to the Internet and read everything off. This was how ridiculous school got for me this year…I (and nearly everyone in the class) wrote to the school board complaining about this teacher, and we kind of “got him fired”. At any rate, he won’t be teaching English II next year. The only courses that I had to focus in on school was Physics and AP Calculus. Everything else was study hall. I currently have a 4.00 GPA, but what of it? I hardly learned anything in school…I have to supplement my studies by self-studying many courses such as APWH this last school year, and I’m doing at least 3 independent courses next year. This is a widely-rampant problem, and I actually look forward to college in the sense that my professors (hopefully, but much more likely than right now) will KNOW what they are talking about instead of blabbering jibberish. Thinking about this and the fact I have two more years of this nonsense left, I almost wish I can go off to college right now.</p>