<p>Are we being really annoying?
I don’t know, I thought some of the posts were hilarious.</p>
<p>^I’m sure some were funny…but some sound so shallow and arrogant and ignorant. Without being sarcastic or humorous.</p>
<p>Yep. I don’t hang around with people from my AP classes because they are bow-ring. (not really, but w/e…)</p>
<p>@ LoneStar23:
Lol, I agree with what you said. Maybe I was just being biased, only using my judgment based on experiences from a bunch of silly freshman. A bunch of the kids did mature , and not pointing that out make my argument as flat as a tooth pick, for that I deeply apologize.
As for my points in the past couple pages, I think its being missed. I’m not being some elitist laughing at kids who take cp classes ( or regular) to be dangerous, that their are at the point of destroying the world. It’s just that a large majority of students who take these classes seem not to take their education seriously. It would be great if at least SOME of them put a little bit of effort in learning in some of their classes, rather than fooling around and making rude comments. I find that aspect dangerous, and sorry if what I wrote was translated wrong, sarcasm doesn’t reflect in the internet as well as it does when spoken.
I was trying to get my point across that not all students who take A.P are a bunch of stuck up snobs who only care about grades. Their definition of fun is not the same as others, hence why their are many different opinion. A.P classes are fun to these type of student since they enjoy either the pursuit of higher learning, or whatever. C.P classes are fun since there is less work, but then what’s the point of working when you’re not pushing your capabilities to the farthest limit? A lot of times, those kids you hang out with in high school would not remember who you are in ten or twenty years. Obviously, everyone should have fun sometimes, but its not always fun to be having fun all the time. <em>A South Park episode with MJ is a good example of what I meant</em> That’s all.</p>
<p>There are three categories of people:</p>
<p>1) Your “typical” AP kids. The ones obsessed with college/grades/ECs (in a bad way). They annoy me a lot, but I get useful info out of them sometimes.
2) Your “typical” “regular” kids. My God, these scare me. Like this: :eek:. Even if they have brains, they don’t use them.
3) Nice kids that are worth hanging out with. A rare species, but can be found scattered throughout AP, regular, and remedial classes. </p>
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<p>My Fun Scale!</p>
<p>Honors Classes > AP Classes > CP Classes > Elective Classes > Academic Classes</p>
<p>Honors classes are the best, since there are smart and funny people to discuss and joke about things with and we aren’t all pre-occupied with cramming as much facts into our brains as we can before May. AP classes are less fun since it’s more of the teacher making topic-relevant jokes and us laughing while hastily typing it so we can remember what the joke was about since it will sure come back to haunt us in MC question form. College prep classes, which are considered “regular” at my school are even less fun since there’s too many crude and overdone jokes and not enough intelligent conversation, but it’s a nice mix of people who are smart and people who don’t apply themselves. Electives aren’t fun since at my school I never get the electives I elected to do, so I’m stuck with a bunch of strangers, which is not fun at all. And academic classes are like remedial classes for the idiots who don’t know anything fun that’s actually legal (I’ve never been in one, but they’re pretty scary).</p>
<p>^ What do you mean actually legal? The sound of that sounds quite…um dangerous.</p>
<p>Fun for them usually includes illegal substances and vandalism and such. Not my kind of fun at all.</p>
<p>^Oh, um, yea that would not be the idea of fun for a large percent of people.</p>
<p>^ That’s not how I’d define fun either. But most of them don’t fit into that group anyway.</p>
<p>I think it depends on class size.</p>
<p>Our school has like 300ish “honors/AP” people so its interesting. The only non Honors Ive taken are ok. I think honors classes are better.</p>
<p>I don’t think so i think its maybe more of the teacher and the kids for example in my Honors Government were always messing around with the teacher and having random conversations meanwhile in my regular biology its boring because if the teacher isn’t complaining were doing work in silence.</p>
<p>Oh man, with my school it’s worse. The IB people are stuck up. They’re all in my opinion grade wh***. I study a lot, but they seriously are competing amongst themselves for #1, and hate each other’s guts.</p>
<p>Oh wow? Seriously? Tomorrow, I get to correct my schedule for next year, and I was seriously considering dropping AP Gov’t/Ec because APUSH in my school is SO BOOORING! I’m only applying to state schools, so I really don’t care for admission purposes wether it’s AP or not. Besides, the AP is right, in my school, most of the kids in the AP program are dull, and homogeneous; it gets boring after a while…
Out of all my AP classes, I only look forward to going to one. Besides, I think you should only take APs if you’re truly interested, not to impress schools…
But it’s your life, do whatever you want…</p>
<p>Oh, and did I mention?
In my school, most of the AP kids are SOOOO stuck up!
It’s sickening, really. Most of them aren’t even THAT smart…
They complain about the course work, but I always tell them, " you signed up for this class!" But they never listen…
Even the AP English teacher said that if she were to weed out the people who truly deserve to be in an AP class, there would only be one AP English III class.</p>
<p>@ WiscoKid:
That’s so awesome!
I wish I had more AP teachers like that!
The only AP teacher that’s fun is the AP Spanish Lit…
All others are B-O-R-I-N-G</p>
<p>But school’s for learning, even if the AP class kids are annoying, isn’t your learning the main point in taking classes?
I’m in an accelerated math program, and some of the kids in my class are really rude and make fun of the ‘■■■■■■■’ in the regular classes. They laugh at how they can talk through the regular math classes and earn As. But others of us like the atmosphere because we can be challenged, and because it is a smaller class with people you know better, so nobody feels shy.</p>
<p>Ok, those kids are jerks. Certainly I can do that, but I see myself going to work with a large range of people in the future, so I might as well learn to accept different types of people. School’s explicit objective is to learn. There are way more underlying, social connotations and responsibilities school has.</p>
<p>It isn’t so much the students in the classes that aren’t rigorous, it is how annoying the slow pace and extremely easy coursework is.</p>
<p>The annoyingly slow pace and extremely easy coursework is much worse than students who are distracting and don’t try to learn the material (I don’t mind working constructively so that everyone learns it better, but don’t ask where did you get that value when they showed how you derive it 30 seconds ago).</p>
<p>I definitely prefer more rigorous courses, as more people are taking the class because they enjoy it or at least they want to do well in it.</p>
<p>Regular Classes are for the most part, slow, as are most of the people in the class, which makes them generally boring and or stupid.</p>