My daughter is really depressed at her school. She says she doesn't have a lot of friends, and everyone there bugs her. She's a junior, but wants to transfer even though she only has one more year to go. I don't remember my high school experience being horrible, but I was sick a lot of the time and out of school. Is high school now tougher for kids?
2007-01-04 14:30:58 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
I go to High School and used to feel the same way until I started to join clubs and started to participate into sport teams. I think she should be more involved in extra-curricular activites and it shouldn't be a problem. And yes, school is much more tough....I'm currently having trouble with Calculus :P
2007-01-04 14:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The academics are easy unless she's taking AP or IB classes; even most honors classes these days are a joke. Stricter college admissions processes put added pressures on high school students, but other than I think all the same pressures have been around forever. If she's totally miserable and not doing well there's nothing wrong with dropping out, getting a GED, going to community college for a year and then transferring to a 4-year.
2007-01-04 14:36:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
kids are not retards and lazy. Academically, High School is easy. You don't have to a freakin Einstein to get straight A's. (Don't get me started on the education system). However socially, High school is a b**ch. I hated my experience and I even skipped my senior year because it was difficult for me to make friends which depressed me a lot. There is so much competition out there and even though I had family at my high school, they turned out to be like everyone else (judging me). Tell your daughter to stick it out. College is so much more liberating. High School is just one stupid thing you have to get through. Being different does not necessarily have to isolate you from the world. In college you meet so many people that you never have to feel alone again.
2007-01-04 14:38:17 · answer #3 · answered by rockabilly.betty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think its that bad. I'd rather be there than have a job. But seriously, there is a lot of pressure with honors, AP classes. Even though it seems it is a social thing, maybe a new school wouldn't be that bad. I got to a school of 2000+ kids in a suburb and it's nice - if you screw up with some people, there's always more to get along with.
2007-01-04 14:33:44 · answer #4 · answered by eagleboy225 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if she's in a complicated software, then the workload is extremely confusing. as a junior, she probable would not get adequate sleep, and the people at her college probable trojan horse her because of the fact she bugged them as a freshman or sophomore. she shouldn't flow; she might desire to easily detect a set to connect, or an extracurricular interest. she probable desires her grades have been extra effective, too, so which you will possibly desire to point to her that she have a pal over to verify. it will lead them to closer, and it might desire to advance her grade. severe college could be harder, or that is extra easy. i'm in a rigorous software, yet i don't make it confusing by technique of keeping an a easy temper and joking around with my acquaintances. a balanced social and academic existence are neccesary in severe college, and then that is very easy.
2016-12-15 16:01:34 · answer #5 · answered by allateef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the problem is with your daughter, not with the high school... Though I must admit, high school is very hard to me... but you must be social, that's the key. Be friend with everybody. Else nobody will be friend with you.
2007-01-06 11:28:59 · answer #6 · answered by Sam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Socially yes. Well nowadays there are lots of ... groups. Like the preps/popular peopl, nerds, punks, emos, loners .. ect.
As for the work its pretty much expected after middle school that its harder.
2007-01-04 14:32:19 · answer #7 · answered by Love. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think it is tougher. Not so much the school work but the social aspect.
2007-01-04 14:32:16 · answer #8 · answered by Curious George 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its pretty bad now. i graduated in 2001 and when i was in school, if you werent in the cool clicks, you were nothing. you sat at the lunch table by yourself while hundreds of other kids in the lunchroom laughed at you for no reason. just because you were sitting there by yourself. not to mention the gangs and violence and the pressures of drugs and sex and just trying to fit in just enough that you dont get your @$$ kicked and you dont get made fun of to the point that you want to go home and kill yourself. the school i used to go to was a prison. and i know it wasnt as bad as some of them are. i hated every single person there, and they all hated me. and im not one to do drugs or whatever just to make a couple of friends. they can go screw themselves.
2007-01-04 14:38:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, from what ive seen, they dont do enough work to keep them occupied, so maybe they have more time to be jerks. Other than no work, i dont think things have changed or ever will with kids in school. There will be hazing, and cliques, and drugs, and sex, and fights, always has and always will. You just gotta prepare your kid for that kind of stuff, dont coddle them.
2007-01-04 14:33:50 · answer #10 · answered by tomhale138 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋