Sleep

Politics........Blah. Nothing but abuse, brainwash, and threats......

Err........should we not be talking about sleep?

You do your homework at the last minute?!
You are just like most of the kids of Phillip & Sala Burton Academic High School of San Francisco *thumbs waaaaaay down* Booooooooo!
Can't believe there are people out of High School who still don't do their homework. *shakes head* And that's when Burton has the lowest morale and school spirit in all schools of the region

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well i have never considered myself as a schoolboy...and sofar i have managed wery well...and I didnt say, that i skip all homework, only that i tend to make them at last minute...But anaway, school isent the sole life you should have so when ever you start to feel like homeworks are fun and enjoyable, please go and talk of it to somebody professional (and i dont mean this as an offensive). My little sister is still in highschool and she has suffered almoust two mental breakdowns due over stressing herself over school. When you are making up your career, then stress can come along, but you dont need to start practicing it at the school.

and by the way do I understand that they dont teach world history in US???

Gollevainen said:

and by the way do I understand that they dont teach world history in US???

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they do but most of is taught in like 9th,10th, and maybe 12th grade....
for IB is
world history
US governement
IB HOA
IB 21 century topics
AP its'
AP world history
AP european history
AP us history
AP US economics (macro and micro)

i did world history and AP euro history already.... but now im stuck in HOA the thought of that class makes me want to sleep

no world history? from my school distrcit, you start learning world history from seventh grade, and get a refresher in 9th. everything from the assyrians to 1989.

Gollevainen said:

well i have never considered myself as a schoolboy...and sofar i have managed wery well...and I didnt say, that i skip all homework, only that i tend to make them at last minute...But anaway, school isent the sole life you should have so when ever you start to feel like homeworks are fun and enjoyable, please go and talk of it to somebody professional (and i dont mean this as an offensive). My little sister is still in highschool and she has suffered almoust two mental breakdowns due over stressing herself over school. When you are making up your career, then stress can come along, but you dont need to start practicing it at the school.

and by the way do I understand that they dont teach world history in US???

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I am managing very well as of now. But since I was taught up very obedient and disciplined (focusing on small homeworks than big projects of course. Never had a project in Hong Kong. Then again, that was only 3rd grade), I feel better doing my homework first. At least you don't have to worry about it after you are done, feels better. And grades are just a big thing. Bad grades feel dirty.
But I am spoiling myself now...... Totally going to skip an assignment asking 4 essays after reading 4 Chinese books (Now this is crazy, not going to do it. Not like my Chinese has gotten any better in her class.)
As for the mental breakdowns, saw it happen to 2 of my friends, and it isn't very pleasent to anyone apparently.

As for World History............... *sigh*
In the Bay Area (San Francisco area, at least for SF and Oakland and some of the other bad school areas. Lowell excluded.) History is neither well covered nor well taught.
Since we only learn English and Math in elementary school (K-5) mad: )
History doesn't come in until 6th grade with the learning of the Major Ancient Culture (All B.C.). in 7th grade, we cover the major cultures that come After Christ. A major topic is the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In 8th grade, we learn about American History. There is no history taught in 9th grade. We learn starting from the Renaissance and Enlightenment, going up to I think WW2. (Even though we really should be covering all the world events and changes, but things got really blurred.) And that's about it for world history, except for a number of fragments of world events that the Americans got involved in. (11th grade is by name US History, covering up to 1989 I think.)

And as you can see, it is not very sufficient.
And some really bad factors:
In each class, including history, the materials covered are at least 30% review, most likely more.
There are full of repeats in history class.
And we never cover the entire book, always falling short of the goal.
They would learn the cultures, not not the important parts od history.
Not many people in my school knows about Barborossa, Holy Roman Empire, Henry the Lion Hearted, Benito M. The Mughal Empire, or any of that stuff.
Then there are the constantly changing standards. The name of Sargon was changed to Sumeria. (I mean, I never learned in class the name of Sumeria.)
And last but not least are the teachers themselves who can never teach.
I am attending US History Honors and all the teacher does really is show us videos and give us tests.
Then there is this other history teacher who can't handle her class at all. The principal had to come and watch them take their finals themselves.

Well, all in all, the history program here sucks.

swimmerXC said:

3 years wow.... i thought i had it bad
o well getting IB Topics next year, and first quarter all they talk about it COMMUNIST IS CHINA :china:

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Yep, I bet they talk crap, you know, China is bad. It seems like you could only get the thruth about China in China! You know how much false information I found in history text books about China? BAH! And those Japanese text books? Yuck! They have brain washed so many, They say, China harmed japan first, Chinese tourtured them, did chemical tests and all that kind of crap on the Japanese. Hello you got it back fliped. It makes me so angry. Never thrust Chinese history writen by a Japanese or a Westerner.

Whatever it is, no racist comment allowed.
I don't care.
I am not being biased. (I do not trust any history books really.)

i thought we are talking about sleep here... i gladly announce that i got 14 hrs last night... after staying awake for 53 hours straight!!!. i hate finals...

history classes = pure propaganda... they should just call it government propaganda 101.

and got to do homework.. they are worth 10-20% of each course.. need that to get my As

speaking about history, when reading history in Sweden we used 3 months discussing and reading about keeping a critical mindset when reading history. Also we read something called "dictators writing history" which basically explained how the dictators (Hitler, Stalin) of the 20th century changed history to better suit their goals.

Also we fell a bit offtopic and discussed Hitlers and Stalins architectural ambitions (The palace of Soviets, crowned by a 100 meter statue of Lenin and the Volkshalle, a building planned to be so large that experts of the time feared that clouds would develop inside, the opening of the volkshalle was planned to be large enough for the arch of triumph to fit in the opening )

well as history has become the topic, I have to ask you Bkulan, what they teach about Finland in there? I mean, In here one migth almoust get a picture that Sweden and Finland were almoust some sort of douple-monarchy, between 1100-1809 (result of older generation of finnish historians who liked to see Finland as seperate nation as earlyest as possible, even when concepts of nations werent formed). But somehow, in Finnish history teaching, sweden and other nordic states become silent spot after 1809 and all focus goes to Russia (it was vise versa when dealing time before that split, offcourse). Is it same in sweden or what sort of image do they try to imprint on you?

People today go to bed too late (well, most) how do they survive the basic day without enough sleep? its very weird. I would fall asleep in class if I went to bed too late (say, about up to 11:30pm).