Grrr, I'm not in school any more

[jennickels]

I was just checking my email and saw one from Meagan's history teacher.  He sends them out weekly to remind us that he's sending grades home with the kids.  It came on Thursday (last day of school this week).  The title was about the grades so I almost didn't open it but I'm glad I did because the 2nd part of the email was to remind us that the kids have a HUGE Egyptian project due on the 15th.

Um, Meagan hasn't done anything for this project.  I completely forgot about it because she showed me the paper a week after she got the assignment when I was really depressed and just didn't care about anything.  Now she has no idea where this paper is because she figured it should be MY responsibility to keep track of it and make her do the project.  So now she has 3 days to write a paper and build a pyramid or something (we actually have a LEGO game that is shaped like a pyramid so she could just take that in and write the paper) but she doesn't know the details since she doesn't have the paper.

I've just spent 20 minutes looking for the paper while Meagan pouted in a chair.  I'm done with this crap.  I finished school already.  I don't want to write history papers and build pyramids. 

If I hadn't seen the email she would have "forgot" all weekend then come home all upset on Monday and blame me for not having it done on Tuesday and expected me to do it all for her (or, as she calls it, help her).  On top of that she invited a friend over for the night instead of working on this project.  She's had a full 2 weeks to do it. Ugh.

Now she's throwing a huge tantrum over it and demanding to know why she has to learn about Egypt.  I looked in her bag and it's a mess.  I found two papers she was supposed to give me and a study guide that was marked "incomplete".  The rest was such a mess I have no idea how she finds anything.

I just don't have the energy to deal with this crap.

Comments

[cschick.livejournal.com]

I was just kind of giggling at some of your above, because I remember some of the other stuff going down with a subset of those in the say, top 15 of our class. Like one of them had her sister, a graduate student at U of I write every single English paper she turned in for four years, and she had the entire English staff completely convinced she was the second coming. Or the two who took the exact same set of classes for all 4 years, so they could divide the work load in half and spend the rest of the time drinking/getting high.

I don' t know whether anyone in our group of friends participated in any of it (none of the three mentioned above were in our group of friends) ... I do know I was kind of considered the uptight straight arrow and thus I kind of just watched all the nonsense but was never approached to participate in any of it. The only way it ever affected me was when I was grilled by several members of the administrative staff/college counseling staff during late senior year because they didn't understand how someone who was "only" 25th in the class was testing so well. It's always wonderful to have a member of your school staff tell you that you don't deserve to be a national merit scholar ;)

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

OMG, they said that?

I never really suspected any of our group. I just figured they were all typical overachievers. I always felt I got some odd looks because I never studied and still maintained my As and Bs so I wasn't well liked over that, lol.

I always worried about you, though. You were way too stressed out in school. I'm pretty sure I told you a couple times to just chill out.

But, then again, I wasn't a merit scholar and didn't care to be one. I was happy with my slightly above average grades. I definitely felt out of place a lot of the time because I wasn't in the top 10% but, eh, it means nothing now.

There was a lot of pressure at the school to succeed and I'm sure parents really pushed a lot of the girls to do whatever they had to do to get top grades. My parents weren't like that.

Of course, I always like to point out to people who think private school is so much better than public school that all the same crap was going on at our school. The drinking, drugs, cheating, teenage sex, partying, fighting, etc.

That wasn't me either. I was so freaking boring in high school. I never went to a single party, drank, smoked or did any of that teen stuff. One of my best friends went to Peace (she was 4 years behind us, though) and she told me her parents never knew about all the while parties she went to, coming home hung over and pretending to have the flu. She ended up pregnant her senior year. And she was the top of her class, all AP classes and stuff.

She's now a teacher (at a public school) and is terrified of becoming a grandmother at 34, lol. Her daughter is 12 now and a good kid. But so was she at that age.