[quote=Foxxie] I know you likely hear this a lot, but teachers suck and high school can range from being an overall neutral pain in the ass to an absolute nightmare. I had two teachers, one in my freshman year and one when I was a senior, who were dead set on sinking my GPA. That first teacher succeeded in basically getting me kicked out of my first high school, but that's hardly important. I ended up doing alright in terms of getting into college and Edinburgh is a fantastic school, so don't fret over that. I know you'll make the best out of wherever you end up because you seem like the sort.I'll keep you posted on those essays of mine. [/quote] Highschool's teaching system fucking sucks and the same thing would have happened to me, only difference is that my teacher only met me for three days and hated me. When I first joined an actual highschool from homeschool it was late in the year and I was given two weeks to either pass or fail by doing a semester's amount of work. This teacher I had just gave me quizes on the subject of greek mythology, which was the subject that everyone was reading and I excelled in half of them though the other half were wrong because the teacher didn't like how I already knew the subject and I was a new student. So he called me wrong for shit I knew because my answers, while they were true, weren't the answers he wanted. I talked to him and found out he was dead set on failing me because I was a "smart alack" because I didn't need to learn this shit from him and his class. He was also teaching the class greek mythology completely wrong (even going far enough to say greeks worshiped Kronos and that kronos lived in Olympus with zues) to fix the problem I took a major opportunity. one day my teacher continued his shitty false readings and teachings and he made it known that the principle was coming over to observe how things were running, (he also told me that if I even say a single word he'll call security on me) ... so I waited and then the principle showed up and right then he said some BS and I stood up and called him out on it,,,, he at first said I didn't know what I was even talking about because I was new and I pointed everything I said out in the book (Odyssey) and he still tried to deny me and even called security. The principle was siding with him until I gave her the book and told her to read and since she wanted to be deemed as good to everyone she humored me and learned that I was right after all. She called off security, asked for my name, said that I must have been very dedicated into my learning to know so much, I said I was, she looked at the teacher and said that they will be talking and then told me that another English teacher will be handling my quizzes. End of that semester comes, it's found out that that teacher was fired and my class was split up towards the other English classes of that level. So... basically I established my dominance against all the teachers and the principle began to be seen observing classes far more often making the teachers needing to know their shit before they teach it. Oh but back to this.... I have 2 finals to do, bbbbboth of which are due tomorrow... one of which is for my CIS coding class. and then I'm free. :D Until the end of the week... then it's CIS part 2.