Author Topic: I honestly don't think im very happy with the school i'm going to next year.  (Read 1191 times)

there are two schools, school a and b.
School a is about programming, science and math and stuff.
School b is about your basics, and film/photography/video editing/animation.

A little backstory:

My dad thinks I LOVE programming (fun fact: i loving dread it with my life, it is something I will never do and never want to do.) He stereotyped this from me because I spent most of my time on the computer and talking about "creating something where you can fight dragons with your friends". Little did he know I was talking about video editing/filming. I love editing/filming/and acting in my own homemade videos. I was talking about writing a short film on fighting dragons (I did make this film but I would like to keep it rather private since it was cheesy, but good.) It's funny how he didn't catch on to my interest of filming videos and editing when he saw me saving up for Sony Vegas 10 and a new camera, plus lenses, other things like that.

Frontstory:

I'm in 8th grade, and over spring break I had to sign up for schools. I went to the open houses for school a, School b and some other few schools that idgaf about. I was absolutely blown away by what school b had. Absolutely blown a loving way. I loved that place, it was huge, exciting, and even had A loving PLANE FOR USE IN FILMING. DOES YOUR SCHOOL loving HAVE THAT? I GUESSED loving NOT. I couldn't wait to go there and make some of the greatest loving films EVER in there. Teachers and students were there, they were so laid back, funny, and loved doing what they were doing. They had an editing/animation studio, too!

I then went to the School a open house. stuff was boring as forget. The teachers/students took stuff seriously, it looked like a "no fun allowed" school, and one kid was bitching about how there's way too much homework, (fun fact: I don't give a forget about how much homework there is. So don't go all "you just dont wanna do alot of homework blah blah blah bullstuff my dad pulled on me.) and that all we did was programming. The classrooms looked boring, it was boring, and honestly I really didn't want to go there. My dad was so proud of me of going there, though. He looked at me and told me how proud he was of me and he kept bragging about how i'm going to be the next Bill Gates, i'm going to program games and OSes, and do something else computer related.

I put his hopes up so much for me to go to that school. I thought "Maybe programming is fun, and something I will enjoy" So I called up my friend whose brother goes to that school and I asked him to teach me programming how they did in his school. It was so boring it wasn't even funny. I took a few classes from him and googled alot of programming tutorials. I was so bored out of my mind, to me I felt like I was forcing myself to do so, like it was a chore.
But filming and editing, I find that fun and i'm actually really good at that! I love doing that! I mean, if I had to be an actor/director for a living, I would do it! I never had thought filming or acting was a chore (unless it was acting for a serious film like a romance film which I have starred in, I prefer action/comedy. You don't see Bruce Willis in a movie about falling in love with a woman and having a serious relationship or someone who mostly stars in romance movies in a shoot em up, it's just my preference.)
I was accepted into two schools, School a and another school (which was okay, I probably would have liked to go there), I am on the waiting list for school b. My dad, super excited, forced me, almost, to sign my acceptance letter into school a confirming I am going. I wanted to tell him how I really felt, but I didn't wanna hurt him.

And here we are, last week I got a letter/email saying I had to do Geometry 1 Honors (honors what the forget) to get into school a to continue on the programming course I am taking. I didn't want to do a course over the summer for something I really didn't like. Something I really didn't want to do.

I confronted my dad about it, he flipped his stuff. He was screaming and yelling, and I explained my story to him, but still, he is really pissed and wanted me to go to the school and said I was lazy and I just didn't wanna do all the extra work. BL, what do I do?

tl;dr: No. This is serious. Read it.
« Last Edit: May 21, 2012, 04:24:15 PM by Skateaton 2.0 »


Tell him repeatedly "YOU'RE the one who STEREOTYPED me and assumed without even asking me that I liked programming! This is YOUR fault for not asking in the first place, and then calling ME lazy! This is NOT my fault!"

I confronted my dad about it, he flipped his stuff. He was screaming and yelling, and I explained my story to him, but still, he is really pissed and wanted me to go to the school and said I was lazy and I just didn't wanna do all the extra work. Reddit, what do I do?

me to go to the school and said I was lazy and I just didn't wanna do all the extra work. Reddit, what do I do?

Reddit, what do I do?

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really though just man up and tell him it's your future on the line and you want to do something you enjoy.

Tell him repeatedly "YOU'RE the one who STEREOTYPED me and assumed without even asking me that I liked programming! This is YOUR fault for not asking in the first place, and then calling ME lazy! This is NOT my fault!"
The best way to persuade someone who feels they are a superior to you is to use strong language, shout, and blame everything on them.

Last time I checked, the best way to confront parents was with respect and reason. You should definitely try to tell your dad about how you like film and editing.

Should've been more assertive
I was absolutely blown away by what school a had. Absolutely blown a loving way. I loved that place, it was huge, exciting

I then went to the School a open house. stuff was boring as forget. The teachers/students took stuff seriously, it looked like a "no fun allowed" school, and one kid was bitching about how there's way too much homework
tl;dr: No. This is serious. Read it.
You also seem to like and hate school a

Should've been more assertiveYou also seem to like and hate school a
lol i messed up let me fix that

guise srsly.
this is srs bsns.

seriously though.

The best way to persuade someone who feels they are a superior to you is to use strong language, shout, and blame everything on them.
His dad was yelling at him because he expects him to like programming, because that's what he assumed.
The way it seems to deal with this is to let him know he was wrong.

guise srsly.
this is srs bsns.

seriously though.
ogm y so srs???
But I feel bad for you :c
I'm doing stuff I don't like in school right now :C

Write to the school posing as your father and ask to go to the filmography school.

Skate, don't be a stuffhead.  Do something practical that you don't hate, or maybe even enjoy.

It's not likely you'll be successful as an "indie filmmaker."

Skate, don't be a stuffhead.  Do something practical that you don't hate, or maybe even enjoy.

It's not likely you'll be successful as an "indie filmmaker."
"im gonna get into sundance guiz!11!1"'

Normally I'd say do what you love but the economy is stuff and overall the job openings for filmmaking is limited. I say go to the programming school...

Skate, don't be a stuffhead.  Do something practical that you don't hate, or maybe even enjoy.

It's not likely you'll be successful as an "indie filmmaker."
holy stuff that was too soon

"im gonna get into sundance guiz!11!1"'

Normally I'd say do what you love but the economy is stuff and overall the job openings for filmmaking is limited. I say go to the programming school...

it's not he can't change his mind in college.