technical school (positive rant?)

[Vortex]

before any of you start screaming this isn't a blog, chill, I just want to tell you guys about how my local technical school operates in case anyone on the forums was on the fence about transferring to one.

with that said, let me say this.  in highschool I always had issues with being bored, I'm a decently fast learner, and with normal public school classes, you have a mixed combination of students who learn slowly and students who learn fast, so they kids who learn fast are sitting around bored while the slower students are taught correctly.

don't get me wrong, i have nothing against slow learners, if that's you, don't be offended, i'm just giving my view on the subject that some people do learn faster.

with that being said, i am one of the fast kids, and id sit and be bored so much.  my grades definitely reflected that, usually nothing above a C, and i was always sweating just trying to pass at the end of the quarter.

So sophomore year comes to an ending and we start getting visits by the local career center (tech school), and the way they presented the school just seemed so fitting to me.  So i signed up, got in, and now i love it.

let me explain why i love it;
-the teachers treat you like an adult, if you want to learn, learn, if you don't, they don't give a flying forget
-you learn at your own pace, the material is laid out for you, you go as fast or as slow as you want, and the teachers really just serve as guidance or mentors
-everyone has a positive attitude, it's not high school where everyone legally has to be there, anyone there wanted to get there, they had to apply and interview for getting in, so they had initiative to do what they wanted to do
-the atmosphere is amazing, you see people doing what they love and learning in the field they'll go into either with or without a post secondary education
-the opportunities are great, the school offers tons of scholarships, they hook you up with businesses, and sometimes internships
-no private school type fees, it's typically the same price as high school excluding the materials you'll need (eg; auto tech needs a toolbox with wrenches,drivers,etc)

all in all this has been a great experience for me so far, and i don't see that really changing much.

I just wanted to share this with you guys, so maybe some of you will look into your local technical school, if anyone does, be sure to PM me or post here so we can talk sometime.

/discuss your local tech school or non public high school

Well since none of you can stay on topic and would rather debate a topic that's nearly completely unrelated, and I don't feel like getting called out for flaming because you came into my topic with an opinion on a completely unrelated topic, then I'll just lock it, anyone who actually cares about the OP can PM me

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[D3ATH LORD]

my grades definitely reflected that, usually nothing above a C

lol

I think you wanted to say "nothing below a C"

[Vortex]

lol

I think you wanted to say "nothing below a C"

usually nothing above a C, and i was always sweating just trying to pass at the end of the quarter.

context will usually provide the answer to your question, what i said was meant to be said

[Caribou]

It sounds like you've been having an interesting experience. I don't really get it though, did you get through with high school? Or is technical school going to be your high school equivelant?

[Vortex]

It sounds like you've been having an interesting experience. I don't really get it though, did you get through with high school? Or is technical school going to be your high school equivelant?

for me it is the junior and senior year of high school, but you still get a high school diploma from your home school

[Caribou]

for me it is the junior and senior year of high school, but you still get a high school diploma from your home school

I am happy that you are happier in this school. I think that the best way for youth to earn a good education is for them to be motivated, and actually want to learn.

[Vortex]

I am happy that you are happier in this school. I think that the best way for youth to earn a good education is for them to be motivated, and actually want to learn.

appreciate it and i agree

[devildogelite]

Anyone who says they're bad grades are because they're just too smart are full of stuff. You had bad grades because you were lazy. You're not some "lazy genius". If you were a fast learner and got everything done you're grades wouldn't be C's and below. You're just lazy and you need to start working hard.

[Vortex]

Anyone who says they're bad grades are because they're just too smart are full of stuff. You had bad grades because you were lazy. You're not some "lazy genius". If you were a fast learner and got everything done you're grades wouldn't be C's and below. You're just lazy and you need to start working hard.

never claimed I wasn't lazy, I was absolutely lazy as forget, I wasn't motivated, anyone is going to be sluggish and lazy if they have no motivation to do something, or at least that's what I believe.

at this school I have motivation and ending the first month I have a 4.0 with about 37 total assignments

edit;
and I think you gave the vibe of saying someone who is lazy can't be intelligent, and one that note I scored a 24 on my first attempt of the ACT, as a sophomore.
considering that's 6 points above the average score of a newly graduated student, I wouldn't consider myself to be dumb

[Caribou]

Anyone who says they're bad grades are because they're just too smart are full of stuff. You had bad grades because you were lazy. You're not some "lazy genius". If you were a fast learner and got everything done you're grades wouldn't be C's and below. You're just lazy and you need to start working hard.

Many geniuses in this world did badly achademically, but made it so far in the real world. Letters and numbers (grades) aren't all that. If you get A's in many classes or even all, it doesn't mean you are a genius or sophisticated. It just means you are good achademically.

[devildogelite]

I consider you to be pretty dumb. A lot of people consider themselves a "lazy genius", but nope they're just lazy. They're just not handicapped so they can just make it by in high school. When you get into the real world you'll realize not everything is going to be "interesting". You're gonna have a real tough time out there.

Many geniuses in this world did badly achademically, but made it so far in the real world. Letters and numbers (grades) aren't all that. If you get A's in many classes or even all, it doesn't mean you are a genius or sophisticated. It just means you are good achademically.

All those geniuses also worked hard. Also the OP said they were a lazy sack of stuff already, he justified it because he is so smart. I doubt anyone who is considered a genius was lazy. This guy also said he is good academically, just lazy. So really all he said so far is that he is lazy but it's not his fault because he's just too smart for school.

[Caribou]

I consider you to be pretty dumb. A lot of people consider themselves a "lazy genius", but nope they're just lazy. They're just not handicapped so they can just make it by in high school. When you get into the real world you'll realize not everything is going to be "interesting". You're gonna have a real tough time out there.


All those geniuses also worked hard. Also the OP said they were a lazy sack of stuff already, he justified it because he is so smart. I doubt anyone who is considered a genius was lazy. This guy also said he is good academically, just lazy. So really all he said so far is that he is lazy but it's not his fault because he's just too smart for school.

A lot of them worked hard, and a lot of them didn't achademically. A lot of people have special gifts with their minds, and are brilliant in certain subjects and criterias.

[Vortex]

I consider you to be pretty dumb. A lot of people consider themselves a "lazy genius", but nope they're just lazy. They're just not handicapped so they can just make it by in high school. When you get into the real world you'll realize not everything is going to be "interesting". You're gonna have a real tough time out there.


All those geniuses also worked hard. Also the OP said they were a lazy sack of stuff already, he justified it because he is so smart. I doubt anyone who is considered a genius was lazy. This guy also said he is good academically, just lazy. So really all he said so far is that he is lazy but it's not his fault because he's just too smart for school.

I'm in the real world every day..
I work as manager of a local business and was offered a partnership for free..  I work 48 hours a week during summer and averaging 36 during school.  I also have football practice ON top of that.

Please don't act like you know so much more than me because you're what, 4-6 years older than I am?  You've had little to no more experience than me, from what I know, and I doubt you know much about the 'real world' compared to a 50 year old, so please don't be condescending.

Jobs can be interesting and intriguing, and fortunately I'm in a career path that does that for me.  Just because some people chose wrong and are miserable doesn't mean it's a social standard.  I shouldn't have to suck it up my whole life, and that's not be selfish, that's being honest.  As a human being I deserve the right to happiness as much as the next guy, even if I have to work my ass off to get it.  In highschool there was no happiness, you work to get a 4.0, you go to college and do the same thing, then go into a career that makes 6 figures but you'll never have time to enjoy life, and hate your career.

That's not what I want, so why would I try so hard?  And school isn't a measurement of intelligence in the first place, anyone can be absolutely brilliant and choose not to do work, make a 0.0 GPA and the government and any job employer would look at them as ass backwards handicapped when in reality we have a word for that, responsible.

Our education system grades on responsibility and memorization, arguably those are components to being intelligent, but aside from those aspects a single person could be the smartest person to live and noone would ever know based on their grades.

So don't step in here read a sentence where I claim to be a poor student in a wrongful education system, rather, stay on topic, and don't make yourself a fool.

[Dosamwolfso]

The amount of people who have turned out to be extremely successful without public education and/or completion of higher education are so far and in between, I do not even know how this could be used in OP's defense.