Hi, I was wondering if I could get some thoughtful answers from this community, I'm positive that I'm not the only person who's been faced with this problem before.
Ever since I started high school, I really didn't get into the insane work ethic thing. I do what I'm required to do, write what I'm required to write, when an assessment comes around, I usually end up doing it at the last minute, and I've gotten pretty good marks all round (I've had a couple of bunged up maths tests, but other then that I'm an above average student, got band 5/6's in the SC). I have felt for around 1-2 years now that I've been targeted as the source of mucking around in class, ever since a particular incident happened. First question, do teachers confer about you before the start of a year, for example will my year 10 history teacher have shared her thoughts about me to my year 11 teacher, and told him to keep an 'eye' out? I say this because I admit, and it's a terrible habit that I do talk a lot in class, with 1 of my friends who's in most of my classes, but where I get in huge trouble, he doesn't get more then a warning.
My marks in my year 11 Ancient class are above average, but due to classroom behaviour my teacher has put me on a faculty monitoring system or something. My mum has been encouraging me (forcefully) to leave school for over a year now, and my brother and sister both achieved high 90's, my parents were both high achievers as well (I am the youngest). I want to become a software designer, I've always had a thing for it.
I just find it hard to concentrate in class. In English, I do heaps well without listening, I listen in maths mainly because I'm beginning to quite enjoy it. It should also be mentioned that I'm not a dumbarse (but I'm not too arrogant to realise that being intelligent alone is not enough to get you a decent HSC mark).
Enough about me. I wake up everyday and think to myself about how much I hate the school lifestyle. The school has crap regulations in place from everything to hair and uniform (they are big on reputation) to making students buy back their confiscated mobile phones for $5. The school isn't my friend like it should be, giving me my education, it's the enemy, it's a set of rules that just make me pissed off. I'd much rather listen to what my friends have to say then some guy blabber on about a 2000 year old rock which I couldn't care less about. I am completely uninterested in most of my subjects (software, maths and English aside), but I suppose due to my upbringing, I just feel like going to TAFE or something would just be a copout and I feel like I can do better.
Why is it so hard for me to just knuckle down for the next 18 months like everyone says?
Am I really cut out for school in this way? Should I just go to TAFE, or just get a full time job and do that?
I've always felt confident that I would be able to achieve in school, but at the moment I just feel like school makes me angry, and also I suppose I'm getting the usual homo typical teenage thoughts like "Being a teenager is the only time I'm going to care about my hair being the way I want, why can't you just let me".
I would heaps appreciate thoughtful answers to this, but it's been beneficial for me just to write the post, I haven't really organised my thoughts like this yet. So if you can't be bothered to read it properly, whatever.
Thanks.
Ever since I started high school, I really didn't get into the insane work ethic thing. I do what I'm required to do, write what I'm required to write, when an assessment comes around, I usually end up doing it at the last minute, and I've gotten pretty good marks all round (I've had a couple of bunged up maths tests, but other then that I'm an above average student, got band 5/6's in the SC). I have felt for around 1-2 years now that I've been targeted as the source of mucking around in class, ever since a particular incident happened. First question, do teachers confer about you before the start of a year, for example will my year 10 history teacher have shared her thoughts about me to my year 11 teacher, and told him to keep an 'eye' out? I say this because I admit, and it's a terrible habit that I do talk a lot in class, with 1 of my friends who's in most of my classes, but where I get in huge trouble, he doesn't get more then a warning.
My marks in my year 11 Ancient class are above average, but due to classroom behaviour my teacher has put me on a faculty monitoring system or something. My mum has been encouraging me (forcefully) to leave school for over a year now, and my brother and sister both achieved high 90's, my parents were both high achievers as well (I am the youngest). I want to become a software designer, I've always had a thing for it.
I just find it hard to concentrate in class. In English, I do heaps well without listening, I listen in maths mainly because I'm beginning to quite enjoy it. It should also be mentioned that I'm not a dumbarse (but I'm not too arrogant to realise that being intelligent alone is not enough to get you a decent HSC mark).
Enough about me. I wake up everyday and think to myself about how much I hate the school lifestyle. The school has crap regulations in place from everything to hair and uniform (they are big on reputation) to making students buy back their confiscated mobile phones for $5. The school isn't my friend like it should be, giving me my education, it's the enemy, it's a set of rules that just make me pissed off. I'd much rather listen to what my friends have to say then some guy blabber on about a 2000 year old rock which I couldn't care less about. I am completely uninterested in most of my subjects (software, maths and English aside), but I suppose due to my upbringing, I just feel like going to TAFE or something would just be a copout and I feel like I can do better.
Why is it so hard for me to just knuckle down for the next 18 months like everyone says?
Am I really cut out for school in this way? Should I just go to TAFE, or just get a full time job and do that?
I've always felt confident that I would be able to achieve in school, but at the moment I just feel like school makes me angry, and also I suppose I'm getting the usual homo typical teenage thoughts like "Being a teenager is the only time I'm going to care about my hair being the way I want, why can't you just let me".
I would heaps appreciate thoughtful answers to this, but it's been beneficial for me just to write the post, I haven't really organised my thoughts like this yet. So if you can't be bothered to read it properly, whatever.
Thanks.
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