jbwarner86:

reciz:

dont-worry-about-it-friend:

conicalreservoir:

when getting 6 hours of sleep is a “really good night’s sleep” because you spend so much time at school, then doing homework, and (god forbid) any hobbies/extracurriculars

when the only “counselors” available to you have little or no psychological knowledge and will contact your parents and tell them you were there

when school lunch tastes, looks, and smells like cardboard, and is often unavailable to lower income students, but we are reprimanded for not eating healthily enough

when kids can not eat lunch for every single day of the year and not a single adult will ask them why

when anxiety is interpreted as “nervousness” and depression is interpreted as “laziness” and any sort of disorder or disability, mental or physical, is utterly ignored or ridiculed

when you have to fake sick on multiple days throughout the year because school takes so much out of you that on some days you cannot tolerate it

when you are forced to be around people who are toxic to your mental/emotional health, and if you ask to switch to a different class because of those people you’ll be told to “just ignore them”

when students are forced to participate in activities they are not comfortable doing such as presentations in front of the class in which failure to comply results in a zero

when teachers assign an hour (sometimes more, especially for advanced/AP classes) of homework for you to complete and most of it is nothing but “busy work” (work that serves no purpose other than to take up time)

when tests can count for 85% of your overall grade so no matter how much effort you put into that class, a bad test or poor test taking skills can result in bad/failing grades

when you miss school due to illness and have to complete 3+ days worth of work and turn it in the next day or in 2 days and if you don’t complete/turn it in the teachers act like “well you shouldnt have gotten sick then”

when sports teams get new equipment practically every year and the music/art/drama/etc departments are literally using costumes/instruments/supplies from 10+ years ago and can barely afford to purchase music or supplies or pay for repairs

when a teacher can give a bad test that everyone fails and its our fault

when a teacher can put up notes but not actually teach at all and blame us for failing

when teachers are forced to base their entire class around a certain curriculum but the standardized test is completely different

when a standardized test determines your value

when a student is struggling and no matter what theyre struggling with, its their fault, they should just work harder

when pretty much any student in high school will tell you that they do not like school

when a student’s hopes and passions are discouraged as being impractical and if ur not good at math/science ur basically told that youll never have a decent job and treated like hopeless, pointless waste of space

when teachers/staff can discriminate based off of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, WHATEVER, and reporting it will only put u into a worse situation

when school dress codes are ridiculously unfair towards girls and lower girls’ self esteem and teaches girlsthat her body is something to be ashamed of

when sex ed classes was nothing but teaching us statistics about STDs and that “abstinence is 100% effective”

when without a scholarship college is nearly impossible to afford

when we’re expected to know what we want to do for the rest of our lives and where we want to go to college by the time we’re 16

when students are so stressed that they turn to drugs just to keep their heads above water

when students are taking their own lives and nobody notices or cares

fuCKIN THIS

Adding on to this:

When you’re told to meet a teacher before or after school when you can’t and you utterly fail because you didn’t come when you were supposed to

When it’s perfectly fine for a teacher to complain about a student but a student can’t complain about a teacher yet both things are be important

When you’re asked to explain why you didn’t complete your homework but you’re not allowed to “give excuses”

When you’re being compared to someone else because you can’t do what they can or think they can do (in this situation a simple “well I am not [blah blah name thing here] and I am not as capable of doing things they do, so don’t expect me to quickly zoom though my math class this semester because I am supposedly [blah blah name thing here]” would be a legit reply)

When you get detention for simply looking in a slightly different direction making everyone assume you weren’t paying attention

When you aren’t allowed to express your emotions or opinions

When all of your personal goals are replaced with being on time and turning things in

When in order to graduate high school you have to make an online website and portfolio through your all of your high school years, and if you don’t complete it you are automatically a hopeless piece of garbage that will never get a good job

When you’re not supposed to turn to your friends for help even if the teachers refuse to give you the help you deserve

When you get in trouble for coughing and sneezing in class (no joke, this happened to my friend in middle school)

When raising your voice also gets you in trouble for being a distraction or disturbance to the class

When correcting someone is considered rude

I’m done here, you’re welcome..

This is why I’m fucked up.