Posted by Nin

It doesn't help when you get called out when you're 10 seconds late to class.

Some of my teachers are like that, only stricter. Also, some teachers lock the doors right when the tardy bell rings, so if you barely manage to get to class, if the doors are locked, then you're screwed.

Posted by blimpfruit00

I guess one nice thing about my school is that if the teacher keeps you late, usually they write you a pass so it's fine if you're late to the next class.

Some teachers in my school do that. The others, though, don't. So if you have a teacher who won't write you a late pass and keeps you late a lot, and your next class is on the other side of school, and you have a heavy bookbag weighing you down, and your next teacher doesn't care that you had to stay in and gives you detention, you might as well change your schedule. Such a combination in my school is possible, sadly.

My school tends to do a bunch of stupid shit. This year they decided to cut funding for a lot of things (killing a few clubs and neglecting any school supplies like paper and pencils, which we still need) to get chromebooks for the students. Oh goody. Not to complain much about them, because in reality they are okay, but are very restrictive. They are forcing them down our throats too, the teachers HAVE to use them for most of class, so usually note taking, which is just fine really.

This sucks most for the programming classes, imagine having to use a limited, mostly broken web IDE for java. The best part? There are rooms in the building with windows computers, so why aren't we in those rooms for this class? A few of them are CAD classes, but some are just kinda empty a lot of the time.

I guess I should touch on the actual class a bit though, because they really are meh bordering on bad. Programming 1 goes over python up to a point. As much as I think python is a good language on its own, I feel like they should start with something slightly more, I guess the word im looking for is formal. there is definitely a better word to use in this situation, but I can't seem to put my finger on it. Anyway, in programming 2 they switch to java and javascript. Since i've just started the course I can't really say much about it other than it seems a bit scatter brained at times and doesn't know if it wants to focus more on java or javascript, which can make it feel a bit disjointed at times. I think they really should stick to a single language too instead of having it change between the years, or at least have the languages be closer in how they work.

I see a lot of people here saying they have about 2-3 minutes to get to class, I think recently my school changed our between class time to about a minute and a half. If a teacher holds you after the bell, you probably won't make it to class on time unless you are really close to it. Gosh, this is probably the longest post i've made on this board so far.

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