I signed up to take some PE classes in summer school so I could take Calculas next year. Not a problem.
Well, the first day of S.S. I show up and I hear “Sorry, you are on the waiting list.”
No prob.
Next day “Sorry you are on the waiting list.”
Still not a problem
Third day I drag myself out of bed, into the HOT HOT weather, through the stupidity of the mob at the school. There I hear “Oh,that class was CANCELED.”
“Nobody told me.”
“Well, we didn’t have time to call anybody.”
It was canceled because only 14 people showed up. They didn’t have the fucking time to call 14 people!?!?!
Boy. do I know what you are talking about. I had to get my diploma the other day and I guess everyone was between classe. Well lets just say it was looserville.
Sucks about PE, H. calculus was an easy class, I didnt learn much. Should’ve taken AP maybe.
Wait a minute - they had a waiting list, then cancelled due to lack of people???
That’s what I thought. Maybe they just assumed that if my name wasn’t on the “LIST” that I was on the waiting list. Or thought it would be fun to drive me crazy. Either way, I was pretty upset.
I was actually considering taking a summer school class at my high school to keep myself somewhat occupied, and guess what? All the good classes I need were cancelled. Every one of them. All they had left were courses like “Intro to Dance” and similar bullshit. Sorry to hear you didn’t get the P.E. you wanted.
Stupid fucknuts running schools…
P.E. fuckin’ sucks. Especially during the summer.
Hard Chedder, Guv’ner!
Why would taking Phys Ed help you with Calculus?
What a colossal pain, pepperland. Just goes to prove that inefficiency, stupidity and general dweebiness know no boundaries.
Very cold comfort, but at least it’s good practice for dealing with college admissions and registration processes, the IRS, credit card companies and insurance claims.
They couldn’t call everyone? Uh…why not? Phones out? General strike emptied the offices? Terrorist takeover by MCI or a 10-10 company?
Fer pity’s sake, don’t tell Cecil. He’s valiantly battled igorance for over 2 decades–but damned if at times it doesn’t look like Ignorance is winning.
Veb
Because I NEED ten credits of PE. I don’t NEED Calculus. So Calculus is the only class I can afford to drop in order to take PE next year. But I will just go to the local JC this fall and enroll in a few PE courses.
I have no idea why they couldn’t call us. I also had no desire to stick around and find out. I wanted to get out of there ASAP because I was pretty upset.
Thank you for your kinds words Veb. It made me feel better about the whole situation. =)
damn that sucks you have to take PE during your senior year of high school. but for the college thing, depending on the state, classes have to be a certain size during the first couple of weeks in order to get adequate funding for a class. a professor in one of my classes a couple semesters ago explained it to us that he didnt really have to take attendance after the first 2 weeks or so (of a usual, fall/spring semester) and that he was required BY LAW to take attendance before the cut-off date.
I believe that’s called the Warm Body Count
The reason I need to take PE is because when I moved here I had plenty of PE credits to graduate from my old HS, but not enough to graduate from my new one.
Sigh
Community College here I come!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I almost didn’t graduate high school because of PE. I’d nailed all the college prep stuff and the last half of senior year was basically free. Thanks to a great art teacher, I had a blank pad of hall passes. Used most of them to swim, burrow in the library, noodle around the art lab, etc.
Keep in mind I had 400 times the “required swims” to graduate. And I swim like a dolphin, but refused to try out for teams. So the Nazi gym coach tried to flunk me because colleges required new smallpox vaccinations. One does not swim with an open smallpox sore; ergo, no graduation. In that instance, paybacks rebounded; I graduated and she was passed over for tenure.
Basically, it was so stupid it makes your teeth ache. But damned if it didn’t cast a pall over the whole shebang. Went on to a BA, an MA and an MLS and never attended a commencement ceremony.
Veb
I’m getting all my PE credit by being in marching band. There’s not anything wrong with PE (Unless you have a military-style coach). I like physical activity, I just prefer it in the form of kickboxing.
Well that sucks, pepper. Glad to see you have a back up plan. Always the resourseful 1 aren’t you?
