Apparently public schools are putting out hate filled bastereds.
How is that pronounced?
bas-ter-eds?
Sorry, but thats how it seams.
hahahahaahahahahah
See what I mean? It never ends…
Sorry this all came down on you candyboi, unfortunatly, they do have a point.
Must. . . . fight. . . . the. . . . urge. . . .
I CAN’T! I gotta do it.
Uh Kel. . . . That would be seems.
:::d&r::: 
:::peeking back in:::
That would be sow.
I’m outa here.
Okay, since you’ve been properly beaten up over grammar and spelling, CandyBoi, I’ll respond to your OP. Yeah, in the 16 years since I graduated HS, I have not forgotten the inequalities that occur. I can remember one boy in particular who was captain of the football team, very good looking, coach’s son, and in the academic program. I’m darned if I know how he graduated where he did. No, that’s not correct. I know how. He cheated. He flirted and charmed his way past teachers. Etc, etc, ad nauseum. I’ll admit I wasn’t immune to him, either, because I helped him out, too. (Didn’t help him, cheat, though.) I just look back on it as preparation for life, 'cause you know what? It doesn’t always get better. Yes, out in the real world, some places you work and some people you know will value you for your hard work, skills and knowledge, and some won’t. There will always be favored sons who get by with minimal or sloppy work and stay in favor of those in power, by politics or other means. I wish I could say it won’t happen after HS, but I can’t. I hope things get better for you. Welcome to SDMB, by the way.
Diane, I know how to spell seems!
watch this:
I love it when the new troup of kids start school, and get computer access!
I assume that weight training was an elective. If you signed up for yourself, do the work for yourself. Speaking as an ex-jock, fuck the jocks.
I’ll agree with TroubleAgain; there will always be people around you who get breaks because of who they know. Fortunately, this sort of stuff tends to happen less the farther you come along. Generally speaking, employers go farther by hiring the best and brightest than they do by hiring their buddies.
On the other hand, you misspelled four out the twelve words in the first sentence of your OP. Most people can ignore the occasional misspelling or mutchered phrase, but batting 66% on any sentence ain’t good (and please note that the word ain’t is a colloquialism and is meant as such.) You may be getting good grades, but I’d pay attention in your academic classes. When the time comes, your resume will need to look a lot better than that.
My question was directed at Can’twriteEnglishBoi, not at anybody else. Apologies for any offence caused.
To answer the OP, if he’s getting As and Bs in English, then that would seem to be prima facie evidence that the system is, indeed, “fucked up”.
Oh, great. Now we’ve got TomH making things even worse with his Pig Latin 
Some of this seems to relate to discussion about cliques that form whenever you have large groups, and the popular people seem to bask in the glow and reap all kinds of advantages from their status. The people who admire these people for shallow reasons are probably not people you want attention or respect from, anyway.
As to the spelling thing, I have sometimes seen my daughters, who are pretty good usually with spelling and language usage, make mistakes if they are in a hurry to answer my e-mail and don’t use spellcheck. I have also heard them talking to each other that they sometimes get teased about spelling and/or typing while doing instant messages.
At a message board, where all the communication is in written form, it will probably get your point across better if you take the time to get the message as accurate as possible. There are all kinds of prejudices in the world, and one of them is that you aren’t very smart or are careless if you don’t spell well/use grammar badly/type poorly. While those things could be true about poor spellers, etc., it could also be a case such as this:
{quoting myself from another thread)
Sorry this is so long.
Kel - Ooops! That one flew right over my head. I hate when that heppens.
Fuck!
Oh , my sides!
Mercy diane!
Mercy!!!
You did that on purpose!!!
Great, my kids think I have flipped!
oooooooooooo you are terrible Di!
This is a common mistake, so it isn’t a big deal. But…“who” is the subject form of the pronoun, “whom” the object. In this instance, it is used as the subject of the clause and thus “who” the correct word.
Yup, I was a copy editor once as well. Of course, I’m also a teacher.
CandyBoi, your cryptically written rant is extremely difficult to decipher. Does anything you write on the SDMB need to be perfect? Hell no. I’m certainly not immune to typos, word confusion, spelling mistakes, and grammar errors (I’m especially prone to inconsistency in verb tense), as is the case with anyone else on the board. However, your OP was so wrought with spelling errors (sorry, hon, but it cannot possibly all be typos…how is “perso-christian” a typo for “pseudo-Christian,” or “persecution,” or whatever you meant?) and other basic mistakes that I’m still a bit lost to your meaning.
How you write is evidence of who you are, and unfortunately in this forum, often taken as a suggestion of your level of intelligence. It’s considered poor “netiquette” around here to write so sloppily. It’s frustrating, even annoying, trying to read posts like this, and some people have no patience for it (actually, most people don’t…typically the posts are either flamed for bad writing, or ignored altogether). And when you’re in the BBQ Pit…well, you’re essentially inviting criticism and hostility.
Your last post, where you made a much more concerted effort to write coherently (which wasn’t perfect English, but certainly improved), is much more respectable, presentable, and above all–understandable. Kudos to you for coming back and making a better presentation of yourself.
I’m sure I’ve just pissed you off more, but deal with it. I didn’t flame or insult you, and I’m really not the type of person who does. This is just the reality of the SDMB…take it from someone who’s been around this place for 2 1/2 years.
Boi, getting your chops busted over clarity in writing isn’t just nitpicking, though it probably feels that way. See, everybody flubs on spelling, etc. sometimes but too many mistakes get in the way of the message.
True fact: this place can be a pain sometimes, but there is no better (or funnier) proving ground for students of any age. It’s a great place to learn how to say things clearly, be able to back them up, defend a viewpoint, etc.
Regarding your OP, your experience with the “favored crowd” is wrong, but not uncommon. Actually, it stinks. If it’s any comfort, the jock/in-crowd types don’t usually fare very well after high school. They’re big, complacent fish in a very little pond, and they’re in for a tough suprise when they get out into the world.
Hang in there and keep doing your best. You have a lot of time and a whole world out there waiting for you.
Veb
I agree with TVeb and the others - this “favored crowd” thing becomes less common in the real world (though it still does exist.)
I had a friend go through something like this. It is too long of a story, but through a series of events, she got to be in her late teens really believing that she couldn’t lose. That she was the BEST. And that the other poor “mere mortals” around her who sometimes lost out on things were just losers. But not her, oh no. People around her (like parents, siblings, other people) just thought she was adorable, and let her get away with all sorts of shit. And it did not serve her well in the long run.
Finally, she lost out on something that she was convinced she would get. (In this instance, it was competition that she believed she’d be accepted into - not only get into, but she also believed she’d win an award.) Welll, she didn’t get in. She completely lost it, made a big scene, while others were around to witness it. Very sad. Very embarrassing. And very needless - it could have been prevented, if someone had reigned her in before that. But people kept on letting her get away with shit, and kept on allowing her to delude herself that she was “special”. NO ONE is that special, not all the time.
She’s a lot better now, but what a sad way to learn a lesson. Those kids in your school who get away with all this shit haven’t learned their lesson yet. You have. Imagine what asses they will make of themselves when the Real World finally delivers that blow to them. Some of them will take the reality hard. Yikes.
Damn! It should be:
it was a competition that she believed she’d be accepted into
While we disagree that this IS a ‘pseudo’ Christian society that we are living in, there most certainly IS a double standard, and unfortunately, ** CandyBoi ** it will be there as long as you’re alive.
It’s unfair and it stinks, and yet it has its odd rewards, as well as punishments. My jock older brother was a football star in high school, oh wow, my family thought he hung the moon. He dated the most beautiful girls in school. He could do no wrong, HIS grades didn’t matter, his drinking didn’t matter, when he came in OR IF he came in at night, didn’t matter. But, ya know what happened to him???
He and his friend had been drinking and they were both in a car crash, and Jeff’s knee injury kept him from playing ANY football, so there went his ‘great career.’ Or supposedly anyway. He still sits in his backyard bragging about the ‘good old days.’ He mows people’s lawns for a living. Now that isn’t so terrible, but it sure isn’t what my father thought he would be doing.
USUALLY things have a way of evening out in the long run. HOWEVER, keep yourself motivated with the better things, they last soooo much longer than the superficial things you’ll see lauded all around you.
Well damn, at least some people agree with me and see what is going on. Reading those posts (not the mid ones mind you) make me feel better knowing that everyone does sleep in the bed they make. They may have it good now, but the >1.5 Gpa will come back on them…awww too bad…haha…
Ok, sorry to nitpick, but I hate when people butcher quotes like that. To quote verbatim from the early Marilyn Manson[POAAF] song, Get Your Gunn,
"…I bash myself to sleep; what you sow I will reap; I scar myself you see’ I wish I wasn’t me…[cutting out lyrics as seen fit by myself to get your point across]** I hate therfore I am; Goddamn your righteous hand… psuedo-morals work real well on the talk shows for the weak; but you selective judgements and goodguy badges don’t mean a fuck to me…"
Trust me, I know what it’s like when people judge others improperly because of appearance or social preferences. Down where I live mostly, if you’re not preppy or a jock, you most likely won’t be popular, you’ll have a harder time being accepted, and you shouldn’t give a fuck what they think because you should go out there and prove them wrong. I’m not preppy, I play one sport, so it doesn’t make me a jock, I have a high GPA and take AP and honors classes, I do fine arts stuff and get shit for it from some people, but I live my own life, I don’t care about the double standards there are,* especially since I’m female and I don’t look like Malibu Barbie.[.i] Life is hard to live for all of us. Even the jocks and preps. I know what it’s like to be be judged on appearance, but you know what?: I am a good person and people like me because I treat everyone the way they deserve to be treated. Think about the threefold rule next time someone treats you unjustly: they will get what’s coming to them in the future. Just worry about yourself and you’ll do fine.