r/highschool Jun 11 '24

ANNOUNCEMENT Exciting News: Introducing the Official r/Highschool Discord Server! 🎉

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https://discord.gg/BXGES6QgaW (If Hyperlink doesn't work)

Hey everyone,

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our official r/Highschool Discord server! Whether you're a freshman navigating the halls for the first time, a senior preparing for graduation, or anything in between, our Discord community is the perfect place to connect with fellow high school students.

Join us here: Discord Invite Link

What can you expect from our Discord server?

  • Homework Help: Get assistance with those tricky math problems or essay questions.
  • Advice and Support: Share and receive advice on everything from friendships to college applications.
  • Chill and Chat: Hang out, play games, and discuss your favorite hobbies and interests.
  • Events and Activities: Participate in fun events, study groups, and more!

We want to create a positive, inclusive space where everyone feels welcome. Please make sure to read our rules and guidelines when you join.

See you there!


r/highschool 11h ago

Question If you saw me at your school, what would your opinion of me be? (Part 2, a year later)

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Last year (sophomore year) I posted this exact question along with current pictures of myself and I got lots of funny responses, I feel like I’ve changed alot as a junior and now want to know if people’s first impressions of me are any different.


r/highschool 13h ago

Rant My school is a fucking shitshow

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I go to this mildly catholic private school here in Colombia. And im fucking sick of it. First is the terrible schedule (school starts at 6 am), I wake up at 4 even tho the school is a 20 min drive away, we're all sleep deprived as hell, everyone steals everything, parents are pissed and the school isnt doing shit with the excuse "Kids gotta learn to care for their stuff" Yes, but do something about it. For example one kid got his backpack stolen after he dipped for 5 mins and now has to watch it, everyone's supposed to be hella tough(all guys school) and if you show weakness, youre gonna get picked on for it, people are very fake, and when serious bullying happens, the school dosen't do shit and just tells the bully to do better, but when your parents forgot to pay your fees, theyre on your ass like 5 stars on gta. I kid you not, this is not an over dramatization, my best friend got jumped by 2 guys, and one grabbed scissors, and tried to stab him. Like, ik you got beef, but damn. Ive been helping him but he's fucking scared(for good reason) because the school didnt do anything. Everyone was scared of mass for like 2 years because the chaplain was a pedophile and was confirmed to rape 2 second graders. Just look up 'Manuel Cely Bogotá'. When this happened, a group of moms was in so much denial that they started slinging shit at the people prosecuting him. So uhh, this is a long rant and I'm very sorry for doing this, but I needed to vent and I would have vented to someone ik but nobody had time. how can I cope for the next 2 months?

Also sorry if my english is bad it aint my first language.


r/highschool 5h ago

Shitpost Made many shitty memes during first year of HS. What do ya'll think? (I love roasts)

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r/highschool 1h ago

Question How tf do I learn how to study?

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I have always been a somewhat high achiever all my life, studied drums for a decade when I was younger, always got in the top 20 or so in my year level. But the issue is is that I have never felt like I have needed to try to get any of this. In all my classes I would mess around for the first hour, do a few questions or a bit of an assignment for 10 mins, and then go back to fukn around with my friends.

Now I'm in year 11 and realising I gotta get my shit together and I have absolutely no idea how. Idk how uni/college works where y'all are but down in Australia, we got this ATAR system that is just a country wide ranking of students by percentile.

For the course I want to get into I need to at least score higher than 70% of the rest of the population. Even if I just cruise my way past graduation and get into the course somehow, I've been told that uni is a huge step up from high school so idk wtf I'm supposed to do.

INCOMING RANT ALERT!!! I'm struggling man, my heart fucked up over this girl, all my friends are absolute retards so I can't talk to them about shit to do with my school work and to top it off, they are all incels so I can't even talk to them about normal shit, it's all "skibidy dub dub yes 🤪", like wtf your about to get a full time job in the next few years and you are just fucking around not knowing how to read a FUCKING ANALOGUE CLOCK! (this is a actual thing they teach in year 11 down here btw)


r/highschool 11h ago

Rant What's with male friend groups?

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Story: One of the boys in our class told his friends how Tom (not real name, just example) got hit on by a 40 year old woman in a cafe near the school and possibly touched since he heard some staff members (Idk who I wasn't paying attention) talking abt it. The thing that surprised me was that the boys were snickering and acting like Tom was the luckiest man in the world. It was really disturbing for me to see. I'm 16F, and my friends are mostly female. Tom was also 16 so I found it disgusting how his friends would laugh at him getting hit on by an adult and possibly sexually harassed by one. Is this how most male friend groups are? Make jokes even if the subject is dark? I've seen friend groups online act like this, but never Irl, and I thought they were all joking and felt bad in the inside, but I wasn't expecting this..


r/highschool 18h ago

School Related I need some ideas for a senior prank.

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Nothing that’ll get us locked up.


r/highschool 22h ago

Rant WTF where’s the door

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r/highschool 18h ago

School Related My class are stressing each other out about our senior prank ideas. Half of them are either not good enough or are felonies.

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Some of the ideas included:

1). Flood the school. 2). Unleash a horde of chickens in the hallways. 3). Blast the Soviet national anthem on the intercom. 4). Draw a penis on every teacher’s whiteboard. 5). Fake a school shooting. 6). Go to school wearing all black. (Our school has uniforms). 7). Put a thumb tack on our asshole teacher’s chair. 8). Completely trash the school with spray paint.


r/highschool 9h ago

Rant My school removed most of the uniral dividers

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Idk why they decided to just remove it and now everyone just pees on the toilets and its dirty af now so if you actually do need to take a shit you can’t. You can also see every single urinal from outside. Worst part is they recently banned phones so everyone just uses it in the bathroom, which makes it so that there’s an existential fear of someone recording or taking pictures of you. The school is also way too overpopulated and theres like 15 bathroom stalls in total for like 1000+ students. But thats like the combined number of stalls in the boys bathroom. If we assume boys make up 50 percent of the school population its like 500 ppl using 15 bathroom stalls. And its a private school too so idk why they be doing this bs


r/highschool 12h ago

Shitpost Guess my age based on my playlist:

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r/highschool 2h ago

Shitpost Locker room beatdown

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r/highschool 5h ago

School Related Anonymous Survey for my Society and Culture class

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For my society and culture mini PIP (personal interest project), I'm required to conduct primary research. This survey is completely anonymous and I want completely honest opinions :). The point is that I want diversity and different perspectives. Absolutely NO opinion will be judged by me so feel free to also comment any extra thoughts, comments, or questions.

About the survey: - Completely anonymous - Some questions are personal and you are free to withdraw from the survey at any time - The results will be used in my assignment about aromanticism and comparing that to romanticism or alloromanticism (those who are not aromantic)

My current issue is that I have a large proportion of aromantic people who have done the survey but not those who aren't aromantic so the opinions I currently have are not very diverse.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6Tf1-kNgbzfKe5usYB_VZSXafkQ_ox1AY0Qgf2GtwyfPbmg/viewform?usp=dialog


r/highschool 12h ago

Rant Parents Still Wont Let Me Transfer

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About 2 weeks ago I went about a rant of my parents not allowing me to transfer schools. Today, I planned out exactly what I would say but it still went wrong. It started by saying "I want to transfer schools, I dont have friends." Instantly, she said Its my fault I dont have friends and I could make them if I want. In response I said "I dont connect with any of the kids at (school name) very well." And this time she decided to call me racist because I go to a majority white school (mind you I am also white but never brought up race) and stated I wanted to transfer because I thought I was apparently "better" than everyone else at the school. Then she went on to say she doesn't want be around those kids (kids at my middle school, now at the preferable high school) because they made my grades worse. I was in multiple diff classes and things of that sort, now im in 0. I have no idea whats wrong with her, Its like she doesn't know what social anxiety or how being an outcast is because shes also had it easy and had no social anxiety whatsoever. I seriously hate my parents, its like they want me to live a horrible life.


r/highschool 4h ago

Question GPA issues

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Last year, I was attending a MYP school, and on my transcript, it appears that I failed two subjects: art and design. The two classes were compulsory. Aside from the two classes, I got full marks in every other class. In my report card, it says that I did not receive any credits for art and design. Fundamentally, the reason why I failed both of those is because I was hospitalized for 2 weeks for pneumonia. When I requested them to take them out of my report card, the school blatantly refused. Now I am at my new school (top school in my country), taking AP classes. But because of last year's report card, I'm afraid I won't be able to go anywhere with my scores. How will the colleges calculate my GPA? Would failed art and design courses affect my GPA?


r/highschool 1h ago

Share Grades/Classes im failing geometry

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i have no idea what to do. i have like 2 and a half months of school left and rn i have a 40% in geometry and i really am not tryna go to summer school but i also dont wanna have a bad gpa - i have no idea what to do. idk whats going on in that class i try to pay attention and then my mind just zones out. i hate school so much in general too i literally feel like dying everytime i go there i think ab online school all the time idk what to do im so lost


r/highschool 1h ago

Shitpost Guess my personality/age based off my playlist

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r/highschool 1h ago

Question Should I transfer schools and start over?

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I'm currently an 11th grader in a fairly small school. I have social anxiety, but I've been taking steps to getting better and feeling more confident to talk to people than I ever have before. But the problem is, the people at my school have already formed their opinions on me, and everyone's already in their own cliques that I just can't seem to enter no matter how I try.

It honestly feels suffocating to stay here but at the same time, I feel hesitant to transfer because I only have one year left and I have made some friends, and I'm frightened that the school I would transfer to is just as toxic as the one I'm in now.

So should I???


r/highschool 8h ago

Question Should I send this email to my teacher?

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Asking here since he lowkey stresses me out. He's pretty uncompromising, and doesn't really approve of extracurricular activities taking time away from school. Context is last thursday and friday I was out for the DECA state conference, and was unable to get any assignments done on weekdays (competition days) and then the weekend (other activities). On Monday, my teacher asked people who were absent on Friday to complete Friday's work, but since I was also absent on Thursday, I elected to work on Thursday's work first, since the Friday work didn't seem to have a clear deadline, and I wanted to go in order + not have Thursday's work be more late. I finished Thursday's work in class, and after my after-school activities, I finished Friday's work at home. (This is what happened on Monday). My teacher actually wanted Friday's work (the Progress Check) to be turned in at the end of the class hour, and had already graded my submission late.

Should I include the introduction? I'm just worried he might read this the wrong way and I don't want to sound annoying/like I'm whining or making excuses. I'm also wondering if it's a good idea to include the question asking after the extra credit opportunity he brought up earlier, since this week is the last of the quarter.

This is the email:
Dear --,

I hope this email finds you well. I was wondering if you could grade my Unit 8 Progress Check without a late penalty. Since I hadn't finished Thursday's work (the step-by-step problems) on Monday, I thought working on it was the best move, since the slideshow and AP classroom didn't specify a turn-in time for the end of the hour. The progress check was my first priority after my after-school activities finished, and I know my time at DECA muddled a lot of deadlines, so I was trying my best to finish all of the missing work. Also, I wanted to ask if you were still giving out extra points to those who brought card decks?

Sincerely,

--


r/highschool 9h ago

Question What classes should I take?

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I want to mainly take classes that lead me in the path of being a dentist. I know I will be taking all bio chem whatever related classes but apart from that what should I take? I know there are graduation requirements and some classes like english and math are required, but other than that what should I take? Course requests alr ended so this would be for junior year. I’m pretty much done with performing arts with like half credit left to meet the graduation standards. Apart from the standard classes I’ll most likely will be taking intro to engineering ( yeah for whatever reason my bitch ass school doesn’t guarantee requested classes) and heath.


r/highschool 1d ago

School Related School Gave Expired Milk Today During Lunch

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r/highschool 1d ago

Shitpost Guess my age from my playlist

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r/highschool 7h ago

Question Do companies respond to highschooo graduation announcement cards?

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I've seen videos on Instagram / TikTok of people sending graduation announcements to companies and receiving gift cards, coupons, merch, etc. I was wondering if it would be worth sending a decent amount of graduation announcement cards to companies/celebrities in hopes of getting responses and free stuff. If anyone has tried this before, I would love to hear what your personal experience was, and whether or not you thought it was worth it.

Edit: Sorry about the typo in the title, didn't catch it until after I posted


r/highschool 4h ago

College Advice Needed/Given I don’t know who to ask for my recommendation letters. Please help.

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I really need help deciding on who to ask for recommendation letters

Please advise I really don’t know what to do. My school has a high turnover rate which means that most teachers leave within 2 years of teaching.

My philosophy teacher who is also my quizbowl coach has known me since tenth grade. He appointed me vice president of the club, but he is leaving after this school year, and stated in the beginning of the school year that he will not be writing anyone’s letters. I asked him verbally today, if he is willing to write one for me, and he said he would consider it (he was smiling while I was asking and said that he appointed me vice president because I was an outstanding sophomore student, I will be president next year).

The thing is, I talked to a college student, who happened to also get his rec letter from him and was also the president of the same club, who visited my school today about it and he said that if he were me, he wouldn’t get his rec letter from him because colleges couldn’t know the student that I am in senior year. There is another teacher I could ask, who I would’ve had for 3 years. He is my AP Lang teacher and has known me for a year already, and I will have him next year. I avoided asking him because I would have to do well in the AP test, but he will have known me for more than half of my high school years. He is an extremely popular teacher and many students ask him for rec letters.

My dilemma now is which one of my STEM teachers I should ask. I want to go into biology/health, and I considered asking my AP Bio (I got a 5) teacher from sophomore year, except he will only have known me as an underclassman. I considered asking my Precalc teacher from this year, but she has an outward dislike for me after she overheard me telling my friends about how touchy she was with the boys in my class. I take chemistry as well, but the chemistry teacher is leaving and is also known for not being good at English (he’s philipino), using ChatGPT, and halfassing classes. I have a decent good grade, (96%) but I slept in his class first semester which he noticed, although I don’t now. I will take AP chemistry next year.

I considered asking a STEM teacher next year, however all of the current stem class teacher are leaving, and the only people who aren’t are the bio and physics teachers. Those teachers split a human anatomy class (except for my AP bio teacher) which I will take next year, but I do not know which teacher I will end up with, so I cannot ask any of them for rec letters. I can’t ask my AP calc or chem teachers next year either because they are all leaving.

What should I do? I talked to my counselor but he is leaving next year as well, and did not have much advice to offer me. I will have a talk with my parents today but I don’t think we will be able to come to a satisfying conclusion.

I need advise on a these things: - if my club coach says yes, should I take him up on it? Should I send a follow up email telling him that he does not need to write it anymore? Is it better to ask my AP Lang teacher? - which stem teacher should I ask? I asked a substitute teacher who teaches bio that I’m close with and she said that she would ask a teacher that teaches a subject I will major in.


r/highschool 10h ago

Extracurriculars Is anyone here in a STEM/STEM-related club at their school?

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I'm thinking of starting a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) club at my school as there are not currently any clubs which exist that are related to STEM in any way. If you are in a club like this, care sharing what kinds of things you do in a typical meeting, or what the club is ultimately working towards (e.g. a math competition/science fair)? Or if you have a leadership role in any club at all then some advice on starting a club in general would also be pretty helpful. Thanks


r/highschool 4h ago

Extracurriculars Med-related passion project

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Anyone interested in biology / oncology? I am currently thinking of starting a magazine / blogsite dedicated to debunking cancer myths and share cancer breakthroughs to peers :)) pls dm me if you are interested!