Why Can’t They Get It Right For Once?
Posted July 1, 2009 | Category: Ranting, Life | 4 comments.
I got next year’s school schedule in the mail last week, and, for the third year in a row, the guidance department has done something which requires me to go into school next week and fix. Yes, the third year in a row- with the exception of my freshman year, I’ve had to fix at least one thing on my schedule every year. You’d think that they’d manage to get it right, as it’s my senior year and I’m not taking too many “important” classes, but no.
What have they done? In my sophomore year, they tried to give me Latin 1 instead of Orchestra, when I’d already taken Spanish 1-4. Yes, it was an elective issue- I didn’t NEED it to be fixed, but why should I spend my time learning another foreign language when I’d already gotten all the way through Spanish? Last year, my junior year, I had signed up for AP Biology (Remember my rant about the AP Bio exam?), which is a two-semester course: they’d only given me the first semester of the class. Which is obviously an issue. And this year?
This year, they gave me regular high-school Sociology and college-level Sociology in the same (second) semester. How am I supposed to take (and understand. Understanding is vital) college-level Sociology when I’m taking regular Sociology in the same semester- I’ll be in the process of learning things that I’m already supposed to have mastered… (they don’t put people in Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 for the same semester, do they?) They also didn’t give me orchestra- I think I’m going to have to drop college Sociology and switch into orchestra.
I think these people must have it out for me or something. I can see messing up once, maybe twice, but THREE times? I’d better warn Hannah that she needs to watch out for these people- who wants to bet that they’ll mess up her schedule for the next three years, too? I know, I know- they do scheduling by computer, it’s not the counselors’ fault, they have a thousand kids to worry about- but don’t they check this stuff? Don’t they? You’d think so…
(If you’re curious, the rest of my [apparently tentative] schedule is as follows: AP English Language/Literature (yes, both), AP European History, Student Aide for my AP Euro teacher, Science Research, Statistics and Probability, and both Sociology courses which of course has to change.)
