I, as well as many other people at York
High School, am pissed off. I'm pissed off that I can't have my coffee
in the classroom. I'm pissed off that I don't get to go in the same door that the
teachers get to go to. I'm pissed off that I don't have a real locker
room and that I have to change in the hallways before I go out to track practice.
Then you can go to the rules of the school. Again, I am very angry. I'm pissed off that if a girls, "midriff" is showing, that she has to cover up. I'm pissed off kids can't wear chain necklaces. I'm pissed off that I can't bring food into my commons area. I'm pissed off that the math lab teachers, the librarians, the Athletic director, and the principal, are always coming up with rules that I just know are for the soul purpose of pissing me off. Spending all this time being pissed off got me thinking. My life in school is brutal. I mean, look at me, I'm an upper middle class white boy who lives in a county that is in the top 7 of the whole U.S. of A in wealth. I live in a community where the taxpayers spent a combine 70 million dollars to build me a brand new school, and it is beautiful. We have a new cafeteria, anew commons area with plants and comfortable chairs. We have a T.V. in every single room, and you can't count the number of computers that we have. The library is brand new and has ROCKING CHAIRS! (If you have not yet sat in the rocking chairs at the library, I highly recommend it.) We have classes such as silk screening and auto-tech and cartooning and coming soon, WYRK Today. I talked with my cousin who goes to Oak Park River Forest, and to his knowledge they don't have nearly as many options for classes that we do. But damn, my life when I walk into York is just terrible. (In case you can't tell, that was sarcasm) The point I am trying to make here is that there aren't too many people that love going to York, but I guarantee you that whatever high school that you went to, you could find something to complain about. Its school is general that isn't so fun, not our school specifically. But high school is not about how mean the librarians are, (and yes they are horrible, horrible people.) It's not about a lot of the dumb rules that our school has; and yes there are a lot of dumb rules. It's about all of the good things we have and when I weigh the great things about York to the bad things about York, the great ones outweigh them by so much more. Our new school is awesome, and if you only look at the bad things about it, you are never going to appreciate all of the good things. I'm not saying that we should just ignore the bad things about our school, but don't let them bring you down. I only have a little more than a year left in my high school career, and then I'm all done. To everyone that reads this I strongly encourage you to not let the things you don't like bring you down, let's enjoy high school as much as we can. You can call me new school, or a kiss ass to York, but I can't think of any other school that I would rather attend. |