My senior year begins...

School started two weeks ago.. and Oh-my-gosh!!.. have I had my set of ups and downs. On my first day I already had my first problem. I hadn't read the books for summer reading, well that's not totally true. I read the boring one. You know the classic one, The Odyssey. All English teachers, since the beginning of time, rave about and claim it's the greatest since the beginning of literature. Explain to me why all English teachers require you to read books by dead people, most of whom's works were not published until they were dead?.. If the material was boring when they were alive, there's a good chance it will still be boring when there dead. Anyway, back to my first day. The other required reading book was the ROAD. If you haven't heard about it, it's definitely not a book that I would recommend. I've heard it makes Stephan King look like a nursery rhyme, not that I would know. I've never read it. I read the synopsis of it though and BOY! did it ever freak me out!! After lengthy conversations with my parents I switched out of AP Lit and into Honors English. Everyone and their next door neighbor thinks I'm out of my flippen mind, but at least my mind isn't contaminated. The other major upset in my week was my college search. My school really should offer a class on getting into college 101, or at least be courteous enough not to hoard the information. Get this... I had to go through TEN, yes TEN people, to get information on what a brag sheet is. I found out it's really not that complicated. What is complicated, however, is on-line classes. I'm taking algebra 1 for credit recovery and for my test I had to write an essay describing what I had learned in the chapter. Get this... I was being graded strongly on grammar use and punctuation!! Is it just me, or has the world totally gone flip side?... I'm really fed-up. Why am I learning grammar in a math class; horror in a literature class; not allowed to cook in a cooking class; and looking straight out of a 1950's film in my required attire of black smock and pearls for my senior year book pictures? You get my point? But that's high school.