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Today was registration day and the new school year starts off with a whimper. I really dont understand the half day stuff. Everybody I talk to is going off to college and here I am still stuck in HS. Next year is going to be different for sure. Hope everybody had a great summer.
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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Hey Curtis!
I had a good summer thanks for asking^_^ But it's gonna be Winter soon.. Oh joy. *laughs* How's your summer been?
~Josh~
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Love who you want to.
~Josh~
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marc
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Curtis wrote:
> Today was registration day and the new school year starts off with a whimper. I really dont understand the half day stuff. Everybody I talk to is going off to college and here I am still stuck in HS. Next year is going to be different for sure. Hope everybody had a great summer.
Were you expecting a brass band? Even college semisters begin with a slow build up... that usually passes in about a week or two...
Half day? I believe it is 12 hours at last count.
If all you talk to is going off to college, then you need to expand your horizons.
Each year is different.... if they were all the same there wouldnt be much reason to do too many of them.
Yup.... I had a wonderful summer.... much better than last... not as good as next though.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Now please do not immediately jump up and bite me. I have a comment for you to mull over, consider, cogitate over and come to a conclusion about.
I read your post in passing, just catching up. I didn't read it in depth, I skimmed it. The thing is, at least a part of it seemed to be able to be interpreted as derogatory.
Now I am your age, pretty much, and I know we have decades more experience of life than Curtis, and I know that he is of an age when everything should feel new and wonderful and exciting. And experience shows us that nothing is exciting unless you make it exciting.
Yes, school can start slow. Yes, one needs more friends than those just off to college. So much of what you say is a patent truth. And no brass bands ever played at the start of a school year.
But it felt derogatory. What I mean is, I don't think it felt as you would have wished a message to you should be expressed.
And yet I do not think that was your intention when writing a note to Curtis. I think it was a genuinely friendly note, perhaps slightly mis-spoken. So I wanted to tell you that I had noticed it and ask you to think about it.
[Updated on: Tue, 12 August 2008 15:16]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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I did think aboiut it.
It is exactly as I wrote it.
If any errant interpretation comes of it then it is in the mind of the reader, not the writer.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Yeah Curt I do totally agree with you about highschool
i only need 7.7 credits and I cant graduate early cuz my school is mandatory to take four years what a crock of crap
My summer is pretty good
you know the details
you got my support kiddo
Im going into my junior year and this one is gonna be big for the GSA including a murder mystery written by me
I'm up for input on that
Though it is good to get back into the groove of things keeps you busy yah know my man? something to keep you busy
and yah still got me of course to talk to
Jordan
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Dear Curt and Jordan,
I only made average grades in high school. I know I could have done way better if I'd applied myself. That's why I respect you two for getting good grades and working towards your futures.
Curt, perhaps having fewer friends left in your last year of high school will make it easier to prepare yourself for next year - to get the grades you need to make college a bit easier. And yes, next year you get to join your friends.
And Jordan, your courage never ceases to amaze me. Pressing forward in your leadership in the GSA in a school and small town that is basically so homophobic. Good on you.
It's tough being gay youth. But you are both working towards a future where you can pick where you live and who your friends are. Your futures can be just as bright and promising as the efforts you put into them. And from the efforts I've seen, your futures are promising indeed.
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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marc
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Paul Schroder wrote:
> It's tough being gay youth. But you are both working towards a future where you can pick where you live and who your friends are. Your futures can be just as bright and promising as the efforts you put into them. And from the efforts I've seen, your futures are promising indeed.
And how is this any different then being gay at any other time?
Everyone has the choice of where to live and who they wish to befriend... or not for that matter.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Marc wrote:
>Everyone has the choice of where to live and who they wish to befriend... or not for that matter.
The choice of where to live isn't ours to make when we are young. We live with our parents. So, no, not everyone has that choice of where to live. As an adult it is certainly true.
Friendships? Fear of being ostracized at school and their 'straight' communities hold many younger people back from making friends with some of the more obvious 'out' kids. Especially when they see how those kids are treated.
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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Paul beat me to it and I won't repeat what he said. He is certainly correct in that the choices when we are young are not as broad as later in life.
JimB
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Good luck with the school year, Curtis -- at the time a year seems forever, but in retrospect it won't seem all that long.
In my case, in some ways school (in the British sense, i.e. education until the age of 18 ) was absolutely awful (some of the worst experiences of my life, bar none, happened while I was at school), and I enjoyed other parts, but I don't think I ever realised while I was there how much I took it for granted. It was only in the last few weeks of my final term that I appreciated some of the value of the experience, and in some ways you can only appreciate it all (the good and the bad) in retrospect by contrasting it with the 'real world'. So -- even if it's boring or irrelevant, make the most you can out of it, so that you can then look back one day and feel the year wasn't wasted. The same applies for university, incidentally -- it took me longer than it should have to discover that you get out what you put in!
Over here schools don't start again until the beginning of September. Out of interest, when does your summer holiday start? When do terms run from and to in America?
David
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Deej,
depends on the district and school in question
i know mine starts september second lets out june 13 or 14
for term lengths i have no clue
i'd have to check the website
which im dis inclined to do{too lazy}
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marc
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No Paul.... We all did not live with our parents.
And friendships.... well, we know how that goes dont we.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Hey, Curtis. I hope the new school year goes well for you.
Pay not the slightest bit of attention to all the acidic comments we old geezers make about going back to school. Most of us can't even remember back that far!
One thing, though, for you to think about: I DO remember my time in high school (a few million years ago) - and I remember it with pleasure. I was lucky to go to a great school with great teachers. In a few years time you may look back and think the same about your school.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Hi Curtis,
probably the most different point of view since I come from Central Europe...
I am not sure about the details of US education system, but did you think about off-school activities (are all the sports in US held at schools, I mean like school teams?)? From my personal experience those are the places where you usually make best friendships and if you find worthy people it is even possible to come out to them... I came out to few of my friends in my off-school activities and it turned out to make the friendships even stronger and my trust has not been betrayed so far. The truth is, that the catholic church or whatever such organisation has little power in Slovakia and most of the people claim to be atheists (including me).
Wish you well in the upcoming year.
F.
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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