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Water polo is rugby played in the water, essentially. 

It's quite possibly the most violent game available to play in high school.  You're trying to get a ball into a goal across the pool.  Almost everything is legal, including breaking bones (assuming the ref doesn't see who exactly did it) and they're known for pulling swimsuits off and/or clawing with specially-grown toenails.

It requires that you be in excellent shape (to swim quickly and be strong enough to try to drown people) and is considered kind of the academic's football (well, at least it was in my school).

It is true that alot of students in my school just don't give a poop (I'd say about 1/4 of them could not care less about school).

And off to school I go.    

I would consider myself (and so would some others...) as a person that doesn't really give a poop about school, but I still do better than 90+% of the people in my grade, according to my GPA...

Ah the public school system.. I too was victim

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Anyway, interesting subject here. I went to school in PA as an exchange student for one year. It was a private school and people told me it was the toughest school in the county.
It was nothing compared to my German school. We *never* get multiple choice or matching tests.
The NG survey was ridiculously easy in my opinion. Did they get the multiple choice as well?

Alright, just to make sure it's working.

I went to school in PA, maybe there is a difference between states in how tests are set up. It's right, we often have to take tests over a period of several hours. I never had a 6-hour one, but 4 hours is quite normal. You get bad cramps in your hands after those.
I'm ususally pretty bad at math, since I often get stuck halfway in problems. But our Calculus teacher in PA allowed us to ask her questions during tests  , so I got mostly As.

No - most high schools only have up to Calc 2.  I took calc 3 at my local JC.

Well, allow me to rephrase: Calc 2 is an AP Test, so it can be offered.  I don't think there's any way to get college credit for Calc 3 if you take it in a high school.

And my school was hideously underfunded (and all funds went towards the new staff work room anyway) so I have no idea how we got Calc 2. 

Yes, same with our school.  We have four gyms, 2 of which are 4 feet short of NBA size, a 5 million dollar theater being built, we even have big screen TVs in all the socials and english classrooms, and a few others.  Plus standard TV's in every classroom, and about every 100 feet in the hallways, which display video announcements, etc.  But the textbooks in my socials class are older than the students.  My teacher handed them out to us, and said "take them home, and don't bother bringing them to class.  We're never going to use them."  Students often ask why we can afford big screen TVs, but not textbooks.  He said "because TVs look good to the parents.  Nobody every sees the textbooks."  So yeah, it's all about image, not about quality.

Well, for us, we also benefit from the magic of POWERPOINT.  Oh, and we also wasted around 120 K on this stupid safari system, basically it's about a hundred VCR's in the library, networked to the TVs throughout the school.  Unfortunately, it has no benefits to just having a VCR for every TV (which would have been much cheaper BTW), but actually rarely works, so most teachers just stop watching videos in class because they waste most of the class having people like me and the other student techs come in and get the goddamned things to work.  But it looks good  Now our school can say they have "state of the art technology everywhere" even though the computer labs have under $200 creme de la crap P2s, ranging from 66 MHz to 133 MHz.  We even have a "graphics lab"  but it's only called that because they're the only ones with machines able to open photoshop.  Although it is almost unusable on them.  But everyone just assumes the computers are nice, because our school is "state of the art".

They're very nice - but as soon as I post this, I won't be Lord anymore.  I should be "Lady" anyway. 

And guys, don't complain about TVs and such going to waste.  At least your school has technology.  When I left (last year), we were still running primarily on 486s.  The teachers get Gateways with P3s and occasionally you can find a decent student computer.

It really ought to be illegal to take grant money and use it to wipe out 4 classrooms to put in a teacher workroom and then complain that (1) we don't have enough money and (2) we don't have enough classrooms and on top of it, turn the problem into a bond issue, raising everybody's property taxes for the next 20 years.   

Education spending seems to be neglected all over the world.
Well almost, it seems that many northern countries such as Sweden and Norway are doing quite good in those areas.

Maybe they dont have a teachers union, one could only hope.

Here in Germany, teachers have the status of government officials, which means it's very hard to fire them 

Where are you, Styer?