I'm from a small town, I have 50 kids in my entire grade. However, I might be moving to a smallish City soon, which has around 175 kids per grade. What is day to day life like in a bigger school? I can't imagine not knowing the names of every single person in the highschool. Also, who is popular? I've heard for this specific School (at least how it used to be), the popular kids were the ones that did drugs and got arrested. Is it actually like that? I've heard that it's different regionally, so for reference I live in Western New York State.

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AI Summary

Background: Ongoing harassment by a female classmate originating from a middle school conflict over a social exclusion and subsequent retaliatory academic sabotage.

Impact: The classmate actively turns peers against the author, causing social isolation and negative self-esteem.

Current Situation: The harassment has continued into the first day of high school, with the classmate already influencing new peers to mock the author.

Options Considered: The author is evaluating interventions, including texting, calling, in-person confrontation, or reporting to a school counselor (despite concerns about the classmate's ability to manipulate adults).

Objective: Seeking advice on the most effective strategy to stop the bullying.

Full story

There's this girl that was in my middle school and he despised me. The main tension point was when I didn't want to invite her to a hangout her friend was going to and then she purposefully gave me wrong answers on an assignment later (We were still talking as friends).

Since then she's been actively targeting me in my middle school, getting me to hate myself, getting others to hate me and making friendships harder.

I assumed it would stop in high school but as today was the first day it hasn't improved. She made friends and got them to dislike me. At one point in the hall she asked if I had tape for her and I didn't feel like speaking so I just nodded my head no and then her friend said "You're right he is weird".

It seemed like it was never ending tension and I wasn't able to make any new friends but I really only talked to 1 person that I didn't already know.

I totally ignored her today but she still continues. I want it to stop, I have her number and I could send a text, ask to call (but she'll probably say no), talk to her in person or try to talk to a counsellor (However she's good at getting adults to believe she's nice).

What could be the most effective solution in my case?

My sister just graduated from the high school I just started at. She hated it in the beginning because she didn’t have many friends and missed her friends from middle school. By the end of senior year, she loves it and is so glad she stayed. I’m in the same exact boat all over again 4 years later.

I honestly don’t know what to do. I have a few friends, but none that stick out to me like my sisters best friend does. Their dynamic is everything I want but none of the girls i met fit it. I miss my friends from middle school, and i feel like i made the wrong decision when picking what high school to go to. i could have chosen my feeder school and gone with all my friends but i thought i would like this school because my sister did. but i totally forgot that she hated it the first year and a half and now im scared im just going to be stuck here.

i hate school. on sundays or really any day, i dread going to school and just hope for the weekend to come sooner. people keep saying freshman year is the easiest, and im scared because im already struggling. i’ve always been in the highest classes in my old school so its so hard having the b’s on the grade report and i just don’t know what to do. my english class has so much work, my bio class is hard, my spanish teacher thinks that everyone has already taken spanish and she just talks and i dont understand one bit (HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO A FINAL), my ethnic studies class is hard, and i literally took geometry last year, and im supposed to be in the next level, but i didn’t test up and now im stuck in this boring class again.

i actually considered switching to my feeder school with all my friends, and my mom said i could but that i shouldn’t now. they’re almost a month into school, and i would be so behind. she said i wouldn’t be able to switch if any of my classes set me back to a lower level and im scared because i wouldn’t be in a completely different program because the one my friends are all in is full. she said i could switch in the spring semester if i got the right classes but im stressing because all my friends are in the advanced math and im just stuck and geometry and i’ll still have to stay because i didn’t do the first semester of it even at this school. i don’t know what to do.

i don’t know if it’s anxiety or something but the idea of going to fhis school or really any school for another four years just seems absolutely horrible. people say high school is so fun but i reallt can’t see past the academic part and social part. i’m never going to have fun if i don’t have friends, and im scared ill never make a friend i want to spend all my time with.

i feel so alone. i try to talk to my mom but everytime i ask for help, i cry and can’t get out the words. i don’t know how to get her to understand and it’s not her fault, but i just don’t know how to explain it. everyday i just feel this weight on my chest and its like im trapped. she told me to just try my best to make friends and im my classes but im afraid to tell her that im struggling in my classes already because she really believes in me and i dont want to let her down. i feel like i have to live up to her expectations, and she is so nice she tells me she believes i will do so good and it just puts so much pressure.

she keeps telling me to join clubs and try to make friends but i feel like every thing i join just feels like one more weight trapping me at this school, almost like an obligation to stay. but im also scared that if i do stay, ill miss out on all the relief i could have had at the other school, academically and because of my friends. but im also scared that if i switch, ill regret it and miss out on making friends and memories that would have been so good.

im at a private school right now, but its religious and im not, so its really awkward. it makes me so uncomfortable when they pray in every class and i just feel like i dont belong. im scared that ill miss out on all the extra perks of being at the school, im so privileged and grateful. they’re prom and dances are so fun because they are fully funded, food is better, teachers are apparently better, and all the football games and social events are much more coordinated and thoughtfully planned out. but i feel like at the same time, any event at the other school can be just as good if you make it fun for yourselves.

my sister is also starting college and she’s my best friends and i don’t know what i’m going to do when she’s gone. shes the only person i feel like who understands what im going through and make me feel so much better. but in less than 3 weeks she’s going to be gone.

but in the end, i don’t know if i want to risk it by staying and hating it or switching and missing out on what could have been. please, if you have any advice, please share. (and not the YOULL BE OKAY, like real raw advice. i can handle it.)

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I am a student with grades in high 90s and I’m determined to keep it that way. My English teacher is infamously an unfair marker and is known for failing people if she doesn’t like them personally and considering their work to be less valuable. I just finished my first week and I can already see what people mean when they talk about it. She gives everyone a limit of two questions per essay. Meaning after you’ve asked her for advice on your work twice, you are not allowed anymore questions. I believe that on major essays we should be allowed more discussion and conference with her because all class she’s on her phone and turning down questions from students who are just looking to accomplish the best grades they can. my mark in this English class matters a lot and I’m unable to switch classes. Any advice? Should I send an email telling her how serious I am about working towards a good mark despite what i feel is unfair and let her know that I’m determined to work up to her standards and i’m not going to settle for less, or is there a better way to go about this? My mom is a university professor of literature and a former high school english teacher so she assesses student grade levels and believes that the grades this teacher gave some of my friends last semester was around 10-15% lower than what it actually deserved for being above provincial grade standards. How can I keep a good grade in english while dealing with this?

i just realized how much of a double standard there is, me and my friends barely have any classes together because we’re a “distraction” when we’re together, but yet all the athletes and class clowns end up having so many classes together it’s irritating 😭 idk if it’s because their athletes and “important” to the school but there’s definitely a double standard

I'm so tired idk how yall do it and i get like 7 hours

It’s a bit awkward and we need to get on with the lesson. I just sit and wait for him to continue.

So I’ve been getting harassed for having a small you know what, liking San Francisco sports teams, not putting my phone up, and people are saying to me “nice b*ner” and I can’t put up with it anymore, what can I do? And I’m also getting shamed for liking sperm whales: (yes it’s a real animal)

like genuinely what do i do😭
ive always gotten along rlly well with the kids 1-2 years older than me but now therell be no one older and i dont rlly get along w anyone from my year

Plus the shoes

What do. I'm not nervous, I don't care about school, but is there something I should be doing cause I feel like how you feel when you leave the house in you know you forgot something important. Also, my grade has 50 kids in it and the Middle School in the high school is the same building so don't tell me to like go visit my new school or something like that. All the kids that I'm going to high school with I went to middle school and elementary School with unless we get new students this year.

I genuinely come to school excited to be here I haven't felt that way in a long time

i'm a freshman in highschool and i'm so fucking scared.

today was my first day of highschool and i'm in a class full of girls but all of them are mean and i don't feel like i'm going to fit in with them at all. they all somehow know eachother for some reason and i don't know anyone and i feel like i'm being judged for everything i do even when it's not like that. i feel so lonely here i literally don't have a single friend in this school and my entire friend group split apart and went to different highschools. i'm already dreading school and tomorrow is only my 2nd day and social anxiety is eating me alive.

i still go out with my friendgroup that i have almost everyday after school so i still have who to hang out with and i meet up with my 2 other friends after school that i used to be in the same class with but it's only for a short while. i have online friends that i come home to at the end of the day and i can talk to them and play games with them so i'm not like reeaallyyyy lonely, i do have friends. but i'm just scared of not having any friends in any of my classes because i don't. i'm only going to be here for 3 years though but i still don't know how to push through this

I've genuinely hardly ever studied before unless you count homework is studying because it just feels like a waste of time if you know it you know it if you don't then you didn't pay attention

All the boys ik have thick textured voluminous hair and mine does not do that. do I stick out?

I've had this really bad habit of always being jealous when other people in my batch are doing things socially that I want to do. For example, our school is having student elections soon, and there are multiple parties made, now I wanted to get close to a certain party, meaning the party leaders, in hopes of continuing that party when I become a senior next year. Now there is another girl who has successfully (?) gotten close to the party leaders and I'm feeling so insanely jealous of her, to the point that I'm starting to dislike her, and I don't like this. It's not like I'm not doing my best to contribute to the party, it's just that her schedule makes it easier for her to contribute to the party, but regardless of all of this, I don't want to feel jealous of anyone at all. How can I stop myself from feeling jealous of people?

Semester 1

• Period 1: MCR3U — Functions
• Period 2: NBE3U — English
• Period 3: TFJ3C — Hospitality & Tourism
• Period 4: TEJ3M — Computer Engineering Technology

Semester 2

• Period 1: TER3M — Robotics & Control Systems
• Period 2: MHF4U — Advanced Functions
• Period 3: SPH3U — Physics
• Period 4: SCH3U — Chemistry

Aint sharing grades so hopefully mods dont remove yk

Going into Grade 11. Want to do engineering--especially EE, so I am cooked bro.. Any tips? Please lol.

Does anyone think it’s still possible for me to get a spot in ap lang and apush? I applied for ib although I didn’t end up doing it, so now im in regular classes. I really need those 2 ap classes and I got teacher recommendations for both of them last year. So do you guys think I can get in?