Maybe it was my catholic education, but the honor students at my HS were total nerds, had no sense of humor and I often think they stilll haven't gotten laid. You know what honor students really end up doing, despite their level of academic acheivment? (at least the ones I went to school with) They end up working for a huge company at some mid-level managment position, because I can honestly tell you I didn't get where I was through 'book-learnin'. The upper managment of any big American company is all about personalities at the after-work cocktail lounge, and coming up with an underhaned deal that screws someone over. That's just not the type of smarts that a straight-laced, pocket-protecting kid is going to acheive.
A bit of Clarification.
By Honor Student, I was not talking about an "honor roll" or whatever.
At my school, and at all the other schools in my City (there are 6) They have an advanced program. At my school it means to stay in it, You must keep a 3.0 (I believe...), take 2 AP (literally college level Classes) and recieve no D's.
Yeah, in my high school, there are 4 levels of education: remedial, normal, honours, and challenge, and in that order is lowest to highest. Each one is seperated into different classes. Honours are basically the kids who have average intelligence but work hard (and probably cheat) so that they can get into university, and challenge are like those honours students Captn. was talking about. In honours, (i've been told) they rip through the curriculum in half the semester, then go over the stuff in massive detail over and over and over and .....anyways. Challenge is basically doing the grade up in all of your classes. And you have to take a test to get in. And they only let in 60 people. And everyone is a geek.
Funny thing is, everyone (and I mean everyone) says "Oh yeah, I could have gotten into challenge if i wanted to, but I was to lazy to apply". Then all the honours students all say "Oh, hey are you busy this weekend? I'm not, we're done for the year already."
They had something similar to that in the elementary and middle schools I went to, and I was in it. So when I was 11 years old and in 6th grade, I was doing stuff that most people learned as freshman in high school. It was hard, and only a few people were in it (I think about 15-20 in each grade, tops).
Joke:
Challenge kid 1:"Hey, what did you get on the math test? I thought it was hard."
Challenge kid 2:"I did okay..."
Challenge kid 3:"Come on, just say it"
Ck2:"148/150..."
Ck4:"WHAT!!!"
Ck's 1,3 and 4 burst out laughing
Ck1:"How could you fail so badly!!!HAHAHHAH"
Ck3:"Oh man, when you said you did okay, I thought you meant you only got perfect!!AHAHAHAH"
Sound familiar Lana?
At my school, they have basically three different programs—IHS (international high school...), regular, and honors. IHS is supposed to be the "hard" program where you work your ass off in exchange for learning the meaning of life or something. It's in a part of town where there are rich people and working-class people, and working-class hippies. The rich people and hippies typically put their kids into IHS because, in the case of the rich people, they think it'll get them into Harvard, and, in the case of the hippies, they want their kids to learn about obscure religions in India.
The reality is that junior year in IHS is the only one that's actually difficult, and regular program students have to take a social studies class called "Global Studies" freshman year anyways.
The honors classes are actually hard though, and no in terms of "I'm going to assign you a shitload of homework, and you don't have to do well, as long as you try." It's funny though, because in 9th and 10th grade, the work was either not as difficult, or there wasn't as much of it, as in middle school... 😑
Anyways, to answer the original question, the IHS students are the ones who seem to line up with the honor students in Tpt's school. But probably just because most IHS students are spoiled rich kids who drive SUVs to school.
The students who take honors classes (I am one of them...) are sort of nerdy, but more cool nerdy than pocket protector nerdy. Meaning, they can rattle off lines from Shakespeare plays like bullets from an SMG and then go chill wit' dey balla-ass homies. 😎 Everybody tends to be more accepting of the "weirdos" here though.
Tpt, do you live in a rich neighborhood?
Originally posted by Darth Revan
At my school, they have basically three different programs—IHS (international high school...), regular, and honors. IHS is supposed to be the "hard" program where you work your ass off in exchange for learning the meaning of life or something. It's in a part of town where there are rich people and working-class people, and working-class hippies. The rich people and hippies typically put their kids into IHS because, in the case of the rich people, they think it'll get them into Harvard, and, in the case of the hippies, they want their kids to learn about obscure religions in India.The reality is that junior year in IHS is the only one that's actually difficult, and regular program students have to take a social studies class called "Global Studies" freshman year anyways.
The honors classes are actually hard though, and no in terms of "I'm going to assign you a shitload of homework, and you don't have to do well, as long as you try." It's funny though, because in 9th and 10th grade, the work was either not as difficult, or there wasn't as much of it, as in middle school... 😑
Anyways, to answer the original question, the IHS students are the ones who seem to line up with the honor students in Tpt's school. But probably just because most IHS students are spoiled rich kids who drive SUVs to school.
The students who take honors classes (I am one of them...) are sort of nerdy, but more cool nerdy than pocket protector nerdy. Meaning, they can rattle off lines from Shakespeare plays like bullets from an SMG and then go chill wit' dey balla-ass homies. 😎 Everybody tends to be more accepting of the "weirdos" here though.
Tpt, do you live in a rich neighborhood?
Shakespeare droolio