High School

People swear students going to school is the best way they can become someone important in life, but is it really? The way our school system is set up doesn’t help a lot on what we want to become when we grow up. School is stressful. That’s the simplest way a teenager can describe it. Since I started high school, I’ve spent my afternoon finishing homework and my nights crying because it’s too much.
 Students watch movies and think, “Oh, high school’s fun! I can’t wait to go to high school, I’m going to be popular and have a lot of friends!” Little do they know, in high school, you don’t care if you have friends or not. In high school, you’re not worried on who you’re going to eat lunch with today. In high school, you’re worries about keeping your grades high. In high school, you’re worries about the essay that’s do Friday and you haven’t even completed. In high school, you’re just worried about graduating.
 I remember when I was a freshman, I felt cool. I’d go to my little brother and say, “High school is great, you’re going to love it!” and now I go to him and say, “Enjoy middle school because high school is hell.”
 The beginning of my freshman year, I didn’t care about anything, I just wanted to have fun like any other basic freshman, but when the second semester came around and I saw I didn’t get credit for a class because I was slacking it, I realized, high school is not supposed to be fun.
 School is stressful. I have a lower than a 92 in one of my classes and I go crying to my mom because I can’t pick it up. It’s gotten to the point where I get one hour of sleep to make sure I pick up that grade. A lot of students tell me, “It’s still an A, I have worse grades,” but what they don’t know is that I don’t have money to go to college. I need my grades to be 95’s or higher to be able to go to the college I want to go to.
 I understand how most of the kids don’t care about school because it’s not going to take them anywhere, and I agree. The things they teach us in school, most of us aren’t going to need them for what we want to be when we’re older. We don’t even learn anything in school anymore. Nowadays, school is more about getting good grades and making sure you get your diploma, than actually learning something.