My school schedule is very messed up for the fourth year in a row and it's incredibly stressful and frustrating

This always gets me really anxious. My school is horrible at scheduling, and since my life is basically school, I like taking classes I enjoy (and I'm the kind of nerd who actually enjoys most subjects...except math, which I think I'm almost incapable of comprehending). For some reason, the classes are always very inflexible and I am always the first person to be dropped. Last year, this resulted in me becoming rather depressed due to not being able to take Concert Choir (choir was my absolute passion, since I've been a musician since elementary school and I don't have enough time outside of school to join a public choir, so my voice ended up atrophying terribly). This year, I was hoping to take Autoshop (I don't know anything about cars and I'm friends with the teacher, so I was very excited about that), AP Literature, Civics/Economics, Choir, Yurok 3, and possibly Guitar 2 (but the last class was up for debate). What I ended up getting is Ap Lit., Yurok 3, Civics/Econ., Advanced Accounting (a class I already took last year), and Jewelry 1 (which I don't want to take due to the facts that I've essentially already learned the things covered in it outside of school anyway, and the teacher is incredibly rude and mean-spirited, which I do not say lightly about teachers. I know this because I had an art class with her as the teacher in my Freshman year). I'm missing a class period, too, which is terrible for me, as it means I miss out on having a class in order to be assigned to some random teacher as a TA (a job I thoroughly Do Not Want! I want to learn things, this is the last year I get to do that for free!). And this terrible schedule is apparently not set to change except Jewelry is getting swapped for Pottery (another class I've already taken), since I asked my counselor nicely if I could perhaps not take Jewelry (she also said that my other classes likely won't be changing). This happens every year and I end up having to fight tooth and nail against the buerocracy of the school to fix it (resulting in changing classes each day for a solid week, which means I don't get school supplies until my second week of school/I'm behind on work, since the syllabus is different from class to class). I wish for once the school was capable of basic planning, because this is a stressful, confusing, and overall pointless hassle that I have to go through every year. I thought I was done with this bullshit. Ugh...I guess I'll just stew angrily about it while I do my summer homework. Maybe when I get to college, the main annoyance will be the mountain of debt instead of shitty scheduling.

Submitted August 15, 2019 at 03:17AM by EggeLegge https://ift.tt/33DWRw3