I dont know

Then you're younger than me? Huh, you always seemed older...

naw im younger, just a normal 13 year old 8th grader

A lot of people in here seem older than they are.
WHOOT! GO SOPHOMORES!
You guys start school really early (well early for me at least) My school year doesn't start until Friday August 26.

for me high schools starts in year 8 and ends in year 12. we dont have freshman and all that.
so now 2 what i want to know. what year is freshman.

At my school high school goes from 9-12 grade, and freshman is 9th grade, then sophomores, juniors, and lastly seniors.

I'm going into 11th grade a.k.a. a junior. ^^

On Sept. 6th, I will be in 10th grade.

ok now this makes sense thank you

In just a couple weeks, I'm gonna be a junior in high school.

Whoa, I'm like 10 years older than most of the people around here.

I've got an actual office job, full-time. That still blows my mind. Seriously though, being an adult is cool and a real headache at times.

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On a side note, I think that this wide range of ages you find on message boards is one of the cool things about the internet. It's a level playing field. Age, sex, race, and other cultural and geographical differences don't matter. The only important things are your ideas and how well you express them. So, the 12-year-old boy in Canada and the 25-year-old man in the US and the 40-year-old woman in England are all interacting on the same level. True democracy in action!

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On another side note, I'm considering going back to school to finally get my teaching certification so that I could teach high school English. So, in a couple of years, I could be teaching some of you.

That really blows my mind.

Peace,
Joe J.

One question: Where do you reside in? Aka Where do you live?

If you live in Southern California, in San Berandino County, You're probably going to teach me...

Illinois.

But, I meant hypothetically I could be teaching some of you. The odds are against me teaching anyone I meet on the internet.

And I promise I'd be the cool teacher you'd actually like. Heck, I like FMA. (I also like Shakespeare. What can I say? I have varied tastes and an open mind.)

Peace,
Joe J.

whee r u going to teach and what grade?i am going into 8th.

BTW, Joe J, you can always add the few last lines in your siggie.

Also, is your avy a Chomp? Chomps=Awesomeness! ( That's not even a word! I'm saying this in front of a teacher!) *slaps hand* bad junkie! bad junkie!*

bad bad junkie.what grade are you going into junkie?

I'm going to 7th.

Surprised?

no not really.i think u will like 7th grade.it was a fun year for me.no i get to be the oldest grade in my school and it will be even more fun.so junkie you r 12 or 13?

Don't know when or where I'll teach, but I know someday I'll do it.

I already have most of my certification classes finished. I just need one or two more semesters at college and half a year of student teaching. Before that, I'm hoping to get my life in order, maybe mature a bit more (but not too much).

As it is right now, I'm making money at a decent job that requires me to use my language skills. I'm getting used to adulthood: bills, work, social life...

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It'll be very cool to be on the other side of the classroom. But, I have a little secret for you all: teachers have to do more learning than their students do. You have to master your subject to teach it well, which means learning all you can about it. Considering that the world is constantly changing, teachers have to be constantly learning to keep up with it. What's more, every semester they have to get to know a hundred more students. That's a hundred more names, a hundred more individual personalities, a hundred more new "authors" to read.

You just show up to class and get ready for homework. Teachers have to come up with homework assignments. They have to plan out every minute of their lessons. They have to grade all those tests and papers you hand into them. Then, there are the extra duties they have to attend to, like coaching sports or monitoring dances. They have to do these things, even if they'd rather not. If they don't do them, they don't get evaluated well, and they don't get paid as well.

Some teachers are jerks, and some are incompetent. Most of them really do care about what they do, otherwise they'd have jobs that actually paid them a fair wage for all the work that they do.

I guess my point is treat your teachers well. For the most part, they're trying to help you.

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Wow, I got off on a rant there. I'll try to keep off the soapbox from now on.

Oh, and about the avatar and the signature... I just used one of the prefab avatars from the site. I thought it looked better than a blank space. And, I sign "Peace," to all my nonprofessional letters for spiritual reasons. Think of it like spinning a prayer wheel. Not that I'm a practicing Buddhist. I just like the idea of making a spritual contribution to the world through a repeated action. In my case, I type "peace."

So...

Peace,
Joe J.

I am in 10th grade.

Same as what your sig says here, but over summer break I grew like 3 inches so I'll look down on most of them and say"Whose small now?!" And then I'll squash them and smush them all!.... whoops got a bit over the top now!

Less than a month till I am in grade 11

I'm in the 7th grade and I'm 12 years old.

I just turned 12 this year in April.


Woo! Someone my age! *pops confetti*

Aaah you're lucky!! I've always been the smallest in my class, and they always make fun of that ;-; I AM GONNA KILL THEM NEXT TIME!!!!!!!!!
*ahem* sorry about my temper XD
I'd like to see your classmates faces if you grew taller than them! ROFL

I'm going to be in 8th grade this year.

That would be halarious!
So, how old are you anyway? 15?

I'm in 12th and today was my first day back to school it feels weird to be a senior for some reason.

@Azura Elric- Yeah, my sister said the same thing last year, now she's saying it's weird to be in college.

I stick with what I said before... You people start school really early.....WEll at least you don't start on a Friday like I do....

im goin into 11th grade

I'm gonna be a happy high school freshman in 4 weeks. ^^

school starts in 2 days, i'll be a freshman at AMCHS

Well I'm going to start 8th grade in september but I would be in 9th grade if I didn't dissade to come here to the USA.

starting sophmore year of high school. poo, that's not gonna be fun.

going into 8th grade.

I'm in 8th! im on top off the worrrllllld! well the school at least! it sux being in the 1st yr of a school(k, 6th, 9th)

Going to be in 9th grade. Probably going spend this year in the library again. That, or getting bugged by preps again.

I'll be in 8th grade in like one week.

Sophomore year SUCKS! (I was such a deliquent that year...referrals, tons of absences, talking back to teachers, skipping classes, bad grades, etc)

well since the 10th of August, i've been in the 8th grade

I agree, I hated Sophomore year. I mean, you're already bored of high school now that you've already done a year, and you realize that you still have three years to go. Plus, I took honors math. BAD CHOICE. I failed so many tests, but I managed to pull off a C both semesters.

Man! It sux the summers already over! I didnt even hook up with a guy!

Preps bug you ? wow, preps here at the HS are like really nice, at least most of them are....

Yeah. They bug me alot. Not intentionally (except for a couple of them). Others just talk alot about nothing.

Im going on to my victory lap (aka-second year of grade 12). I got my diploma and everything, i just want to go to university and my marks say I don't.

Going to grade 8

8th, I'm finally at top of the school again. 6th grade sucked everyones like "Hi little 6th grader"

um wtf? you're like one or two years older than me

Freshman year.

of wut middle? high? college?

Second year university student In Brescia (Italy )