It is basic high school knowledge that freshman start at the bottom. You have to earn the priviledges of being the top bananas that seniors are. It makes you look forward to progressing through. If you throw all the luxuries at freshman and slowly strip them away as they go through school, well, is that very motivating?

Don’t you just love being threatened to either be caged or die? You just gotta love existence

And then you prestige from Senior and become a Freshman at uni.

Nothing about High School is motivating. The only motivation for not dropping out is not knowing yet what you'd do with your future without even a High School diploma. In a grand majority of schools Freshman do begin at the bottom of the hierarchy, not even just socially but with regards to respect from teachers and such, as they don't know any of the faculty. Some people will have a shitty time no matter what is done. Call me Benjamin but a change in circumstances doesn't really make life any better. If you hate it you hate it.


"but whhyyyyyy are high-school drop out rates so high? What could pOsSiBlY cause it?"

@That Guy Bob and also school being terrible

inner city poverty and gang influences and horrible family dynamics

The Principal "Could it be me...? Nah, it's the children who are wrong."

The America education system truly the finest in the world I mean they only import 80% of their scientists.

Got my GED in like a month after I dropped out as a freshman.

@bread bread
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1q111...

Just in case you hadn't heard.

Single motherhood, lack of masculine remodels.


Makes me appreciate my school.
1. Teachers have the textbooks and hand them out themselves.
2. Planners are given.
3. Lockers are assigned and all in great condition.
3a. Small school so don''t have to worry about being late because of locker location.
4. Parent pick-up area clear of any and all parking spots.

Same here, but this conclusion still Hella true

At core. School sucks. There's nothing you can do about it.

Lemons Creepily sounds a bit like my school.


1. School started on August 10.
2. The school library became incompetent and had problems getting Emp his textbooks.
3. Ran out of planners on Day 2.
4. Nearly all of the lockers had been taken by the extra Freshman kids.
5. The locker he got was absolutely disgusting.
6. His locker leaked.
7. One of his books was waterlogged due to a leakage.
8. His car had been blocked by the carpool lane.
9. The Principal told him that this change was permanent.
10. The school treated him like garbage.
11. He was at IB!!!!!
12. No matter how well he did, nobody would ever notice.

@Low Tier Trash I didn’t even realize there was such a thing as a crayon sharpener.

@Sebastian Almanza So does that mean in Kindergarten,the kids broke all 256 of his crayons and his crayon sharpener?

Azure Mapping <br>One for every grade he suffered through

Azure Mapping
One for every grade he suffered through


When I was a freshman, I thought it was unfair that upperclassmen got treated better.

Now I'm a senior, and I completely understand.


That is so true. You could have spent so much time actually enjoying life but they trap you in a box for 7 hours a day every weekday and you rarely go outside. You spend basically 80% of your childhood locked up studying things that you will immediately forget afterwards. And to think that when you are an adult you will actually lock back at your childhood and wish you could have that time back.

ThatOneGuy and people don't get jobs after they drop out of college not because they aren't good, just because they don't have that arbitrary degree. The most valuable thing about a degree is the degree itself

When I actually started getting straight A's in school, I felt accomplishment for a while but it faded away. I had set this new standard for myself that I absolutely had to maintain in order to respect myself. In retrospect if I just didn't give a fuck and got cs and bs I would have enjoyed my childhood. All wasted now.

Look mate you may think this now, but there is a reason that many of your classmates get fat and drop out of college  after school. If you think that not going to school is going to give you so much time to get really good at the things you want to get good at, think again. Once you leave your on your own. Even if you think that no one cares about right now, I can tell you that there are people that do. Once your out the only person that has your back is you.

Tlactl he’ll im still in school and already regret the amount of time of my life has been wasted by school and other stuff


Public school has always been cancer, and my high school experience was not any better. There comes a point in senior year where the students really stop giving a fuck. Classes are superfluous, redundant, and even the teachers are fucking done. But is that enough for the school district? Aww hell nah, let's throw a fucking "readiness social", FORCE all our seniors to attend, then fucking reprimand us when we sneak out. Me and my group of friends were the quiet kids, the goody-two-shoes. If even WE were sneaking out (great fun btw, felt like metal gear), then you have done something wrong. Oh and another thing. There is something uniquely infuriating about Freshman. When you're a senior and you're dealing with freshman it's....a special kind of rage you feel. They do not belong there. They are kids, 14, and should still be in middle school, but no. School district gotta make dat money, so us seniors are forced to be stuck with a bunch of fucking kids with their Leafy haircuts and polo shirts.


our school just let's us carry around backpacks nobody uses their locker

that's how mine was, I literally opened my locker once, during orientation.

I never even knew a school would lock your locker behind a paywall. it's kind of ironic tbh.

Here in the UK, at least in Greater Manchester, we can't. Apparently, it's a "safeguarding issue," which basically translates to "you probably have a bomb"

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After freshman year, I never used a locker. I mainly forgot to ask for one but at the end I was cool carrying my backpack full of heavy books and shit.

Kyrie Jersensweg there are schools that don’t let them use backpacks?? Also yeah at my school every locker was empty lol.

my high school doesnt even have lockers lmao

Kyrie Jersensweg same and everyone gets a locker for free as well

Kyrie Jersensweg Lol I would never go to a school that wouldn't allow it, fuck that.


I became pissed off just understanding how pissed off you had gotten. It grinds my gears to hear that a school administration would be run like that. I am sorry you had to suffer during that year.


Nothing like DAVY JONE'S LOCKER blasting through your earbuds to keep you awake at night.

@TheSteamLord The locker comes for everyone

I remember napping with videos just playing through my headphones. This video came on and I kinda started waking up a few seconds before that moment came on, (and my volume was up) and when DAVY JONES LOCKER came up, I swear I nearly shit myself. 😆


At least you didn't go through 12 years of school, just to graduate on zoom.

A friend of mine started college last semester. He is rethinking studying all together.

In a way it's poetically just. An unceremonious end to a wasteful experience.


Ya nearly gave me a heart attack at Davy Jones' locker


what you described is basically what i deal with every day in HS for my 3 years so far..
Leaving out the car, the locker, and the good grades.

The last six months of my sophomore year was literally depression and anger,  My junior year so far is fucking fantastic(sarcasm).
We've had one suicide each year in a span of several years, in one SINGLE week in January, literally just after winger break, three students died (one suicide, one died of a blood clot which was my best friend, and one died of cancer).

My school is basically sugar coated shit.

I'm midway through junior too (and taking Votech)
I've become completely demotivated because of not having my time to do what I strive to do and days being slow, my head hammered with thoughts ridden with negative words and phrases because of anger
Every day I always can't wait in school to get home but then I started to work on my things less
I'm learning nothing, I start to care less, never socialize
I basically mastered English since pretty much 8th-10th grade, yet I'm assigned in Votech basic stuff like differentiating "then" and "than" (REALLY?!!!?!) and in both schools writing millions of paragraphs about things or topics I don't care about or know about at all
I program and never needed school to learn how to (yet I took compsci though never getting into VB and will Never Ever™ get into VB (but learnt GML/C# on my own))
Everybody's a sheep listening to generic pop and t(c)rap every day, yet I never get to wear my headphones in two classes unless I could mask them with my long hair which gets past one teacher
There's an actual "acquaintance" (I knew since 2nd from YMCA, was part of staff too (??)) in LA who I think looks like Drake, and he himself ironically unironically said that (though more specifically said he's "Drake's son"). That shouldn't have to be a compliment, that should be an insult because Drake sounds like and is a talentless unoriginal rich moaning stupid-influencing hack
There's another kid who apparently changed his name and wore a bandanna for half a year thinking he's KSI
Your average run of the mill school, infested with normies
Almost all things described in these videos about HS is too accurate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3aWLEgNQFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u43eWv6p8ew
Everything post 2016 is stupid and nothing is turning back

What the fuck? That sounds like something out of a work of fiction wtf is going on?


Emp, I feel your pain. I had been in the same boat all throughout highschool. Ive been in advanced honors classes since freshman year and AP/IB as soon as my school made it available (sophomore year). Every night getting home and doing endless hours of homework and studying just to go back the next day and get shit on. I even made the idiotic decision to pursue the IB diploma which fucked me over so bad. Endless hours of boring shit that I'll never remember again, just to be tested for hours straight at the end of highschool. And in all that still had to fill college apps and apply for scholarships with no help from the school whatsoever. But you know I looked forward to some perks of being a senior because we get first picks at classes as well as parking. But nope. The year I became a senior, the best parking lot became a fuck fest. In order to get decent parking, you had to be there an hour and a half early. The best part? We still had to pay the school a fucking $150 fee for parking on campus. The school administration system is fucked up beyond repair. Im just so glad the bullshit is over and I'm on to bigger and better things that I actually have the motivation to learn. Props to you for being able to still make memes for us and still make us enjoy life.

MrDrProfessorTroll $150 for every time you parked there?


I graduated class of 2017 and the same god damned thing happened to me. For whatever god damned reason the time I payed my dues and got up to bad nobody in my own class respected me and the freshman, who legitimately made that school a lot worse by the way because of a fun story where a freshman cried rape for bullshit attention's sake.  I'm "not allowed' to talk about (never signed a hush contract so, I can talk about it if anyone cares to)


In my senior year, the school started massive construction. They demolished the senior room. It was a room that you could go to that only seniors could go to during lunch. It had televisions and you could bring in video games. Gone.

Lockers are manually assigned. I got mine in a hallway in the very back of the school. It was a hallway that took a few minutes to walk to that had a few classrooms in the back. It was under massive construction. Fresh layers of dust sat over the lockers. It was so far away, that if I tried to go to my locker during most classes if I fast walked, I would not make it. I carried all of my books on my back with the rest in my hand to every class. At the end of the day, I did not have a ride. I walked back to my house carrying all of my books.

Class time was marred with sound of construction. Staircases that literally led up to BRICK WALLS. I called it hallway nine and three quarters. "Rooms" that were boards with plastic around them. We could hear the teachers around us.

I also ran track before my legs horribly gave out that year. And my legs aren't fixed still like three years later (Wish my luck on a test for a disease tomorrow). They ripped up the track to bring in machinery to redo the football field in the middle. I guess you could call our sport "run" instead of track.

All in all, I would call it the worst year of my life.

What about that disease thing you said at last? Did you actually have something?

MasterJoJ ugh i hate shit like that. Im sorry you had to endure it.

I'm honestly really concerned about your health
Also I'm only a Sophomore but I just carried all my books around last year
In fact, we don't even have lockers here, except in P.E.

MasterJoJ Isn't there a whole summer they can do that construction in, where the students aren't there? Also I hope your legs are okay

Player you didn’t even use capitalization in your comments either...

alright then. correct my grammar in that comment. there is literally nothing wrong with it.

I did use correct grammar though...wtf? do you not see the commas and periods?

Oh and if you are late you miss 1st period

MasterJoJ y would u take ur books home u should leave them in your locker or desk or sumin

Woah woah pal. Now lemme tell you how our school situation is. Lockers? Never had never will. Parking? Only for teachers. Canteen? Well you can get out of the school to the bakery nearby. You only get a desk, a chair... Yeah. We do have a room with a TV but it's connected to some outdated windows XP dell laptop and you can use it only for classes. We do however have some nice computers for our programming classes so that's that

I can relate with the locker. All the classes I was in ended up being all on one side of the school. We didn't get to choose a locker, we were assigned one. The jackasses gave me one on the complete opposite side. Never used it once, never had the time, or amount of caring to sprint across the school between classes, hoping I make it in time.

that sounds like an average school day for me, dude, lol. stop complaining.


You school principal was behind the meme


My senior year they took away the senior prank and all senior privileges, we didn't even get honors parking, they also installed metal detectors and forced everyone to stand outside in a massive line until we were approved to go inside. The metal detector thing qasnt every day, but what was everyday was not being allowed to go in until 30 minutes before school started, 20 minutes for breakfast and 10 minutes to get to class(we weren't allowed to take breakfast to class). My years in high school were filled with bathrooms smelling like weed, 2 bomb threats and subsequent evacuations, mandates clear book bags because of a gun being on campus(kid only took a photo, did not even pull it on someone, the idiot posted the photo on facebook). Bathroom usage was severely limited, only 6 minutes to go to class, we were expected to use the bathroom in between classes, 30 minute lunches, and I walked to school from a friends house because that was better than going through the traffic circle. My high school experience was filled with fear, frustrations, and being completely screwed over and denied what I was promised. They also did this thing where they had a half day start in the afternoon, starting at lunch, my mom ran late, and I missed my lunch, had a stress headache and only a banana and a granola bar to make it until i got home, i was almost late to class because they required every student to stop at a little booth outside to display and I'd and allow the school to check if we were in the system (like anyone would even want to sneak in, much less go there). They installed a wall a year before i got there, it was to stop students from sneaking out, but i never had an issue sneaking out anyways. They required all students to stay after finals testing was over my senior year, every teacher was required to provide a review packet, did not help that they usually did core class, elective, core class, elective for most students (If u were caught sneaking out they would write you up and suspend you, making you miss the first days of the next semester, it wasnt even enforced during the summer season). The dress code was ridiculous, a friend of mine was wrote up for wearing a tank top, not because it wasnt allowed, but because that teacher somehow saw his nipple. The rules were very inconsistently enforced, chewing gum could get u suspended, but being caught with cigarettes resulted in a parent teacher conference(and a write up). They also pulled junior marshals out of lunch( I know because I was one), told us we had the honor of serving our school to attend the seniors graduation(just to sit still, look pretty, be the free labor, and pray that a college scout would take interest I us, from what i was told, no marshal even talked to a college representative, i refused to even fill out the application to be one, they also determined the valedictorian at that meeting, junior year, no other students were consulted), they also cherry picked the junior marshals, no write ups, no suspensions, a certain set number of days attended, but no just in junior year, all the way back to freshman year, and you also were required to have a teachers recommendation, I probably scared the snot out of them when I stormed out and slammed the door behind me as soon as they finished, I missed lunch because of that meeting. Seniors were kicked out of the school after graduation rehearsal was finished, it was during the school day and most of the 360 seniors rode the bus, so we sat outside for an hour and a half waiting for the bell to ring. They had a strictly enforced dress code for all students at graduation, you would not be allowed to attend if u didn't follow it, we also were caps and gowns that covered everything, the shoes being the only exception, make up was also heavily restricted, many girls were in the bathrooms removing and having to reapply their make up. They also forced us to go through metal detectors before we could even enter our own graduation,  we were also not allowed to wear our caps and gowns inside, they had a specified dressing area for us, which was heavily supervised. Only one student spoke at our graduation, cherry picked by the principal himself. I only brought a normal book bag to school once in my entire high school career, mesh first year, normal second, mesh my third, and I just brought a bag sized binder to school my senior year just to get around the restrictions. We had laptops, which were required to be school issued (couldn't bring our own.), these laptops came with preset backgrounds, icons, usernames, and apps, we could not install or change anything. Most sites were restricted (they blocked YouTube and all social media, it was actually easier to list what sites you could go to then to list the ones that were blocked). We also only had a one time insurance for when we damaged it, this lasted for your entire high school career, meaning you were covered one time in 4 years. You also had to pay a fee to even use those things, every semester, you had to turn them in at the end of the year, and u weren't even allowed to try and purchase them if u wanted to. We couldn't watch movies without having an accompanying worksheet, school events were dances with a limited and outdated playlist and band concerts (which happened on the same night and time as the art show). Football games were considered major school events by most students it was also the only place and times we could do something on compass that didn't have to be supervised, and speaking of football, they spent a massive amount of money building a jumbotron in our football stadium, which blasted music over the high school marching band during the opening of the game (the band would come out and play the national anthem, then go into two line playing the school's anthem as the football team charged out onto the field, the lines acting as a funnel runway of sorts, a longstanding tradition in which our principal decided to blast some remix of some rock song over). The marching band was also not allowed to play stand tunes during plays, we could only play when the football team was in huddle or getting ready for the next play. They even played ads on that jumbotron, I remember being half way through our halftime show (an award winning show mind you, we were very successful at competition) as a KFC ad came on. Needless to say, despite being called the pride of the county we were utterly disrespected by the school. In fact, most if the funding went to the stupid football team, all the other sports and clubs had to share what scraps remained, this meant that most marching band students had to pay in order to be apart of the band, the only school funding the band got was from the concession stands which the band had to run themselves. Emplemon, you had one year of frustration, I say you got lucky, I had 4, and what I've mentioned is only the start of the list. The school system was ran by a bunch of idiots that seemed to search for new way to screw students over, teachers who didn't care whether we passed or failed, they would send us to the office for talking back, usually resulting in a few days in ISS (in school suspension because it was illegal to actually suspend us), we couldn't go to the bathroom during class unless it was an emergency, could not be out for longer than 8 minutes, and that was pushing it. Kids pulled pepper spray on each other, wasnt in common for fights to end with someone getting tazed by the security (always fist fights, no one ever pulled a gun or knife, never). If something of yours got stolen good luck getting it back, all security would do is ask if you track it. Lockers were absolutely useless, even if it was in between all your classes you had only 6 minutes to visit it and get to class, I only met one student that actually used their locker. You were assigned your locker freshman year, that locker was yours until you graduated. Student parking was more trouble than what it was worth, 25 bucks a month for a single spot in one section of the parking lot, which was terribly designed, kids got rear ended all the time, and most kids didn't even drive to school, most rode the bus, walked, or rode with friend, usually in return for helping pay for the parking spot, they also gave all the good parking to the faculty, even the spots in the students parking area, it didn't help that getting a job was difficult due to a high county unemployment rate, rising poverty rate, and the only available jobs being fast food joints that always had too many people on the pay role,  my sister only worked around 10 hours a week, you also had to pay for insurance if you had license, no insurance meant no license. Drivers ed was super crowded, around a 100 students crammed into the library, usually more, drivers ed was also only available 3 times a year, a week in fall and spring, and a week during summer break. Schools were also individually responsible for the courses that would be provided, and the list goes on and on and on, freshman year alone is a book within itself, and none of them are minor complaints, so count your lucky stars it wasnt worse, because it could of been soooooo much worse, your story is a good experience compared to the crap I've seen and went through, I dont even know how I came out being optimistic.


EmpLemon: DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
School: In a cosmic sorta way, yes!
EmpLemon: Well Mr. Funny Man, IS THIS HOW YOU GET YOUR SICK KICKS?
School: What? It's just the ordinary student treatmen- OH MY GOODNESS
Shows locker and parking lot
FRESHMAN!

EmpLemon: DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
School: In a cosmic sorta way, yes!
EmpLemon: Well Mr. Funny Man, *IS THIS HOW YOU GET YOUR SICK KICKS?*
School: What? It's just the ordinary student treatmen- OH MY GOODNESS
*Shows locker and parking lot*
FRESHMAN!


"It's like going super saiyan, but for rage."

So...going Super Saiyan then?

The Ghost of Gotham There actually exists super saiyan rage, but yea pretty much same thing


Being a freshman myself, I always respect the older kids (they could kick my ass) honestly I would break before you did emplemon. I'm sorry you had to experience that in your high school.


casually listening, and ducking DAVY JONES LOCKER startled me so bad I jump


My Highschool only has about 20 lockers. Pretty much everyone has to carry all their shit around all that time. <b>Strong Back Perk achieved</b>

My Highschool only has about 20 lockers. Pretty much everyone has to carry all their shit around all that time. *Strong Back Perk achieved*

Every year I was given a locker, never used it once

I don’t use my lockers lol they placed mine in the worst spot

I'm pretty much used to my backpack being a shell

Yay camping backpacks.
The Long Haul perk achieved

Yay camping backpacks.
*The Long Haul perk achieved*

Well must be real comfortable for him then.

Wait so where do you even put your stuff?

Jett Storm there isn’t even lockers in my school


Looks like someone fell for the "work hard in high school and win a better life" meme.<br>I could say my senior year was one of the best years of my life. I had friends, a car, a girlfriend, I put in enough effort to barely scrape by and graduate, and some kid shot up my school before first period once, so I got to hang out with my friends at a nearby dennys and got the day off. Yeah. It was great.

Looks like someone fell for the "work hard in high school and win a better life" meme.
I could say my senior year was one of the best years of my life. I had friends, a car, a girlfriend, I put in enough effort to barely scrape by and graduate, and some kid shot up my school before first period once, so I got to hang out with my friends at a nearby dennys and got the day off. Yeah. It was great.


I've experienced nuclear rage plenty of times. My rage is like a radioactive isotope. It takes a long time for radioactive decay to turn it into lead, but any little thing just adds to the payload. The more anger, the longer it takes to simmer down. A cable not plugging in, a paper not getting in my bag, dropping something. ANY LITTLE THING ADDS TO THE BLAST RADIUS. One time I had such a shit day, I was sitting at my desk just one problem more away from detonating. Then Some piece of shit decided to joke to his friend, (loud enough for me to hear) just so he could piss me off. He decided to joke about my hair. I like to keep my hair long, but other people think I should cut it, cuz I'm a dude. He called me a "shaggy hair motherfucker" and I fucking blew. I went over to the shelf in the class. Grabbed a pen and went Tsar Bomba. I Yelled that I couldn't fucking take it anymore and that I was going to kill myself because of him. (Behold. The effects of nuclear rage on my judgement)  I spent the rest of the day in ISS(In School Suspension) had to fill out a suicide prevention plan, AND got counseling, all because of him. He didn't get punished for making me explode, though. But he and nobody else in that room messed with me ever again after that.


The best part of high school is that it's temporary

@zesork at least we can chose when to forfeit lives


High school is where people get turned into normies

@Cassandra Pantaristi
Here is a vid on goths (I'm also goth)
https://youtu.be/LuKzt7p-MnM

Class of 2019 here. Still trying to recover one year later. But all I can say is, thank fuck I got outta there.

Its a crossroad where people either end up a normie or an outsider

@Jazz Handz No respecc! He gave no respecc! Put sum specc on!

That's school in general, brah.<br>Children and most teenagers are pretty much normies, but to a socially violent extent.

That's school in general, brah.
Children and most teenagers are pretty much normies, but to a socially violent extent.

@Jazz Handz He was making profits with my dank stash.

@Afghan Dan why though?<br>Did he say frick in your minecraft christian server?

@Afghan Dan why though?
Did he say frick in your minecraft christian server?

No, elementary school turns you into normies. They expect you from a young age to act a certain way, and most just accept it. The kids that are odd are most likely to become apart of subcultures later in life. Thought I was kind of a normal kid, but I became 24 year-old goth that is weird (good weird).

Actually, they are turning Students Into NPCs. Wow, The Mellenials (Well Most of them) Were NPCs. But the world is actually improving. But the generations idea is very stupid at best.

I endured, and am currently recovering. Those bastards almost got me, but they didn’t make a normie out of me.


ikr, life is rough. Having just entered pre-k for the first time this year, I understand how infuriating it is when they run out of planners.

@Reverend Neko darkest storyline ever wth

You don't even want to know how long I laughed at this entire string of comments lmao

SalmonAniminim  Dammit you gave me feels reading a fictional story.

@CatMaster90001 I won the "XD". yes. yes. Dad is going to be SO proud.

when he comes back

@SalmonAniminim ... Well fuck, that broke my mood to play along with this. XD You win, buddy.

@CatMaster90001 On the second day when my mommy came to pick me up, I was so happy that I ran super duper fast in front of the car. Then all I heard was "SCREEECH"! I was really scared, but it was ok because my mommy was there when i opened my eyes. I said hi, but I guess she didn't see me because she ran right past me. Then she started crying and screaming for help. I got worried and went and asked her if she was ok, but then a whole bunch of people came outside and started surrounding the car! I was so confused, but it was ok because a bunch of police men and ambulance men started running around and stuff. That was good because mommy said that police were good guys. then the ambulance people started carrying something into the big ambulence car, but I couldn't see what it was. After all the police men left, mommy got in the car, and then I jumped in super quick too. I asked her what happened over and over, but I guess she couldn't see me because she was crying so much. I still don't know what happened back then, but i guess I don't even have to go to school anymore! Then, mommy and I went to a big party! Mommy put on a black suit and we went in the car to meet everyone. Everyone else was wearing a black suit, too. And everyone was so sad. I didn't like that very much. There was a big box, and a picture of me, and there was my name under the picture, and there were a bunch of numbers, like 20012-2016... or something like that. After the party was over, mommy left without me by accident. I got really scared, but then a big man with a beard came flying out of a bright light in the sky and said hello to me! I told him I didn't know people could fly. He laughed, and he took my hand and he flew me into the big light in the sky. He took me to a place with big green hills, and a bunch of nice people, and all the toys I could play with! I asked the man where my mommy was, and he told me she would be there soon. Mommy said not to trust strangers, but this man seemed safe. After a few hours, the man told me that his name was jesus and that I was in heaven. I told him I didn't know what that meant, and he laughed again. I still miss my mommy, but I like playing toys with everyone here.

@SalmonAniminim Sounds like you had it easy. My pre-K year so far isn't as swell so far... The girls didn't wanna play hopscotch with me because they said I had cooties, my finger-paint artwork wasn't as good as the other kids', I spilled my apple juice during snacktime, and I wet my pull-up before I had the chance to go potty, which certainly isn't easy when more than half of my class is already potty trained.

@***** My mommy drove me there. It was great. I got to play trains, eat snacks, draw my name, and right before I left, the janitor took me in the closet and we played some special games!


Usually what I do to prevent having to get a locker is carry EVERYTHING in my bookbag, sure it's heavy as hell but at least I never have to worry about rushing to the locker between classes and at least then I won't have to worry about someone trying to steal stuff from my locker


Mad respect for you actually caring about education, I wasn't smart enough for honors classes and was robbed of my high school education because I was stuck in general classes


Lesson learned: NEVER ANGER THE EMPEROR.


I bet Lemon still flips the bird at the high school every time he drives by it.


13:27 - 14:32 sounds exactly like something Calvin would say to Hobbes while waiting for the bus on a Monday morning.


Your high school let the students pick their lockers?
Mine just assigned lockers to students based on the proximity of their homeroom class.
And we didn't have to pay for them.

8th grade fucked us over with our lockers. Instead of giving the lockers on the top floor to the classrooms that were right next to the stairwell, they gave it to us, and the times in which I was just barely able to make it to class are too many to count.


My school doesn't even use lockers. I just carried like 500 books in my backpack

My school has lockers but i just dont even use them

Ethan suomynona Your avatar is probably the face you made when carrying those books.

GAMP: Sicker than your average kigger nilller


Hey Emp. Has IB been beneficial to you after High school? I'm in it now and I hate it but I don't want to drop it either. I just started my junior year.

@EmpLemon I was in something similar, and had to drop it, because in Mississippi, you have to pass AP English in high school, before they let you have any advanced placement classes, and I was average at English. (I also didn't get along with the teacher, and skipped her class constantly because I hated her, so I missed almost every test)

I think it's fucked up how you have to pass AP English, with a B+ or higher to continue Advance Placement in my state.

@JiP the Chip ap is honors, IB is honors but harder

Oh, that's an international version of the school system France has (which a lot of European countries have adopted as their system too).

IB is different than AP. AP classes are advanced placement classes you take them in IB. IB is a larger thing, the school told me it stood for International Baccalaureate, whatever that is supposed to mean.

ib is nothing in usefulness when compared with pseo.

JiP the Chip <br>It's harder, but it's internationally recognized and it's better.

JiP the Chip
It's harder, but it's internationally recognized and it's better.

EmpLemon

Can you give an update if it's beneficial now? Thanks if you see this as I'm right now halfway through 10th grade.

IB is a meme, what really matters in post-secondary education is your willingness to study a lot.

But of course, you need good marks to enter universities.

So far it's too early to tell the full extent to which it's helped me. You do get to earn a lot of college credit if you get high enough marks on your exams. However, other methods such as dual enrollment could lead to similar credit exemptions. IB does help a lot in terms of college acceptance, as IB kids tend to be favored over non-IB ones. Going through IB also helps you make friends in college, because you develop an unspoken bond with them, and your experiences are very relatable. If you're considering dropping out, you really need to  decide whether you want your final two highschool years or first two college years to be more difficult.


I remember senior year, I was 2 years ahead and as I was about to graduate when the school took away almost 45 credits from me because of a "transcript change" for the entire school. Well turns out I was the only one that got fucked. So after me and my teacher who was such a champ and actually did his fucking job and cared for the kids fought the school district I was able to graduate........a year later. So I only graduated 1 year early and lost my spot that I would of had working for 343 industries and Microsoft. So when I say I fucking hate school, I FUCKING HATE SCHOOL.


At my school, you can't have your phone out before the first bell rings, or at lunch.<br>You can also get detention for walking on grass.

At my school, you can't have your phone out before the first bell rings, or at lunch.
You can also get detention for walking on grass.

I feel like that phone rule is something every single kid will just hit with "BET, dare you to give all of us detention and see if school still functions"

mothiieeo grass literally cannot hurt you. Also wtf happened to shoes?

elgatochurro it’s spiky and could hurt your feet, the kids need to be taught a lesson

At my school they let you have your phone out at lunch


@EmpLemon My High School graduation last year was a fiasco in preparation, we have a local concert hall that since it was built, housed graduation events for both my school and another nearby highschool. But this year the person who was supposed to talk to the casino that owns it, didn't in fact talk to them for 3 quarters of the school year, then when the person finally put in a request, we got the finger and the school was denied because of blatant laziness. To make matters worse that same person blames THE FUCKING SENIOR CLASS for it, and we spend weeks upon weeks discussing what we want to do about it, but no one gave a fuck, because we were all in our little cliques, so we could never really come to agree on anything except the fact that we had to do graduation in the tiny ass gym (it was so crowded the gym went up at least 20 degrees during graduation). Next we had to order chairs, so we voted between renting for the year, or buying them straight out. The students mostly voted for renting because the concert hall would still be available to future grades. Just when things seemed alright, we find out the parents also voted, they came to a VAST majority of votes in favor of buying full out, because the casinos they work for "apparently" wouldn't let them have the day off to go to their kid's graduation. The same person who was supposed to get us hooked up with the concert hall went with buying straight out. Each of us seniors had to pay 10$ and sell at least ten tickets (that I never got of course), parents had to pitch in a lot of money to help fill the gap. But here is where I and many of the seniors at the time get tipped to the breaking point, That same person from before then starts meetings up about a senior gift for the school, keep in mind it was only Seniors and their parents that paid for all the chairs, most of us were very firm in saying "we have given them a gift!" The chairs that God knows, how many seniors will get to use for graduation. She wasn't satisfied with that answer so she kept trying to force our hands into doing a gift, but we as a class put our foot down and refused. It was a good year but those last weeks were utterly hell.<br>Sorry for the wall of text, but this video brought up some memorable frustrating moments of high school.

@EmpLemon My High School graduation last year was a fiasco in preparation, we have a local concert hall that since it was built, housed graduation events for both my school and another nearby highschool. But this year the person who was supposed to talk to the casino that owns it, didn't in fact talk to them for 3 quarters of the school year, then when the person finally put in a request, we got the finger and the school was denied because of blatant laziness. To make matters worse that same person blames THE FUCKING SENIOR CLASS for it, and we spend weeks upon weeks discussing what we want to do about it, but no one gave a fuck, because we were all in our little cliques, so we could never really come to agree on anything except the fact that we had to do graduation in the tiny ass gym (it was so crowded the gym went up at least 20 degrees during graduation). Next we had to order chairs, so we voted between renting for the year, or buying them straight out. The students mostly voted for renting because the concert hall would still be available to future grades. Just when things seemed alright, we find out the parents also voted, they came to a VAST majority of votes in favor of buying full out, because the casinos they work for "apparently" wouldn't let them have the day off to go to their kid's graduation. The same person who was supposed to get us hooked up with the concert hall went with buying straight out. Each of us seniors had to pay 10$ and sell at least ten tickets (that I never got of course), parents had to pitch in a lot of money to help fill the gap. But here is where I and many of the seniors at the time get tipped to the breaking point, That same person from before then starts meetings up about a senior gift for the school, keep in mind it was only Seniors and their parents that paid for all the chairs, most of us were very firm in saying "we have given them a gift!" The chairs that God knows, how many seniors will get to use for graduation. She wasn't satisfied with that answer so she kept trying to force our hands into doing a gift, but we as a class put our foot down and refused. It was a good year but those last weeks were utterly hell.
Sorry for the wall of text, but this video brought up some memorable frustrating moments of high school.


I am in a REALLY pissed off mood today. I was going through your playlist of shit of your stuff and stumbled across this. Hearing this story made me feel a little bit better. You are now my favorite youtuber, Emplemon. Best downward spiral ever


I think that high school’s should treat senior year like a “college prep course”. Students paying for classes and books, no use of lockers, finals before Christmas break, school getting out in mid May, etc.


Ironically enough, my freshman year was so far the worst in my life. I don't even want to talk about it.


In my school district, some kids don't get the courses they picked because they favour exchange students and want to keep people in school longer


Jesus, you actually did that IB shit? The IB highschool in my district was known as the only one that actually had a suicide rate.

I'm starting to see why you got into YTP, it's probably the only thing that kept you sane through all that


How did they sell out of planners? Every year they handed them out and i never remember opening that bitch up ONCE.

they dont even hand them out anymore for me lol had to buy my own


I love emp lemons rants and longer videos they're just so well put together and he is certainly one of my favorite youtubers of all time


I assume you're finishing your first semester of college. I'm finishing my 7th. It's nice to actually get to know a YouTuber through these videos. I do enjoy your stories. I hope your first semester went well. It gets a little harder next semester and after 2nd year, you'll feel like a soldier fighting the enemy, on a mission to save the world, rebelling against the man or just pulling all-nighters. If high school didn't challenge you, these next 4-5 years will. Have fun!


PLEASE MAKE MORE STORY TIMES

Like, what's the funniest thing you ever saw happen to someone?

Funniest thing i ever saw happen to someone? Okay so there was this one weird guy who uploaded a video called Frying Nemo…

(Yes it's a joke chill)


hey im curious what did u end up studying in college? hope things are working out. my college experience was kinda bad, but i wasnt as mature as you were for an 18 year old.  so, altough the education level for my expectations was preety underwhelming, i wasnt up for the challenge. the challenge being, learning to love learning about stuff.


The seniors at my school played hentai in the middle of the school this year

Power Bacteria there is a courtyard in the middle of our school.

DoughBoy Jimmy that's what my whole class did in year 11 (UK)


I was part of a new Early College High School program and was part of the original 100 freshmen which meant we were always the seniors compared to everyone else since all the new students were only ever freshmen. We spent the first two years sharing campus with another High School. The last two years were spent on campus of the local university, University of Texas at Brownsville. All the while we never had a library, sports track, or really much of anything. They began work on our official school building and they finished after I graduated. I graduated 6 years ago and I still don't know how my school looks like.


That moment when you know what IB is and you have to do it in 2 years. Suicide sounds pretty good!

George Gyser homestuck in the comment section


I remember back in high school, our library was at the top of the main building, and that's where I spent my time in the mornings and at lunch. Very quiet, peaceful, light classical music playing in the background, and a huge window overlooking the courtyard of the school. It was peaceful, serene, tranquil, and wonderful. Just the most idyllic place to curl up with a good book and read before your classes started.

Then my senior year started, and the freshmen shut down the library a week after school started after a fiasco involving foot fetish porn and graffiti.

Fucking freshmen, dude.

Mr. Bear in my high school they built a building just for the juniors and seniors and it had furniture, it was over all a nice building, we get a new principal and he thinks it’s a good idea to mix the freshman in our classes and give them our building so they can feel welcome, a week later they take away the furniture because the freshman and sophomores where sleeping on it


I feel a good amount of second hand anger right now. I hope college is treating you better.


Well emp, at least you had a full senior year. Meanwhile i just learned that i had my last day of public school a month ago without realizing it. No prom, no class night, and no graduation for me and my classmates, some of which i'll probably never see ever again.


I have this theory that Emp's senior year made him so mad, it actually mentally broke him, causing him to go into a downward spiral of dank memes. I mean, the timeline matches up, his senior year was just about when he stopped making YTP's, which was about last year.


Hold on to that rage, Emp. Hold on and never let it go.


I watched this when it first came out and I was a freshman in high school. Now I’m technically a sophomore in college though it’s only my first year. I’m surprised at my change in perspective between now and then and I can’t really believe it. Thanks for being there through it all, Emp.


You know, for a person who didn’t want to come across as edgy, you sure did come across as edgy.


I smashed into my classmates car while turning into the parking lot on the first day of senior year and I got kicked out and was homeless the week before graduation. I know how that senior year curse feels


I would hate enrolling to your Highschool, and I'll have you know that mine sucks too. But its not as bad as yours.


Soon, the downward spiral of school will repeat


Fuck, dude... you've handled what many would call an undoubtedly unjust and inexcusably horrid situation in probably the most mature way I've ever seen. I bet you'd be very hard-pressed to find anyone with a Senior Year story worse than yours, and yet still, you look back on it with utmost stellar optimism and collected maturity. You're way stronger than you realize, you know. Even if you're going into a field as simple as Civil Engineering, you're still going to do great things with your life. I totally believe in you 100% of the way, Emp. You have my respect more than you ever have before.

... Though is it bad that I continued laughing at the "Davy Jones' Locker" part as long as I did? X3 Even when you went into further detail about how insufferably awful it was? I seriously don't mean to laugh at your misery like that, as I would never have been able to handle those godawful situations as amazingly well as you did, Emp. But fuck, man, your editing is still god-tier! :D If it's at all possible, and if you feel the choice to, I really hope you continue making YTPs for a long time to come. The YTP art form is a dying one, anyway, and it's just made all the more special with awesome people like you involved in it. Keep up the awesomeness, man. You really are one of the great ones.


You know the shit people put freshmen through? I was able to skip that somehow... My first year of high school was at a school that taught all grades from K-12 that I've been in ever since kindergarten. Freshmen got no hate because most older kids already knew them and my grade in particualar was well respected (for being idiots along with the rest of everyone, and since I wasn't an idiot, no one in my grade cared about me). I then moved to a new school recently that was actually normal, and they hated the freshmen. Except I skipped that and was starting as a sophomore. I feel a little like I've cheated life and now it's going to do something bad to me for something I did unintentionally...


As soon as you mentioned IB, I felt my heart instantly go out to you. Dang.


Emp gets triggered, episode one, The phantom salt

Part 1 - 'Phantom Salt'
Part 2 - Triggered Tendency
Part 3 - Saltdust Crusuaders
Part 4 - Anger is unavoidable
Part 5 - Vento Incazzato
Part 6 - Hate Ocean

This is at least episode 5 of me getting triggered in a YouTube video.


I remember getting a great parking spot my senior year, and constantly had sophomores who weren't allowed to drive, juniors who didn't wanna walk up and down the giant ass hill (which I had to do every day after football practice and workouts) and ignorant people. If that happened, I'd have to go park in a visitors space, which were likely filled up by ignorant parents, and again, lazy people. The fact I didn't get a ticket parking in the places I had to(which included next to a gate in front of the alternative school and in a spot for emergency vehicles) is either a miracle, or a testament that every cop there knew how screwed up parking was


Feel so bad for Emp. In my senior year, a friend of mine skipped 15 days off school, had to serve 25 detentions (served none) and got more privileges than all the freshman students.


I remember watching this when I was a freshmen in highschool, after hearing what you went through as a SENIOR, it changed my perspective about the totem pole. Always stayed/respected those above me. In a weird way, this video sort of shaped how I acted in highschool. I graduated this year and feel free from highschool, I have a part time job and will be starting college soon. I hope I don’t crash and burn in the future. I love your video emp, love the directing that you’ve chosen with your channel, I hope you continue with it!


5:45

DUDE.... I FUCKING HAD A SEMI-HEART ATTACK...

i knew i should of expected ear rape events in a YTPooper Channel.


AMEN. I'm going into my sophomore year of IB this year and it's pretty crazy already. It really does suck that you got the short end of things though. A bunch of butthurt freshman parents probably complained about seniority the year before.


Geez, your school sounds like a rat nest. Now hopefully people will understand why you become angry when they order you around.


They were just training you for the disappointment of life


hOLY FUCK DUDE I THINK YOU WENT TO MY SCHOOL. Nease High School, right? At first I thought it was a coincidence that everything you were saying applied to my school that year (I was there your senior year, I was a sophomore), but then I saw that aerial photograph and the honeycomb building structure and realized YOU FUCKING WENT TO MY SCHOOL. I was literally at the same school as a YouTube god for 2 years and never knew it until now. I'm so ashamed of myself.

Kevin Catron Lmao I'm actually not but okay


The "lo-car" joke actually made me laugh rather than exhale. That was actually pretty funny.


The freshmen emp is referring to in this video are now seniors


IT'S NEVER OGRE, COLLEGE IS NEXT, BUM BUDUM


Well, here at my school you're not allowed to drive, so you are forced to take a 3 hour bus ride to and from school, you can't be late or else you risk getting kicked out, you must not have your phone, even in case of emergency, you will be forced to go to work(work literally isn't as bad as school there// it's better). And of course, they tell you to go to bed and get a good nights sleep, however, you can't get that, as when you get home, you'd literally have to go straight to bed to do that.

In short, it's wake up at 4 in the morning, hop on that bus at around 5, get there at 7:30, grab your wardrobe, and then walk 20 min to school which starts at 8.
Then spend 3 hours being screeched at to do your online course, and leave at 11... or 11:18, which gives you little time to eat.
You'd have to spend like... 20 bucks on something miniscule if you don't have a voucher from your work, the prices are only increasing. Spend another 3 hours at work, and go back to the bus for another 3 hour ride home.
Also another thing, you can't be picked up, you aren't allowed to take a taxi or an uber, no screw that, let your life waste away into the ground on a bus that drops off 20 kids who always complain about them not getting home before 6.
I get home after 6 and it's infuriating.

sounds like its in another country from the usa

@Toebel a bad one or at least I can infer by reading this


i was a freshman the same year emp was a senior, now i’m going to be a senior this fall and i turn 18 in a few months. i understand things now that i didn’t when i first started high school, and it pisses me off that freshmen think they’re way cooler than they really are. my school parking lot is a sack of shit as well because it’s so crowded and other juniors don’t know they have to let people out of their parking spots sometime, so whenever i try to back out i usually get honked at. other than that, i try to enjoy the things my school has to offer like the hour-long lunch and hopefully my senior year won’t suck as badly as emp’s.


That's a great video Emp. But honestly, this story sounds very "first world problems" to me. Idk, maybe because I live in a shitty country, where students are even glad to have proper chairs and everything is either broken or missing lol


I know how you feel Emp.
I'm practically in the same position as you were back in 2015.
I am this close (| |) to completely shattering and leaving my final year at high school.


My sympathies go out to you man. As a senior is high school, I want to put myself in your place but holy shit. Fuck your school and it's shitty decision making. I'm glad you shared this experience with us so we can see into your life, and the struggles it takes to make videos. Thank you EmpLemon!


"It's like going super saiyan, but for anger."<br>So super saiyan?

"It's like going super saiyan, but for anger."
So super saiyan?


9:44 You killed me at this point, man. I don't know how I didn't find you sooner, but your content is so good that I'm glad I'm now subscribed to you.


"Im not en edgy person "
 DOWNWARD SPIRAL
I dont mean this hatefully

"Im not en edgy person "
 *DOWNWARD SPIRAL*
I dont mean this hatefully


Dear God.

That sounds like something that'd come out of an Italian Prison, not in a school

altho, a prison may be better than school in some aspects


could you say your year went into a

DOWNWARD SPIRAL

@Crash The Con yea but did you check it out

Jade Chiaki nanami in the emp comment section

good meme there friend but downward spiral implies that it had a good start and gradually went to shit. their senior year was shit from the start.


I am a freshman and I know my place. But when you put this on a senior that’s pure disrespect I’m sorry for what happened man not much to say other than that sucks


Holy fuck, that short nuclear rage sequence at 9:40 had me chuckilng for a good while.

Oh, and at 10:37 - it should be "couldn't care less"... Emp, I thought you are a stickler to your grades after all? So you should already know this


Dude balancing advanced classes and making god tier YTP's? Kudos to you man, hope college goes well


Dude I got mad respect for you... you just finished high-school and you're already this good at youtube... damn dude... nice


Hey EmpLem, glad to hear you were class of '16 as well. Sorry about everything that happened, you'll get through it


My senior year wasn't as bad as my first college one. Personal and family issues were already there, but in my first year at university things got a turn for the far worse, I even thought of throwing myself into the tracks or in front of a lorry.

Hopefully this next year isn't as shitty, but I can only hope.


I had a very similar disaster for my senior year, I was also doing the IB so I’m starting to think that the school screwing over the lives of IB students is just part of the IB program.


Man, my old middle school had IB,  even though it was literally the worst school in my area


I don't want to downplay your crappy school year, but I had to deal with crap on an administrative level. The quick version is that in June 2015, The School Board for my district held a meeting to vote on renovating my elementary school, as well as two others.  Those renovations would include air conditioning (yes, we didn't even have AC.) and adding a new wing for Special Ed. Everybody liked the idea of their kids not dying of heat stroke, so it was a unanimous "Yes!". But in November, the District sent out an email that just looked like all the other spam they send you, only this email contained something much more important. It said that instead of renovating the schools, they were going to CLOSE them. And, not surprisingly, the people complained. Mrs.Tortellini, the District Superintendent, claimed that the schools were costing too much and had too low of a student population to be helping the district. Sounds reasonable, right? Except for the fact that we just received a huge payday from State, so we were fine Financially. but she said that she planned on combining each of the school's population into one big SuperSchool. And there were lots of valid questions. When is this new school being built? Where will our kids go until it's built? How much will this all cost? But they were ignored. My mother, furious that the School Board could do something like that without consequence, started planning with other parents on how to protest this decision, as well as filing lawsuits against The District. At first, we thought that Mrs.Tortellini just didn't see the damage she was causing, but then when we found out who we were paying to build the new SuperSchool, it all fell into place. Mrs.Tortellini was planning on hiring XYZ Inc. to build the school, a company which just happened to be run by Mr.Tortellini, Mrs.Tortellini's husband. She was essentially pocketing money meant to be spent on children's education. And even though my mother spent two whole years fighting it, the schools closed anyway (don't worry, by the time it closed I had already graduated elementary). And once my parents realized that the District was a sinking ship, I transferred to a new one. And the bullshit continues. here's a quick list of stuff she's done:
1. With her closing three schools and the SuperSchool still in planning phase, there was a large amount (around 800) students who didn't have a place to learn. So she decided to shove all of those students into an already crowded school. Because of this, there aren't enough classrooms for everybody so some people have to learn sitting out in the fucking hallway. Also during "Passing time" (the five or so minutes you get between classes to get a drink, talk to friends, and grab stuff from your locker) has become absolute anarchy.
2. Because of the new influx of students, bus drivers have to now memorize 5x as many stops as they used to. This, of course, leads to bus drivers missing stops and even getting lost. It got so bad that a kindergartner had to try to give directions to his bus driver on how to get to his house. Think about how scary that would be. Hell, sometimes entire classes had to be postponed because of how many late students there were.
3. And finally, to try and hotfix the bus problem, Mrs.Tortellini bought a FOUR MILLION DOLLAR school bus lot that she can't even use because it's outside district boundaries. Jesus Christ, that has got to be one of the stupidest mistakes I have ever heard.
And there are plenty more, but if I were to list them all this comment would be a mile long. Even though I have escaped the crappiness of my district, I still have friends and classmates there, doomed to severe mediocrity for the rest of their academic career. I hope this near-thesis on the mistakes made by my district's School Board can one day help save another district from a similar fate. Thanks for coming to my TED talk


I kinda had a love/hate relationship with highschool. While it was fun at first as a freshman, i realized that it was just hell for me from that point foward. While i made some friends back then i really didn't like how they used to behave around me at times and girls were a bit of a jerk to you if you talked to them "popular girls" in this case. While i regret not putting enough attention or effort to it i guess at the time i didn't care,  highschool was just to me a place to me where i could just hang out and talk to some people out of boredom. I graduated but never got my diploma because reasons since i didn't attended graduation (Never went to any of my graduations tbh) i came to the conclusion that if i had put much more effort into things instead of slacking things would've been better for me, and while i hated being told that "you'll never acheive things in life" as a way to make you scared i should have taken that as motivation to strife for better. So if you're someone who's going to highschool this year my advice to you is to enjoy every second of it, sure it's a bit hell-ish but it's worth it. Also, do your best to excell on it so you can have a careeer in the future and make a living.


Good story, Emp. You delivered some words of muhfuckin' wisdom.

Also, I liked when you put on the Quiet Riot instrumental while the story was "getting good".


The end of the video was deep as all hell man.
GOOD SHIT!
That what I gotta say mate!
Keep up the good videos!


10:36 no I feel you dude, I know what its like to have shit thrown at you over and over again in the same day, week, month, etc.  its really fucking infuriating


i remember when we had to choose our supplementary novels, and i chose Oliver Twist, because it would give me more material to use for the essay coming up at the end of school. We were gonna have 3 quizzes scattered around the semester, and seeing as they were all gonna be short multiple choice quizzes, i was confident.

THEN the first quiz came around, and i saw that while everyone else was getting multiple choice, Mr [English Teacher] slapped me with a short answer quiz. It's not that i wasn't prepared, but the thing is that i was angry that i was the ONLY STUDENT stuck with this kind of test.
It's discrimination within the classroom, and why should i be punished for choosing a long book like Oliver Twist?


I kinda got lucky as hell. My grandma and uncle works at my district with a good reputation with the rest of the staff so I got the lucky end of the stick. Though I am still on my ass on my grades.


Emp i just graduated, i love your videos. I have been watching for years. Thank you for this highschool memories.

This guy is nonsensically hated for no reason


If anyone out there is taking an AP/IB Foreign language class, you know it’s hard. Even if you are fluent in whatever language you’re doing, it’s hard.

INCOMING: ESPAÑOL!!!!

Hablar por cinco minutos en Español con gramática perfecta es un poco difícil, también la pronunciación, y no puedes escoger la tema? También. La sola cosa que me hace feliz es que aprender español sería útil, porque tengo familia en México y Holanda (Mi tía vive allá).

English:

I don’t even know if I got that right lol. I expected this, but it still doesn’t change the fact that it’s hard. And I’m a junior, and I’m one of the better ones in my class, so don’t even slam me on that


I had the same thing happen to me in High School where you talked about the extra week you had to go through, except it was at the end of the year where about a 2/5 of Seniors were failing school and they had to push another week.


As an IB student, this video makes me respect you a lot more


15:14
With you 100%. I don't think I'll ever understand what people are talking about when they say that the greatest time they had was in high school. Not being able to make your own decisions and being looked down upon as a useless kid is aggravating to say the least.


2nd month of senior year at one of the top rated public high schools in the country.<br>Can confirm. This shit is fucked.

2nd month of senior year at one of the top rated public high schools in the country.
Can confirm. This shit is fucked.


5:43
Bro that destroyed my entire nervous system.


If this was a notably bad experience for you, your life is officially amazing. I bet in 10 years you'll look back on this video and laugh while cringing. Your attitude seems great, and I hope your newfound cynicism allows you not to take institutions seriously enough to let them upset you with their disregard for individuals. I hope you enjoy college, both academically and otherwise!


watching this before the last day of high school here. Senior year has actually been the worse year of my entire life because personal issues, and man I'm sure looking forward to get done with this and I'm DEDICATED to making this summer the best I've had. I can reach to your honors program storey because I tried hard as fuck in highschool and got rejected from my National Honors Society both of my last year's and missed graduating with Honor's by literally 0.01% which I do have in fact made up this trimester which they don't count. Oh boy that definitely feels like a huge slap in the face for sacrificing many things to do my best. But that's what senior year taught me, sometimes you just have to let life fuck you over because it definitely won't be the last time.


Hey Emp, I'm a senior in high school as well, though I don't go to my public school. It's a different high school, more flexible on work, which in a way I don't appreciate because it feels like I've been taught the things I've already knew about. We also never had homework by the way, which I found annoying. I admire you as a high school student, and honestly I wish I was like you in terms of your academic achievements and your attitude towards high school. I've had shitty SAT scores but a decent B average GPA, and I plan to retake it once I find out if I'm approved for certain accommodations, including a longer test time. I wish that I've went to public high school all my years of attending at least three different schools in four years, but college is much more important to me right now. Do you have any advise on how to cope with such situations? I'd be glad to hear advice from a YouTuber that actually knows how to make me laugh! :)


I'm deeply sorry for what you had to go through, and I hope the rest of your education gets better. It really does sound like a shitty experience to go through. Makes me grateful that I had a (relatively) normal high school experience, and that my high school decided not to go to shit until after I graduated (even though the stuff they do now is peanuts compared to what you went through). A fair bit of warning, you MIGHT start to have back to school nightmares pretty frequently. Apparently, there's a part of your brain that got so used to going to school at the same exact time every day, it feels the need to make you re-live that every night when you go to sleep. There are people in their 90's that still have back to school nightmares.


Oddly Freshman year was my favorite year of highschool. It was the last year they had block schedule which was 4 subjects a day for 1 semester. After that they switched to period schedule which was 7 subjects for the whole year. This made all the difference and I went from happy to miserable instantly.


This made me think of how when people ask me "do you ever wish you didn't have cancer those years ago" I say "No, because the lessons I learned were too valuable"


doesn't it feel great when your grades also affect your exam score that determine which college or highschool you will go to and your school just decides to grade you for a lesson that the ministry of education doesn't even recognize and lowers your exam score?


I know how you feel. Last year, when I became a senior, the school district thought it would be a good idea to bring the 7th and 8th graders into our school, filling our small school with over 1800 students. That was passable They also treated the Honors/AP students terribly. Whatever. But the worst was my guidance counselor. He had FORGOT TO SEND IN MY TRANSCRIPTS TO MY COLLEGE. This caused me to not be admitted into the engineering program at the college. And then he forgot AGAIN for three OTHER times. I'm happy to be out of there, and college is SO much better.


Well, Junior year just started for me, but at least I know what to expect for these next two years and possibly the rest of my life. Thanks, EmpLemon!


In NZ high school (well at least my high school anyway) they let you have lockers but they're largely seen as a junior (year 9 and 10) thing. At least with me, the novelty of it quickly wore off as I realized that for most of the subjects except math (and PE in year 9 and 10) we did most of the work using our laptops, so we didn't really need at least half the books on the stationery list. So in year 10 I decided to get a locker again but I would just use it to store all the stuff I knew I wouldn't need most of the time. On the first day I shoved a bunch of useless books in there and that proved to be the only time I used it that year until the last day when I had to clear it out. So yeah, with the rise of digital technology in the classroom in NZ lockers here are becoming increasingly useless.


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I lost all respect for the school system during 7th grade and I am insulted that I didn’t notice that there was something wrong earlier.


This is unbelievably relatable since my entire senior year has been COVID-ified


When summer ends im going to be a freshmen. All my friends are super excited to go to the hell hole that is small town high school. Ive been trynna tell them that shit aint good until senior year. I guess not. Thanks for destroying hope emp.


When I was a freshman I had no idea why everyone hated us. I'll be a Senior later this year, and oh my god I fully understand now.


The entry-levels at my office have been already over themselves on Day 1 in recent years.  This video is illuminating on why.


I'm a year younger than you. In my senior year I basically realized how little school mattered in the grand scheme of things and threw my hands up and said fuck it, and dropped out halfway through. Not fucking kidding. Got a GED and I'm going to college still. I'm not a dumb kid, got a 1330 on the new SAT (out of 1600). I had a 3.4 gpa because I was too lazy to do any better (also severe adhd but I don't want to use that as an excuse for poor performance, even though I am actually diagnosed with it). My school administration has been going on a downward spiral (kek) for many years. My class was the last to escape relatively unscathed. All grades below mine have to deal with their sjw friendship equality bullshit, participation trophies, all that shit. They also pulled the same shit on us when we became seniors, giving the frosh preferential treatment and demanding we be nice to them. I don't know about other schools but at mine it was tradition for the seniors to shout "FOUR MORE YEARS" at the freshman during the first few weeks and at assemblies and shit. They enacted a zero tolerance policy on that and anybody caught saying it got detentions. Just a bunch of fucking bullshit overall. Also the school had solar panels installed in the parking lot, which took up over half of the spaces at a time (they didnt do it all at once) for the first half of the year at least. I was talking to my physics teacher one day and he said that he was talking to one of the engineers who was heading the project, and our principal had them purposely install the panels at an inefficient angle because it looked better. She didn't give a shit about being "green", it was just for the appearance.<br>anyways, nice rant video. fuck school, glad it's finally over and I've become somewhat legendary as the smart kid who just had enough and dropped out.

I'm a year younger than you. In my senior year I basically realized how little school mattered in the grand scheme of things and threw my hands up and said fuck it, and dropped out halfway through. Not fucking kidding. Got a GED and I'm going to college still. I'm not a dumb kid, got a 1330 on the new SAT (out of 1600). I had a 3.4 gpa because I was too lazy to do any better (also severe adhd but I don't want to use that as an excuse for poor performance, even though I am actually diagnosed with it). My school administration has been going on a downward spiral (kek) for many years. My class was the last to escape relatively unscathed. All grades below mine have to deal with their sjw friendship equality bullshit, participation trophies, all that shit. They also pulled the same shit on us when we became seniors, giving the frosh preferential treatment and demanding we be nice to them. I don't know about other schools but at mine it was tradition for the seniors to shout "FOUR MORE YEARS" at the freshman during the first few weeks and at assemblies and shit. They enacted a zero tolerance policy on that and anybody caught saying it got detentions. Just a bunch of fucking bullshit overall. Also the school had solar panels installed in the parking lot, which took up over half of the spaces at a time (they didnt do it all at once) for the first half of the year at least. I was talking to my physics teacher one day and he said that he was talking to one of the engineers who was heading the project, and our principal had them purposely install the panels at an inefficient angle because it looked better. She didn't give a shit about being "green", it was just for the appearance.
anyways, nice rant video. fuck school, glad it's finally over and I've become somewhat legendary as the smart kid who just had enough and dropped out.


As a freshmen at my high school I can say 100% that seniors should have priority, and especially honor students. I'm also going to all AP classes and VLACS credits where ever I can find them, and I don't want to spend the next 3 years busting my ass off to get put behind the fucking 6th graders.


So uh I deeply respect you for the shit you had to go through, so far my senior year is starting school in September, my graduating year doesn't have to do a graduation project (compared to the seniors before me) I never had to pay for a locker because my school doesn't make us... And on top of it no one gives a shit about freshies


Jesus, some of the stuff you said here only made me appreciate going to school in New Zealand even more, and we're not even the best by a long shot. 1 test per week for freshmen?! (equivalent year here would be year ten)! God does the American education system seem that much more ridiculous and totalitarian.


We always had 200 extra lockers because of population decline from the boomer days. Our drug dealers had a field day.

I swear some kid disappeared halfway through 2nd year and I think he’s still in one


Fuck yeah man. I'm finally a senior this year. My school treats us alright as seniors. We get our own lounge area, exclusive parking spaces (didn't pay 20 bucks for it), and goddamn respect. Freshies are treated as they should be. They're annoying little shits who have yet to learn. They often get bumped around in the halls since there's a shit ton of people who go to my high school and because they walk on the wrong side of the fucking hall way. Legit you walk on the right side. Not the fucking left.

Anyways freshies don't understand their place yet. Since school start a couple weeks ago. But they should be getting it down by now. I was a freshman before. It's just the roll everyone plays. You get fucked with your first year. And seniors will be viewed as entitled pricks by upperclassmen. But seniors should be known as the dominant. That's the way.


I actually liked my highschool and my years there. It had it's weird or bad moments but overall it wasn't horrible. At all.


Even I, an 8th grader transitioning to freshman year, I find it stupid how the freshman get all of these special privileges. Nah bro, you gotta earn that shit.


Senior year of high school was the best year of my life by far. I'm a Junior in college now and my life is utter shit. It's been a downward spiral since starting college.


This kid's locker actually deserves to be studied cause it sounds like more intelligent life might exist on earth and It's above his locker.


I wonder how people in college will react after knowing you are who you are. Has anyone recognized you yet?


I live in the UK and hearing about this (specifically in this much detail) sounds like a completely different world.


As a college dropout I can confirm that if you cruised through high school then college is going to kick your ass.


My senior year was me being kept in school even though I did all my classes... I had 3 classes, and they gave me forced work at the office, just so i could leave with the other kids who were done with their classes (from so much summer class, not catching up, removing a class)


I have never heard anything more true and profound in my life until the end of this video


Something like this happened my sister once, she needed a computer for exam studies but it some freshmen took it to play some shitty FPS they played ironically. I felt guilty because I was a freshmen at the time. It shows schools choose to help freshmen over seniors who really deserve help.


Now being a senior myself and having a pretty cush start, it sucks to see a more try-hard former senior have such a degrading start. Your garbage locker situation makes me feel extremely lucky not being forced to use a locker since middle school. Also, I think we can all agree that freshmen are pure cringe.


I'm in high school right now and you wrapped it up perfectly, general frustration.


This is too real. My school had all sorts of things the Seniors used to do then all the sudden the four years I was there they slowly took away everything and gave us one week of "activities".<br>They had a class trip to sixflags, which was like okay cool, BUT THE NEXT DAY THEY HAD US DO COMMUNITY SERVICE. WE GOT HOME FROM SIXFLAGS AT 1 AM AND THEY HAD US DO COMMUNITY SERVICE AT 8 AM.

This is too real. My school had all sorts of things the Seniors used to do then all the sudden the four years I was there they slowly took away everything and gave us one week of "activities".
They had a class trip to sixflags, which was like okay cool, BUT THE NEXT DAY THEY HAD US DO COMMUNITY SERVICE. WE GOT HOME FROM SIXFLAGS AT 1 AM AND THEY HAD US DO COMMUNITY SERVICE AT 8 AM.


As school is finally back again, I take a look at this video to see how fucked things could get. Now that covid is a thing, I can imagine things will become a lot, lot worse.


My senior year was the year the administration decided to add  9th graders the high school. It had always been a 10-12 school until now. They had two years of construction to add space for the influx of students, which wasn't a bad thing since the new spaces were better than the older ones.

The problem was that in an attempt to make the freshmen comfortable, they turned high school into middle school. They added this weird block scheduling thing on Wednesdays and thursdays, brought back advisory which was a half-hour of boredom, and they introduced a new flex  block hour. Flex block was just a less flexible version of collab time, which was where you got a class period to meet with teachers, do homework, or just spend time with friends. Flex on the other hand required you to sign up for a teacher or be thrown into the auditorium for quiet study. And due to the new attendance policy if you got signed up for a teacher, you were stuck with them the whole hour. At least I took solace in knowing all the teachers hated the new system.

There was also the one time when the conservative club sued the school over some Veterans Day protest. And my tenth grade history teacher went to jail for looking at child pornography on his computer.

It was an interesting year.


For me, it was junior high school that takes the cake. Nothing really happened for three years. Just another day after another of unremarkable feats. I wasn't even motivated to do my homework. It was until I approved my English certificate (I'm Mexican) and my high school acceptance letter that I was pumped again in a long time (academically speaking at least).


as a fellow sufferer of IB (I had to do all 6 tests in my senior year), I feel your pain

Some of it did help (spanish, english, physics). Some of it didn’t (math, music, history).

though I had been taking math at my local university since 8th grade, so I’m not a reliable perspective on the IB math test.

MOOSEWHISKER

Was it worth it? Did IB help you?


That sounds like absolute ballsack. I was in a vocational school (a school system in finland that is supposed to lead to a career, takes from age 16-18), and that sucked ass, but at least I was treated like a human being. Hope you're doing better now.


I'm a senior this year, and I lost the one thing I really look forward to, senior lounge, but I have it easy, only 3 classes, one being gym. The others are English and Economics and Government :)))))


Yeah he's just really self-deprecating about his videos.

Is your profile pic really Markiplier? LOLZ


I like the symbolic Pink Floyd track in the background, those small additions really make the videos worth watching! Also, 13:27 holy shit man can I relate, had so many of those contemplative re-evaluations of my life while looking out of a classroom window...


Oh boy. Thanks for making me look forward to my high school years.


9:03

This clip perfectly summarized the battle of the crater in 1864


God I remember watching this video when it came out in 6th grade, and now I'm actually doing the IB. I'm pretty pissed off at my school right now as well, my school has some really fucking dumb ideas, I was thinking about it and remembered this video of yours. So thanks for conforting me I guess


You're one of the only people I know who actually uses a planner.


As a fellow Canadian, my high-school already assigns you a locker and there are two parking lots, one for teachers and another for students/visitors.


I'm a freshman and I agree. We shouldn't have as many rights as the ones who've been here for so much longer. Also I don't know why other freshmen complain about the work, it's easy and I had almost an A+ in every class.


School for me was a fucking joke. I didn't really realize it until about freshman year. Middle school was an absolute shit show, and I actually developed anxiety during it.


Senior year was so easy for me. All I did was hang out with friends, do the bare minimum to get straight A's, and worked hard enough to be a varsity football captain.


I was nearly brought to tears with laughter.


That exposition about the monotony of school near the end was absolutely 🤌 <b>chef kiss</b> 🤌 PERFECT

That exposition about the monotony of school near the end was absolutely 🤌 *chef kiss* 🤌 PERFECT


After almost 5 and a half minutes of slightly quiet talking, 5:45 scared the shit out of me.


I find myself asking a certain question frequently. At what point does the human brain shut down. At what state of retardedness will it be. Below the average intelligence of a molecule of air? As one idiotic decision after another is made, will there eventually come a time when the human brain willingly becomes a vegetable? This is a matter so incomprehensible that we will sooner fully document the secrets of the conscious after death. It looks like that school board were trying to reach that point to figure it out. I'm not sure what we will find when we get there, but it appears that we will know the first people to get there.

Also, I curse whoever has come up with the AR system, may Bob Ross smite them, praise be.


Senior year can be very stressful when you are trying not to slack and you're doing everything you can to apply for scholarships and apply to a million different colleges. It's not as enjoyable as people make it out to be. But you just have to make the best of it and realize that this is it after this year you're done with public school. Despite all the stresses of senior year and the unfortunate events, you'll go far if you just keep your head up and get through it.


To be Honest, senior year can only ever be a letdown. They always tell you it will be the best year of your life just to give you hope, but it simply cannot be. Looking back 10 years ago now I had some good times, but man the first semester of college was better. Then college slowly got worse every semester until I was just ready to graduate.

The best of my life has come since finishing college, starting a career, getting married, and having a kid. (Not in that particular order).


Tell me about it, man. My senior year wasn't as bad as yours, but I was extremely depressed and demotivated since I was experiencing a dysfunctional relationship. Compared to my Freshman year where I got all A's, my Senior year consisted of F after F. My band director and counselors were always grilling my ass about failing. I wasn't able to perform for most events regarding band as well. Most of the Trombone section that I led despised me. I was bottom 61% of my class, and I had a GPA of 2.2. Not even my girlfriend at the time (who was top 10% NHS with a GPA of around 3.5) couldn't help me. It wasn't until the final month of the year that I clutched and barely graduated. Now that I'm in college, I hold a 3.4 GPA and I intend to keep it that way, despite my ex saying how her new partner is so much more of a man than me. I use that as motivation to build myself, and to constantly brand in my mind that things will get better, and they will get better.


At least I get to go to a self-taught, open classroom school where I can get college credit easily instead of regular high school.


The previous Senior Class was the reason we lost all the perks my Senior class was supposed to have, including:
>leaving school grounds to eat lunch during lunch period
>not having to ID yourself to use the library or other computer labs during lunch in order to do work.
Senior year is overrated.


Pfft, I just carry my books all the time.
And I wonder whether I'll need to visit a physiotherapist in the next 10 years because of that. But hey, at least I don't have to worry about leaving stuff at school that I want at home.

Also, schools in the USA have parking for students? Whoa...that's so much privilege.

Overall, it seems that public schools in Australia are democratic schools in comparison to schools in the USA.


Having and dealing with the shit storm of your senior year sucks but at least you have the insight to learn from it. For me I didn't have that moment until my early 20's so good on you for getting that lesson early on.


"Most valueable lesson I ever learned" nice one.


So wait, you’ve been on YouTube making YTP since you were in elementary school?

If he graduated in 2016, then he would've started making YTP in 6th grade (middle school)


Haven't watched this in 2 years, now a sophmore, god I feel the same way about freshmen


My senior year was very easy. I had 1 book I kept left in class and went to a career center or what ever where I messed around with computers for 3 hours a day sitting in very comfortable chairs in air conditioning. My first class was in an air conditioned room where I messed around making animations, folllowed by English, and physics (English was easy and Physics was meh), and then lunch followed by getting on a bus for 30-45 minutes playing on our school laptops to go to the career center.


Emplemon: "I don't usually like to complain"
Emplemon 3 years later: Downwardspiraldownwarspiraldownwardspiral

Emplemon: "I don't usually like to complain"
Emplemon 3 years later: *Downwardspiraldownwarspiraldownwardspiral*


Hey Lemon your story reminds me of my story in senior year. They let the freshmen pick theirs first. What a fucking brilliant idea, eh? Just turns out that half the lockers were shut down because of  growing mildew INSIDE THE FUCKING LOCKERS! Yeah. The walls were literally rotting away. Idk how, but they did. I kinda had a light load senior year cause I wasn't going to college, so carrying all my shit around was easy peasy. But I feel for ya bro. High school sucks


My Senior year got knee-capped by Coronavirus, and Emp's story still sounds worse.


I think senior year can be entirely summed up by the Pink Floyd song "High Hopes."<br>You struggle your entire school life to get to senior year, because senior year is this amazing experience of great times and easy rolling. But you get there, and it's just the same old shit, in a different toilet. Yeah, you can drive now, but you still gotta wait for traffic to clear just like every johnny freshman in the pick-up loop. The teachers are just as overworked and undermotivated, the staff is just as dumb, and the classwork is just as pointlessly unrelenting. Nothing's fucking changed.

I think senior year can be entirely summed up by the Pink Floyd song "High Hopes."
You struggle your entire school life to get to senior year, because senior year is this amazing experience of great times and easy rolling. But you get there, and it's just the same old shit, in a different toilet. Yeah, you can drive now, but you still gotta wait for traffic to clear just like every johnny freshman in the pick-up loop. The teachers are just as overworked and undermotivated, the staff is just as dumb, and the classwork is just as pointlessly unrelenting. Nothing's fucking changed.


When this Summer is over, I'll be a senior...and I first watched this video in 8th grade (which was when this video was released)


Moral of the story: YOU CAN'T TRUST THE SYSTEM

Yes, kids. You were right. School is a waste of time. Do not bother getting good grades on any subject you know you wont need in the future. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME. Well at least more than you are forced to.

All education after primary school should be made optional. School after that is just there to make people more stupid and more unquestionably obedient to authority.

I took the system, and threw it on the GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't go to college today 'cause I was really ticked off

I took and threw it on the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Honestly sounds way better than my entire high school experience.


I hated Senior year, I basically spent the whole time being a robot doing work so I could go to college but, it was worth the effort. Loved University.


I understand your nuclear rage thing. I've reached that level a few times before. It's never fun.


I'm in senior year right now and my high school has some similar policies, I feel your pain


I had AP classes and I know friends who have IB, I feel so damn sorry for you.


Coming back to this video as a senior this time. Circumstances have been...less than ideal


My senior year was neat. We were having a new school built to replace the old school. For the first half of the year we were in the old building, then second half of the year, we were in the new building. So I was a part of the last graduating class of the old school and the first of the new.


Oooh i know about the nuclear rage thing sooo well...
I had the most shitty time of my life up until that point, rage building like you said and then i was wrongly accused of "Sneaking out behind the teachers back" (2 girls left with me, IN FRONT OF ME) when the teacher said we would take a break. She lectured me for 45 minutes, cutting off EVERY SINGLE word i tried to say. 45!! MINUTES!!.

My Vision legit went black for a split second and when it returned, i stood upright and almost bashed her face in. She looked scared to death trying to escape leaning back in her chair.
Let me make it clear that i'm COMPLETELY against beating up anybody, especially females if you are a guy (though to be fair, she weighed at least 200kg more than me) and i also was able to stop myself from doing so just in time, i just didn't have control in that moment. But goddamn, was that a scary moment in my life.


Those freshmen are almost at your point. Now they will know the reality of senior year at this school.


I had a similar Senior year experience, but I got to do it at a brand new school because my mom kicked me out at the tail end of my Junior year. That was fun.


...So this story means you became a YTP god in freaking middle school?

Respect.


"when i entered as a loser into seinor year" same dude.


My school just started appealing to Freshmen last year aswell. I’m going into Senior Year, and seniors are getting knocked down a bunch of notches because freshmen parents complained of “bullying”


sounds like school life is just "12 years a slave"


I try to do the same. It's just that there are a lot of things I find infuriating.

Plus having a sleep disorder doesn't help either


Leaving High School felt so heavenly, oh my god.


I am a freshman, and believe me, I know I ain't shit. I'm honestly not ready for the next 3 years...

I didn't want this year to end.


I'm watching videos made by someone 7 years younger than me with a car.<br>Also that load of shit you went through sounds awful man.  I had my own much different problems that involved me getting a special setup where I only went to school once every other week to pick up these massive packets I'd bust out in 2 days so I could work a part time job in my free time so I could afford to go to university.  ...In retrospect, probably should have gotten a car instead of a master's degree...  ...but hey, no student debt.

I'm watching videos made by someone 7 years younger than me with a car.
Also that load of shit you went through sounds awful man.  I had my own much different problems that involved me getting a special setup where I only went to school once every other week to pick up these massive packets I'd bust out in 2 days so I could work a part time job in my free time so I could afford to go to university.  ...In retrospect, probably should have gotten a car instead of a master's degree...  ...but hey, no student debt.


Things that confused me about this story:

1) Books are handed out at the library, not by the teacher in a classroom.
2) Planners are bought through a "school store" instead of at the supermarket or wherever (the only "store" the school had was the slushie machine in the cafeteria, and whoever was selling in between classes. I guess there was the occasional fund raiser, but that wasn't like a physical location or anything.)
3) Students choose their lockers, instead of being assigned a number by the school (generally based off of grade and proximity to classrooms of that grade level, to try and prevent fights, etc.)
4) You can "rent" a locker.
5) External locks are allowed on lockers, instead of the ones built into the locker (external locks would be cut off during routine drug and weapon sweeps, and people would get in trouble for attaching them even though locker break-ins were normal.)
6) Your books didn't come pre-waterlogged.
7) There was "honor student and general student parking" instead of just like, 15-20 spots that were reserved for the highest GPA seniors in the entire school.
8) Parents were permitted to drive up to the building at all (ours had an immediate pick-up/drop-off area that the cops sat around regularly due to it being a "security threat".)
9) You went into high school with faith in your school system.
10) You went into high school with the prospect of going to college.

I really didn't think public schools were that different in different places, but I mean...yeah. I genuinely have a hard time relating to any of the problems you mentioned in this video. Crazy.


yo emp! I love your channel and your videos regardless of what they are! 😀


Ironically I am a freshman this year and this is the year I watch this, and frankly your right.


Sup EmpLemon Class of 2016 graduate here. Something similar happened to me my junior year, I fucking hated junior year it was complete shit. However senior year was awesome and kinda fixed my shitty experience as a junior. I'm sorry you had to experience all that bullshit and trust me I know how you felt, like I said I experienced the bullshit junior year. Now that I'm starting my first year of college I realize that high school wasn't as hard as I thought it was back then now that I'm college. Btw it's pretty cool that we are part of the same class, and I wish you the best of luck in you're career man.


5:55 God emp when you mentioned this I automatically got flash backs of 4th grade I was In special ed (for some reason) and the celling always leaked out this brown stuff witch was dirty water and it got EVERYWHERE the floors the desks the doors it was awful and it wasn't just in our class it was In EVERY CLASS it even got on the news and eventually they replaced all the ceilings and fixed the pipes to stop the leaking. a lot of shit happened in my school years I'll tell you all about it one day.


I watched this video as a freshman and returning as a senior right now, and understanding your frustration of being put below freshmen, they are truly worthless garbage,


I watched this as a freshman. Now I am the senior. I understand so much.


You are clearly an avid awesome U2 Fan...join the club brother...I feel your pain


makes me feel good about dropping out right before senior year


I agree, my senior year of high school sucked too.


"Cool story, bro!" I always thought you were 20-something...HS was 30 years ago for me but still entertaining