and AF probably means “Aunt Flo”
EDIT - I know this because I showed my wife “The Power of Oneness” and she kept asking what AF meant. It means a very different thing to her.
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I’ll think about it when (if) the problem arises:)
Haha they don’t have AF, but there is SBXDH which is SoB Ex DH (DH = Dear husband)
I stopped reading women’s focused anything recently. The reason is that I saw in the supermarket: extra long panty liners. I was thinking… “hmm why would you need extra long panty liners… ff… fuuuuckkk”, and that traumatized me.
This. Get him started at 2 years old.
I had 800 people in my grad class alone, around 2400 in the entire school. Academically and athletically my HS was very highly ranked in the province. So I think it’s not so much a question of size as much as it is the professionalism of the teachers and the opportunities afforded to the students to develop themselves.
Plus the beauty of going to a large ethnically/economically mixed HS in an urban area is you come out of the experience unshelthered and get an idea of what the real world is actually like. I am grateful for that experience.
Yes Yes but some children just don’t react well to such large environments and feel overwhelmed. Putting them in such a situation at age 15 is going to make them deal with unnecessary complications.
Smaller schools are far better for all types of students and 4 years of college after you’ve actually figured yourself out a bit shows you enough of the ‘real world’.
'Appy Greenman?
Not trying to be a DH, but Isidurr really need’s to learn when to u’se an apostrophe and when he need’s to lea’ve it out.
Thi’s happen’s to be one of Greenmans pet peeve’s.
And DH mean’s “dickhead”, at least in Greenmans world.
I think that should be ‘Greenman’s world’ yes darling?
Student to teacher ratio matters more than student body size. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford all have 1200 to 1700 people per class. However, if you sit in classes with 20 students each, you still get a lot of attention from teachers. It doesn’t matter if there are many students if the school is able to commit a large amount of resources to each student. Or take Oxford, Cambridge, etc. where they divide the students into residential colleges like in Harry Potter, so it still feels initimate.
Big HS have pros and cons of course. All else equal, bigger student bodies can optimize resources and provide a wide range of classes and activities. HS with 500 kids per class is more likely to have Bronies Club than a HS with 50 kids. However, it will be harder to get into certain activities or classes - it’s easier to make the football team if the school can only choose from a small number of kids. If your class has 1000 people, it’s harder to qualify for a team of the same size.
We’re not talking about colleges, all colleges have large student bodies, students are adults by then so it’s ok.
Big High Schools have pros and cons whereas smaller schools don’t really have any. When i say small schools i don’t mean a tiny one, just a medium sized one. Some students just don’t react well to such a high octane environment and find the whole thing just a bit disorienting. The intense competetion for sports places etc isn’t really needed at such a young age.
Smaller schools also do away with the stupid stuff like cliques etc, bullying is also on a smaller scale because everything is noticed, they won’t ever get the feeling that they’re anonymous etc which was apparently the driving factor for those 2 dudes in columbine.
From England to Germany all the way to India the average range would be between 150-200 student’s per grade so if we had high school’s it would be around 800 student’s. None of these countries face the problems that American schools face.
What do you all consider to be “large” high schools? My HS (grades 9-12) had 300 - 350 in each year’s class and I thought that was kind of small considering the next district over (a “city” district) had 900+ in the 9th grade, although their 12th grade class was usually under 500 after all the dropouts. My district also had 2 other HS’s of similar size.
Just FYI - I went to public high school. We had ~150 students in the whole high school. We had 39 who graduated. If I remember correctly, only three dropped out.
And we were the only high school in our district. Everybody went to the same elementary, then to the same junior high, then to the same high school.
In Asia if you went to the best school in city it symbolizes a “status” symbol.
Anything larger than 200 per grade ie 800 for HS
I think this is universally true in all cities in the world.
In Highland Park (which is NOT to be confused with the lowly slum of Dallas), there’s a school called St. Mark’s. I think the first line on the application for admission is “Does your daddy own his own Learjet? If yes, please proceed to question #2. If not, please forward the application to the shredding department for consideration.”
@Greenman:This kind of mentality gives birth to corruption where the rich dad bribes the authorities to buy his son/daughter a seat in the school.The child later takes every thing for guaranteed thinking his rich papa will buy him all the good things in the world.Such spoon feeding never really allows the child to develop into a responsible citizen.
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Such generalizations also won’t serve you well 