Compare And Contrast The Expectations Of High School

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Expectations of High School Junior high is two years where it is comparable to the most awkward years. That is why most people can not wait until high school. I would say most people compare and contrast high school with their high expectations. Tv shows and movies and parents persuaded many upper elementary and junior high students including myself of what to expect out of high school. Tv shows and movies gave me high expectations of high school since they all showed the students not stressed by academics but bombarded by the stress of popularity or trying to achieve it. This expectation of no academic stress I wish was true because in my senior year of high school I can vividly remember it being pitch black outside with my light on …show more content…
To the north is the top tier popular crowd. This section is the closest to the food servings doors and also the doors to exit to eat outside when the temperature is right. On a normal day, I would say the north section is usually the loudest. Then you have the south end where you have the outcast and misfits. This section is where most of the detentions are given during lunch. South end side is where the principal and staff usually linger. Then you have the middle section where I lie the reason why there are no strong cliques in high school. Students in the middle section I think are a blend of both ends. I was someone that sat in the middle section for all of high school. Some years I would be more up north yet others farther south. In my junior year of high school during lunch I sat with the about same girls every day. There were two girls that would once in a while sit up north. The lunch room is a silent popularity scale that no one talks about, yet everyone knows …show more content…
Yet while I was in high school I was never involved or heard any of those examples done. The examples of bullying left me terrified the night before my first day in high school. I remember my fist day of walking the halls of the high school, I must have been shaking and sweating as if I had a fever. Personally, I believe that while in high school I was my own worst bully. Since I remember I always felt in my head the inability to achieve academically as others. Unlike shows would perceive my peers, teachers and parents are the ones that encouraged me. My parents persuaded me into thinking the expectation that the classes will be a breeze. As I would have to study three hours a night for a week before any science test, on the other hand, my dad elaborated before entering high school how he only studied and did homework for all of his classes for an hour and received an

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