High School Stories

Sophomore Boys Think Computer-based Class is a Free Period

Year: Senior

Like I said earlier, during my senior year, I had two semester-based electives. My first semester elective was mostly HTML coding, and during the last few weeks, we did some basic photoshop stuff. This class took place in one of the school's computer labs, and to understand how this story played out, here is a drawing of the classroom below.

I sat next to this girl in my grade named Kelly, and we got along pretty well. As we were doing our work, we would pretty much talk about whatever. Now, there were these kids who sat in front of the row next to us that were always halfway behind because they preferred to go on YouTube and watch a bunch of silly videos and goof off instead of doing the classwork. The two kids labeled in front would also join them for this. You may think this sounds like something freshmen would do, except there were no freshmen in that class. All four of these boys were sophomores.

Because they were in front of us, Kelly and I were able to see all the stuff they were doing. As the end of the semester approached, they took it upon themselves to be more annoying. When finals were coming up, the teacher gave everyone a study guide to fill out except for the seniors. At my school, if you were a senior and you got at least a 20 on the ACT, you were exempt from finals the whole year. Thanks to that, Kelly and I got to play flash games on the computer instead. Obviously, we had a slightly longer winter break than the other students.

I remember, a day or two before finals, these four thought that because it was the last day of the semester, they could do as they pleased and not get in trouble. So, they proceeded to play a video at a very loud volume for everyone to hear. This is the video in question.

We all started laughing while Kelly said "Oh my gosh they are so annoying." Even the teacher got a little laugh out. Now, this teacher was having a second class the following semester, which consisted of HTML coding and basic animation I think. Since I was taking culinary, I didn't have to deal with them but Kelly said she was stuck.

Well, later that school year I learned that the teacher specifically made those four boys sit in the back row so that she could keep an eye on them. I guess it didn't work much because when I met up with Kelly at prom, she told me that that class was a living hell and the teacher yelled at those four every day. Since we all graduated a few weeks later, I bet she was happy to be done with those four forever. 

Bonus: After we were finished with our Photoshop section, our final assignment was to create a very simple Christmas card and demonstrate our knowledge of using layers. We could also use Hannukah, Kwanzaa, or even just a generic Happy Holidays/Season's Greetings. When I was trying to figure out what to do with mine, this one kid who sat right in front of me called the teacher over and asked her if he could use a character on the card. She asked him who it was, and he pulled up a bunch of pictures of Lazy Town's Robbie Rotten on Google Images. This was in late 2016, so if you know, you know. 

The teacher then announced to the class that we were all allowed to use characters as long as it was school-appropriate, so of course a lot of us took advantage of that. Here's the one I made.

During finals preparation, since I had nothing else to do besides play games, I decided to make an extra one for fun.