Soo... let's try this. This might be ridiculously cliché to rant about, but... high school. Just... high school. And, especially, finals.
So, first (literally), there's the time it starts. I have to be waiting for the bus by 7:30, and usually have to wake up at 6:30 — which, in winter, is still pitch black. I don't know about you guys, but when it's dark outside I don't want to be up!
At least for mornings. At night, because of how my circadian rhythm (the cycle that controls when you feel tired/energetic) being altered by adolescence, I can't even hope to get into bed before ten pm— and that's lucky. (AND if I don't have a mountain of homework too pressing to ignore.) Then once I'm actually under the covers, every thought my brain can't be bothered to push in my direction while vertical floods through my conscious mind, preventing me from sleep even more. That's part of why I have a notepad and pencil next to my glasses case on my bedside table — inspiration can indeed strike during a midnight bathroom run.
Where were we? Oh, right, finals. I have final tests in both math and biology— the other classes aren't tests, per se (an opinion essay in Writing and a cutting board in Woodshop). But the two classes that have actual final tests are ALSO the classes that are having mini-units right before the final, as if we don't have enough to worry about with finals! (Mini side-rant: we all know high school is stressful. We also all know that adolescence and mental health are linked. But a high schooler can't take a SINGLE MENTAL HEALTH DAY without coming back to twenty-plus missed assignments and lessons and whatnot, which piles MORE stress onto the stress they were trying to take a break from!)
In short, high schoolers are overworked, underslept (that's a word now), overpressured, and something needs to change.
-ControlledChaos105
P.S. The more observant of you may notice that this was published during school hours, and you'd be right. I'm in third period study hall at the moment — ranting about my amount of homework instead of doing homework. Nobody does homework in study hall. That would be responsible and logical.
P.P.S. The less observant of the more observant of you may not have noticed that the P.S. was written sarcastically.
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