School and Benchmarks...and tests, quizzes, and homework

     School... so EVERY six weeks we have to take a benchmark, Ugh. I hate benchmarks and im sure everyone else hates them to. Like seriously not everyone will remember everything they learned though out the whole year, and not to mention we all tend to freak out a bit when we see that big packet smack down on our desk. Benchmarks are just test and quizzes bunched up, and it pressures most of us to do good so we rush or over think everything cause we know they look at those scores carefully.
Test, Quizzes, and Homework..... Uggg, this whole thing on we have to prove we know what we are doing is like... ugg. Test and quizzes are OK i guess but homework, noooooo. Homework should be an optional practice and should never take longer than 30 mins to do. BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE ALSO WANT TO DO OTHER THINGS THAN LEAR AND WORK, AND YOU WANT TO DO OTHER THINGS THAT GRADING EVERY WORKSHEET! Think if e didn't have to do homework teachers wouldn't have to grade as much and it would be our fault if we didn't practice with the homework and got a bad grade on the test. I think this is logical and would work. Don't take any grade on the homework unless they turned it in and it should be a easy 100 and those people can have a better grade than those who just take the tests and fail or get a passing grade.

I could go on with this but im leaving this up to you guys, what do you think about all this?

Ebola and school

As we all know Ebola has been the highlight of everything and anything for the past few months and the commotion finally died down but, in those few months this is what it sounded like. Every cough or sneeze "EBOLA" "EBOLA" like chickens running away from the farmer.... yeah maybe not the est analogy but, still it was the same thing every time and the same commotion erupted. "Where did he/she go" "EWWW, gross" "get away" "Do you have Ebola?
         Then in science it all go brought up again, same in history and language arts. In math it was quiet weirdly enough, the teacher just plain scared us and hated to take about any thing like that with germs and people. So in math we all just kinda sat their thinking about what new Ebola catch phrase we could say next. I personally wasn't one to do that, i just sat their kinda angry and annoyed at this, i mean for one day yeah that's fine but for a month? No way, i was tired of it so i just finally shut them out. Ebola and school don't mix what so ever!

Being a young teen

Being a young teen is actually really hard, and here are the reasons why.

1.Cant earn money easily
2 .Boring
3. You cant drive
4. No credit card
5. Strict parents

With all 5 of these bugging you and not letting you have fun in your life, your screwed. Well not completely though, you can mow the lawn, babysit, do chores, hangout with friends, go swimming, and all those kind of things but, you are kinda bored of all that because you have done that for your whole life so you want to try something different. Oh yeah, another thing that makes it even harder being a young teen is that you are always being nagged on by your parents to clean and to do something other than being in front of a screen. So then you have to go pretend your doing something while your other friends are really doing something so you cant do anything cause the people that you hangout with are gone. So basically being a young teen is just a huge circle of boredom; wanting to hang with friends when they are hanging with their friends so you cant do anything, wanting to do something big and not, being lazy, getting nagged at, cleaning your room and then making it a mess, and then becoming hungry.

Washed out

Its a washed out world where everyone seems the same. They all want to be the same. Only few are different from everyone else, the ones who stand out, the ones who try but are never noticed, the ones who are weird and crazy, the ones who want to be themselves but are forced into a different state of mind. The world is drained from all its uniqueness, from all its color so its down to 2, from all its sounds so its down to 1, from all it's feelings so now its down to none. Love is tossed around and hate is used as a weapon. No one sees when one is crying and no one sees ones pain. We are trained to see the outside only and hide the inside. We are trained to never ask why. But the world is all in perspective honey, you just need to change yours to see. To see what you are supposed to see, and that's me.

-M.B

Christmas

As you get older the lights seem to get smaller, the songs become shorter, Christmas becomes something that used to be. Something that used to make you laugh and something that stuck with you for days before and after. Now its just a routine and another thing that you want back, but no matter how hard you try or believe it won't change the fact that its gone, its not what it used to be.
~M.B