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?

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