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[Boleslav]

Is the earth flat or round?

Staples, you know I love you, but try to keep the joke spam under control in this thread. Gracias.

Okay I'm going to High School on August 25th. While I was in middle school I was a class clown. I did all sorts of things to make teachers mad. I threw confetti, I was facetious, I had a weird laugh that would make teachers mad but make my peers laugh. Several times the teachers would tell me if I did this stuff in high school I would get suspended. So my question is:
If I act a fool in class, throw confetti when not appropriate, and make annoying noises in class will I get suspended? If yes then how long?

I have a couple of questions. Why were you trying to make the teachers mad? Why are you throwing confetti and making noises?

In answer to your question, suspension is a pretty big punishment. It is not the first action a school will want to take (unless there is no other choice) because it results in you being absent for a few days (maybe 3?) in what is probably a state accountability assessment year, and suspensions show up as statistics (by race) downtown. So a high school won't go straight to suspension. At my school, I'd be asking you the questions I asked above, then we'd go to a team meeting, then a phone call home to schedule a parent conference, and I would be documenting throughout. So before it got to suspension there would be a number of interventions. Another thing you need to know is that by the time it gets to suspension, you have lost all control over your fate and are in the hands of administrators.

[*jdm*]

It's also a maturity question MM, since you'll be a freshman you might have more leeway though

[Skirata]

You'd probably win praise at my school (a majority of my teachers let all kinds of **** fly like bullying, throwing chairs, making sexist remarks about classmates/teachers).

[*jdm*]

making sexist remarks about classmates/teachers).

thats every school bro

[Arathorn136]

thats every school bro

Even in Canada, where supposedly everyone is nice and polite.

And MM, don't feel bad about the occasional prank. I'm in highschool and let me tell you, it's really fun to sneak out of class and write crap on teachers' cars with this Crayola Window Writer markers.

[Staples]

You know how to live dude.

When will you learn? You cannot e-insult me.

[Heraclius]

How fast does an average high school Calculus class move? More importantly, will we reach Integrals or will I need to teach them to myself next summer?

[Boleslav]

Awesomeness and Staples, take it to PMs. This part of the forum is Seriously OT, and it is not the place to carry out these spammy little chats. Forum members who spam in this section lose the ability to access this section, and I've asked you once already in this thread to quit.

[Bree Fletcher]

How fast does an average high school Calculus class move? More importantly, will we reach Integrals or will I need to teach them to myself next summer?

Well I can't speak for all of them, but my class got to integrals a little after halfway through the year. If that helps.

[Heraclius]

Well I can hope for that anyway. But it is my understanding that in my school we are reaching derivatives at that point (which is funny because I can already do them) and spend an inordinate amount of time on limits for some reason. Hopefully the new math curriculum that my class has been using will accelerate that a little.