100-Word Rants: 2020
Everyone has an opinion. Can you express yours in exactly 100 words? Send your rant to [email protected]. If we select it for publication, get your shades out!
Respecting Each Other
Why is it, where ever I go, I always run into people who seem to have no respect for themselves or those around them? Is it so much to ask to see people have the decency to talk civilly with others? Or even to have some level of modesty and humility? Where has our humility gone? From what I see, we seem like a bunch of wild animals. I didn’t say pack because a pack knows how to actually work toge...
What Harm Does a Hood Do?
Something that grinds my gears is when teachers tell us to put our hoods down. Sometimes I am having a bad hair day and really want my hood to be up. Sometimes I am sad and don’t want people talking to me and if I have my hood up, then people will leave me alone. Outside of school, I always have my hood up unless I am having a good hair day and I wish I could have it during school. I don’t und...
Driving Too Close to Others
The most annoying thing is when you are driving on the road and someone is very close to you. If it’s either beside you on the interstate or behind you tailgating you. On the interstate, it is very dangerous to be close to someone. There could be debris or a deer, you just never know. Also when you are driving on a 25-speed limit road and someone is very close to you. It is very annoying because you...
Long Lunch Lines
The thing that bothers me the most about school lunch is the long lunch lines. Long lunch lines are so annoying. I think anyone can agree with me on this one. All the teachers always tell people to slow down in the hallways but we are just trying to get enough time to eat our food. By the time you get there, wait in line for 10 minutes you’re honestly just hoping you have enough time to eat, and at...
COVID-19 Ruined Track Season
I don’t like that COVID was brought to our attention right when track season started. Track is my favorite sport and I feel like we could have had a great season. In the off-season, we started winter warriors and did a bunch of speed work training. I felt like we were ready for the season, but of course, right when we start having meets it gets canceled. I think we could have had a season by limi...
Lunch Periods Should Be Longer
I think the lunch period should be longer. What if you are late? What if it’s a Wednesday? I believe lunch should be given time to enjoy food, not scarf it down within 25 minutes. And that’s if you get to the front of the extremely long lunch line. But you have to stand in line for about 8 minutes if you're in the back. Plus, for athletes that eat school lunch, their digestive system probably won�...
Making a Bed Is Pointless
Some people make their bed as a daily morning task. I think making your bed is pointless in general. A bed is only made for the few hours that you're not in it, then when you go to sleep for the night or go take a nap it’s just going to turn into an unmade mess again. Sure, it may make you feel more put together leaving for the day with a cleaner room, but It’s really a waste of time. The few minute...
The Sink Water is Too Cold
Don’t you just hate it when you get out of the bathroom to go wash your hands and the water is cold? Even in the days of Covid, you would think that the school would accept the fact that warmer water kills germs and decide to change that, but no. It is ridiculous. I do not come to school and wash my hand to have cold water. I am doing my part to keep the school sanitary and I can’t even do ...
Class Priorities
The American school system prioritizes and requires some types of classes in favor of others, regardless of their importance. For History, it’s understandable why we should know about important historical events, so we don’t cause wars and stuff. And writing is something all people do, regardless of occupation, and should know how to do so they don’t look dumb when writing a social media pos...
Shorter School Days
A school day should not be seven hours a day, five days a week. Students should get to decide whether they want to stay at school after they have all their classes done for the day. Lots of students have 2 or more study halls a day and most of them just play on their phones anyway. A school day should be until about 12 o’clock pm then after they decide if they need to stay for study time or any o...
It’s Too Cold Inside the School
It is always freezing in the school. Actually, it’s only 69° but it still feels so chilly. I have been told that it is because chilled temperatures help you focus in the classroom but my experience is just the opposite. I find it difficult to concentrate on my schoolwork and assignments during class because I am more focused on preserving my body heat and keeping myself warm. The coldness makes me jit...
Leaving for Lunch
Students should be allowed to leave the school campus during their lunch break. The positives that come with leaving campus outweigh the negatives. For starters, the school can save tons of money. Money that went towards lunches can go towards other things that benefit the school district. Not only does leaving campus gain a sense of responsibility for students, but it also develops communication ...
Unacceptable Bathroom Conditions
What is wrong with our high school bathrooms? First off, why aren’t there doors on the bathrooms, like some of us want privacy. Second, the water in the faucets are so cold. You’re telling me that water that literally freezes your hands makes them clean. It makes your hands so dry and doesn’t do anything. I think the water should be so much warmer because it would make our hands cleaner and get ...
Respecting Others Political Views
Everyone has different political views, but why can we respect each others opinions? With the 2020 elections happening right now all I see when I get on social media are people arguing about who everyone should vote for. Everyone is coming at each other in the comments. When reading the comments I question why some of the things were even said. The hate being spread is unnecessary because in the e...
Exclusivity is Toxic
Exclusivity is toxic. It’s not that hard to include people in your plans. I’ve noticed a pattern in my daily life where people, who’d I’d like to call my friends, exclude me from several activities they planned without me. The worst part is when they discuss their plans around me, while I’m just sitting there clearly upset. It leaves me thinking, “What am I doing wrong?” and “Why I ...
Stop Giving Tests on Irrelevant Facts
I love learning with a passion. I thoroughly enjoy mentally deliberating the causation and correlation between various historical events, and reading books of all different genres is one of my favorite pastimes. However, when learning involves tests and assignments where there are strictly correct and incorrect answers, it sucks all of the fun out of education. What does it matter if I know the da...
Too Many Islands in the School Parking Lot
Why are there so many islands in our school parking lot? With new drivers at the school, these random extra curbs get difficult to avoid. Leaving the school can be a stressful time for some drivers with vehicles trying to exit the parking lot. You already have to avoid reckless drivers, pedestrians, and now the islands. If you do end up hitting one of the islands, your wheels and tires will most like...
Buses Instead of Blizzards
Why can't there be free buses to take students to and from school? Why do we have to pay people to take us to school? Not everyone has a car and not everyone lives in the country. Some people don't have parents or guardians to take them. Or they don't have money to pay the bus company and you expect us to walk home while freezing cold and it is blizzarding. Then we get in trouble for not making it on...
Is Our State Curriculum Right?
AHS offers a lot of classes to their students, but these classes aren’t teaching what we really need. I'm someone who has two older siblings. They graduated high school without learning very important life skills like how to do taxes. I think there are a lot of more important things to do in life than geometric proofs, and Pythagorean theorem. Yes, some job professions may require those skills but yo...
Saying No to Homework
Why is homework not schoolwork? The average student will go to school for seven to eight hours a day, five times a week. And still when we finally get the chance to go home, we are welcomed with more work? You go to school to learn, that learning should be kept in school. Teachers giving out homework at the end of class with little to no work time just drags students stressful situations home with ...
Tailgating is Trash
Tailgating is when one vehicle is driving too closely behind another vehicle. This happens to me very often. Whether I’m driving to school, a game, or even to Walmart, there is always a car that drives so unbelievably close behind me, I feel uncomfortable. It is not because I’m driving too slow. It is so frustrating when I’m driving over the speed limit and someone just comes behind me and acts l...
Stop Talking During Free Reading Time
The main character in my book is on the verge of death, and I’m on the verge of tears. Then a loud laugh comes from somewhere around the room. Murmuring erupts around the room and soon it turns to loud whispering. I consider myself a chill person but the one thing that gets under my skin is when people start talking during free reading time. It’s annoying to hear loud whispers while I am trying...
High School Deserves Recess
Recess needs to come back to high school. People get tired of sitting in class all day with no activities except weights or P.E. You might not get your friends in those classes, making them less entertaining. With recess, we can take a break and have fun for a while. When it gets cold in the winter we can go into the gym and do things there. If you don’t want to, you can hang out in the commons wit...
Mental Health is Important as Physical Health
Mental health days should be as important as physical health. One in four people struggle with some type of mental health and it’s the second deadliest disease in the world. Oftentimes, physical health is glorified more than mental health. Mental health is a key component when you do any task in your daily life. When you are struggling with mental health, you don’t have the motivation to do many ...
Separate Academic from Athletic Punishments
When an athlete in school gets in trouble, the teacher in that class always sends an email to the coach. This does not make sense to me. The teacher has the power to enforce punishment in their own classroom. Instead though, they email the athlete’s coach and running is always the punishment. After everyone on the team runs, all the teammates are upset because they ran for something they did...
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