blue_eyed_demon1

Our society today has turned love into such a commercial and material emotion- so that we think we need to express ourselves more than physically- so what is love? Honestly I believe I've found it but what do I know? The only thing we know from love is from movies and romance novels- which is lust. Love nowadays means Lust which means (evidently) sex. You can have love without sex- I agree. But it's so rare nowadays that our judgement is plummeted into a pit of sweat and tears and blood- all of our own. Sweat from the sex, tears from the heartbreak, and blood from the sad emo-kids who get dumped . Just joking! But seriously, love is materialism nowadays and sex is slowly turning into a necessity- and it's being needed by people younger and younger.

This is really interesting. Kudos on knowledge and puzzle piecing.

Didn't you already use that one?

Hooray- Someone agrees with the girl with the fifth grade maturity level! How ironic!

Stop wasting our time!

No you're not done here Geoffrey. You started this by insulting something you were ignorant about. And now you won't be left alone about it. You are ignorant, biligerant and stuck up. Go cry over your university studies about how the poor wittle highschool students are taking your money. Shut up. You were a highschool student too- you took peoples money too- but you were different? C'mon! That's the argument of every teenager out there. "I'm different!" "I was different!" Get over yourself. Sorry but really- you're unique. Just like everybody else. Oh and by the way, if my side of the argument isn't quite past the fifth grade level (there's the proper way to say it! ) then I'm curious... if you're arguing with someone that immature- how mature does that make you?

What advantage will the portfolio grant me. I talked to several business owners if they thought portfolio would help me get a better job and they said no, they would just think of it as a really long resume, and if they were giving it they would throw it in the trash along with the rest of the resumes, that they didn't like. Be more specific: what do you mean by the arts? The first assignment is to look at and interpret a piece of art or a design. The closest assignment that comes to a science is the information technology assignment. Also there is no assignments reffering to math or any other science. And there is no assignments reffering to history, geography, or foreign languages. As an example of how confussing the Aspects are: Aspect 2.1 Criterea #5 Demonstrates that you have participated cooperatively and respectfully. How are you supposed to demonstrate this I would assume you get a note signed by the event organizer. Aspect 3.1 Criterea #1 Describes your transition plan in a concise format. What if you do not know what you are going to do after school many students are not on the same schedule as the school. There is no class time for this huge project. geoffrey have you looked at the portfolio and how huge it is. If you have not seen the assignments don't comment on it. I could do it in 1 year if it was the only thing I was working on. The principle at the school that I used to go to said that the portfolio will make us students better people. My dad took offence at this because he grew up in Ontario and was in school all the way up to grade 13 and post-secondary, and he is not considered a better person. yay Darth ^^

OMG GO AWAY! STOP IT! WE DON'T CARE! YOU HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED JACK SH*T OF PORTFOLIO! STOP TALKING! :angry:

If this is the best students can articulate concerns, I have serious doubts about the capabilities of BC's education system. These aren't concerns about the system. These are concerns about a homework assignment some kids don't want to do. No actually they want to take out a competitive advantage they get when they enter the workforce. If they spent as much time on the assignment as fighting it, they'd all get A's. It's a scary reflection upon the next wave of workers into our labour pool. "But I don't waaannnnttt to." Yikes. I still did my homework. I didn't complain that the system was broken because it required me to do a completely acceptable, practical assignment. Now go do your homework. You'd be done by now. Honey I was done MY homework days ago- but let's step back. You haven't even DONE portfolio- and your giving advice on it?? Get off it! Portfolio is absolutely ridiculous, not because of the work, but because of the requirement for how MUCH work in how much TIME. Until you've actually been put in this position or that of a portfolio teacher, you won't understand. I have asked every college I want to apply to and all the jobs I go to if portfolio matters- and some of them don't even know what it is! One of the portfolio teachers I talked to thinks it's stupid too- he doesn't care if we know how to use a computer- we should have learned that in elementary school!!! It's just some stupid way for the government to weave through the ones of us that are-in their eyes- "usefull". Holy crap if I knew you hadn't even known about portfolio I wouldn't have even started this whole thing- what's the point arguing with a clearly IGNORANT man? Stop talking about things you know nothing about.

And that's why people are on welfare. It's all about priorities. Opposing work because your lazy is one thing. My other priorities have been my professional career, which I got started in early. Not sitting around doing nothing then whining about homework. Everyone has time to do the hour at night, get out from in front of the TV or put the joint down for an hour or two. oh my gosh that's what I'm SAYING! you can't brand EVERYONE ELSE as LAZY because YOU weren't. wtf is that? self pity? the whole "i had to work and i had an excuse- what's yours" deal? Give it UP!

Go write a song. We aren't hear to be your emotional support, I could care less about their feelings. This is about public policy, not some ridiculous notion that high school grads are survivors of torture. I'm not an A+ brown nose, actually I've never been an amazingly high achiever in school. I have other priorities. But school isn't a torture exercise that's for sure, that's just ridiculous. I am a student current in university, and all I've got to tell you is that you've seen nothing yet. It's twice as tough in university and ten times as so in the real world. did i ever ask you to be my emotional support? please. i have way better things to do than to tell you how i feel. you're not worth it. and what's this "we"? if i'm not mistaken, you are one person. and if you feel there's more of you then maybe you should go see a psychiatrist before it gets worse than it already is. I never said highschool was a torture excersize, i'm smarter than that thank you very much. I'm well aware things are harder in the real world, if I wasn't I wouldn't even be touching this subject with a ten foot pole. (funny, kind of like my feelings towards you huh? ) And you say you were never a high achiever and you have other priorities? So do we. And that's why people don't get their homework done. Oh and you might not be an A+ brown nose... but you sure are at least a C+-B a$$hole.

Pay for your own school then. Do your homework and stop being lazy, thats all this comes down to. It's a valuable experience, you know, how to do work, something 95% of high school grads have no comprehension of. We don't choose to pay for our own school- stupid. If we did, half the kids in school right now wouldn't be there. I agree completely that portfolio is the biggest forced "creative" application to time (not to mention a waste of it) that isn't needed. The point was to get kids more involved with their school and their skills. Look where that got us! Some kids aren't health nuts. Some kids can't draw or sing or dance. Some kids are bloody introverted and anti-social- but we accept them for that because it's how we live. We're all different, but portfolio forces us to explore the parts of ourselves we dont' necessarily like or want to know about. And if you think highschool grads have no comprehension of work- then I think you should go back to highschool. It takes hard work to make it to where I am or where they've been. Whether that work is educational, social, mental, personal, you have to be strong. And so I admire the people who have graduated, because they're the survivors. The proof that you're willing to do something. So what if some people don't do their homework sometimes, and so what if they don't make something of themselves after highschool. That is a choice they made when they missed that interview or took that cocaine before work. Or even when they just wanted to lie around. But that is their choice. And it is NOT your place to judge that choice. I have seen no highschool student judging you so now I'm going to right back. (Yes this is immature, and I'm aware and I'm sorry) You seem to be a closed minded, outspoken, ignorant man with nothing better to do than to claim kids don't do their homework. And if you're a student, you're some arrogant A+ brown nose who will grow UP to be a closed minded outspoken ignorant man; and I am the immature, lazy, C+ average student who is getting on your last nerve. Well good. Cause you probably p*$$ed off a lot of other students with your comment. And they were right to be such. How dare you brand us all as lazy. How dare you brand the boy who tries hard in class but still only manages a C- because of problems at home, and having no friends, makes him depressed and he can't think straight or doesn't sleep at night. There are a lot of reasons kids don't do their homework. And yes, most of the time it's laziness. But don't you ever brand us all as such, because we are individuals. Just because maybe you didn't do your homework because of laziness, does not mean that I won't. So you can take your comment, and you can stuff it back down your throat with your foot- after you pull your head out of your a$$. Stop being so damn jaded and grow up.