School

A few points that I noticed from my first day of school:

1. I was under the apparently incorrect impression that it was against federal law to assign any homework beyond signing contracts (which I will address in 2). However, in both my math and chemistry class, I actually had homework. Albeit, I don't need to turn it in until 3 days later, but my point is, can I sue them?

2. a. I understand the point behind contracts. But what if we don't want to sign it? For example, I got about five from Newspaper. One of them was an agreement to sell a ridiculous number of ads. That, I don't want to sign at all. Do I have a choice? I wonder what will happen if I don't.

b. Some contracts that are given are rather pointless. I understand the necessity of such a thing for classes such as Graphic Design and Newspaper where one may be utilizing expensive equipment, and the contract provides a solid force for replacement money if it breaks. However, why do we need a contract for a class like Spanish? We don't use anything expensive besides the textbooks, which are school property and the school will make you replace them anyway if lost. The contract is mostly saying that we agree to behave, which, if we don't, the teachers have every right to punish us anyway. It will not cause a legal dispute if there wasn't a contract. Are teachers like that trying to make their class seem important?

3. People have been saying that freshmen are everywhere, but frankly, I haven't noticed that many. I don't make it a habit to memorise the face of every upperclassmen in the school, but I can't be that unobservant. Also, I could have sworn I was not that small last year.

4. This is not new to this school year. In fact, I noticed this a long time ago in my school. There are a lot of short blond kids here. It's not like they all look the same, their faces are actually very different, but that does not make up for the fact that they are all short, blonde, and male. It's actually rather creepy when I put it that way, but I assure you it's the truth.