50 Things That Should Not Exist: Sparkler School Edition

Sparkler yasna18 was inspired by Dan Bergstein's post 50 Things That Should Not Exist, and has created her own school edition. We give her snaps for coming up with such a long list!  —SparkNotes editors

1.     Schools that start before 8.30 a.m.

2.     First period math.

3.     First period in general.

4.     A block period of foreign language.

5.     Teachers who give zero credit for effort on tests.

6.     Teachers who don’t believe in extra credit.

7.     Muddy grass areas in the quad.

8.     Freshman Friday. (Alliteration is no excuse for torture.)

9.     Stifling hot classrooms.

10.  That weird lab partner in chem who reeks.

11.  Jocks who show off how buff they are in P.E.

12.  Jocks who start cracking perverted jokes in sex ed.

13.  Girls who wear ridiculously skimpy clothes.

14.  Having to figure out what to wear to school.

15.  The teacher’s pet.

16.  The goody-two shoes.

17.  Rebellious and anarchist upperclassmen.

18.  Getting marked tardy when you are an inch from your seat when the bell rings.

19.  Lengthy essay questions.

20.  Test questions that make you feel like an idiot.

21.  Pop quizzes.

22.  Mean girls.

23.  The week before finals.

24.  Hour-long lectures.

25.  Long lines to use the microwave.

26.  Vending machines that are out of snacks.

27.  Vending machines that swallow your money and don’t give you a snack.

28.  Smelly P.E. locker rooms.

29.  Minuscule lockers.

30.  Having to bring your textbooks to school every day.

31.  Having to share a locker with someone who hogs all the space.

32.  Girls who hog the bathroom mirrors to apply makeup.

33.  Guys who don’t use deodorant.

34.  Teachers who absolutely refuse to believe that they could be mistaken.

35.  Binder/notebook checks to see if we are organized.

36.  Little minuses attached to the grades on our report cards.

37.  Teachers who don’t round up our grade to the nearest whole percent.

38.  Detention (had to put that in somewhere).

39.  Feeling all hot and sweaty from the bike ride home after school.

40.  Seating charts.

41.  Heavy backpacks.

42.  Stressful weekends.

43.  Old computers in the library that take forever to load a webpage.

44.  Missing a class and then having little time to make up all the work.

45.  Clocks that move too slowly.

46.  Social obligation to participate in spirit week.

47.  Making silly mistakes on tests/quizzes.

48.  Tests that are worth 70 percent of your final grade.

49.  Baseless popularity.

50.  The ostracizing and shunning of intelligent people (aka nerds).

Anything you'd like to add to the list?

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