I Never Had to Choose My Subject - Rather, My Subject Chose Me - Harrison Broyles

Writing Territories

Fears - Hope's driving, Hope scalping, slaughtering, or otherwise causing me harm in my sleep

Annoyances - Hope's driving, people with no work ethic, people with too much of a work ethic, rudeness, arrogance, pride, selfishness, abuse, crime, stupidity, and people in general

Accomplishments - Best in Class at AP Napping, one of two applicants NOT to get a promotion at ChickFilA, third favorite child out of three

Confusions - Physics, Physics, Mrs. Gill, Physics, Management at ChickFilA

Sorrows - School, Waking up too early

Dreams - Getting out of School, Business Admin, owning a ChickFilA

Idiosyncrasies - I must take more than one shower a day

Risks - Riding in the same car as Hope, driving in the same car as Hope, being around Hope, Hope

Beloved Possessions, Now and Then - Then: My Grades // Now: Sleep

Problems - The Hispanics at ChickFilA laugh at me when I try to speak Spanish

The education system now kills me. We hire ineffective teachers (not all but many), pay them next to nothing, then compare their non-existent abilities to some national standard measured by an arbitrary absolutely-positively-meaningless test that's SOLE PURPOSE is to inaccurately predict your performance in college. Instead, we need to promote real learning- learning achieved through a teacher that is allowed to be passionate, to be themselves, and to be free to teach what they think is important to teach to their students. I should not be required to know the Second Fundamental Theorem of Calculus when I don't even know what the difference between tax forms is (and many high schoolers, including myself, have jobs and should know about this!). I should feel free to pursue a drawing or pottery course at school without worrying about my weighted GPA- something that I've wanted to do for a long time but can't for that sole reason. And most importantly, I shouldn't be dissuaded from a course due to a bad teacher. There are too many examples throughout Henry Clay alone of teachers that just don't care enough to do a good job. This decimates student opportunity because if I wanted to take an Economics course of some sort, I would need to put up with the one teacher in that class area, who may not necessarily be a good one.