The Culture Shock from Year 9 to 10
I have recently entered year 10. Everybody thinks that when they join high school or comprehensive school, that they are just going to be able to mess around for the 5 years that they are there. Including myself. I have just had a big culture shock in the way that the amount of pressure you are put under when entering year 10 is ridiculous. You go from year 9 minding your own business just getting by in lessons and having a laugh, to year 10 where the minute you enter a classroom the teacher is breathing down your neck about your GCSEs, and it is stressful. I am writing this to vent my opinions and I just want to give some advice from a personal experience. Teenagers need to start buckling down when they get to comp or high school and listening in class, even doing their homework, because if they don’t and they just mess around, life becomes very hard for them. They may be sat at the back of the class knowing nothing trying to blame it on the teachers and how rubbish they are, but in reality it’s not the teachers fault as they have already taught them all of the information they need to know for their exams in year 7, 8, and 9 but they couldn’t be bothered to listen.
