Posts Tagged ‘relationships’
Top 5 ways to skip school (and why they’re disastrous)
Sometimes you just need a day off from school. Whether you need a day to catch up on your schoolwork or just to relax, it’s common and it’s not the worst thing in the world. A day off once or twice a year is fine, a day off once or twice a week is not. [...]
The Pot and the Kettle: Bullying
I read about a study a while ago which found that people who are cyberbullied are more likely to turn the tables and become cyberbullies. The study noted: “Child psychologist Shane Gallagher of Cambridgeshire Educational Psychology Service in the U.K. surveyed 239 teens (128 boys and 101 girls) aged 11 to 16 and their parents. [...]
GSA’s and Religion
I read an article this morning about Gay Straight Alliances and Catholic Schools. It’s not the first time we here at FYIHigh have commented on the issue. This time around, the news isn’t specifically about a school not supporting a GSA; it’s about Ontario’s Premier Dalton McGuinty not enforcing the specific presence of a GSA [...]
Out this weekend: Red Riding Hood
I went to the advanced screening of Red Riding Hood last night. I had such high hopes for this flick because the trailer reminded me of Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow and I was hoping for an eerie, creepy tale. Unfortunately Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke directed the movie, so it was all about sexual tension and rushed [...]
Out this weekend: Beastly
I feel like I’ve been waiting for this movie to come out for ages! I must have seen the trailer for the first time during the Spring of 2010. The cynic in me wants to immediately scoff and write Beastly off as a trite campy teeny-bopping mess. However, there are two actors attached to the [...]
Dance with a dud
I went to the dance and may I just say, what a loser! I really should have known judging by his method of invitation that this guy wasn’t going to be my chivalrous knight, but my goodness what a disaster. Leading up to the dance I was pretty excited, and I suppose optimistic. I knew [...]
The early bird does not get the worm.
Back in the fall of 2009 a school in Toronto pushed its start time ahead to 10:00 a.m. instead of the usual 9:00 or 8:30. The theory behind the time change is that the biological clock of teenagers starts later in the day. By pushing the start time forward, students would be better rested, more [...]
Boys boys boys
Boys and I have always had a bit of a funny relationship. In kindergarten I had more boyfriends than I could count on one hand (the only way I knew how). Now that I am older I’ll go on a date every now and then – but that’s it. The problem with dating a guy [...]