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Emily Paulson Brother Tom American Literture March 9, 2008 What Adults Don't Understand...

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They don't know the lies, the truth, the fact or the meaning and values.

The everyday conversation contains the words " good, bad, fine, okay, I don't care, whatever."

They don't know the rumors, the kids, the faces, who I like or whose calling me a bitch.

They don't know the weekends, the trouble, the stories, the online chats, the jokes, or the facebook fights.

The teenage life is hidden under each smiling face or wet tear.

What adults don't understand; the school, the drama, the things we face, it everything they don't know about my life.

Good grades is a must for a high school students future but for us its only part of the school day struggles.

Six hours a day we sit in desks listening to teachers remind us how we must succeed.

They don't know us as people because still we don't know who we are, but still our future starts in that desk.

They remind us about college and jobs and life, yet we are still confused.

Papers, projects, and the simple things such as nametags, and tucking in our shirts.

We are told what to do every second of the day. But that six hours doesn't end it.

Try going home having two hours of homework and a sport to handle while you have parents nagging you to do better and be a better person.

We have enough to think about in a day.

They don't understand what is going through our heads as they talk to us and pressure us about school.

They don't see the other side of school.

The part known as life.

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They don't see the added pressure each day I walk into the building, all they see is a school that is helping me learn.

Learning math probelems isn't the only thing high school is about.

It is teaches us how to deal with people.

Being the highest person and the best student isn't something always on my mind.

Drugs, drinking, weekends, sex, makeup, how to act; they all count during the day of a high schooler.

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Many adults don't see us as having values and knowing right and wrong.

They think you can say no and its over because they don't want to see the other side.

They miss the part were we want to question what they are telling us to do, see why they tell us what they do.

We are interested and curious about why we can't do these things.

So we experiment to find out with our own personal experience.

Scared of disappionting your parents, you never tell them because secretly you know its wrong, but you want to do it.

We don't want that lecture or to be grounded.

The fear of missing a party or weekend with your friends.

The wondering is the trap that they have been at, but they don't realize they have a reason to tell us not to do those things.

They will never know the truth because its idiotic and immature but at this age aren't we all mature?

Immaturity is what makes a teenager.

The immaturity to care what others think and to know that you are always being judged.

Each kid has told a story to make them cooler or been mean to someone that has hurt them.

Rumors and drama begin as a classroom story.

Jealousy and popularity are what drive each of us to do it and we are all guilty for it.

Adults don't see the need to spread lies; they just see it as a sin or the wrong thing to do.

Adults can't see insucurities or what we think will get us something like popularity.

In our world you beat others to the top and even though its not always right we do it anyways.

Drama about boys and secrets meant to be kept get out by people who backstab and try to spread gossip.

Gossip is what makes our high schools now and adults don't see that girls can be mean and offend us.

Boys can break hearts and do much more.

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I know many of these things happened in high school back when my parents where there but they have matured and see from the same point of view there parents saw.

So they don't see or understand the hardships put in our lives and my life each day.

The daily struggle of being a teenager and fighting to be yourself in a complex advancing world of 2008.

A world where grades, popularity, and choices make who you will be for the rest of your life.

The pressure of starting now and not knowing where to even begin is what they don't understand about my life.