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6th Form study room

My school accepts anyone to stay on even if they failed all their GCSEs and are only taking 1 A-level. The study room is always trashed, they play loud music and it is very hard to concentrate. They also have this annoying habit of turning the lights off so it is impossible to work, I have attempted to use the light on my mobiel phone, but obviously that didn't work. It is also unsupervised. Me and a few of my friends and the only ones who use it properly. Teachers are talking about shutting it down because the cleaners refuse to clean it, and if that happens I will be forced to wander the corridors aimlessly in my free lesssons when I should be catching up on work. The only other place is the common room, which in my opinion, is even worse than the study room. I've considered moving schools but this seems a little extreme and my subject teachers are so brilliant I don't want to move. I was just wondering does anyone eles have the same or a simular problem in their school?

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Reply 1
it's not that bad in ours, the only thing is the computers (which are meant to be for work) are always being used for bebo, etc:mad: When you want to actually use them for work, it's really annoying, especially considering half of them don't work!!! :mad:
Reply 2
That happens in mine aswel - bebo, myspace, msn. Theres never any computers for the people who actually need them then.
Reply 3
Same problem for me. Does your school have a quieter place to study? Say a park nearby? Or the library? If not, you could also study more at home.

Last but not least, you could ask a teacher to handle this situation.
Reply 4
OMG thank God someone else gets p***ed off about this. It's so loud in the study toom at my school and virtually impossible to get ay work done cos it's basically just a social room now.
It gets especially loud around now (coursework deadline time) and stays like it until the end of the exam period.
I've resorted to going to the library recently which can get just as bad with Year 7s screaching in your earhole and the librarians moaning about your bag not being in 'the bag storage area' as if it's some kind of crime. :rolleyes:

Get me to uni, ASAP! :mad:
Reply 5
sol89
OMG thank God someone else gets p***ed off about this. It's so loud in the study toom at my school and virtually impossible to get ay work done cos it's basically just a social room now.
It gets especially loud around now (coursework deadline time) and stays like it until the end of the exam period.
I've resorted to going to the library recently which can get just as bad with Year 7s screaching in your earhole and the librarians moaning about your bag not being in 'the bag storage area' as if it's some kind of crime. :rolleyes:

Get me to uni, ASAP! :mad:

Lol, yeah.
Reply 6
I always moan about the over "shhing" librarians, but i supose it helps me get my work done.

What you are saying is the exact reason i didn't go to my secondary school's sixth form, i go to a college. I couldn't stand little kids and less responsibility and general immaturity, it wouldn't feel as though it was any different to school.
Reply 7
I never study during free periods at school ...I don't know anyone else at my school who does either, there are better things to do ...may as well study when i am on my own at home, in peace.
I've got a similar problem in my school. I hate the way the sixth form lets people back in that are obviously trouble causers and it's clear they don't want to learn. They have kicked out a lot of the trouble causers but there are still some left.

Our 'study centre' is rubbish. We have all got our own laptop so access to the internet is always available but most people just abuse it. My free lessons are on a Wednesday and I always go home after my first two lessons because it's impossible to do any work at all. It's packed on a Wednesday and no-one works, the teachers in there try to tell the people to be quiet but after a while they stop telling them.

Our 'common' room is very small with leather couches and tables/chairs but the only people in there are people sagging lessons or the trouble causers I mentioned earlier. They turn the lights off and just scream like morons. A few months back the year 11's broke into the room and trashed it, meaning it was closed for two weeks.

I just cannot do work outside of lessons hours so find it easier to come home and do it that way.
Reply 9
The "study" room is really a room to keep the loud morons, so that we could work elsewhere.
My sixth form didn't even have a study room, just a common room where people chatted, listened to music, skateboarded and threw things at each other until it was closed for being such a mess. The school didn't have a library and the computer rooms were always full of younger pupils being noisy, so we had nowhere to work, hence I always went home in frees. Uni is way better :smile:
Reply 11
Mauve
Same problem for me. Does your school have a quieter place to study? Say a park nearby? Or the library? If not, you could also study more at home.

Last but not least, you could ask a teacher to handle this situation.


I don't walk around in the area surrounding my school, it's too rough lol and we don't have a library. I hate the fact I live 20 minutes from school but I can't get home in the middle of day because I don't have a car.

I just tend to go to my Chem classroom and sit at the back whenever possible but sometimes my teach gets a bit peeved about it.
We have a study room which is supervised - teachers are timetabled to be in there all the time (some don't bother turning up, mind - there's a CCTV link in to the IT tech's office though). The computers up there are pretty rubbish anyway, some are in the back of the common room but it's impossible to work in there and they've taken quite a battering from certain people. Thankfully being a computing student gets me access at any time to the back of the IT rooms!
Reply 13
After rather poor Jan results, our entire common room is now a 'supervised study area' - there's somebody in there during all lessons ensuring that we're silently studying.

The study room itself is shocking - half the computers don't work and the rest are intolerably slow - most people just bring in their own laptops if they're going to need a computer during the day.
Reply 14
I feel bad that you don't have a library at school :eek:

The common room at my sixth form is pratcially permanantly closed- because of the year 12's trashing it :frown: Next year it will be gone all together... :bawling:

The library is the place to be if you want to work... there's always loads of room in there :p:
Reply 15
Thank God Easter is here! Now we could "study" all we want.
Reply 16
Mauve
Thank God Easter is here! Now we could "study" all we want.


I don't break up until Thursday! :rolleyes:
Ours isn't actually that bad... the sixth form study room is in the library so the librarian supervises the main library and also the study room!

Also there's no chance of anyone in our school being able to use bebo, msn, myspace etc... because the technicians have blocked them for everyone including pupils lower down the school!
Reply 18
westlife2005
Ours isn't actually that bad... the sixth form study room is in the library so the librarian supervises the main library and also the study room!

Also there's no chance of anyone in our school being able to use bebo, msn, myspace etc... because the technicians have blocked them for everyone including pupils lower down the school!

All those sites are blocked in my school too. Apart from Hotmail [for the teachers network]. But what's really weird is that whenever you are logged onto a computer in my school... there is nearly ALWAYS a teacher watching your every move via their screen... :s-smilie:
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I was just wondering does anyone eles have the same or a simular problem in their school?


Sounds really bizarre.
You should change schools.
Your teachers are losers if they allow this sort of behaviour.