We Tried Online High School For A Week • Re-Do

welcome back to buzzfeed hello everyone things are going to be a little different i feel like i'm going to fail and i'm exhausted the pressure is on hi i'm jasmine and i'm lindsay and this is a redo where we go back to

high

school

and try not to commit same mistakes twice this time we're going to be home

school

ed for a whole

week

obviously we're in a pandemic so we're eight feet apart from each other because just because we're friends doesn't mean we're immune so Obviously, due to the current situation, a lot more kids are being homeschooled than ever before, so we're going to dive in and experience a little bit of what it's like, so this

week

we're going. to have to attend e-classes we will have to do homework then at the end of the week there is a big test to see if we actually pass home school i think in college i had at least one

online

course but he was actually one of those kids who likes to do nothing until the last week.

I took my teen driving course

online

. I know it was weird. It was a CD. Very rare. He was a shy child. you should interact, so my partner, Kate, is a

high

school teacher. What I learned from watching Kate teach online. It's hard to get the kids to participate because I was so confused. Teenagers, what do you do? Basically, it is up to the teachers to decide what rules they want to impose on the children, but at the same time they said that it is much more difficult because it is difficult to pay attention. Welcome back to Buzzfeed.

Hi everyone its a brand new school year and things are going to be a little different we are transitioning to online classes each teacher will have their own set of rules make sure you are respectful be on time we need to interact somehow we need to turn on our homework and no cheating or distractions there will be a test at the end of each class to see what you have learned and i will be watching i am at home my guitar pretty much alone you can still have fun as long as you follow the rules who do you think will do best being home schooled it's ok how it works this is i don't care and i do better and you worry more and you don't do as well i want to win it's ok let's go to school ok homeschool the first day of school the good thing is that i dont have to get up so early and catch the bus i would say its going great so far normally on my first day of school i would dress very very cute i know you have a complete outfit today as its from the comfort of my own home.

I could wear a dress on the first day. I put on something cute, but I didn't expect you to look cute. Yes, and you did. I was really confused about what. to wear as my first day outfit because it's like on zoom and like no one sees my bottom this is my outfit I'll say no one sent us a dress code so there's something here we'll see if anyone notices Realize that I'm going to be working here on my little couch I just want to give you a little tour of my cute desk face and I'm ready to go so our first class was biology with our teacher cheska okay class it's nice to have you back it's been a while since our physics class if you're on the couch there's no strength yes to get you off the couch you're not getting off the couch until jasmine costume says let's go to the harry styles concerts ok and now we are here for biology my rules for class are i would like you to have your cameras on feel free to ask questions anytime we will start with an intro to genetics we will find out why you are likely to have blonde hair. and why is your blood type the way you are though i love biology and i was so excited for this class and francesca she is great millions of years ago we all came from africa most people let's say they had brown eyes and then we mutated to the right and then they became blue eyes, green eyes and brown eyes so that's what an allele is so Jessica talks about Punnett squares and genetics which if I remember correctly was probably the hardest part easy from biology, yeah, because they're like patterns and little chromosomes, yeah, so for your homework you could write like traits that you have, maybe the color of your eyes and what your parents have.

We entered biology as a beautiful, cheerful and easy-going cover girl, and then joined the physical education class. I know it's a little weird trying to do PE virtually but you're also sitting at your desk all day so it's important that we get you up get moving get your blood pumping rules for this class I need you complete your training when we get to class please have your cameras as good as possible I think if that wasn't a rule I'd be in my pajamas in bed with my laptop on my chest so we have classes Monday Thursday and Tuesday Wednesday , when we don't have our virtual sessions, I will send you both a video workout to do and an assignment to complete for those days she assigned us all the first day and she said oh and you have to exercise oh and you have to do this , this is bu, not the olympics and i need you to check her emails more often because even though i love this beautiful dress she's wearing, i don't think that's really the word we can use in our I didn't think anyone would notice with Internet quality, we'll see.

If anyone knows why would you tempt someone to notice that I didn't want to wear something outrageous so I said you only had outrageous stuff and a shirt that said yeah no look what you're wearing now I said come over here. in your workout clothes for today so for today I want you to send me a one page document on what you've been doing so far get up, move and stay active that's your punishment for not checking your emails ok? because? We only have two classes and I'm exhausted. I don't want to do this anymore, okay, see you in Spanish, okay, hello everyone, so I want you to learn words and vocabulary that pertain to your interest so that you can do it. retain information in a way that will connect an experience let's take a deep breath we started our class with breathing exercises every time she did it too i was like oh my gosh yeah breathing when i started learning spanish i filled my days with you know what the Spanish speakers hearing a lot of Spanish was ingrained in my memory and it started to become easier in my language I felt very comfortable in this class how to learn Maya just because we have seen her go on her journey speaking Spanish so the first thing I am going to teaching basically is we all work at buzzfeed ok so if someone comes up to you and asks where you work in spanish they can say me and buzzfeed so lindsay will you? go first I'll go I work and buzzfeed I buzzfeed we are speaking Spanish but with an English accent I want you to start using Spanish in your environment I want you to write some words or phrases that you would like to know say in Spanish I also want you to find a medium either a song or a video that is all in spanish so we have mr saint just for algebra welcome to because it's a math class you see what i did there algebra mr st he was just absent from monday class he couldn't make it in person so he sent us an online pre-recorded class to watch at our leisure. so good at algebra so i was really excited for this class not me i'm terrible at math and it's not that i don't try the worst part is i try really hard after i watch that lesson. get harder what i remember in high school its like the first day its a wash you just show up looking cute on your first day back to school you dont have to worry about homework until a couple of days later but here we are writing a paper one page for phys ed i'll say it right now coach harrison is the queen of busy work yeah we had to write a one page single spaced 12 point font mla format what we do in quarantine to work out i'm going to go honestly here.

I'm not doing enough. I did and you really put your heart and soul into it. Yeah, mine was a lot like a sad journal entry. I did some mental work and now I'm starting to make exercise videos. I've been trying to make the videos as much as I can and trying to finish all the way. I went back to my high school ways of trying so hard. as i could and i got there the next day and if it was wrong then it was wrong my motto was to do right or you suck from the second day of homeschooling.

I still feel overwhelmed. I just feel like, oh, this isn't like good mental health. week for me but I hope I can go to these classes and learn some things and be mindful I didn't get enough sleep last night I don't feel good today to say the least I don't want to go to school today so we started biology again we had biology every day of the week so you had fun writing traits for your parents and yours it has always confused me that i have blonde hair and blue eyes and my whole family has like brown hair and brown eyes let's go to an activity that is like the punnett square and let's discuss the things you guys have i think something is going on with lindsay and jessica and there is some favoritism jessica married all the examples were directed at lindsay so when you were developing you were probably still being conceived you had a 25 chance of having blue eyes and 75 chance to have big eyes for english class we had miss m again hello class my name is miss makatangai or miss m i had them all last year i don't want sparkle notes i want what you think about the text if you break one of these you'll get a psychiatrist welcome to english with miss makatangai in quarantine yeah i think we knew going into this that miss m was like a little bit more involved yeah than we would have expected we're going to be talking about rhetorical devices yeah there were so many definitions, yes, alliteration, illusion, assonance, consonants, anecdotes, symbolism, diction, irony, figurative language, personification, oxymoron, hyperbole.

For this assignment, I want you to find rhetorical devices in music, so for algebra class I went in there like I said, I didn't feel like doing it, but I knew it was going to be harder. I gave you a couple of problems yesterday. What do you think of the task? I feel like I did amazing. I struggle with algebra. I am not going to lie. It's not my strong point. Now I pay people to do math for me. I'm going to give you something else today that's quadratic equations. Now, quadratic equations are anything that has x raised to the second power.

Good jazz. How do you feel? I'm here, so I'm going to do my biology homework and read the biology email. says dimples dimples are dominant no dimples is recessive harry styles has genotype dd while nem june from bts has juno type d recessive d if you ever had a biological child together what is the probability the child doesn't have dimples I can. It's the best homework ever. I can't wait to discover this. Zero percent. This kid will have dimples. Adorable. I chose none other than the fergie song. milf money and my favorite glamour, arguably one of the best songs ever born of our beloved boy band one direction is their 2014 hit single robe my girl, not only is the song a total jam but it paints a picture of a gorgeous love story using various rhetorics. devices on wednesday was when we started to get into the hardest part of things at least for me yeah we're making paper which is how you break down polynomial equations brackets x to the second minus 16 equals zero with Spanish i I have been trying to learn more on my own.

I wrote two sentences that I was interested in learning. I want a raise and run my money. I want to learn how to say that I love Harry Styles and BTS. I showed Maya this song that I heard once in a poetry contest k like b-u-e bitch me friend means bitch i love this song i love that one um you picked that one my media i showed maya was her own tick tock this makes me and the joke was like everyone says me wow you have a big butt but no one tells me big butt are you ok?

Does it make sense in English? So when biology came around, I hadn't had lunch yet and was very hungry. I had like 20 minutes and I was like I'm going to get a shake and a burger oh my gosh I literally left between classes to go search I'm so hungry and I thought I had enough time but now it's like literally biology right now and i'm going to be like late i hope i don't get in trouble you went to buy a burger i quickly learned while waiting in line for my food that things were taking a little longer than normal she's two minutes late let's start when i got back the class was over finished i basically thought i was getting kicked out no we're about to finish i'll just revise the terms for you he liked a little recap for me which was nice and unnecessary made me realize that classes really don't they need to be that long because she got honest with that summary in about 40 seconds.

I saw that you two turned in your blog post. How was that exercise for you? I was surprised at how many songs there were. there is a plethora ofsimilar rhetorical devices I saw you did it, you turned it in, you decided on the lyrics and you used rhetorical devices, so for everyone, I started the algebra homework. it's just a problem, but to be honest, it probably takes me forever, look at me, go i eat the whole page so i have to do this foil method i go x2 i think i did this correctly ok but at least my homework is ok now im trying to get the phys homework i cant believe that I'm saying my PE homework is a crossword, how is this supposed to help me? no, yes, also, how can we do that when we are already working so much?

I'm going to see it right here, oh my gosh, so it's important that we do these exercises because at the end of this video it tells us an answer. of the questions on the test but I saw it I saw it too actually I was going to tell you to be a good friend and be like so you know this is at the end of the video yeah same thing but it turned out we did not. Without telling her, oh my gosh, I literally woke up, checked my email, saw that Jasmine sent her crossword, and remembered that I never sent my crossword.

She did the crossword so early in the day and then forgot to send it in. that i completely forgot that we have PE first today so put on my gym clothes, well how has homework been going so far? Were you saying about it? Linds. I didn't say anything about the drop in the white space. What are you talking about? You were on time, you had two days, so unfortunately you'll have to get a zero because I was embarrassed and angry. Can you tell me what amino acids they are? body and are the building blocks of protein but then we had to do a workout together honestly we were both screwed at this point and i want y'all to get in on your jumps jasmine what real jumps am i jumping aren't you? they have the hoops i have inside and outside inside and outside you guys did a great job biology was the same as always everything she introduced like bigger punnett squares i'm going to show you one more thing so what if we're trying to do a punnett square for two features it was more confusing than i thought it was going to be yeah it's the first combination here ok so it's b lowercase d uppercase b lowercase d great i hate it when teachers like day before a test just be like oh here's the little thing that's going to be there remember it in 12 hours remember your terms remember how to do a punnett square ok algebra was great we just went over everything too i thought today is the last day today It's just I focused on the review, can we use a calculator to misfactor?

No, because unfortunately there are other things that could be used with that calculator, so in Spanish it basically told us that the test was an open book, yes aka easy, a baby. I have a couple of these action verbs here I'll tell you the situation and I'll ask you the question and you'll have to repeat that let's say the whole sentence I'm londo friends I'm bylando comis friends perfect for extra credit if you guys wanted to do this right I translated the sentences you guys they wanted me to do i think for you guys jazz this is paymemes which is paying me more yeah perfect alright so now that school is officially over for the week i have a lot to do.

I study for the test mainly English and PE because there is so much terminology I haven't been remembering right now here's the most important thing for me algebra I've been talking about this all week and it honestly doesn't get any easier coach harrison just sent us an email hi ladies as promised if you checked your email you were receiving a gift attached it's an extra credit assignment that will replace your lowest graded assignment it's an assignment what you probably should i think i'm failing this class she just made us identify our vocabulary on the food pyramid and i ticked on dairy you know milk cheese butter and that will give us calcium now we go to these meats to the meats where we get our iron from i think we big What I'm going to have to do tomorrow is take my time, if I fail that would suck.

The proof is here. It's Friday. Finally, I decided to dress for this test because you have a dress to impress the director. i supervised our exam too everyone welcome to the final exam i will be moderating to make sure there are no cheating first we have the spanish oral exam so let's start with jazz first we are in the living room and the tv is on so let's jazz hi i'm watching the video alright lindsay we're at a party and everyone is doing a certain thing and even you're doing this certain thing hi i'm hanging out with my friends now let's go to the extra credits part there were lines that i I had translated for you, if you remember those phrases, you can say them now, pay me yes, the author of this reigns once again, kagame to the second part of the final exam, this will be written, you will have 20 minutes to complete the exam, do not cheat, and you have ways to see your screens, so let them start now I really need to write this without speaking.

Oh I'm sorry. What are you holding? What are you looking at? I have to write this because we have done it on paper. i can see on the computer all i'm doing is putting a square i don't understand how teachers do this this is so boring waiting to take a test i'm the director of buzzfeed high five four three two one test pencils and fingers down ha finished congratulations or maybe we'll see starting biology jazz you passed biology congratulations lindsay you got a 1 out of three so you failed well moving on to phys ed i mean you both got a question wrong and i think that's enough to pass so you both passed Did you cheat?

Aren't you going to Math Jazz? You missed one, so you passed. There's a controversial answer for Lindsay on the second. You missed the other two. What do you mean I missed the other two? one correct x equals six oh you're right you both passed so congratulations and moving on to english you guys are superstars in this 100 you know how to speak your native language so congratulations and you passed the spanish oral exam so yeah i think you passed the last exam so we know this whole experiment escalated just because yes we had homework for every class we had an intense test but we also went through the same struggles of not understanding things it's hard to feel good about online learning like the fact that we can't see our friends even your extracurriculars you know high school is worth it as a full social expression but you completely lose that during the pandemic or just studying online we both pass though we did and in this point that's all that really mattered to you