5-Star Students 4+

It’s the end of the year. AP season is over. Classes are boring and quiet and tedious. It’s like a ghost town here at school. Every class I go to, it’s only me and 6-7 other students. A normal day in Psych. Whoever said “dying”, I feel you. Because all of the sudden, I’m downloading this goofy app and signing away my rights to mind my business outside of class. It’s the end of the school year with 8 days left, 6 school days to be exact, and now I have tracker on my phone. I’m graduating and all of the sudden my teacher is telling me that EVERY staff member can see EVERY student with one of these “passes”? What even happened to the world? Why are we going digital? Is this the doing of Elon Musk? At this point, just plant the tracker in our brains and let AI take over the world. What’s wrong with the world today? How come adults have this satiating need to control our every move? I definitely did not sign up for this. Especially not when the school year is practically over. So what if a few students tend to wander? Honestly, I’d rather wander around campus for a few minutes, take a walk, say hi to pals, or whatever, instead of being in a dead-silent class for an hour. Lucky for me, I’m graduating soon, but my heart goes out to all the unlucky students who are and will be subjected to this torture. This shame. This app.

Three days ago, my teacher told us we’d have to install the app. The godforsaken app. It all started out fine until yesterday when I came in late from a 4th period bathroom break. As I passed the 10 minute mark, the app sent a single notification and said “too late”. I thought nothing of it at first, until today when I was targeted. I woke up as always, made my food, put on my clothes. I was ready for the day. I was happy. Then I hear the sound of my doorbell. In the window of the door I could see a tall dark figure leaning down next to the door. I walked up and opened the door, but it had vanished, as if it was never there. As I looked around, I noticed a small cardboard box that had not been there before. I brought it inside, my mind racing as to what this box could be. I get the scissors and start cutting away at the packaging. As I cut, hundreds of tiny cockroaches start crawling out of the box and start racing toward me. I ran, as fast as I could into my room, but they are at the door. “They’re gonna get in” I think to myself. Next thing I know the hinges snap, and I wake up in a hospital with no arms and one leg, mutilated by the carnivorous roaches. I wish I never installed that app. I wish I never left that day for 4th period. And I wish I could do it all over.

I arrived one morning to my wonderful high school, a week before finals, stressed with studying. When all of a sudden, in my Honors Biology class, when we are supposed to be covering the topics for our cumulative final exam, my teacher tells us that it is school policy that we download this app (like girl what). So I download it blindly, not knowing that they would be following my every move from here on out. If we take over 5 minutes in the rest room, campus security will come and knock on the door. So, one day I went to the restroom with the most astronomical stomach ache in the world. I sit on the cooling, beautiful toilet seat and begin to erupt inside the toilet. For a total of five minutes, there is a constant flow and the noise is enough to make someone’s ears ring. Suddenly, I hear footsteps approaching and a instant knock on the door “are you alright dear, hand over the drugs”. Trying to hold everything inside me, I answer only with grunts. She knocks again asking if I’m high or drunk. Once again, I’m completely unable to respond and with the combination of me holding my breath and holding everything inside me, I explode, destroying the entirety of the bathroom stalls. The school continued to keep the five star students app active and lessened the time limit to a minute thirty seconds. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP!!!!!