making a mockery of the education system
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In College Journalism we had a Class on Grammar. The Teacher was so involved with her own material that she would act like poor grammar caused physical pain to her ears. She would hold them and go 'Ow' whenever we messed up.
So we intentionally put together the kind of horrible spoken sentences that give people entertained by engrish multiple orgasms...
I recall a student telling her doing the given activity in groups instead of pairs would be "More Funner"...we abused that one a lot, and she never caught on that we were essentially tormenting her for our own amusement. She ALWAYS responded, and NEVER grew jaded with our efforts. Its a wonder we all passed, you'd have thought she'd have failed us for our class participation alone.
So we intentionally put together the kind of horrible spoken sentences that give people entertained by engrish multiple orgasms...
I recall a student telling her doing the given activity in groups instead of pairs would be "More Funner"...we abused that one a lot, and she never caught on that we were essentially tormenting her for our own amusement. She ALWAYS responded, and NEVER grew jaded with our efforts. Its a wonder we all passed, you'd have thought she'd have failed us for our class participation alone.
While I was still in the education system, I would frequently make a mockery of it by accident.
Once, in a Geography class, I made the mistake of bringing up a valid point and expecting to have an intelligent discussion with the teacher. All the students called me gay, of course, but, to my surprise, so did the teacher. I really wanted to say something witty about the education system, but I was too busy trying to stiffle some serious laughter. I failed, earning me glares from all 'round.
To be fair, he was only a substitute. I was thirteen at the time.
Every other Math class, I would be found correcting the teacher. Like all the other teachers in the school, she had had no training whatsoever and was teaching entirely with an answers book she kept hidden in her desk. But, unlike all the other teachers, she was a nice lady, so when the other students began to mock her, I decided to refrain myself from correcting her until after class. Yeah, I think I may have been hit with the pussification ray when I was an infant.
It's all pretty much the same after that, and if I decide to be specific, I could be here all day.
Once, in a Geography class, I made the mistake of bringing up a valid point and expecting to have an intelligent discussion with the teacher. All the students called me gay, of course, but, to my surprise, so did the teacher. I really wanted to say something witty about the education system, but I was too busy trying to stiffle some serious laughter. I failed, earning me glares from all 'round.
To be fair, he was only a substitute. I was thirteen at the time.
Every other Math class, I would be found correcting the teacher. Like all the other teachers in the school, she had had no training whatsoever and was teaching entirely with an answers book she kept hidden in her desk. But, unlike all the other teachers, she was a nice lady, so when the other students began to mock her, I decided to refrain myself from correcting her until after class. Yeah, I think I may have been hit with the pussification ray when I was an infant.
It's all pretty much the same after that, and if I decide to be specific, I could be here all day.
The educational system is completly messed up in the U.S. I went to a lecture talking about sciencific literacy and education this last Saturday. The guy said that we are so focused on classroom control that we miss teaching anything of value to the students. We try to do too much in one grade/class. We stress little things and lose the big picture.
I remember that I had a disagreement with my Junior year Contemporary Authors teacher. She said to read a story in our textbook and write down words we did not know for homework. The next day i turned in a sheet of paper blank other than my name. I got this back with a big 0 across the top and a "See Me". I went up after class and asked her what she wanted me for. She asked "Do you think your funny?" I said no. and it went on to her asking me words from the story that most kids didn't understand. I told her the definition/meaning of each of these. She got completly pissed and told me to get out. I still did not get any points, and the assistant principal pulled me into the office because I said on the way out "This is bullshit!" and she heard me.
I remember that I had a disagreement with my Junior year Contemporary Authors teacher. She said to read a story in our textbook and write down words we did not know for homework. The next day i turned in a sheet of paper blank other than my name. I got this back with a big 0 across the top and a "See Me". I went up after class and asked her what she wanted me for. She asked "Do you think your funny?" I said no. and it went on to her asking me words from the story that most kids didn't understand. I told her the definition/meaning of each of these. She got completly pissed and told me to get out. I still did not get any points, and the assistant principal pulled me into the office because I said on the way out "This is bullshit!" and she heard me.
Oh wow. I actually taught my old science class more than the teacher did, and I'm not even kidding here. I once got something like 70 out of 50 on a test because I wrote down stuff she didn't even know.
Then there was the huge debacle with my old Welfare teacher. My school here has the Welfare program, basically a touchy-feely waste of precious time. But they decided for some reason to
A) Give my class, which is full of delinquents, an Indian teacher.
B) Said Indian could hardly speak English, let alone have a grasp of slang
C) They made this poor Indian dude teach sex ed.
I'm sure ya'll can imagine just how much the other people in my class screwed around with this guy, getting him confused. He was rambling about stuff he had no idea about and ended up sounding like a complete pervert.
Needless to say, when I think about it, I still laugh. Poor guy.
Then there was the huge debacle with my old Welfare teacher. My school here has the Welfare program, basically a touchy-feely waste of precious time. But they decided for some reason to
A) Give my class, which is full of delinquents, an Indian teacher.
B) Said Indian could hardly speak English, let alone have a grasp of slang
C) They made this poor Indian dude teach sex ed.
I'm sure ya'll can imagine just how much the other people in my class screwed around with this guy, getting him confused. He was rambling about stuff he had no idea about and ended up sounding like a complete pervert.
Needless to say, when I think about it, I still laugh. Poor guy.
That's really poor on the teacher's part, CC, if you can prove you know something, you shouldn't be getting forced to re-learn it.
I know I was slacking off in maths when I was at school, I was pretty much getting told if I didn't try harder, I'd be getting moved down to the lowest grade class, despite being pretty good. Of course the advanced test results come back, and I've got 96%, ahead the smarmy teacher's pet kid who did everything right, and it's hard to move your highest scoring kid down to the neanderthal class just because he's not 'trying' hard enough.
I should point out I was just an early starter, I don't pretend I'm some kind of maths prodigy.
Really tho, my biggest problem was that they couldn't inspire or interest me, so I ended up failing a lot, and I know that's my fault, not theirs, I should knuckled down and got on with it, have you tried teaching common sense to a kid tho?
On a side note our english teacher regularly used to ask me and others how to spell words too, which isn't a great look for a teacher of english.
I know I was slacking off in maths when I was at school, I was pretty much getting told if I didn't try harder, I'd be getting moved down to the lowest grade class, despite being pretty good. Of course the advanced test results come back, and I've got 96%, ahead the smarmy teacher's pet kid who did everything right, and it's hard to move your highest scoring kid down to the neanderthal class just because he's not 'trying' hard enough.
I should point out I was just an early starter, I don't pretend I'm some kind of maths prodigy.
Really tho, my biggest problem was that they couldn't inspire or interest me, so I ended up failing a lot, and I know that's my fault, not theirs, I should knuckled down and got on with it, have you tried teaching common sense to a kid tho?
On a side note our english teacher regularly used to ask me and others how to spell words too, which isn't a great look for a teacher of english.
my high school english teacher in year 9 was a total absolute moron and i nearly got a fail because of her being a idiot, for no apparant reason she hated me and my 2 other friends because we ACTUALLY FINISHED OUR WORK and sat there talking and the next year i was placed down an english class because of my classwork mark which males no sense because i bloody did it better then everyone else in the class. What was worse was i scored marks as high as the top class but never got moved up.
3 more stories, in 8th grade on some random essay we had to share our opinion about smoking. so instead of writing what everyone else did i took some inspiration from my science teacher who was nuts. he had a plan to fix the economy that basically made it so if you were arrested for murder you were given military training and send back out into society. this was supposed to make it so new job openings would be created fast and unemployment would end. well i adapted that for smoking saying if more people smoked there would be a bigger demand for doctors and all the people who died would create job openings and increase the need for morticians and funereal homes.
in 7th grade we read a book called the girl who owned a city the book was about a disease that wiped out all the people above 18 and the children who were left to survive. the protagonist was some random girl who got a bunch of kids together and built up a high school to be a fortress. well along the way she selflessly sacrifices herself multiple times instead of sending someone else. while reading the book the teacher went on and on about how that made he a good leader. i spent several days explaining that those quality's were those of a bad leader because she needlessly put herself in harms way.
in 9th grade i had an ultra liberal lit teacher who loved anything democrat. i hateded her for it it was severely annoying to hear her go on about left media(I'm not a republican its just the left tend to be more stuck up their own asses than the right). well in order to piss her of on the final project of the year we had to read an auto-biography and use quotes from the book to make a PowerPoint about it. i chose one of the Kevin smith books and put quotes full of sexual content on a giant screen. when she told me to turn it off instead of doing that i pretended like i didn't know how to and let all the slides go by so everyone could see the hilarity that in Kevin smith.
in 7th grade we read a book called the girl who owned a city the book was about a disease that wiped out all the people above 18 and the children who were left to survive. the protagonist was some random girl who got a bunch of kids together and built up a high school to be a fortress. well along the way she selflessly sacrifices herself multiple times instead of sending someone else. while reading the book the teacher went on and on about how that made he a good leader. i spent several days explaining that those quality's were those of a bad leader because she needlessly put herself in harms way.
in 9th grade i had an ultra liberal lit teacher who loved anything democrat. i hateded her for it it was severely annoying to hear her go on about left media(I'm not a republican its just the left tend to be more stuck up their own asses than the right). well in order to piss her of on the final project of the year we had to read an auto-biography and use quotes from the book to make a PowerPoint about it. i chose one of the Kevin smith books and put quotes full of sexual content on a giant screen. when she told me to turn it off instead of doing that i pretended like i didn't know how to and let all the slides go by so everyone could see the hilarity that in Kevin smith.
I used to have a Spanish teacher who, quite consistenly, had to get out an English-Spanish dictionary.
In an RE test on Morality, I wrote a lengthy paragraph describing the moral action in a situation where a group of explorers venture into a cave and, on the way out, the fat guy gets stuck in the entrance/exit and they have to choose whether to drown with him as the tide enters or blow him open with a deus ex machi- um... stick of dynamite. I then topped it all off with:
"Purely out of interest, how did he get in?"
I look forward to recieving my test back.
"Purely out of interest, how did he get in?"
I look forward to recieving my test back.