A girl in my class... Wait, background first
There was a girl in my old class about 2 years ago, who wasn't exactly the brightest... Okay, understatement, I was seriously wondering how the hell she managed it that far. She was getting just slightly above failing grades and generally said stupid stuff. Example: Two weeks after we wrapped up the largest WWII run-through in the last 4 years (It was a subject that got brought up every year), "Who's Adolf Hitler? Wasn't he some war hero?" Can you blame for looking at her a bit "The flip!?
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Well, story-time! Right, 2 months before final exams, she comes up to me and asks "Hey , could you help me with some math and stuff?" I say "Sure", being the good-hearted twit that I am and proceed to help her. We're giving a box that's been divided into a bunch of triangles and we're asked to locate an acute angled traingle, an obtuse angled triangle and a right-angled triangle. She looks at it a bit blankly, but I figure "Hell, she's done that with the last couple of tasks, might aswell give it a bit". Five minutes after I've sat down and played a bit of Crysis, she taps me on the shoulder and asks, with a straight face, "What's a right-angled triangle?". I just look blankly at her for a bit. She then asks "Well?". Do mind that this is right up to the final exams, the last exams we will have in this school, whose grades will imprint us when we apply for the next thing in line. And she is seriously asking a question about something basic we learned in 4th grade, for christ's sake. Personally, I think it was astonishing that at this time, you could show that amount of ignorance to your education.
But the thing that really took the cake was that one of the other girls came to her defense saying "Hey, don't look at her like that, she can be smart if she wants to!". I was so close to blurting out "Well, it's clear that she doesn't!"
By the way, Captcha, 56-58=-2.
There was a girl in my old class about 2 years ago, who wasn't exactly the brightest... Okay, understatement, I was seriously wondering how the hell she managed it that far. She was getting just slightly above failing grades and generally said stupid stuff. Example: Two weeks after we wrapped up the largest WWII run-through in the last 4 years (It was a subject that got brought up every year), "Who's Adolf Hitler? Wasn't he some war hero?" Can you blame for looking at her a bit "The flip!?
"-like?Well, story-time! Right, 2 months before final exams, she comes up to me and asks "Hey , could you help me with some math and stuff?" I say "Sure", being the good-hearted twit that I am and proceed to help her. We're giving a box that's been divided into a bunch of triangles and we're asked to locate an acute angled traingle, an obtuse angled triangle and a right-angled triangle. She looks at it a bit blankly, but I figure "Hell, she's done that with the last couple of tasks, might aswell give it a bit". Five minutes after I've sat down and played a bit of Crysis, she taps me on the shoulder and asks, with a straight face, "What's a right-angled triangle?". I just look blankly at her for a bit. She then asks "Well?". Do mind that this is right up to the final exams, the last exams we will have in this school, whose grades will imprint us when we apply for the next thing in line. And she is seriously asking a question about something basic we learned in 4th grade, for christ's sake. Personally, I think it was astonishing that at this time, you could show that amount of ignorance to your education.
But the thing that really took the cake was that one of the other girls came to her defense saying "Hey, don't look at her like that, she can be smart if she wants to!". I was so close to blurting out "Well, it's clear that she doesn't!"
By the way, Captcha, 56-58=-2.
