Are schools getting more and more just. Stupid? - General

It's not the schools or the teachers. It's the students.

[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;25830165]I don't find schools to be getting more stupid here, just the students.[/QUOTE] You should see my school. The teachers are idiots compared to a few students, the ones that arent white trash

Also is it just me or are most male teachers ten times better than their female counterparts? I've had shit female teachers, but I've never had bad male teachers, all of them have been cool.

I fucking hate kids/teens today. Fucking disrespectful cunts. The fact that I'm 16 is just humiliating because people like them give me a bad name. Not all teens are like that, but the majority are.

[quote]Are schools getting more and more just. Stupid?[/quote] In terms of teaching sentence structure I would certainly say so.

[QUOTE=acds;25876278]Also is it just me or are most male teachers ten times better than their female counterparts? I've had shit female teachers, but I've never had bad male teachers, all of them have been cool.[/QUOTE] Male teachers are less about feelings and more about teaching.

In my math class we gotta make up some song and sing it in front of the new principle lady for some reason. Also, a new rule in my school is that if you bring any outside food they will throw it away that's pretty retarded.

I've had one bad female teacher in my entire time of being in high school. That was my english teacher Freshman year.

"number 2, right to bear arms and cannons i bet the minute men didn't no about handguns," Subtle political statements being taught to kids. BRILLIANT

[QUOTE=acds;25876278]Also is it just me or are most male teachers ten times better than their female counterparts? I've had shit female teachers, but I've never had bad male teachers, all of them have been cool.[/QUOTE] Always the hormonal pregnant english teachers that are my problem.. Also has anybody noticed how all the english teachers have their own "official" format to MLA My history teacher even admits the english teachers are clueless

[QUOTE=Sableye;25879629]Lol teacher tried to flunk me cas she changed the directions on a major paper when half the class was gone and didnt tell us..she was a bitch Then i come back the next year and she was like 7 months pregnant.... Half the lady teachers are pregnant, the other quarter are a lil too flirty.... The other quarter are too old to matter[/QUOTE] There's at least four pregnant teachers in my school every year. Two of them are my teachers. :toot:

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;25879674]There's at least four pregnant teachers in my school every year. Two of them are my teachers. :toot:[/QUOTE] Ha. My Algebra II and Trig Teacher is pregnant too. I go to a really advanced high school, but it shares a campus with a bad high school. Somebody pulls the fire alarm every day during 6th period class, my Western Civ teacher is starting to teach outside on the football field to avoid that. But yea, I'm a freshman right now taking Honors Economics (Macro and Micro) and i was wondering if i should take AP Econ next eyar, for anybody who knows that stuff. But my two cents about the educations system is that kids now a days feel entitled to everything, and don't want to work toward their goal, school is a given now a days verses back in the great depression it was an HONOR to go to school, let alone college. Now kids these days are to dependent on their parents, not that depending on your parents is bad, but the level that they leech of them is crazy. I know a girl who is 14 and her parents already got her a brand new 2007 BMW, [i]Just for getting out of Pre-Algebra[/i]. TL;DR - Kids feel to entitled, already get everything they want from their parents, don't see the value of education.

[QUOTE=DrChernobyl;25880118]Ha. My Algebra II and Trig Teacher is pregnant too. I go to a really advanced high school, but it shares a campus with a bad high school. Somebody pulls the fire alarm every day during 6th period class, my Western Civ teacher is starting to teach outside on the football field to avoid that. But yea, I'm a freshman right now taking Honors Economics (Macro and Micro) and i was wondering if i should take AP Econ next eyar, for anybody who knows that stuff. But my two cents about the educations system is that kids now a days feel entitled to everything, and don't want to work toward their goal, school is a given now a days verses back in the great depression it was an HONOR to go to school, let alone college. Now kids these days are to dependent on their parents, not that depending on your parents is bad, but the level that they leech of them is crazy. I know a girl who is 14 and her parents already got her a brand new 2007 BMW, [i]Just for getting out of Pre-Algebra[/i]. TL;DR - Kids feel to entitled, already get everything they want from their parents, don't see the value of education.[/QUOTE] About the economics stuff, if you're really interested in doing things with the economy and numbers, I see no reason not to.

[QUOTE=DrChernobyl;25880118]Ha. My Algebra II and Trig Teacher is pregnant too. I go to a really advanced high school, but it shares a campus with a bad high school. Somebody pulls the fire alarm every day during 6th period class, my Western Civ teacher is starting to teach outside on the football field to avoid that. But yea, I'm a freshman right now taking Honors Economics (Macro and Micro) and i was wondering if i should take AP Econ next eyar, for anybody who knows that stuff. But my two cents about the educations system is that kids now a days feel entitled to everything, and don't want to work toward their goal, school is a given now a days verses back in the great depression it was an HONOR to go to school, let alone college. Now kids these days are to dependent on their parents, not that depending on your parents is bad, but the level that they leech of them is crazy. I know a girl who is 14 and her parents already got her a brand new 2007 BMW, [i]Just for getting out of Pre-Algebra[/i]. TL;DR - Kids feel to entitled, already get everything they want from their parents, don't see the value of education.[/QUOTE] A Freshman in these advanced classes? Jesus Christ, I'm a Sophomore and I'm taking Geometry I. I took Algebra I last year and it was murder, nearly failed the class. I don't get [i]everything[/i] I want from my parents, but I usually get what I ask for during Christmas or on my birthday, and it's nice, I learn to live with it. I know that someday I'll have to get a job and move out to get my own house, but how else would I make it in today's society?

Another reason schools are getting worse is they're taking the same route as the news stations. News Stations are no longer in it for reporting the news, but for getting higher ratings. Schools nowadays are trying to get higher testscores by making it easier on students and doing almost nothing but preparing them for these pointless tests just for better funding, rather than teaching students what they actually need to know.

[QUOTE=acds;25876278]Also is it just me or are most male teachers ten times better than their female counterparts? I've had shit female teachers, but I've never had bad male teachers, all of them have been cool.[/QUOTE] I've had male teachers that are dicks, though conveniently all my teachers this term are male (Luckily I don't have a dickteacher this year). Tech Design/Woodshop: Understanding, a little by-the-book though I can see how teaching the same thing over and over again will do that. Communications Technology (Basically photography/photoshop/video editing): As long as you hand in work, he's pretty laid back. He helped the class make an EXTREMELY good entry for the "Best in Class Fund" Best Buy contest (Gives 20k of Best Buy stuff to the school, which we desperately need). English: Teacher also does drama and guitar class, so he knows his arts. Played a few songs for us today. Has a sense of humor and doesn't mind cell phones. Physics: Oh boy Physics, the teacher is new and fairly young. Really laid back. His awesomeness is as follows: A guy in our class grabbed some toy from his desk, the teacher responded by grabbing a meter stick and pointing at him. When the student didn't give it back, he walked toward the student and started waving the ruler around. The student grabbed a chair and they had a little sword fight...

I remember that song, my classmates made fun of it frequently because it was so lame.

I'm still waiting for schools to start making kids learn things through metalcore/crunkcore. :colbert: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_6ItxioUco[/media] (0:55) [editline]fish[/editline] Before anyone asks, I don't condone this. At all.

My ICT teacher is unimaginable. He falls, no [i]stands[i] asleep in class, just starts telling us what we have to do, just goes off a little, and is standing there asleep. I have learned nothing in the past 3 years of ICT class. Other than him I learn a lot from my other teachers, except when I used to have textiles classes... Microwave got set on fire in class.

The only time one of my teachers forced us to sing a song was when we were learning the quadratic formula. We sung it to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel." That was the only way I could manage to remember it though, and it was fairly important, so it was totally justified.

I guarantee that if you only included the necessary part of the curriculum, you would end up with a half as long school year.

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;25880324]A Freshman in these advanced classes? Jesus Christ, I'm a Sophomore and I'm taking Geometry I. I took Algebra I last year and it was murder, nearly failed the class. I don't get [i]everything[/i] I want from my parents, but I usually get what I ask for during Christmas or on my birthday, and it's nice, I learn to live with it. I know that someday I'll have to get a job and move out to get my own house, but how else would I make it in today's society?[/QUOTE] Geometry. What a bitch that class was. I was perfectly fine with Algebra. I got really good at it. Advanced MIT Senior year level algebra? Bring it on baby! I'm ready for more algebra. But no, I get slammed in the face with the brick that is geometry. Also the teacher was a winy, hormonal bitch. She would make a big deal if you didn't follow every single rule. Like at my school, backpacks aren't allowed. Well, I still took one to hold my laptop among other things. She got all mad at me or whatever.

[QUOTE=cqbcat;25883873]Geometry. What a bitch that class was. I was perfectly fine with Algebra. I got really good at it. Advanced MIT Senior year level algebra? Bring it on baby! I'm ready for more algebra. But no, I get slammed in the face with the brick that is geometry. Also the teacher was a winy, hormonal bitch. She would make a big deal if you didn't follow every single rule. Like at my school, backpacks aren't allowed. Well, I still took one to hold my laptop among other things. She got all mad at me or whatever.[/QUOTE] My Algebra teacher last year was pregnant, and had her baby on March 14 (Hehe, Pi Day, and she's a math teacher...:irony:), and for the rest of the year we were stuck with the world's most retarded substitute. She shouldn't have even been qualified to teach a fucking Kindergarten class, and she was the only reason why I nearly failed Algebra. This year, she's been made a permanent teacher for another mathematics class, and the pregnant teacher from the previous year is teaching my Geometry class too. This year I'm doing much better with Algebra-related topics, but just awful with the Geometry-related topics. There's too many postulates, theorems and definitions to remember, and I can't construct a geometric proof worth shit! I'm not going to do well on this test coming up on Tuesday...:smith:

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;25884263]My Algebra teacher last year was pregnant, and had her baby on March 14 (Hehe, Pi Day, and she's a math teacher...:irony:), and for the rest of the year we were stuck with the world's most retarded substitute. She shouldn't have even been qualified to teach a fucking Kindergarten class, and she was the only reason why I nearly failed Algebra. This year, she's been made a permanent teacher for another mathematics class, and the pregnant teacher from the previous year is teaching my Geometry class too. This year I'm doing much better with Algebra-related topics, but just awful with the Geometry-related topics. There's too many postulates, theorems and definitions to remember, and I can't construct a geometric proof worth shit! I'm not going to do well on this test coming up on Tuesday...:smith:[/QUOTE] Well, at least if you don't do so well in geometry it won't haunt you for the rest of school. I've taken all math through calculus and am taking physics, and I didn't need to know any of that stuff. Pay close attention during trigonometry though, you will need it.

Want to hear a story. well you're going to hear one anyway. I got a detention for lack of attendance even though I didn't miss a day of school. but because lots of other people skipped school, the teachers gave detentions to everyone who's parents didn't contact the school. So I've got a detention on tuesday. yay

I used to think this until I got into High School, where I learned a whole lot of useful stuff, without having to deal with stuff like this. I live in Canada if it makes any difference, but I am pretty happy with how I am being educated. [editline]6th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Fr33domRider;25833852]90 percent of high school is pretty much useless shit that'll never help you in life :\ Like geometry, who the fuck cares about whats the X in the mother fucking triangle.[/QUOTE] No... I can't believe that this idiot got 12 agrees, holy shit are the majority of Facepunch users 11 years old now?

Fuck you thread I am skipping your pages. Soooo Don't school in most countries in Europe have Curriculum controlled by the government? So all of the schools are on the same curriculum in the same country? In America I don't think it is like that because everything is so far spread and so it relies on the state itself and not the federal government.

[QUOTE=igamiwarr;25885077]I used to think this until I got into High School, where I learned a whole lot of useful stuff, without having to deal with stuff like this. I live in Canada if it makes any difference, but I am pretty happy with how I am being educated. [editline]6th November 2010[/editline] [/QUOTE] The education system in the US revolves almost entirely around preparation for taking tests like the SAT, or class specific tests like the AP exams.

My geometry teacher is nice, its kinda easy to me though, took algebra last year, then ill be taking algebra 2 as a freshman i think. Yes im in 8th and taking geometry :buddy: [editline]6th November 2010[/editline] Yet at some other schools in other states geometry isnt avaliable as a class in 8th. Weird system.

[QUOTE=SystemGS;25859725]The other day I had to debate a novel (John Steinbeck's [i]Of Mice and Men[/i]) for an honors English course. The other kids in my circle were making shitty points and dodging around things, so I came out and said, "You guys do know that Lennie was basically a walking, talking, retarded contradiction, right?" Everyone went silent, and my teacher corrected me about saying "retarded". So I said, "Well, I can understand your plight then. You're obviously retarded, so you can stand up for the retarded population. So then how are you my English teacher?" I then sat back down, and continued my debate, and went on to dominate it. I also debated the novel without a copy of the text, which my teacher got pissed at me about. Everyone else was frantically flipping through their dog-eared pages with sparknotes falling out of the sides, and I had a bottle of water on my desk. I debated better than all of the kids in my circle, and they all had books. My teacher refused to give me full credit because I didn't use a book. So, I told her why I don't use a book. I believe that a debate on a book shouldn't be dependent on what your sparknotes tell you, but what you can extrapolate from the book itself. That was my philosophy, and she just said, "bring your book next time or you won't get credit." I'm a year younger than most of my classmates, and I really hate this No Child Left Behind bullshit. The kids in my honors and AP courses get babied for Christs' sake. I just get told that I can't do something because it's too different, but then again, in my AP U.S. History course, I called the Sons of Liberty domestic terrorists of their time, which my pro-American teacher didn't take kindly to. I'm far too blunt for this system that tells morons it's okay to be a fucking moron.[/QUOTE] You're lucky. i was gonna be the Pre-AP class for writing and reading, I'm not going to. Apparently a parent of some mexican kid told my teacher that it was not fair. Now i'm gonna not have fun. :sigh: