[QUOTE=megafat;47848743]I completely agree with the whole teaching things that i don't need to know. I've been told that I [I]might[/I] need algebra one day. I don't need algebra unless I'm going to get a job that requires it. What i [I]do[/I] need is to know how to pay taxes.[/QUOTE]
The point of teaching maths is to teach logic, the fact that they fail at teaching it doesn't mean you shouldn't learn algebra.
i imagined Dave Lister ranting all this, made it 100000x funnier
To be fair word/page requirements for essays are done to help students think, read and write in long form and not just bulletpoint everything. Yes, a 200 word "essay" on carpets would suffice, but only at a bare minimum, where as a 2000 word essay on carpets would force you to do a lot more research to flesh out a much more substantive, and useful piece.
[QUOTE=StoneRabbit;47848200]He forgot the fuckton of books you have to buy but the teacher never makes you use them.
I almost got arrested once because of that. I went to a bookstore with one of these books in my bag. The staff thought I stole it as it was completely unused and clean.[/QUOTE]
That's a more college issue, and that can be avoided by not buying the books in the first place.
According to some of my friend's younger siblings, they now have a class dedicated to teaching "Life Basics" like filing your taxes, mortgages, how to buy a car/house. Wish they had that when I went to school... Still don't know how to buy a car/house or do my taxes.
Who here learned cursive in school and actually found a use for it?
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
Excluding pissing your name in the snow.
[QUOTE=nerdster409;47849332]Who here learned cursive in school and actually found a use for it?
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
Excluding pissing your name in the snow.[/QUOTE]
My one regret with learning cursive is not continuing to use it after we learned it and were told we didn't have to use it any more if we didn't want to.
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;47848533]they make you learn how to dance in p.e. what?
is this some kind of salsa school or something[/QUOTE]
I've forgotten everything, but I had to dance to macho man and the electric slide.
This so much. I think its just with me, but he forgot to mention Marxist teachers and other kind of retarded shit.
"HEY GUYS PLEASE MAKE A DEBATE ABOUT CAPITALISM X SOCIALISM, HERE'S A BUNCH OF VIDEOS TELLING HOW BAD CAPITALISM IS LOL"
Then there's teachers which tell you to search the fucking subject in your phone (with your own wifi), to sit in a group that has to be 2 girls and 2 boys, and other bullshit.
[QUOTE=SenhorCreeper;47849512]This so much. I think its just with me, but he forgot to mention Marxist teachers and other kind of retarded shit.
"HEY GUYS PLEASE MAKE A DEBATE ABOUT CAPITALISM X SOCIALISM, HERE'S A BUNCH OF VIDEOS TELLING HOW BAD CAPITALISM IS LOL"
Then there's teachers which tell you to search the fucking subject in your phone (with your own wifi), to sit in a group that has to be 2 girls and 2 boys, and other bullshit.[/QUOTE]
What always bothered me was boy/girl arrangements for seating. Like yeah I already have trouble focusing because I don't feel like being here and then you fucks sit me next to some super hot girls, like wow thanks a lot I really needed that.
Same with group assignments. Most of my classmates thought I was downright retarded because I rarely turned in work and never answered any questions and as such would actively avoid getting grouped up with me on assignments. Can't say I blame them, but they didn't have to be dicks about it. WELL, when test time came I was the only one who ever got any good grades. I regularly got As on every test and quiz, and the only time I didn't was if I really didn't understand the material, in which case I'd ask for help.
We had this group presentation thing in my US history class and we bombed it because I was being an autismal sperglord and all of my groupmates thought I was actually mentally challenged. I learned this from a friend. Sure enough they all came running to me for help on the final when I finished my entire study guide in 20 minutes.
I fucking hated school because of that shit. I'm glad I'm an adult now and am doing a lot better and don't have to deal with shitheads anymore but I feel like the damage has been done.
Also I was always made fun of for wearing the same clothes every day. I didn't wear literally the same clothes back to back but I had so many shirts and so many pants and that's all I'd wear, week after week. My parents were poor so I didn't have a lot to work with. I was also constantly given shit for my weight and smelling like smoke. I don't get mad a lot but when I do it's only because people are saying I do things that I don't, and all through middle school and high school I had to put up with people saying I smoked when I didn't. Funnily enough I started smoking after high school. Like, if any of you guys saw high school me you'd probably compare me to a less vocal and retarded version of the fat kid with glasses who yells "it's a meme you dip". You may have also thought I'd be liable to shoot up the school, which is funny because I never even did anything. I was very quiet except for with my friends, and in most of my classes I was that kid who would be silently mad at everybody being loud and disruptive causing me to get more homework because they couldn't sit down and listen to the fucking lecture.
Just fuck, thinking back to that period of my life just makes me annoyed and stressed. I hated middle school and most of high school. My junior and senior years were the best, and I loved every second of my first semester of college. I just don't even feel like pursuing that anymore.
[QUOTE=Srillo;47849198]To be fair word/page requirements for essays are done to help students think, read and write in long form and not just bulletpoint everything. Yes, a 200 word "essay" on carpets would suffice, but only at a bare minimum, where as a 2000 word essay on carpets would force you to do a lot more research to flesh out a much more substantive, and useful piece.[/QUOTE]
Well a lot of good it did to me, because I still look forward to writing anything longer than a few paragraphs about as much as I do a root canal.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;47849595]Well a lot of good it did to me, because I still look forward to writing anything longer than a few paragraphs about as much as I do a root canal.[/QUOTE]
But it's so easy to write about bullshit. In my college writing class we had to do five page essay on a picture or video. It could be anything we wanted. I fucking wrote five pages about that meme george costanza face and I got an A and the first day of class she told everybody she never gives out As.
If you're creative enough you can write about whatever the hell you want.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47849610]But it's so easy to write about bullshit. In my college writing class we had to do five page essay on a picture or video. It could be anything we wanted. I fucking wrote five pages about that meme george costanza face and I got an A and the first day of class she told everybody she never gives out As.
If you're creative enough you can write about whatever the hell you want.[/QUOTE]
Speak for yourself. I'm bascially the anti-Ironman17. Don't think I ever wrote anything longer than 3 pages.
I really wish the mathematics teachers at my middle school/high school had been more inspiring. Math is pretty amazing but the thing is at face value it looks like a bunch of useless crap thats boring and complicated, and if you try to teach it to someone who views it like that they wont learn it too well. Shit is so much easier to learn if you are interested in it.
Seriously they should have let the class watch an episode of When We Left Earth or something like that.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47848431]eventually one girl saw me and looked really really sad for me and just did it out of pity but that made me feel even worse and ever since then i've always felt that there's something actually seriously wrong with me that makes people not like me and even though i know that's crazy and wrong i can't help but think it's true because of this nagging feeling in the back of my mind
however when i'm drunk i'm liable to do and say just about anything and i love every second of it because i completely ignore that nagging feeling, i just wish i could bridge the gap so i could feel that way sober[/QUOTE]
I learned to bridge the gap. You have to stop giving a fuck.
seriously, you just have to learn to stop giving a fuck. My life became brighter, more fun when I stopped worrying about everything and just did what made my friends laugh.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47848259]For me the worst part of PE was learning how to dance. Nobody wanted to dance with me and I legitimately felt like crying, so I just sat against the wall and watched everybody else have fun. Maybe that's why I'm so fucked up now and have absolutely no confidence or self esteem.[/QUOTE]
Something similar happened to me. I was one of the last students to pick a dancing partner and the girl did not want to dance with me so I told the teacher to fuck off and just left the class.
I [I]also[/I] had a legitimate death threat in that school later on in the year from some fucking middle eastern Arab kid. He was a new student so I reported him and they did jack all. I left the office and never went back to that school again.
[QUOTE=darksoul69;47850101]Something similar happened to me. I was one of the last students to pick a dancing partner and the girl did not want to dance with me so I told the teacher to fuck off and just left the class.
I [I]also[/I] had a legitimate death threat in that school later on in the year from some fucking middle eastern Arab kid. He was a new student so I reported him and they did jack all. I left the office and never went back to that school again.[/QUOTE]
does it get better
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47849610]But it's so easy to write about bullshit. In my college writing class we had to do five page essay on a picture or video. It could be anything we wanted. I fucking wrote five pages about that meme george costanza face and I got an A and the first day of class she told everybody she never gives out As.
If you're creative enough you can write about whatever the hell you want.[/QUOTE]
I wanna see this essay.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;47850200]I wanna see this essay.[/QUOTE]
My bad it was three pages but [URL="https://www.mediafire.com/?e5ptba8dxhel2rv"]here you go[/URL].
[QUOTE=nerdster409;47849332]Who here learned cursive in school and actually found a use for it?
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
Excluding pissing your name in the snow.[/QUOTE]
For college I find it a lot faster to write notes in cursive, but that's just me. Works as an anti-cheat too, considering absolutely nobody can read my chicken scratch :v:
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47850146]does it get better[/QUOTE]
My general answer would be no. K-12 is awful because the teachers are overworked and underpaid. There are too many kids per class as well which just adds onto the problem.
Since you're still in school make sure you self-study and advance where you can. [URL="https://www.khanacademy.org/"]Khan Academy[/URL] is a great resource that you should be utilizing even if you hate some subjects.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47850244]My bad it was three pages [URL="https://www.mediafire.com/?ka859nsdocfa2t9"]but here you go.[/URL][/QUOTE]
Besides using the pronoun "you" and "I" in an MLA-formatted essay, you're actually a more competent writer than most people who enter a basic English composition class.
[QUOTE=thisispain;47850328]Besides using the pronoun "you" and "I" in an MLA-formatted essay, you're actually a more competent writer than most people who enter a basic English composition class.[/QUOTE]
My instructor had a very lax view on that and wanted us to write more personal papers.
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=darksoul69;47850285]My general answer would be no. K-12 is awful because the teachers are overworked and underpaid. There are too many kids per class as well which just adds onto the problem.
Since you're still in school make sure you self-study and advance where you can. [URL="https://www.khanacademy.org/"]Khan Academy[/URL] is a great resource that you should be utilizing even if you hate some subjects.[/QUOTE]
I'm not in school. I graduated in 2011 and went to college in 2013.
Your instructor was probably an adjunct professor who didn't have the energy to drill you in a basic GE course. This adjunct-cycle is the reason why college courses at the GE level tend to be horrible.
[QUOTE=thisispain;47850358]Your instructor was probably an adjunct professor who didn't have the energy to drill you in a basic GE course. This adjunct-cycle is the reason why college courses at the GE level tend to be horrible.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, most likely. She said that she was always bothered by hardcore professors who were big into regulation and believed that writing is something that has to follow a rigid form. She obviously felt that there needed to be some regulations in it but if you could construct a coherent, well-written paper she would have no complaints. She felt that it was stupid that four different professors could grade the same paper and each of them give it a different score.
So she just opted for making essays personal, and seemed to prefer to read papers where the writer clearly put a piece of themselves in it rather than reading a boring paper about abortion with no opinions and pure facts. She actually said that one of the most important things to her when it comes to an essay is if the writer's "voice" is present. Needless to say I got pretty sweet grades in that class and I've used her as a reference for some jobs that involve social activities and she always spoke very highly of me. She definitely made me enjoy writing, that's for sure. I always used to hate it.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47849534]What always bothered me was boy/girl arrangements for seating. Like yeah I already have trouble focusing because I don't feel like being here and then you fucks sit me next to some super hot girls, like wow thanks a lot I really needed that.[/QUOTE]
I get this too but with both guys and grillz
[QUOTE=nerdster409;47849332]Who here learned cursive in school and actually found a use for it?
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
Excluding pissing your name in the snow.[/QUOTE]
I use cursive all the time. It's much faster than actually writing in print
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
School was fun for me. I loved learning, and most of my classes and teachers were really interesting. I got involved in a lot of things, and I made some really close friends. The only thing that I thought was silly was the schedule. I would have loved to push it forward like two hours to make it 9-5 instead of 7-3; the whole idea was very silly to me.
Although having such a fun and wholesome high school life makes me worried for college -- is it going to transfer over? I know that one thing's for certain though -- I made sure to push my classes back.
My school was okay but when it came to group projects and all that stuff the teacher would randomly assign people together which was stupid
In my earlier school years (<9) we also had assigned seating and since I hadn't been officially diagnosed with myopia back then and had glasses to wear, I was always put in the corner or back of the classroom where I couldn't read the fucking black and whiteboard
[QUOTE=nerdster409;47849332]Who here learned cursive in school and actually found a use for it?
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
Excluding pissing your name in the snow.[/QUOTE]
I always write in cursive :v:
Speaking of stupid scheduling, when I was in secondary school I had 8-9 classes a day (Monday and Tuesday were longer days) and I had to carry 1 or 2 textbooks and a hardback A4 notebook for every class. I had to carry 20 books on my back to, from, and all over school every day. It could have been alleviated by having fewer, longer classes each day, or more double classes. It didn't help that I was in Higher level for most of my subjects.
In 5th Year I had 2 separate PE classes on the same day. Meaning I had to either do maths in my PE gear (which was against school rules) or leave PE early to get changed, just to change back 40 minutes later. No one should have to change their clothes 4 times at school as a weekly occurrence. Eventually I just gave up doing PE in appropriate clothing and kept wearing my uniform with runners.
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