Student mad at teacher for not actually teaching, teacher's only reaction is "bye" - General

wow, that was a really good impromptu speech he made random high school student 2014

[QUOTE=GameDev;40576212]welp that was quick (image)[/QUOTE] Great, more depression to bludgeon the already assumed depressed teacher with.

[QUOTE=GameDev;40576212]welp that was quick -dox-[/QUOTE] Well, she's going to get some nasty phonecalls

This motherfucker's voice is amazing

[QUOTE=Rellow;40576326]Well, she's going to get some nasty phonecalls[/QUOTE] Already did. I fucking HATE lazy teachers. A lazy teacher ruined my 9th grade math year, killed me all the way through highschool.

Do these people not understand that they are directly contributing to the destruction of a society? How someone can actually be indifferent towards this is a most curious question.

[QUOTE=monkey11;40575987]I really liked the way that kid handled the situation. He was relatively calm yet voiced a really serious issue.[/QUOTE] Are you kidding me? Berating her in front of the class? That's a horrible thing to do because now she's embarrassed and less inclined to do anything he suggested. He should've waited until an appropriate time, perhaps after or before class, and then do his little bit; and with more restraint at that.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40575984]jay did a pretty good job setting that teacher right[/QUOTE] Bizarro Jay

This seems like the sort of thing I would of wanted to do to my Gr.11 Spanish/French teacher. She did nothing but hand us packets at the start of the class, and answers at the end. With a huge packet of notes at the start of each unit. Twas bullshit.

[QUOTE=Warriorx4;40576475]Are you kidding me? Berating her in front of the class? That's a horrible thing to do because now she's embarrassed and less inclined to do anything he suggested. He should've waited until an appropriate time, perhaps after or before class, and then do his little bit; and with more restraint at that.[/QUOTE] I am afraid that it would have fallen on deaf ears regardless of the situation, and that the concern was more related to eliminating a mild nuisance than an embarrassment. Her getting embarrassed would imply that she actually cared about it enough to get embarrassed, and if she did, then she would have probably gotten silently embarrassed significantly earlier. Plus a little embarrassment could never hurt when it comes to combating something as important as this.

outspoken individual in my eyes, i had a few classmates like that when i was in school. Always trumped by some random witty comment the teacher would make, and frankly nobody really cared all that much. This being said we'd rotate the packet work and lectures. I had fairly decent teachers, i'll give them that

There's a depressing number of schools like this. My own school is stratified because of the dumbing down of education. All the "regular" or "mainstream" kids get handed coloring maps in history and do packets all day. All the AP kids and IB kids do actual work, learn some neat stuff, and have class discussions. There were a number of teachers that had been there for decades, and every single one despised the current setup of stratified classes. They liked it when they had one English III class where all the kids went. If they sucked at it, they got C's and D's and F's and failed out of high school. All the kids that loved to learn did their best and got good grades and moved on. Good teachers were more common and would inspire the lower-class kids. Now a high school diploma is all but necessary and you get these stratified levels where you have to pay for testing and it's all a very sad corruption of the educational system.

Man fuck those kids who were snickering as he talked.

[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;40576563]Man fuck those kids who were snickering as he talked.[/QUOTE] rofl what a nerd caring about education post how dumb he is on the twitterbookstagram

I'm always surprised about the sort of people who end up caring about education. I think as a culture we tend to always assume that 'rap-gangster' kids or the sort of 'redneck' type (I'm not American so I'm not sure what you'd consider this kid to be) don't care about education. But I've been surprised a few times by kids like this one. I grew up being pretty nerdy and made to feel quite ashamed of my nerdiness by many other kids - often the 'gangster' types (or whatever analog to gangster-kids we had back in those days). But at New Years last year I found that a guy I met at the party (who was still pretty 'gangster') actually admired me back in primary (elementary) school for how smart I was. We've got a couple of guys in my class at Art School at the moment who you'd initially consider to be sort of 'rap gangster' types if you didn't know them (from a white perspective of course; these guys are Maori/Samoan). But becoming friends with them I realised that they really know what they're talking about academically. They've actually had some teachers talk down to them as though they were less intelligent. One of these guys was Dux at his high school for fucks sake! Preconceptions are sucks

I Love the way he speaks. I wanna listen to this kid.

I only stormed out of a lesson once because a teacher told me off for talking constantly. I wasn't even talking so I firmly stated that I wasn't and left, went to eat some sandwiches an shit.

Our school had a similar thing going on. There would never be an attempt to get students to ENJOY learning, and any criticism on that observation led to punishment. It pisses me off how a lot of teachers see themselves as authority figures more than educators nowadays.

[QUOTE=Whyt546;40575940]At least some kids want an education.[/QUOTE] If you're forced to stay in a school building for half of your day, five days a week, you'd want it to be worth something at least.

I was kinda taking the teacher's side on this since all I saw was people silently working which is pretty normal. Also, all of my teachers make the subjects really interesting and are generally amazing, so I just though the kid was being a dick and making a scene, but are lots of schools actually like that where you basically just get a package and go through it? If so, I completely understand this.

[QUOTE=Maloof?;40576634]I'm always surprised about the sort of people who end up caring about education. I think as a culture we tend to always assume that 'rap-gangster' kids or the sort of 'redneck' type (I'm not American so I'm not sure what you'd consider this kid to be) don't care about education. But I've been surprised a few times by kids like this one. I grew up being pretty nerdy and made to feel quite ashamed of my nerdiness by many other kids - often the 'gangster' types (or whatever analog to gangster-kids we had back in those days). But at New Years last year I found that a guy I met at the party (who was still pretty 'gangster') actually admired me back in primary (elementary) school for how smart I was. We've got a couple of guys in my class at Art School at the moment who you'd initially consider to be sort of 'rap gangster' types if you didn't know them (from a white perspective of course; these guys are Maori/Samoan). But becoming friends with them I realised that they really know what they're talking about academically. They've actually had some teachers talk down to them as though they were less intelligent. One of these guys was Dux at his high school for fucks sake! Preconceptions are sucks[/QUOTE] this is what a lot of people fail to recognize; if someone is making fun of you, particularly at an age like that, they are afraid to be whatever you are, if it be because of what others might think of them, or how difficult it might be due to their position. this isn't always a bad thing (ie making fun of bad people; obv you should be "afraid" of being a bad person), but when it comes to education it is.

I like his hair

[QUOTE=potsale;40577148]I was kinda taking the teacher's side on this since all I saw was people silently working which is pretty normal. Also, all of my teachers make the subjects really interesting and are generally amazing, so I just though the kid was being a dick and making a scene, but are lots of schools actually like that where you basically just get a package and go through it? If so, I completely understand this.[/QUOTE] what really caught me in the video is the kid mentioning that the teacher made a statement the day before about her job just being a paycheck. that's not cool [editline]9th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Yummy Pie;40577213]I like his hair[/QUOTE] listen to slayer

[QUOTE=RoadOfGirl;40577164]this is what a lot of people fail to recognize; if someone is making fun of you, particularly at an age like that, they are afraid to be whatever you are, if it be because of what others might think of them, or how difficult it might be due to their position. this isn't always a bad thing (ie making fun of bad people; obv you should be "afraid" of being a bad person), but when it comes to education it is.[/QUOTE] I think that's a bit subjective; we've all made fun of people in the past (even if we tell everybody that we haven't) and I think many times it's part of that social process of participation and membership with a group - 'Let's all join together and make fun of this guy' - it's an exercise in team-building and reaffirmation of membership through exclusion of those deemed to far outside of the ideals of the group. But yeah, often times it can be simply jealousy or fear

Shit, thank god I haven't really had any teachers like this thus far. My Chemistry teacher kind of sucked, but it really wasn't grounds to say she was a terrible teacher; she sort of got us involved and shit but was way to friendly with the students and that led to stupid drawn out conversations with 2 kids in the front and basically them fucking around all hour. She also wasn't really great at actually getting the lesson across. I really hate that no one took his side on it. If just one person had stood up and said "No, he's right," then others may have followed and maybe something would've happened. But no, the kid probably got a couple days' suspension or lunch detention or some shit and the teacher, well, didn't care. I remember I've had one pretty much perfect teacher, my Grade 10 Biology teacher. He TOTALLY got us involved, I dont think he ever gave us packets but for review and whatnot, we did tons of cool labs, etc. A year later I STILL remember a lot of what I learned there. THAT'S how it should be, but no, most teachers seem to want to give you the easiest way of going about it in order to give you hardly any understanding of the subject then getting you to remember it for the next test. I never really thought about it before but, that's actually a pretty major issue, isn't it?

[QUOTE=riku2211;40577256]Shit, thank god I haven't really had any teachers like this thus far. My Chemistry teacher kind of sucked, but it really wasn't grounds to say she was a terrible teacher; she sort of got us involved and shit but was way to friendly with the students and that led to stupid drawn out conversations with 2 kids in the front and basically them fucking around all hour. She also wasn't really great at actually getting the lesson across. I really hate that no one took his side on it. If just one person had stood up and said "No, he's right," then others may have followed and maybe something would've happened. But no, the kid probably got a couple days' suspension or lunch detention or some shit and the teacher, well, didn't care. I remember I've had one pretty much perfect teacher, my Grade 10 Biology teacher. He TOTALLY got us involved, I dont think he ever gave us packets but for review and whatnot, we did tons of cool labs, etc. A year later I STILL remember a lot of what I learned there. THAT'S how it should be, but no, most teachers seem to want to give you the easiest way of going about it in order to give you hardly any understanding of the subject then getting you to remember it for the next test. I never really thought about it before but, that's actually a pretty major issue, isn't it?[/QUOTE] Same thing with my 9th grade Physical Science teacher. He didn't just say "this gas law works because they said so" he made us go and do research for the applications and usages of everything we learned. He is easily the best teacher I've ever had. He also told me about Apollo 12, which is the best thing ever [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQIryll8y8[/media]

Wow many of you have awful schools. I love my high school. I'm even debating on whether or not I'd like to become a teacher.

In high school I had a history teacher who gave us packets and made us watch Mel Gibson films each day. He was white had a giant beard and a bandana, tatted and kept talking about his harley davidson bike that he drove to school each day. He also claimed he was part of a bike gang. man I always thought he was the epitome of badassery and manliness but he taught crap

[QUOTE=GURREN LAGANN;40577399]In high school I had a history teacher who gave us packets and made us watch Mel Gibson films each day. He was white had a giant beard and a bandana, tatted and kept talking about his harley davidson bike that he drove to school each day. He also claimed he was part of a bike gang. man I always thought he was the epitome of badassery and manliness but he taught crap[/QUOTE] We had the best history teacher, and she was the polar opposite of that guy. She was a New Zealander like the rest of us but she had a hint of that British Royalty accent. She was an opera singer, very old fashioned and you'd have thought she was pretty boring and strict, but she made the most hilarious and often very adult jokes (we were all 18 and in our last year). We studied English history with her, talking about Elizabeth I and her successors and the naughty things people got up to back in those days. Most enjoyable class I had, I think.

Ugh, I agree so much but the way the guy put it sounded like he was a hippie. Atleast he speaks truthfully. I swear, I don't understand some teachers logic. "Here's a worksheet with 40 questions, look on the internet for answers, turn it in for points, then I'll test you on MY answers that are 9/10 times different from yours, and grade you on it, and then blame students when 70% of the class fails", and no this isn't hypothetical, this is my Environmental Science class, she gave us a lecture about how only something like 17 out of 21 or 24 students is failing and how it's our fault. The problem used to be, people were ashamed of trying in school because it wasn't "cool" but it's gotten past that point, kids try, and the teachers don't.