Wednesday, February 25, 2009

LIY! Fun fun!

At my school, Advanced and/or Honors classes (maybe even the AP classes) might as well just be called Learn-It-Yourself! classes.
I swear, yo!

There's this thing for Chemistry called RTN which stands for Read and Take Notes. So what I do is flip through the section and copy down all the sentences that have bolded words in them, also known as the key points and the vocabulary.
During class, the teacher gives a lecture. If you didn't do your RTNs, you can take class notes instead. But... her classnotes... are also just the sentences with bolded words... That means I should be getting good grades, though, right? After all, we take the same notes!
Wrong!
On the test, there are things that we don't talk about nearly enough, things she never quite explained, and things that that one annoying kid in class asks her about that sounds like it has nothing at all to do with anything but actually has all the relevance in the world!
It's almost pathetic how we wasted an entire class period on a warm-up because she didn't solve the problem beforehand. And the worst part is, she never finished explaining it, but put it on the test?! What the HELL is her problem?! Oh my God, thank you for the budget cut! FIRE HER ASS!!

My math teacher is teaching... So he solves a homework problem on the overhead... I look at a similar problem in the book, and they used an entirely different approach. He says that everyone should have the right/same answer because he just did it on the overhead... I used the book's method and then his method. Totally different answers.
The next day when he gives us the answers... There is the problem... and there is NOT what he put as the "right" answer, but instead the book's truly correct answer.
But then, why should I correct my teacher when it's a rat race just to pass in that frickin' class? Screw them freshmen. Also, I did it once before, and nobody appreciated it. Why should I do fix something wrong and get glared at for it? Let them suffer for being jerks.

I understand that newb teachers suck because they don't have much down, but maybe they should stop hiring senile teachers? Maybe some teachers who actually know what they're doing?

Side-note: My math teacher, aka Dickweed Cunt is always encouraging us to drop out of the class. It's already the third quarter, you'd think that we get that message already... What's even funnier is every time someone transfers in, he'd reserve 15 minutes at the end of class just to give this speech again.

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