See, being salutatorian at least allows me to cheat, and lemme tell you, it's a great power to abuse when teachers get lazier and lazier. For instance, my AP Literature class seemed hard at first. I got a 70 first grading period because I was extremely lazy. I'm not a reader. Long story short, the teacher got too lazy to make her own tests, yet still claimed it took her 3 or 4 days to compile one. The rest of the tests came straight from SparkNotes. I aced every one and managed to get an A without reading a single novel. Am I prud of it? Hell no, but when there are shortcuts available, I exert the bare minimum. I even went down to the University library and EASILY picked up the teacher's editions for calculus and chemistry. So here's a tip to y'all teachers: give your students hell with extremely difficult tests and pop quizzes. I missed out on them....darn.
I hate kids and feel bad for most grade school teachers. If people want to have kids, then they should have to teach the little bastards the ins and outs and plusses and minuses for the first sixteen years of their lives. Then send them to school, or something. Hell, I don't know the answers. But at least I'm not having kids.
well your first mistake was making them watch Channel One. b. while it is fairly prevalent, why are the parents automatically passing the buck? if i'm being quiet and still get punished along with everyone else, i'd be pissed. if my parents happened to ask about it, i'd probably tell them. if they wanna call, then they can. luckily that never really happened to me back in the day. c. and kids these days are stupid? please. yeah i'm sure it was all einstein's and newton's back in the day. maybe it's because kids today don't walk 5 miles, barefooted in the snow uphill both ways like kids did back in the day. d. [comment not posted due to enjoying being a member here]
I was joking about the stupid kid thing (kind of). It's just fun to say. You just have no idea what it is like to try and control 130 kids on a daily basis without hardly any support. If you did, you wouldn't be saying such things. My wife is probably the coolest teacher you could have. She is young, likes to have fun, listens to punk rock music, etc. She started teaching high school when she was 24. She wasn't that far away removed from being there. Yet the kids treat her like crap. Morons. Trust me pal, the kids are "worse" these days. My 33 year friend manages a local bar close to where he went to high school. He serves drinks to some of his former high school teachers (they need them). They say that they thought that we were bad, but would give anything to have us back again compared to the kids they have now. I have talked to many teachers that have been teaching 20+ years and they say the same thing. But my brother is only 21 his girlfriend is 20. They are both really cool and so are his friends. (that's because he has such a cool older brother.)
One of my high school teachers told us a story about how his temper flares -- he doesn't get angry for months, then it just explodes. Once, he had a class that wouldn't stop talking, so finally he just lost it, and started taking his fist and pounding on the desk over and over again, cursing them "you sons of b. . . . , ********** . . . " and ordered them all out of class, with a test the next day over what they would've learned that day. The next morning he woke up and his hand was hurting him -- he went to the doctor, and found out that <b>he broke his hand on the desk</b> while he was pounding it. Mr. Meowgi -- your wife sounds a lot like me as a teacher. I was just like that -- started teaching just after I turned 21, and my brother was a Junior at the HS. I even taught a student I'd been friends with for years. There was only a 5 year age gap (when I started . . . now it's 8). I got along so well with the kids on a personal level, but they never paid attention in class, always screwed around, etc. I had a hell of a time controlling them -- it was like trying to drag a mule across a bridge. But I loved having them as students, and they loved having me as a teacher. I'm sure it's the same way with your wife's class. I actually just got back from seeing one of my former students in concert with his DMB Cover band (Mave Datthews). In my experience with students now, I think they are smarter, better, more independent people than when I was a student (about 5 to 7 years ago). It's not a hugely long time, but it seems to me that the students I meet are much better people than we were. They seem more aware of the world around them, and more accepting of peoples' differences, while being more in-touch with themselves. They don't seem nearly as superficial as we were. That's just my opinion from my VERY limited sample though.
