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#13326

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:29pm

man... i guess i've forgotten reading that. I'm mid 300s now... maybe im not there yet? sorry for newbyish...

beka or ntg.. or anyone else talking about english class.. are you allowed to use cliff notes?

#13327

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:29pm

My teacher this year doesn't really teach. He'll get going on something and then go ramble on some random tangent for ten minutes until someone reminds him that we're in the middle of a story or a paper. Then he wonders why we're so far behind other classes.

#13328

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:30pm

Oh, I never told him...figured he'd KILL me. Especially since I'd already gotten into an argument with him earlier that day. He wanted to teach his class that in "The Birthmark" Hawthorne was telling the world stem cell research is immoral. EXCUSE ME?? Oh, only...what, a hundred years before it even EXISTED?? He makes every single story about stem cell research being evil, Bush being divinely guided, or the war being righteous. I usually just try to ignore it, but my life pretty much depends on stem cell research being successful. I can't stand my teacher forcing his beliefs on the class. It's just wrong.

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"A little humility wouldn't hurt." --Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"

#13329

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:30pm

My dad saw the picture of me and Mary, pointed to her, and said "who's that man?"

DumbasS - he saw the show~!

#13330

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:30pm

Refrain--no. But most people do anyway. Btw, are you on ff.net?

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"A little humility wouldn't hurt." --Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"

#13331

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:32pm

My teacher TELLS us to use Spark Notes occasionally lol

#13332

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:32pm

i come from a family of teachers and i can tell you it really can be a trip...

i think that's why there are so many people teaching who really shouldn't be...

it's really hard to get dedicated and gifted people to teach these days...

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"Stupidity should be PAINFUL!" - Cam "Yeah - painful for the STUPID not the rest of us!" OMDB

#13333

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:32pm

The kicker is that my mom used to teach AP English. And she had a 100% passing rate on the board exam for two years.

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"A little humility wouldn't hurt." --Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"

#13334

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:33pm

i don't know if we're ALLOWED to use cliffnotes, but i haven't told her. i mean, she's never said we can't, but never has recommended that we should. what she doesn't know won't hurt her. (but i WISH i could hurt her. demon teacher. she hates me. my friends in the class notice this too. she likes to give me these looks too. i never draw attention to myself in that class, never EVER raise my hand.)

Updated On: 1/15/05 at 11:33 PM

#13335

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:33pm

Fredi, no kidding. Teachers need tougher criteria.

NTG, that sucks. I wish I could say sorry and sound sincere.

#13336

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:35pm

's all good, Nia.

Wow, I am having FAR too much fun with my street gang...my fic is turning into Westside Story.

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"A little humility wouldn't hurt." --Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"

#13337

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:35pm

ntg - you just made my point...

you said - used to...

is she still teaching?

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"Stupidity should be PAINFUL!" - Cam "Yeah - painful for the STUPID not the rest of us!" OMDB

#13338

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:36pm

yes, they do, som.

i think the major problem with schooling these days is the dependence on following a schedule and catering to standardized testing. you're supposed to mold children's minds, not make them testing machines.

#13339

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:36pm

This teacher I had back in the Middle School will probably be the best teacher I'll ever have. He taught "Enrichment" which is self explanitory. He challenged us, and made it fun. Hes really dedicated to teaching kids. I need to go visit him now, lol.

#13340

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:37pm

bso - happens to me all the time - especially in the winter when i have my "hoodie" on

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"Stupidity should be PAINFUL!" - Cam "Yeah - painful for the STUPID not the rest of us!" OMDB

#13341

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:37pm

yeah- we have an honor code/system/council at my school that works really really well , and we get in trouble if we even mention cliff notes (well not really , but you know) .. and NTG- what's ff.net??
Ntg- or anyone on here- are you members of So Beautiful?

#13342

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:38pm

Beka, that's what I hope IB will do for me. I hate being taught to a test and I think there's a lot more to learning in school than memorizing dates.

#13343

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:39pm

The thing I hate about some teachers at my school is that they will talk about changing the curriculum to try and cater more towards prompting students to learn for the sake of learning, but then they will be incredibly rigid and unhelpful to so many students who are LIKE THAT and want to learn for the sake of learning.

It's really annoying, but thankfully I only have one teacher kinda like that this year.

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"If you can talk, you can sing...if you can walk, you can dance." - T.K. Greene

#13344

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:39pm

To be honest, besides my parents- I have to say that teachers (good ones) have been the most influential people in my life. The good teachers I've had have been more inspiring than anyone else in my life...
meaning.. that teachers are important. what they teach is important- it really shapes us kids

#13345

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Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:40pm

Fredi-no, not since I was born. She taught for a while, and then she was a freelance writer for a while. Now she's my mom

Refrain--fanfiction.net. There's someone with that penname on there that I saw tonight when I was picking stuff for C2.

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"A little humility wouldn't hurt." --Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"

#13346

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:40pm

i'm a member of SB. were you in that chat on 1/9?? madness. i haven't been on the site in a couple of days...


exactly, som, exactly. i HATE being taught to a test. we can never learn about something simply because it's interesting, it HAS to be on the test, otherwise its not worthy of learning. i HATE it.

i also hate the massive amounts of reading. in 8th grade i used to read 4 books a week. now i read 1 a month.

#13347

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:41pm

learning by rote (sp?) is so out-dated...

the whole "factory mentality" is gone -

the world of work has changed and so must the educational system...

that's why arts/ed is so necessary - when you get kids to be creative - it's amazing what they'll learn...

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"Stupidity should be PAINFUL!" - Cam "Yeah - painful for the STUPID not the rest of us!" OMDB

#13348

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:41pm

Nope, not on SB. Was on Verdigris early-on, but then it went nuts...

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"A little humility wouldn't hurt." --Ellie, Constantine-Hellblazer, "Dangerous Habits"

#13349

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:42pm

In 7th grade, I could turn out a good length book in a day, and now I'm lucky if I get a week.....

#13350

1st Week of Rehersal....

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:43pm

me too. i used to read books in a day. and being the multitasker i am, i used to read 5 books at a time. right now i'm reading *counts*... 3.