Helllloooooo everyone. I have no school today and tomorrow, because of a… teacher’s convention, I think? Anyway, I finally get to sleep in a little longer. :) I played Sims a lot yesterday, but sadly, I have homework to do in *counts* 4 or 5 classes? Yikes. So, ugh, I guess that evens things out. I knew this weekend was too good to be true. I have to study for a driver’s ed test, read Misery, do a Spanish worksheet, do 80 vocabulary flash cards and stuff for SAT prep, and (Optional) biology homework.
After the Sims patch, my game started to… get better!?! It’s no longer extremely dark, and it didn’t crash at all yesterday! I haven’t gone into CAS yet, so the sliders and sign features should be interesting. The only thing I want now is a patch/mod/whatever for more than 8 Sims per household. I wouldn’t go overboard, but just one or two more Sims in the house. The 8 Sim limit is so restricting. :/
[Political rant time. If you feel you might get offended, you know where the ‘close tab button’ is.]
And with this week’s election? My thoughts? Um, why were all the Republicans I know, online and on TV, saying ‘Yes, we won!’, not ‘Yes! We’re gonna fix the country!’? I mean, isn’t politics about fixing countries, not winning elections? And really? Are Republicans really saving us? Carl(?) Paladino from New York made openly homophobic statements, Sharron Angle made a racist commercial targeting minorities, and so on, yet they’re saving us? How is going backwards culturally going to get us out of this recession? I understand politics isn’t about abortion, the death penalty and gay marriage, but why do I see Republicans use those in their campaigns? What’s next? No civil or women’s rights because it’s ‘anti family’? Ugh. This is 2010, people. The fact that there was controversy over a children show’s puppet’s sexuality, or someone can’t marry who they want shows how sad our world is becoming. Especially if there are people in 3rd world countries dying because of natural disasters, food shortages, diseases, and droughts, and America only cares about 1 election? Yes, elections are important, but in two months, people will forget about the elections, but in two months, more people will die from diseases and disasters, and guess what? They can’t come back.
Yes, my main news source in Joy Behar. Why do you ask? :P
Enjoy your day off and have fun! Sucks about homework though. I spent like an hour re-organizing my binder last night because my Math teacher wants EVERY SINGLE paper to be in chronological order and we have like 70 pages. None of mine were in order lol! Figures that the one binder I have that wasn't organized had a binder check worth 5 percent of my grade. Then today my Math teacher says he forgot about checking binders, so he just won't do it this quarter. The nerve lol! I wanted to scream and throw a fit.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything you said about politics. Some politicians just want to stroke their egos, look out for themselves, and oppose the other side rather than fix any issues. 2 out of 3 of those things apply to SOME Democrats too, but at least most Democrats are determined to help.
Thanks! The math binder thing sucks. :( I use to have an OCD teacher like that in 8th grade. My English grade would suck just because she wanted us to staple her handouts in our notebooks, not folders, and then everything would be messy.
ReplyDeletePolitics in general just sucks. Both sides have those crazy people that want to just screw the country around.
Wow! What a freak. How is stapling papers in a notebook supposed to help you stay organized lol! And yeah politics does have a lot of crazy people on both sides *Looks at the nutcases on MSNBC and Fox*
ReplyDeleteI think she just wanted to prove that she was a strict teacher. My 8th grade year had a lot of freaks as teachers :P
ReplyDeleteI think cable news should be treated as entertainment, not news. The only thing I'd trust completely is statistics and pictures.
Yeah, I guess there really is no completely unbiased news on cable.
ReplyDeleteI had some freaky teachers in 8th grade too! My Math teacher never taught anything. Literally, I had to teach myself everything and what I didn't get I would have to stay in her classroom for lunch, so she could teach it to me. Over 70% of the class failed her tests. She was awful! I was one of the few ones who managed to get an A in there. Most people got Cs and Ds.
And then one of my teachers was down right crazy, but that's a really long story lol!
Wow, same here. Mine was the track coach/whatever they call them for the high school, so she wasn't in class for like 40% of the time. And now that we're in high school, she doesn't even coach track anymore! So you could imagine why I'd be mad. :P
ReplyDeleteA lot of the kids in my class got Cs and Ds, but I think it was out of laziness. :x
A down right crazy teacher? Ooh, that sounds like an interesting story. :o
Oh one of those types of teachers. I hate those types. I've got time to tell the story now, so I will!
ReplyDeleteThis woman was flat out crazy! She was my English and Social Studies teacher. In the beginning she was nice, but slowly she turned evil. She had a personality sort of like Annie from Misery lol.
She would give us these long lectures about history, and to me they were interesting at first. But then she started to repeat herself, and mix up the order in which things happened ( Like talking about something in the 1800s when we were only in the early 1700s). Now my class was pretty bad last year, so keep that in mind.
So eventually people got bored and started to throw things across the room, mutter things about her when she would give the lectures, and call her a man or a gorilla-man. It sounds mean and it kind of was, but she did deserve it at times! This behavior went on until about the end of 3rd quarter. Then it started to get really bad.
People started to put bananas on her desk and the gorilla comments started happening a lot more often and nearly everyone in the class hated her. People would do something dumb like throw a pen cap to their friend. Then she would go crazy and start screaming about how there were so many sneaky people in that room and how it made her sick. And of course no one would tell her who did what, so she assumed the trouble makers were bullying everyone and controlling the classroom. She would give about 3 lectures about our behavior per a day, and give us at least a full page of homework each night.
Everything on her tests were what she said in her lectures and because nobody minus me and a few other kids, nearly everyone failed. She eventually started to yell about how everyone was bullying her and how it was unfair to her. She caught the kid who was putting bananas in the room, and that kid got suspended for about 2 weeks.
After that year, she retired. I've basically told you all of the bad things that the kids did to her, so I'll make another post about her craziness in a second.
Now for her bad behavior. I'll just list it:
ReplyDelete-About a page and a half of homework for each subject. This was assigned to the whole class until the last 2 weeks of school when she did it individually. This was why so many people hated her.
- Constant lectures about history that were pretty mixed up on info and they weren't completely in chronological order
-Lectures about how everyone in the class was awful minus 4 or 5 people
-Tests that were very tough. They were multiple choice which sounds easy, but many of the questions had more than one answer. It was basically whatever answer she felt like picking. AKA unfair
-Making us do page long summaries of each Ch. in our novels because no one minus 10 people would volunteer to read. Instead of letting us just silent read she did that :/
-Random outbursts of anger even when unprovoked
-Losing papers that we handed into her and claiming that it was our own faults that they got lost
- Giving us long, hard projects in Language Arts and claiming that they were "fun".
-Making people share their papers when they didn't want to
-Freaking out when people would be chewing gum
It doesn't sound that bad, but the way she talked was awful. Honestly, the only thing I can compare it to is the way Jarsie would talk when she would have a troll session. It was that snarky and rude. Even in the beginning when most people were good she was still pretty nasty.
Here are a couple of comments off a teacher rating site. These were given by past students of hers from previous years. Just to prove it wasn't just my class. Here they are:
ReplyDelete"Well, I just got in her class, but she seems seriously mean! She yelled at us for not having our name tags and said she told us the day before to bring them....WHEN, SHE REALLY DIDN'T. >:("
"Is not helpful, should help children...very discouraging to kids"
"I found, that, instead of punishing kids, she gives LOOOONG lectures to the whole class. She also gives a large amount of hw with little or no time to do it."
Wow, that sucks. :/ But if that much people hated her, then why couldn't your class just report her to the board of ed or something?
ReplyDeleteI hate it when my classes have a lot of people that ruin everything for everyone else. D:
Um I don't really know lol ! I think she technical wasn't doing anything wrong. She still managed to be awful while staying in the rules though. She would always call over half of the class "rude and sneaky people" and she would sometimes start to tell them to shut up, but then she would change it to be quiet. Plus she played victim really well. She would act like everyone hated her for no reason!
ReplyDeleteThat sucks. But at least you're free from her now?
ReplyDeleteYep! She even retired because my state was putting weird teacher laws in effect. I think she moved to Arizona lol.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I got more homework in that class alone than I get in all of my high school classes.
Aw, I wish she retired earlier.
ReplyDeleteThat's crazy. D:
Speaking of homework, I have to start mine. :P
That sucks. Usually I procrastinate until the last minute to do homework.
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