<p>Wow, I know how you feel, Sarorah. Your teacher sounds like a motherf<em>*king bit</em>. And no need to apologize for venting of any length. That's the purpose of this thread.</p>
<p>It's good to know that someone knows how I feel. Talking to my bro is like talking to a trashcan..seriously..She is a bit**--anyone will tell you that, and unfortunately I'll have her again for AP Bio :(</p>
<p>yea hs sucks - i have just two interesting classes - ap bio and ap history - the rest are either boring or taught just for ap exams:\
and some kids really suck - for example - i am a TA in my calc class and some kid from normal calc went to math department and complained that there are too many As in ap calc what results in screwing his class rank - lol I dont get why ppl care that much about stupid number (and students get as in this class coz they actually do work)- especially now.</p>
<p>Jeez...one class will not do much to affect your class rank. And some teachers are just asses. I hate the ones that think they're still like 18, so they try to act all young, but in reality they're almost 30 and should just realize it and grow up.</p>
<p>I know exactly what you mean, Rabo. At my school, that type of teacher is always inappropriate with the female students; it seems like these guys want to be in high school forever. Maybe they were high school rejects as teenagers and now, as teachers, they can come back at the top of the high school social ladder. They always play favorites, too. They'll try to chum with the "cool" kids and give them special attention/make comments about them during class.</p>
<p>First semester is over, and there are STILL kids at my school arguing to raise their second-semester averages from 92.8 to 92.9. Will the grade-grubbing ever end? :)</p>
<p>There's this girl who graduated from my school about 8 years ago, and she came back after college and became a substitute teacher, and tries to be all hip. She even says "Holla." She gossips with kids and talks about people behind their backs like she really is in high school. It's slightly pathetic.</p>
<p>i'm pretty lucky, in that my class isn't too competitive. well, we are competitive, but in a motivated way, not in a grade-grubbing way.</p>
<p>the real problem is the administration. my high school has had 4 principals in the past 5 years and 4 assistant principals in the past 4 years. the school district overall has had 4 superintendents in the past 6 years. our current principal used to be our athletic trainer. last year she was wrapping the ankles of the kids to whom she's giving detention this year. it's really strange.</p>
<p>i shouldn't have much to gripe about. the students at my high school aren't too unintelligent, and the teachers are top-notch (except for my english teacher! argh!). yet our school can't progress when it's always transitioning from one agenda to the next.</p>
<p>Yeah, the English department at my school is like that. I hear the teachers gossipping about kids whenever I walk by the office. Supposedly there's a lot of cattiness among them; they exclude and backtalk one another. Hmmmph. Human nature, I suppose. It's idealistic of me to think this crap will be over with when I graduate from high school.</p>
<p>Aside from that, my teachers are awesome. Professor-quality. And, overall, the kids are smart too, but they think they know more about the world than they do (myself included :) )</p>
<p>Do you guys ever have English teachers who try to have a "unique" teaching style, i.e. they'll instill you with their philosophies and, rather than teaching according to the curriculum and grading objectively, they'll let their "independent thinking" control the "flow of the classroom"?</p>
<p>My english teacher this year keeps trying to teach us about time bending or something. But other than that, it's pretty much the same old lecture/notes/going over homework. Hardly any discussion except in Econ. My Econ teacher is awesome. (And a Brown alum!) </p>
<p>I hate that in AP bio, my teacher has to put up extremely extensive notes because most people in my class refuse to read the textbook.</p>
<p>Time bending? Ha, has she ever made you question whether time exists? Are we all just atoms? Do WE exist? What if we're all just nothing in the grand scheme of life, and time is an illusion?</p>
<p>Personally, I prefer thinking about boys and pop culture over philosophy.</p>
<p>yes! my english teacher makes us take notes in a certain way and, she organizes discussion into groups (difficult to explain, but, trust me, it's weird). control how we take notes! you'd think ap english students would know how to take notes by now. </p>
<p>our class has spent the past 2 months analyzing 3 eudora welty stories. now, don't get me wrong, eudora welty is a wonderful and versatile writer, but 3 short stories stretched over 2 months is overkill. besides, this is a survey english course, not a eudora welty intensive. and all the while, her focus on eudora welty has caused us to stray from the ap curriculum. (but brunonians don't have to take either ap english exam! woohoo!)</p>
<p>sigh. i used to like english. really, i did.</p>
<p>but there's always math and physics. =)</p>
<p>what about the grandfather paradox? that's awesome to think about.</p>
<p>Yeah, personally I think you can only analyze literature so much. There's a point where the speculations are just totally off, like finding a biblical reference and/or political message in the statement "The trees are green." Personally, I like to take literature at face value and enjoy it for the literal plot and images that it creates in my mind. Analysis takes the fun out of it.</p>
<p>FunkySpoon, what is the "grandfather paradox"?</p>
<p>"Personally, I prefer thinking about boys and pop culture over philosophy."</p>
<p>You are so sarcastic lol :)</p>
<p>the grandfather paradox: suppose you traveled 80 years back in time and shot your grandfather. then what happens? he could not have survived to conceive your parents, so therefore you wouldn't be alive. but if you weren't alive, you couldn't have gone back in time to shoot your grandfather. then he <em>would</em> have survived to conceive your parents... and so on. </p>
<p>sorry for the crappy explanation. basically, time travel/time bending violates causality, or the cause and effect relationships that we rely on to exist.</p>
<p>No, I was being honest with that one, Tore. Well, at least partially honest. Thinking philosophically depresses me.</p>
<p>No, that's really cool, spoon. It reminds me of the statement, "I am telling a lie."</p>
<p>That's why Back to the Future is so good...completely illogical.</p>