The Morning
So crud. I woke up way to friggin early, and now I have nothing to do except sit around and think about my new classes. No bueno. You see, I have several new classes that are not AP, so there is a good chance that they are filled with what I would call idiots, where I not so charmingly politically correct.
Normally, I would hesitate to use such terms. But the last time I had classes like these, it was pretty bad; one student asked where Mt. Everest was, and another answered Kansas. They where not kidding.
Now, I realize I must sound like a condescending prick, and I honestly would rethink insulting them, had I not been forced into US History with them last year. The entire semester, they just sat around making jokes about "nuking them Japanese". My personal favorite was when they learned that Hitler also persecuted the gays, prompting one student to come to the conclusion that not all of Hitlers ideas where bad. Lovely.
So my ride comes in fifteen minutes. I hope you all have a better day.
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But, Don't You Somehow...
...envy their ignorance? They feel as if they know all that is worth knowing... sort of like the pedagogy propagated by many faiths which embrace the totality of all one needs to know :-(
This is a very comfortable feeling. But it makes me cry...
Huh,
Good luck sir! :) I fear I wouldn't do well in this situation. I tend to react strongly to this sort of naive display of ignorance. Either by anger or crying...sometimes I get so angry I cry. This does not help the situation as you can imagine. Lately, I have been approaching such ignorance with logic. Huzzah for Vulcans! :)
This is part of the reason I
This is part of the reason I load myself down with AP-type classes...I have a slight phobia of really stupid people. Plus I get really angry at them. And publicly humiliate them. It's just, as you said, no bueno.
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Huh. I've never been around
Huh. I've never been around stupid people. I was pulled into advanced placement classes in third grade. Always learning at least a year ahead of my real grade... Up to three years, really. I'm in eighth right now and in high school honors biology and geometry. So I can't feel your pain, sorry.
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Sometimes I like to sit at night and stare at the lamppost because it's the brightest thing in my life...
Ok. Not knowing where the
Ok. Not knowing where the Everest is might be excused- but answering Kansas? Seriously?! Absolutamente imperdonable. Good luck with your non-AP classes. I hated my non APs as well, but because of the teachers (some were categorically evil)... I was in a tiny school, so I already knew everyone I could've had class with, so people wasn't half bad at all.
" . . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it." Charles Dickens
lol I feel your pain... but
lol I feel your pain... but there is NO escapeing the idiots here...
"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays." -William Shakespear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 1
good luck but...
Well I cant say much being that I was in remidial classes growing up and to answer your question yes some people call it special ED but I find that crule and after a few years of listening to some of the people I hang out with ridicule other people I dropped the word "retarted" from my vocabulary.
I can understand kids who are just unwilling to learn, who don't want to be there so they do nothing but make dumb comments all the time, maybe they have ADD or some such or maybe they really are idiots I can understand you being mad at those type of people...and you know bigotts and homophobes but don't cancel out the people who really do try and have a hard time learning.
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I do have a hard time
I do have a hard time learning, have not even graduated high school yet(still attending) and I am in college courses. I CAN bash about it a little. I prefer not to, but I can.
"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays." -William Shakespear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 1
I, uhmm...
I don't think I made myself clear when I described idiots in the non-AP classes.
These idiots are not the kind who have a hard time memorizing where Mt. Everest is. They are the kind that don't care where it is, because it is not in America, and it has nothing to do with the party saturday night which "was, like, totally crazy".
The reason I prefer AP classes is not because they are filled with "smarter" students; it is because most everyone in those classes cares about what they are learning. I find it easier to learn when I'm around others who care.
well said. =) --- Two wrongs
well said. =)
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Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do!
Mt... Everest... In
Mt... Everest... In Kansas...?
I'm pretty sure that they're legally brain dead, I'm sorry to say. Kansas is flatter than a pancake (literally, it is - they did a topographical comparison of each), and its highest elevation is a hill.
Jesus, even the kids in my non-AP classes aren't fucking morons like that.