Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Bad teachers.

Bad teachers are the worst. They are not "meh", they are not "okay". They are the worst. Why do people who are bad at teaching decide to and then continue to teach? I have a teacher that has been teaching for twenty years now, and, honestly, she should have quit 15 years ago. Does she teach everything she needs to? No. Does she answer questions for people who don't understand? Usually not. Does she answer questions for kids that have missed class? No. Does she treat her students well? NO. This women is passive-aggressive worse than I am- which is bad in any case, but she's supposed to be the omnipresent, wise, cool-headed person to look up to in the classroom, but instead, she treats her students as if she is a student herself- without respect and with cool whips of sarcasm and degradation.
An example, if you will:
- When I leave the room, I sign myself out, giving myself an extra minute so that I don't get hassled for being out of the room for six minutes (WHICH IS SUCH A SIN ARE YOU WITH ME). She has never said anything to me about this habit. Yesterday, however, a boy that she doesn't like because he always comes in a minute late (which seems to be through no fault of his own, since every time he walks in he looks very guilty about it) writes himself an extra minute, and she made him stand next to the door waiting for his minute to arrive before he could leave, all the while she says mean things to him in front of the class.

This is not the only kind of bad teacher. There are plenty of other reasons that a person can be a bad teacher. To list a few:
- Yelling at your students about getting the work done whilst grading minimally and never handing a single paper back.
- Giving your students tests on whole sections of the course that you did not teach yet
- Hating everyone, including yourself
- Creeping on the little ones
- Plainly and simply lacking any interest in the course and assignments

No doubt, I am writing this prematurely- once I get to college I'll have a whole slew of teachers-- Oh, oh, excuse me, professors- to hate for various reasons, most of which will be a result of my anger at their making me do real work, no doubt, but hate none the less. Wait some months for a bigger and better post about why I hate professors, because if you're reading this, you should know just as well as I do that it's coming.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

And so it begins.




No lie, I'm no good at starting things- opening paragraphs for essays, friendships, cutting a cake ("HOW BIG DO I MAKE THESE PIECES?!")- and this blog here is no exception. So, to ease myself into it (and simultaneously ruin the fun and surprise for anyone who happens to read this), I will simply list what I, as of now, intend to write about (to start). The listed items may not make so much sense now, but oh, they will. They will.

Things I hate:
- Living to be 500?
- Why do we help old or sick people?
- (the hubbub surrounding) Texas wanting to secede
- Global currency
- Potheads
- Alcoholics
- 23-year-olds that live in their parents' houses and hit on 18-year-olds and get drunk and high all the time
- Consumerism
- Feeling crazy/the odd attachment to anyone I enjoy/my inability to be proactive alone
- How dreams affect the way I live out my day
- How today's youth is put under too much pressure
- Colleges
- Religion(?)
-TOBY KIETH.


See, now, don't get me wrong. I don't hate everything; in fact, I enjoy some things. I have also started a list of things that I do NOT hate:
- Freecreditreport.com commercials



.. It's a work in progress.

Check back every once in a while to read about all the shit I hate!