Re: My Generation

[Perrine]

Last my history teacher would tell us that In ww2 mexico was an axis power and that the germans used porcelain rifles to avoid jamming and that on christmas day everybody put their guns down and played soccer with each other....Americans and germans playing soccer in WW2! WTF! (mind this was honors history)

I'm sorry but that's some quality history class you got there

[BrownBaron]

check this out neeley, where I went to school some of the honors classes were actually easier than the normal classes. Maybe It was a result of the students "pulling together" to manipulate the teacher. In the honors class nobody did any work for the fact the teacher could not fail everyone in class as it would reflect bad on her. We would take tests and the teacher would post the answers on the overhead, Crazy huh? However I would usually take regular classes as I've never thought myself as much of a student and we would be given tests to fail or pass and have to write numerous amounts of papers, but to finally join honors class and see they were doing that nonsense blew my mind. I just remember talking to friends who were in regular classes and they seemed to always be writing papers and getting home work everyday, so when I told them in honors class we don't receive homework ever and tests are all cake, they were like wtf!

Hek my parents would always make sure I went to class and would give me hell if I ever skipped, but to find out other students who have accumulated over 300 absences (1 per class, or 7 a day) were going to be pass too was kind of irritating.

Last my history teacher would tell us that In ww2 mexico was an axis power and that the germans used porcelain rifles to avoid jamming and that on christmas day everybody put their guns down and played soccer with each other....Americans and germans playing soccer in WW2! WTF! (mind this was honors history)

It is the complete opposite at my school. The hounour's teachers work your bellybutton off, assigning papers that they will probably not read. The only reason anybody does a thorough job with them is to A.)learn the material that the teacher was too negligent to teach, and B.) avoid the dreaded 0 score in the grade book, which drops your total course grade a full 10% in our wonderful little system, assuming the teacher takes the time to read 10 words from your paper. The tests are pure hell. Nothing that was assigned prepares you for them, and nothing discussed in class relates to the exams. You have to spend hours on end researching the material from third party sources, like web articles, books, magazines, and other unecessary publications. This is a far cry from the regular classes. Most of my C student friends have perhaps an hour's worth of homework a night, where as I will have four times that amount at a minimum. Their exams will be curved, so that if the class average is 20 question correct out of 100, the test is then scored as if it contained a total of 20 questions.

[bagrat]

It is the complete opposite at my school. The hounour's teachers work your bellybutton off, assigning papers that they will probably not read. The only reason anybody does a thorough job with them is to A.)learn the material that the teacher was too negligent to teach, and B.) avoid the dreaded 0 score in the grade book, which drops your total course grade a full 10% in our wonderful little system, assuming the teacher takes the time to read 10 words from your paper. The tests are pure hell. Nothing that was assigned prepares you for them, and nothing discussed in class relates to the exams. You have to spend hours on end researching the material from third party sources, like web articles, books, magazines, and other unecessary publications. This is a far cry from the regular classes. Most of my C student friends have perhaps an hour's worth of homework a night, where as I will have four times that amount at a minimum. Their exams will be curved, so that if the class average is 20 question correct out of 100, the test is then scored as if it contained a total of 20 questions.

well on the bright side they are preparing you for college a lot better than my school did. In a college course I was attending we would have many multiple choice assignments to complete on the computer, generally about 3 a week of 100 critical thinking questions which we were told if we did not do that we would surely fail. So I killed hours every week studying to pass these tests and I did, only to find out about half class never did them so instead of failing half the class the teacher simply dropped the assignments so most everyone could pass. I guess I should worry less about what happens to everyone else and just be content with passing myself...but yea doing work for nothing really sux

[CAP1]

The same sob story has gone on for ages.  People hate change.  Furthermore, rape, murder and robbery have always been around; in fact, they're here to stay.  So get ready for the rest of your life!

-Penguin 

explain please how idolizing a rapper that made his money off of drugs is the same as idolizing a hot rodder that made music?

 or how a rapper that's killed people is the same as a mechanic that gets two other mechanic friends together, and becomes one of the biggest country western stars ever?

i could go on, but if you're really paying attention, those two made the point.

[Motherland]

Sucks to be you guys, I guess.
My Calc teacher has a passion for math and also teaches at the local Penn State campus, my history teacher has a passion for history and has us do things outside of the curriculum, my English teacher has a passion for English & history which is quite an asset as the Junior course in my district is British literature and the US educational system provides nothing as far as European history goes, & I've yet to ask my chem teacher a question she can't answer...
Mind you, my high school ranks at the bottom of the state.

[Perrine]

Sucks to be you guys, I guess.
My Calc teacher has a passion for math and also teaches at the local Penn State campus, my history teacher has a passion for history and has us do things outside of the curriculum, my English teacher has a passion for English & history which is quite a sweetie et as the Junior course in my district is British literature and the US educational system provides nothing as far as European history goes, & I've yet to ask my chem teacher a question she can't answer...

Mind you, my high school ranks at the bottom of the state.

To me that tells me more about its students (and their parents) than teachers.

[Motherland]

To me that tells me more about its students (and their parents) than teachers.

That's all it's ever about...

[Penguin]

explain please how idolizing a rapper that made his money off of drugs is the same as idolizing a hot rodder that made music?
or how a rapper that's killed people is the same as a mechanic that gets two other mechanic friends together, and becomes one of the biggest country western stars ever?

i could go on, but if you're really paying attention, those two made the point.

Idolizing?  Who ever said anything about idolizing?  Why would I idolize a drug dealer?  How does the fact that some rappers have criminal records suddenly make the rest thugs?  Country musicians aren't ultra clean either, have you ever notice how many of their songs deal with drinking?

In fact, all genres of music have had musicians that did drugs, killed people, and did horrid things that I would rather not mention.  Singling out rappers isn't prejudice, it's missing out on an opportunity for further outrage!

It is simply impossible for every single rapper who ever lived to be a criminal.  The same way that not every rapper is black, or every country musician a hick, or every pop star a creep.   

Firstly: That applies both ways,
Secondly: Not only rappers have killed people, every single ethnic group has
Thirdly: Why are mechanics so special? 

Your logic is flawed, revise it.

-Penguin