School is going great so far. Well, except for my magical disappearing scholarship that I still haven't gotten straightened out. Classes though, are going great. I really enjoy all of my teachers, and I find every single class interesting. I'm also kicking the crap out of them. 3 of the classes I'm near 100%, and the other is lower but still an A. The lower grade, biology, is down for ridiculous reasons though. And despite the ease I see in all of these classes I also see a lot of kids struggling with them for no reason.
As for biology, I'm limping along by just barely getting A's on all of the tests and quizzes so far. If it was just a difficult class, or an extreme amount of materiel that was causing this I'd be ok with it. But it's not. The quizzes and tests are littered with questions that the teacher admitted to me are intentionally worded to lead people to the wrong answer. On top of this he will put at least two answers that are virtually identical to further mislead people. Other answers will be littered with abbreviations, looking more like a collection of random refrigerator magnets than a test.
Something like this:
A. ATP, NAD, AT, FADH
B. ATP, NADH, CG, FAD
C. ADP, NADH, CG, FAD
C. ATP, NADH, CG, FADH
Answer choices like that coupled with misleading questions are just setting people up for failure. If that wasn't enough, he also throws in a few questions that aren't in the assigned readings, study guides, or lecture notes. On one hand I get this, he wants the difference between an A and B to mean something. So you do some extra reading, make sure you hit the captions and highlighted sections of the chapter, easy right? Not so fast. His order of teaching has us bouncing around the book like it's an Addam's Family pinball machine. Two pages in chapter one, eight in chapter 12, a diagram in chapter three, even if you wanted to do the extra reading you wouldn't know where to begin. As it stands, you can study for a B, an A takes some good guessing. This is completely the teachers fault, and it should be obvious to him when the crown of his bell curve is centered somewhere around 55%.
Now to the idiot teenagers. I hate them. I hated teenagers when I was one, which is why I didn't have many friends, and I hate them now. Every day I hear someone complain about their grade, they're gonna lose a scholarship, get kicked off the team, get kicked out of school, get their ass beat by mom and dad, whatever. Then they will proceed to sit there and talk about nothing for two hours between classes instead of studying or reading. The teachers really aren't asking much of people. And I know all about blowing stuff off, hell I faked my way to an electronics engineering degree right out of highschool. The difference is, I knew it was my fault. Most of these kids don't put in even a little bit of effort, then act completely surprised when they get crappy results. I even heard one say that as much as his parents are paying for the school they should give him the grade. I just want to slap the hell out of some of these kids. Try a little, I watch you sit here for at least four hours a week doing nothing while I'm reading, making note cards, writing papers, whatever I need to do. Stop lying to yourselves, you have time. What you don't have is the initiative. I don't care if you pass or fail, I'm just sick of the bad excuses for their own laziness.
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