Awesome teacher + Chem teacher rant

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Today in newspaper class my teacher (who I already like) showed us TED videos all hour instead of us doing classwork.

TED videos are basically videos of really smart people talking to an audience about things they've invented or things they've done.

He eventually got to this video about a guy doing improv pranks or whatever. In one of them, he got 80 people to dress up in blue polo shirts and brown khaki pants (the uniform of best buy employees) and stand around in a best buy store.

So my teacher basically says "we should totally do something like that instead of classwork."
He goes on to explain that doing the same stuff day in and day out is incredibly boring and tedious and that doing something random and spontaneous like improv pranks would take away the mindless grinding of the day for at least a little while.
So now tomorrow my newspaper class of 20 people is doing a dancing flash mob during the break in between classes. Nobody else in the school knows about it, and another student is going to play "party rock anthem" on the P.A. System while it happens. There's two hallways in my school so everybody will see it. After its over everyone will go about their day like nothing happened. I'm going to try and do a good job at filming it, maybe I'll put it on YouTube if it works out well.

Some people might think its dumb and immature but I honestly think its kinda cool; not only because a teacher suggested this but because it'll take some of the repetition out of the day and hopefully make others smile and give them something actually good to remember/talk about as far as school goes.

I now respect this teacher even more than before.


Now on to my chemistry teacher, mr douchefuck. During newspaper class I hear him out in the hallway lecturing another student because he fell asleep in class.
He was saying shit like "so what's it look like when you have your head down and your eyes closed?"
This student isn't afraid to talk back to teachers and he replies with "what do you think? I was sleeping, what else would I be doing with my head down?"

I couldn't hear the rest of the lecture because of the videos we were watching but they were out there for literally fifteen minutes. My chem teacher just sat there for fifteen fucking minutes bitching at a student for something as simple as falling asleep. He's such an asshole, I rant about him all the time. If he tried pulling that shit on me I'd flat out say "I was sleeping. Now I'm awake. Big fucking deal, you don't need to sit here and belittle me because it makes you feel good."

The other day I overheard him talking to another teacher after school and he said he had anger management issues.
It went something like this "I realized that when I yelled at people I got something out of it. Yell at a store manager and get a discount, get a free upgrade to first class on a plane, ect. So I went 'oooh' and used this to my advantage."

That explains a lot.

[Luizao876]

Wow, it would be great doing that thing. Respect for your newspaper teacher!

And fuck this Chemistry teacher. I hate when teachers become enraged about something like falling asleep. WTF IS WRONG WITH IT?

[Stadium]

There's only one teacher that I have that cares if you fall asleep...he makes you go and stand up in the back of the classroom, even if your grades in his class are perfect. The rest of my teachers just let me sleep....well, my art teacher wakes me up but she doesn't actually do anything.