Work overload at its finest

[HawkbitAlpha]

I used to love history. Now I hate it.

My history teacher decided to send me all my assignments at the eleventh hour, and this is all I have to do (and my mom says "It's not a lot" ironically):

7 history tests
3 sets of history flashcards
3 newspapers

And my mom expects me to finish it all in 3-1/2 hours!!

Trust me, I'm not doing it all...tonight.

[Lime]

Do you hate history, or simply history class?
The latter? Now that is the beauty of school.

[brainiac3397]

What?

I hate it when teachers try to make up for their own lack by shoving out all the work they had to give before at the last minute and expect you to do them all.

[Lime]

History work? Eh, close enough.
Point being that school can take something you enjoy, and turn it into a boiling pot of Earth hell.

[V.R.]

(03-29-2013 01:03 PM)Lime Wrote:  History work? Eh, close enough.
Point being that school can take something you enjoy, and turn it into a boiling pot of Earth hell.

A job well done for the aristocracy.

An anti-intellectual society is a manageable one.

[brainiac3397]

We had these review days where students would go up and have to explain the important historical events and names, which was answering the questions the teacher asked, as a review. I stood up there for all 45 minutes of class and literally went through the chapter(It was more memory, I have a pretty good memory, though I wish I had the better photographic one. I'm not that close but close enough )

But being a World War 2 buff, I always wanted to get to that part in our class(but we never did get there)

[HawkbitAlpha]

(03-29-2013 09:19 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote:  We had these review days where students would go up and have to explain the important historical events and names, which was answering the questions the teacher asked, as a review. I stood up there for all 45 minutes of class and literally went through the chapter(It was more memory, I have a pretty good memory, though I wish I had the better photographic one. I'm not that close but close enough )

But being a World War 2 buff, I always wanted to get to that part in our class(but we never did get there)

Perfect example of school ruining history:

http://www.school-survival.net/articles/..._rebel.php

Quote:Take two children. Give the first freedom and liberty, give him a wealth of books and movies, give him teachers to aid him upon his request and a place that encourages art, creativity, and independence. Then take away the freedom and liberty of the second, require his presence in a classroom in front of a teacher, threaten him with a jail sentence if he does not go to his school. Give each of them ten or fifteen years, and check the development of each of them after this amount of time. The only forced to endure slavery may be able to stand in a lecture hall and he might be able to say to you, "George Washington was born in 1732 and died in 1799. In 1776, the Revolutionary War began where he acted as general. In 1783, it ended. In 1789, he was elected president a first time, and in 1792, he was elected president a second time." You are given dates and events, surely, it is true history. But take the child who was given freedom to do as he pleased, and he might be able to stand in a lecture hall and tell you, "In the sixteenth century, in Europe, a Spanish physician by the name of Michael Servetus was convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. Fleeing from his oppressors, he made it to Geneva, where the vindictive John Calvin had absolute authority. In earlier years, Servetus expressed his doubt on Calvin's protestant religion. Once captured by the authorities, Servetus was burned to death at the orders of John Calvin in 1533. They had him wear a hat of sulfur and used slow-burning wood, that the crowd could listen to screams for mercy for the duration of a half hour. One year after the death of this man, Calvin published a list of insults of his former enemy."

[Alistoriv]

As someone who goes to an Online School atm, I can confirm that teachers are actually worse at these schools. At least teachers at real schools do shit. My damn English teacher (if you can call her that) is a fucking idiot. I started this school in February, so I needed to be moved to where I should be. Instead of doing that, she says that I can do the assessment for these two things and then be done, or start from the beginning. I obviously went with the former. Now, I'm having problems with the second assessment because of their shitty software, but I got the first one done. Immediately after I did it, I contacted her. And guess what, she did nothing. So about a month later, the school counselor (who I was set up with and I am now ignoring) contacted her and she still hasn't done a damned thing.

[HawkbitAlpha]

(04-04-2013 11:57 AM)Alistoriv Wrote:  As someone who goes to an Online School atm, I can confirm that teachers are actually worse at these schools. At least teachers at real schools do shit. My damn English teacher (if you can call her that) is a fucking idiot. I started this school in February, so I needed to be moved to where I should be. Instead of doing that, she says that I can do the assessment for these two things and then be done, or start from the beginning. I obviously went with the former. Now, I'm having problems with the second assessment because of their shitty software, but I got the first one done. Immediately after I did it, I contacted her. And guess what, she did nothing. So about a month later, the school counselor (who I was set up with and I am now ignoring) contacted her and she still hasn't done a damned thing.

Well, the teachers for mine are just recorded lecture videos of teachers with a bunch of crap on screen...

[тωιѕтє∂]

Do the important stuff, ignore everything else.