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Illuzion
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Different Learning Styles
I guess this is just one of those days where every title just speaks for itself. Anyway I fucking hate schools. The only people who seem to get special help are the mentally handicapped children and people like this one girl in our class are regarded as stupid because they have different learning styles the school doesn't recognise. Society makes me fucking sick.
Have your regrets, but always stay strong from yours truly, Illuzion.
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Asphoxia
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I can relate. One of the kids in my class isn't challenged enough and has a different learning style, and he responds to the oppression of having to sit still and listen to teachers by acting like an idiot. I don't support his actions, but it's so infuriating knowing that something could be done about this and that, despite the research, despite it being a real problem, none of the schools care. The kid in my class is treated like a psychopath, but if he was allowed to learn things his own way, I'm pretty sure it'd be different.
Warning: I may not always make sense. I may rant about random things. Don't say I didn't warn you.
(This post was last modified: 04-24-2014 07:48 AM by Asphoxia.)
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brainiac3397
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School never challenged me very well. I died of boredom. Course my slipping grades made them think I was dumbing down or something. facepalm.gif
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(06-14-2013 08:02 AM)Potato Wrote: watch the fuq out, we've got an "intellectual" over here.
Brainiac3397's Mental Health Status Log Wrote:![[Image: l0Iy5HKskJO5XD3Wg.gif]](https://i.giphy.com/l0Iy5HKskJO5XD3Wg.gif)
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RE: Different Learning Styles
(04-24-2014 08:50 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote: I died of boredom.
So who is posting?
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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brainiac3397
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Another one of my many consciousnesses that make up the collective individual I am.
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(06-14-2013 08:02 AM)Potato Wrote: watch the fuq out, we've got an "intellectual" over here.
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