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Just a rant. (edited title in case more people get pissed)
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username01462781
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Just a rant. (edited title in case more people get pissed)
Disclaimer: This is completely true, none of it is made up.
Last term I had my exams. This was my first time with exams. The teachers started pressuring us to study at home and go really well (or they would lose their jobs). Most kids studied, I didn't. I never do any homework, their isn't a point. In fact I don't do that much work at school either.
Then when we finished the term we had holidays (awesome) and yesterday I went back to hell, oh, I mean school and we got our results. I knew I would go pretty bad in most of the subjects but I was shocked to see that I got an A in the english exam. My english teacher told me I got the highest score out of all the year 8's. And I never do any work in english at all. Funnily enough I do the most work in maths and I got a fail for that exam.
Coincidence? I think not!
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
i know that kinda deal i get that alot
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
Schooling us to prepare us for the career in need
Not caring about our interests and dreams to heed
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
So not only does schoolwork have no effect on academic ability, it actually has a negative effect (based on anecdotal information).
Carla Franklin has never denied that on the afternoon of the third of August 2006 she raped and killed sixteen children celebrating their friend's fifth birthday and forced their parents to share a dinner of their remains.
If a teacher you don't know tries to bust you for something, just tell them "Jsem výměnný student, nemluvím anglicky. Tak jdi do prdele ty posranej hajzle, tvoje matka je kurva!", then send me money.
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
Capital 'E' for English. 
But yes, I agree with the points you raised.
I used to be "The circus" as I forgot my login, but then hey-ho I remembered it.
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
I had a 53 average in Algebra 2 at the end of this past year, my junior year, then, on the last day, scored a 57 on the final exam, popped my average up to a 73 or 78, can't remember exactly, but I passed.
So, it's all arbitrary and useless, yes.
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
That's not really enough evidence to prove anything.
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Proof that drinking toilet duck gives you magic powers.
Disclaimer: This is completely true, none of it is made up.
One day I decided to drink toilet duck, then later that day I started shooting rainbows from my dick. Funnily enough, whenever I drink Clorox it makes me throw up.
Coincidence? I think not!
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Re: Proof that drinking toilet duck gives you magic powers.
Mono Wrote:Disclaimer: This is completely true, none of it is made up.
One day I decided to drink toilet duck, then later that day I started shooting rainbows from my dick. Funnily enough, whenever I drink Clorox it makes me throw up.
Coincidence? I think not!
LOL
About the original post, while I'm all for anti-schoolism, posting random shit on the internet and calling it proof of your argument will not sway anyone (except for maybe some Catholics.)
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
I didn't mean to offend anyone for my post, but if your going to be a asshole about it then that's your problem. I'm not into arguing over the internet, as it's pretty much pointless. I'm not really computer or internet savvy, so if I made a mistake, don't get pissed off about it.
God and I thought this was a place where like minded people came to discuss things and not start fights with each other.
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
Yeah, but the problem is that you think you have real "proof", but in actuality, that's not proof at all.
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
BobManPerson Wrote:Yeah, but the problem is that you think you have real "proof", but in actuality, that's not proof at all.
Exactly. Correlation does not imply causation. The original post is nothing more than a celebration of ignorance. Linki, if you give a damn about your education at all, you would be utilizing the assistance being proffered to you and you would be doing your schoolwork.
linki Wrote:their isn't a point.
lol
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
BobManPerson, I completely agree with you, but mrwednesday, are you sure that this site is for you? This site is about anti-schooling and where people who don't like school come to discuss it. By the sound of things, you seem to be in support of the current education system.
Not trying to stir up an argument, just curious.
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linki Wrote:but mrwednesday, are you sure that this site is for you? This site is about anti-schooling and where people who don't like school come to discuss it. By the sound of things, you seem to be in support of the current education system.
Not trying to stir up an argument, just curious.
This. We're not here to help you out if you're too thick headed and close minded to listen to our views. This isn't a debating forum. When we do debate you, you should consider yourself lucky.
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Because our time is so valuable in comparison to yours. 
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You guys are fucking morons what pissed you off abut this post? I liked it. In fact pretty much the same thing happens to me. I don't do jack shit for work in math or English but I always ace the English exam I got second highest in my class overall this year but the other person was Chinese so it wasn't quite fair. They get their ass beat of they aren't first. I got a c on the math quiz but thats because I suck at math in the first place and I Christmas treed most of it.
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I have to agree. This past year, I barely did anything in Spanish and Biology but actually put in a lot of effort for my math class (Geometry). I passed Biology and Spanish with A's and B's. My math class, I got a C the whole year. (Note: I've gotten one-sided lectures for Cs, even though that's the average person's score, so this is actually quite pertinent.)
Ironic that this occurs to people, because you'd assume that it'd be reversed. The subject a person studies for ends up being the one they do worse in than the rest. Maybe because they know they do worse in that subject, so they study?
I wonder why, in our textbooks, we had 2 pages of Civil Disobedience (by Thoreau), when the unabridged one in a book had 18 pages? Seems odd, don't you think?
We almost never read the full stories or full novels in the highest English class my high school offered. We read only small parts of Don Quixote and the Illiad. Pathetic.
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Yah it's weird that way. I never paid much attention in earth science, during the last part of the year I just drew the whole time, but on my final exam I got a B (might have been an A, I can't remember).
But I got a D on my algebra final, even though I went to tutoring for three damn hours a week for months! I still passed with a C for a final grade so I don't care.
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
linki Wrote:BobManPerson, I completely agree with you, but mrwednesday, are you sure that this site is for you? This site is about anti-schooling and where people who don't like school come to discuss it. By the sound of things, you seem to be in support of the current education system.
Not trying to stir up an argument, just curious.
He's probably just a troll. Even if he isn't, it doesn't matter. We'll just practice arguing against him before we argue against people IRL.
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He's not a troll, but some guy that can actually talk with other. A troll would be TrueAnarchist according to most people here, but some people do not mind him (not mentioning name)
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Re: Proof that school work has no effect on the academic process
mrwednesday Wrote:if you give a damn about your education at all, you would be utilizing the assistance being proffered to you and you would be doing your schoolwork.
I smell another Killjoy/Venjamin.
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