how the hell did you get this job?

[SQ]

Discern, or discernment. It's not used much, but I've always known what it means so I wouldn't understand if anyone didn't know what it meant.

You teach english, right, Madbunny? Just grab one of those vocab books and pick a word out of one of those lessons.

As for my stupid shit. Hrm. I have some stuff from Best Friends(Pet hotel), but it takes too long a preamble and isn't that funny.

So, I guess I'll go this way...

In my "Writers Workshop" class, we practically never wrote. Apparently it was for retarded people. All we did was vocab. Horribly EASY vocab, too. We had two teachers, and they would go over EVERY vocab word and give you EVERY SINGLE answer to EVERY SINGLE Test. So if you even half-listened you'd get at LEAST a B on the freaking tests. But over half the class was failing! Wtf.

The teachers made it so you had to make flash cards and draw a picture for each word. This is while I was a SENIOR in high school. This was a SENIOR class. AT first it started as extra credit, but then it became mandatory.

I never made the flash cards. I got yelled at, because it was all mandatory, and I said "I Make A's on my tests, making these index cards is not only wasting MY MONEY, it's always wasting time, and it doesn't help me at all."

She left me alone after that, but I still got zeroes. And even so, I still got an A in that class.
Gah, I have all sorts of stories involving how STUPID that class was(not the teachers, but the students) and if there were ever a doubt in my mind about how pathetic the human race and my generation was, there wasn't after I finished that damn class.

Then there was graphic design and web design. Web Design class is basically "learn tables, and then learn WYSIWYGs!" Not to mention that she made us learn Fireworks, when Photoshop was already installed on every computer. I told her Photoshop(and ImageReady) was a superior program to Fireworks, and she refused to believe me, stating she didn't know Photoshop so she refused to teach it.

Well, I guess that's kind of fine, but she shouldn't make us ONLY use Fireworks. I got points taken off because I made the exact same thing she wanted me to in Fireworks... In photoshop. Lame.

Not to mention I became her on-call tech support. I worked as a cashier at Kroger and when she came by she'd tell me her problems and I'd tell her how to solve it. Apparently some stuff I said changed how she taught her class.

Graphic desin, augh. My teacher had a habit of saying I never turned in work that I did turn in, so I, conversely, made a habit of keeping every single goddamn thing I did.

I took the class for all four credits(we're on block scheduling, so that was only two years) and by Graphic Arts 4, I was doing nothing more than turning in things I had already turned in a few semesters ago.. Because the curriculums were EXACTLY THE SAME!
WTF! Graphics arts 1 is supposed to be basic shit, and 4 advanced. While maybe the technical shit we were learning was different, all the actual graded assignments stayed the same. So that was kind of stupid.

Really cool teacher, though.

[madbunny]

You teach english, right, Madbunny?

Really cool teacher, though.

Actually I teach computers. If I was an english teacher, I'd probably pay better attention to my spelling and punctuation. (probably)
I'm supposed to teach a computers A and then a computers B class. The problem is that most of my students are not smart enough to get past computers A. So I wind up teaching all basic stuff, over and over and over again. I have a 'computer literacy criteria checklist' that the district puts out (I'll see if I can find that link), it is really basic. A lot of typing, and the ability to make some multi page documents. Even though it's super basic, I still fail over half my class almost every time. dumbasses. My class is so incredibly easy to pass. 60% of the grade is showing up and doing work, on top of that I have a 'make up day' every week that I let people who are up on their assignments play games (or edit AMVs), and those who missed one make them up. That's 20% of the week as a bonus freebie!


When summer rolls around I let people sign up for an AMV making class and computer animation.
Oh sure, occasionally I'll get someone with a brain, and I'll let them do the basic lesson for the day, and then help them with premiere projects, photoshop etc..



Ok, so we have:


Droll
Pedantic


Discern is too easy, as is Narcissism, and juxtapose.

[godix]

Ok, so we have:


Droll
Pedantic


Discern is too easy, as is Narcissism, and juxtapose.

Try this one: irony. I'm willing to bet 100% of the teachers will think they know what it means but I suspect most will be wrong.

[Beowulf]

I've actually never heard the word "Droll" so thats cool to know.

I have a t-shirt that says "Only YOU can prevent narcissism" which I wear proudly to every convention.

[Beowulf]

Try this one: irony. I'm willing to bet 100% of the teachers will think they know what it means but I suspect most will be wrong.

Its a black fly in your chardonnay.

Its a death row pardon, 2 minutes too late.

[godix]

Try this one: irony. I'm willing to bet 100% of the teachers will think they know what it means but I suspect most will be wrong.

Its a black fly in your chardonnay.

Its a death row pardon, 2 minutes too late.

It's Alanis Morissette singing an entire song about irony without once mentioning something that's ironic.

Actually I've never agreed entirely with it's dictionary definition. The dictionary says irony is "The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning." Maybe that's the classical definition but I think in recent times the word has taken a meaning where there has to be an element of cruelty, darkness, or black humor involved. If it doesn't have at least a slight 'that's horrible' type feel to it I don't consider it irony.

[Flint the Dwarf]

Nothing and everything is ironic, because everyone makes up their own retarded definition for it.

Try this one: irony. I'm willing to bet 100% of the teachers will think they know what it means but I suspect most will be wrong.

Also, if I remember correctly, irony in literature is where the reader knows something's going to happen when the characters don't. That's pretty broad, and I don't think it applies in every situation, but I remember it was something like that.

[godix]

Nothing and everything is ironic, because everyone makes up their own retarded definition for it.

That was kinda my point earlier. I'd bet every teacher has a definition of irony but I doubt many have a correct definition of irony. Personally, I disagree with the dictionary definition but at least I know what it is.

[Kalium]

Also, if I remember correctly, irony in literature is where the reader knows something's going to happen when the characters don't. That's pretty broad, and I don't think it applies in every situation, but I remember it was something like that.

That's 'dramatic irony', which isn't quite the same.

[Flint the Dwarf]

Clearly.