So there's a video that's pissing me off. Here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflIOklflrg
For those who can't click the link or those too lazy to watch (its 30 ######6 seconds long!) this kid storms out of his history class and says the teacher sucks and only hands out packets. Basically my entire high school career.
The thing was, well, we loved high school because we thought we were learning. It wasn't until 2 months after graduation that we realized "Holy ######6 $#%^, we learned Nothing!"
We had that experience all 9th grade. It was review of 7th and 8th grade. We ######6 hated it. And to this day, we can't do fractions because it was taught in a way that ensured we remembered for the test, then forgot it afterward. Just a quick memorization technique. Hell, most of the time we didn't remember by the time the test came around! We just forgot, because memorizing formulas sucked more balls than the taste tester for dipping dots. And it's because the P.E. teacher was the English teacher, the English teacher was the science teacher, and the science teacher was the math teacher. We (and I'm dead serious here) ended up in situations where the math teacher was teaching chemistry for weeks on end, and people would skip class to go to another class just to learn math, only to get an absence! And trying to explain to parents was just a ######6 nightmare, because they think your making this $#%^ up, and you can't blame them. It's absurd! It's like a David Lynch film.
So when we had good teachers in high school who ######6 cared and taught their individual subjects, it felt like we were learning. But we weren't. It was the memorization techniques from before put under the guise of caring. And even though I didn't learn a ######6 thing, it felt like I did, because I did great on tests, and that's it. Again, I ######6 passed math, but I can't do it today without looking up Khan academy for some quick review.
But back when I was pissed about 9th grade, I saw a fight between two black refugee kids. The fight got broken up and everyone went their separate ways. The vice principal, *name removed*, came by to get the kids, when I said "Some school your running". And instead of going after the boys fighting, he came after me for a comment. And pulled me into his office, and said "Something you want to say to me?" And I apologized, and he let me go.
What I wanted to scream at him was "You ######6 dumb ###$. Two kids were fighting and you pull me into the office over a ######6 comment? Are you ill? Are you that ######6 stupid? Is this school run by a man so stupid he would rather let two kids fighting go and focus on someone who said a sarcastic #######4 comment? Okay, do you realize the irony here, you ######6 moron? I say 'Some school your running' after a fight and you don't pull the fighters in, you pull in the critic? YOUR ######6 PROVING MY POINT, DUMBASS."
Now, a kid has said a version of what I've wanted to. And I am so ######6 pissed I didn't say that long ago. It's a reminder of where I've come from. A kid angry at how little he was learning, and now I'm in Boston. Home to Harvard and MIT. One of the most intellectual places on earth. And *name removed* is ######6 stuck at a #######5 job, will die alone, and most likely die of a disease that prevents him from ######6 anything for the last 7 miserable years of his life.
Ah. My life is great right now.
-C.Nic
P.S.: Idaho is 47th in the country in education. It's not me overhyping our situation. All the ######6 schools in Boise suck. Probably Idaho, based on that stat. But, from experience, Boise's schools suck more balls than the hoop at a Harlem Globetrotters game.
//NEXT WEEK: CNN sucks. Film at 11.