Just wondering.......

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Was it "Social Studies"? There was a class, I admit I never really knew what it was "about". We did strange things, like study advertising, invent products and present little skits of commercials, make collages... I really don't know what the class was called. But the female teacher hated men/boys. Is there a counterpart to "misogyny"?

androgyny ? no, that's something else...

Every assignment was a "group" assignment, and yet she gave out individual grades. Invariably, in my group I did 100% of the work, got a D+, while the girls in the same group got A's. That class became my "study hall", where I did all the homework for my other classes, because I knew no matter what I did, I was flunking anyway, so might as well leave my after school hours homework free, right?

really i wonder sometimes what pushes some people to become teachers.

[BookishDreamer]

My sister studied to be a teacher. Luckily she finally realized what I'd been telling her for years. She didn't like kids enough to be a teacher. Except for practice teaching in college, she never taught a class.

Dreamer

[zelda_pinwheel]

i certainly don't like kids enough to be a teacher (and you can thank the shums for that). but i know that already, so it's ok.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by jerryleejr

Hey if you cant laugh with me, Laugh at me (that sounded better in my head)

JJ
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Don't worry, Jerry. We're not only laughing, we're pointing too!

Originally Posted by DixieGal

What is it with 4th grade teachers and handwriting? Mine gave me a frowny face and told me to stop writing cursive and just stick with printing.

I always got an A/gold star in handwriting - printing and cursive. I was best in class.

The effect of this repeated affirmation by the teacher is that people tell me I now (at near-38) write with the neat, largish handwriting of a 9 year old.

Getting an "A" (or an "F") isn't all it's cracked up to be in the scheme of life.

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Ahhh ... gym teachers ...... Yes, that explains a lot!! Gym was the only subject that I got less than an A in. (Although, perhaps just saying that explains why I wasn't fit enough to get an A in gym!)

We didn't have "Gym"; we had "Sports". I was good at sports too (except for running), but that's because "Sports" was almost exclusively swimming. I swam like a fish...to such an extent that my nickname for several years actually was "Fish" (perhaps the fish the blue one is next to?).

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Over the years the classes/courses I got less than an A in were as follows:
...

For me:

1. Economics

Of most any subject, throw economics in any of its variations and applications at me, and all I hear is white noise. The whole thing just comes across to me like a bizarre, absurd, convoluted, illogical construct.

... Poof.

We prefer "gay" or "homosexual".

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

...But the female teacher hated men/boys....

I was always liked by teachers, and was frequently "Teacher's Pet". This goes along with being inordinately quiet and getting the answers right: a "good student". There were many "great minds" I knew as class-friends growing up that weren't "good students". I've always hoped their brilliance wasn't permanently winked-out by teachers who saw a quiet aptitude for remembering by rote as a (A)plus and uncontainable creation and side-stepping logical theorising as "disruptive".

Cheers,
Marc

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Over the years the classes/courses I got less than an A in were as follows:

1. Handwriting;
2. Gym;
3. Home Economics; and
4. Typing.

I actually failed Home Ec because I just stopped showing up for class ... I hated it that much.

When it came time to graduate from high school, someone noticed that I had an "F" on my records .... and they simply made it "go away." I didn't ask anyone to do that .... but the powers that be simply disappeared it. Poof.

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Don't worry, Jerry. We're not only laughing, we're pointing too!



I always got an A/gold star in handwriting - printing and cursive. I was best in class.

The effect of this repeated affirmation by the teacher is that people tell me I now (at near-38) write with the neat, largish handwriting of a 9 year old.

Getting an "A" (or an "F") isn't all it's cracked up to be in the scheme of life.



We didn't have "Gym"; we had "Sports". I was good at sports too (except for running), but that's because "Sports" was almost exclusively swimming. I swam like a fish...to such an extent that my nickname for several years actually was "Fish" (perhaps the fish the blue one is next to?).




For me:

1. Economics

Of most any subject, throw economics in any of its variations and applications at me, and all I hear is white noise. The whole thing just comes across to me like a bizarre, absurd, convoluted, illogical construct.



We prefer "gay" or "homosexual".



I was always liked by teachers, and was frequently "Teacher's Pet". This goes along with being inordinately quiet and getting the answers right: a "good student". There were many "great minds" I knew as class-friends growing up that weren't "good students". I've always hoped their brilliance wasn't permanently winked-out by teachers who saw a quiet aptitude for remembering by rote as a (A)plus and uncontainable creation and side-stepping logical theorising as "disruptive".

Cheers,
Marc

Now, hold on there .... I distinctly remember from extensive research into the faculty rules of the University of Wallamalloo, that Rule Number One was "NO POOFTAS."

Now, did I hear the word incorrectly?? I think not, since the entire bit is my cellphone ringtone.

"G'day, Bruce!!"

[Tattncat]

I'm 62 and never grew up. My husband is the same age in one more month. Our kids think we're hippies (minus the drugs). I just like to call us one Zach past 40. Zach is our 22 year old grandson.

I started on my bookworm career at the age of 8 after a car accident. I was confined to the house for weeks and my poor Grandmother in desperation, pulled the Harvard Classics out of the Garage. I was hooked! I went from Dante's Inferno, to Grimm's fairytales to the Boxcar Twins. I've been reading compulsively ever since. Has anyone read Stephenie Meyer's Host yet? I like it a great deal, can't wait to see what else she writes.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Now, hold on there .... I distinctly remember from extensive research into the faculty rules of the University of Wallamalloo, that Rule Number One was "NO POOFTAS."

Not an easy word to spell, without any reference other than sound, but it's actually "Woolloomooloo". It's a real place (Woolloomooloo, not the University ) and I often walked the dogs there, down to the harbourside (it's right next to Mrs Macquarie's Chair).

"G'day, Bruce!!"

G'day, Bruce!

Cheers,
Marc (I knew you'd like the implicit MP "Poof" reference )

[RickyMaveety]

(The Dread Armadillo wanders off saying, ever so softly, "Woolloomooloo ... Woolloomooloo .... Woolloomooloo .... G'day, Bruce!! .... Woolloomooloo .... Woolloomooloo ... I drink, therefore I am!!)

[Madam Broshkina]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Not an easy word to spell, without any reference other than sound, but it's actually "Woolloomooloo". It's a real place (Woolloomooloo, not the University ) and I often walked the dogs there, down to the harbourside (it's right next to Mrs Macquarie's Chair).



G'day, Bruce!

Cheers,
Marc (I knew you'd like the implicit MP "Poof" reference )

Woolloomooloo is not only a place it is also a candy bar made with hemp.

http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/produ...ic_candy_bars#

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

Woolloomooloo is not only a place it is also a candy bar made with hemp.

http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/produ...ic_candy_bars#

Hemp candy bars sounds like a recipe for perpetual motions.

Cheers,
Marc

[jerryleejr]

[QUOTE=montsnmags;210712]Don't worry, Jerry. We're not only laughing, we're pointing too! :

I thought I felt a chill!

I swam like a fish...to such an extent that my nickname for several years actually was "Fish" (perhaps the fish the blue one is next to?).

I believe it was the smell not the ability!

We prefer "gay" or "homosexual".

What is this "we" You got a gibbon in your Pocket???

I work with a chap from your neck of the Woods, I have him translate half the stuff you type and then I guess at the other half

JJ

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by jerryleejr

...
I believe it was the smell not the ability!

Nice try, but my smell is more "earthy"...though I'll concede probably as pleasant.

What is this "we" You got a gibbon in your Pocket???

Yes...invisible...and inadvertently violent...and can fold from a 12 foot arm-and-leg span into a pocket size. Jerry, meet Adrian (don't shake hands unless you have medical insurance and access to nanotech hand-reattachment surgery facilities. He means well, but, well, he is a gibbon).

I work with a chap from your neck of the Woods, I have him translate half the stuff you type and then I guess at the other half

I know how you feel. I usually have Queen Zee translate it into French and thence into the Queen's English, and then send it back to me. It's the only way I can ever understand what I've just written. (Oh, and tell your mate I said "G'day", and have one for yourself too!)

Forums been busy enough for you today, Jerry.

Cheers,
Marc

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Hemp candy bars sounds like a recipe for perpetual motions.

Cheers,
Marc

ROFL!

[nekokami]

I suppose the alternate to "misogyny" would be "misanthropy," though that tends to have more generic connotations. "Misandrony"?

I got Cs in handwriting, but I think I managed a B in typing. Other classes I got poor grades in were almost entirely from refusing to do homework when I was already acing the tests. I believe my high school had a policy that homework must count for 30% of the grade, which left my teachers as well as me in an awkward position (especially after my collage entrance test scores came in.)

Not counting the semester as an undergraduate when I overloaded on 5 classes and failed all 5. (I lost my job and had no food, among other distractions.) They asked me to take a break after that. :/

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Ahhh ... gym teachers ...... Yes, that explains a lot!! Gym was the only subject that I got less than an A in. (Although, perhaps just saying that explains why I wasn't fit enough to get an A in gym!)

Looks like you had a problem with spelling, too...

there is no "A" in gym...