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The school thread.; Required reading and other reminicing.
Topic Started: Mar 28 2007, 08:31 PM (115 Views)
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So I'm talking to RTM about a Something awefull article about bad teachers when he mentions that he had read Dante's Inferno and that it was required reading. which striked me as odd because if I remember correctly my school wouldn't touch Dante's infero with a six hundred and sixty six foot pole.

And in my school I had to read the diary of Anne Frank no less than 4 times required during grades 5-8. My school system worshipped the book and I could probably still summerize or recite it for you if I had to.

So I'm wondering what kind of things you had to read in school? or if you have tales about a screwed up thing a teacher did or if you just want to share some school gripes.


TL;DR: We talk about things from our schooling ITT.
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Red,Mar 28 2007
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if you just want to share some school grips.

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my bad. I can't spell today for some reason.
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This isn't mine, but I acctually know the kid this involves. (Copied from another board due to lazyness)

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My 8th grade English teacher had it out for me, and I never knew why. However, at least she got hers in the end.

Backstory: my older brother committed suicide when I was in 7th grade, by hanging himself in our basement. I found him. Please, no hugs, no "I'm sorry", I'm not sympathy whoring here. It was a long time ago, I've long since recovered, emotionally. However, in 8th grade, not even a year after the event, I was far from in a healthy emotional state.

My English teacher, Mrs. Litigot (I truly don't care using her name, screw her), insisted reading to the class a book called "My Brother Sam is Dead." The final chapter of this book involves the main character watching his brother being executed. Not only did I object to this book being read in the class (it wasn't part of our school's stated curriculum, at the time), but I also requested to be excused from the class during the execution scene. Both requests were, of course, denied.
I was forced to sit in class while she read the final chapter.

Later in the semester, she assigned us to write an autobiographical poem. I wrote about how my brother's death affected my life. The poem was rejected by Mrs. Litigot, as she claimed it was about my brother, and therefore not autobiographical. Now this poem has since been lost, so you'll just have to take my word for it, but my parents, the school's principal, and vice principle all agreed it was definitely autobiographical.

My parents couldn't believe the problems I was having. Not that I would lie to them, but what I was claiming seemed totally off the wall. So they tried to go talk to her before school. The moment they walked in the classroom door, Mrs. Litigot started screaming at them (not mere yelling, but full-on screaming :rant
with no provocation whatsoever. Apparently, she was pissed off that they would come in before school started, instead of during her conference hour. My parents walked out of the classroom and right down to the administration.

Mrs. Litigot couldn't be fired (she had tenure, and was a member of the union), so my parents did as much as they could to get her some sort of censure (this day and age, it could've resulted in a lawsuit, if my parents were assholes like that, which they're not). They wrote a 5 page letter to the administration and school board, and the letter was placed into Mrs. Litigot's permanent file. When her tenure came up some years later, she "decided" to retire.

Never have I seen such nonsensical hatred from a teacher since, and I have decided I will always listen to my children's concerns about their teachers, no matter how bizarre they might be.


EDIT: to add a story of my own, my lit teacher, in COLLEGE, just failed a paper worth 5% of my grade because I used the pronoun "he" rather then something ambigious to describe the computer in "I have no Mouth and I must Scream"

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