ForeverACharmedOne

taking a class on sex this semester which has resulted in many fun things like "sex activity" and "sex final" being added to my planner. being very mature and serious about this .

obsessed

I had a class called "What is Evil?" The professor called us his "evil students" and I got to say things like: "I have evil class later." and "I have readings in evil to do." and "Well my evil professor said..."

I miss having that class

[ID: tumblr reply on this post reading "my partner did a sociology degree and one of the modules was on organised crime. very funny to see stuff like "anyone doing organised crime this afternoon" in a uni groupchat"]

I had a theology class once called the Satan Seminar. That was a fun one to talk about in public

Best use of marketing at my school

I've said it before and I'll say it again: students should have unlimited possibilities to retake their failed exams. you didn't do well on ur math exam? retake it as often as u need until you understand the material. ur essay wasn't coherent enough? no worries, just hand in ur improved version. passing an exam after 5 failed attempts shows just as much if not more eagerness to learn and understanding of the subject and that SHOULD BE what education is about. learning stuff.

but instead school and university use a limited series of pass or fails that say very little about someone's intelligence and discourage deeper understanding of a field of study, preferring an oversimplified systematic assessment of individuals with very different learning curves. education ain't about actually learning stuff and that's very, very problematic

I havent seen anyone talk about this yet so im making a post. 

So lets say you’re researching something for a paper (or just for fun) and the research paper you want to read is behind a paywall, or the site makes you create an account first, or makes you pay to download, or limits you to only 5 free articles, or otherwise makes it difficult for you to read what you want.

do not fear! copy the link to the article

go to sci-hub.se         (the url is always changing so its best to check out whereisscihub.now.sh to find what the current url is)

slap the article link in there

bam! free access! 

it is always hilarious to me that hermione managed to go 7 books with a reputation as a goody two shoes. all the school rules she’s broken…heck all the international wizarding laws she’s violated….kept a person in a jar for a year

As a straight A student with a reputation as a goody two shoes, I cannot begin to tell you the shit I got away with.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Alternate universe where I literally just to go to school forever (for free) so I can just learn about art and literature and history and languages for 100 years. No job skills. No credit requirements. No student loans. Just learning.

Field trips that were half a day and you had to go back to class when yall came back was a SCAM

Talkin about “Ok, return back to your 7th period class” bitch no. Im going home llol

that moment when you stop & think about it & realize this is one of innumerable little examples of how clever thinking is punished in institutes of education.

this kid followed all the rules as written and answered correctly. the mistake was from the teacher, for leaving a loophole in the instructions to exploit. this deserves 10/10.

the entire month of august is like the sunday evening of the year where you think you have your shit together but at 11pm you realize theres school tomorrow & your shit is completely not together 

I’ve been out of school for thirteen years and I still feel this in my goddamn bones.

When you’re a kid, one teacher walking into another teacher’s classroom is the biggest crossover event reality has to offer

Remember When Teachers Used to Say, “You won’t be walking around with a calculator in your pocket”…Well, Look at us now.

one time in sixth grade i did my math homework and then because i was excited that i had grasped the lesson so well, i did the next day’s homework too

the next day in class i told my teacher, and she looked constipated for a second, and then said dismissively, “well, then you’re not very good at following directions, are you.”

#I identify strongly with this#I got reprimanded on multiple ocasions for reading ahead and/or already having knowledge

__

 Cause tags are truth. Maaan ,that one time a teacher stole my encyclopedia cause it proved her wrong.

when I was eight and in public school, we could do a report based on any historical character who had a book about them in the school library.

I picked Harriet Tubman because Harriet Tubman, and I wrote about how her master had thrown an anvil at her head, leaving her with a permanent dent in her forehead. I know that the anvil part was definitely in the school library book.

My teacher circled the word “anvil” and took off points.

“I HAVE SPELLED ANVIL CORRECTLY,” I roared in tiny confrontation.

“No,” she said, and it transpired that she didn’t know or care that “anvil” is a word or that “anvils” are a thing.

And so despite my helpful attempts to explain what anvils were, including references to blacksmiths and the Roadrunner, I had points taken off OH MY GOD.

YES, I AM STILL MAD ABOUT THIS TWENTY YEARS LATER. FUCK YOU, LADY. YOU ARE DOUBTLESSLY DEAD BY NOW AND I HOPE YOU KNOW YOUR STUDENTS STILL HATE YOU.

ANVILS ARE A THING.

From “Daring Greatly” by Brene Browne:

“…85 percent of the men and women we interviewed for the shame research could recall a school incident from their childhood that was so shaming, it changed how they thought of themselves as learners.”

I think about this quote a lot when I think of school.

Sometimes you just see a combination of posts that really crystallizes something for you. thank you spcsnaptags for putting these thoughts together this way.

In second grade I used the word “boon” in a composition and my teacher marked it wrong because, she said, it was not a word. 

I brought in the Chambers English Dictionary the next day to show her. 

That was the same school where even after I had demonstrated to them that I could read by READING A PAGE OF A BOOK OUT LOUD IN FRONT OF THEM, I was judged to be in the somethingth percentile for learning to read. Boy, was that a fun two years in the American public school system. 

I had an english teacher tell me that she was one of the smartest people I would ever met when I corrected her on the definition of gaslighting

Wow, @elodieunderglass and I apparently wrote the exact same Harriet Tubman paper.

I lost points on a third grade spelling test for answering “chaise,” because I had known how to spell “chase” since I was four and could not fathom why it would be on my vocabulary list at eight.

My 5th grade teacher tried to tell my father not to do my work for me, because I did a project on how similar the moon landings were to Jules Verne’s books on going to the moon, and she didn’t believe I had actually done the work.

I was so angry at her. My father and I traded off reading pages of those books, and I had just finished From The Earth To The Moon. 

This is the same teacher that tried to tell me that ‘ion’ wasn’t a word and took away privileges for getting up and getting the dictionary and showing her that it was too a word. 

One time my English teacher put me in detention because I corrected his pronunciation of Pompey, which he said like “Pompeii”. I raised my hand and he apparently didn’t like being corrected, and said I was getting detention for disrupting class. I didn’t like that, because I knew he was saying the word wrong. So during study time I went to his desk, and I backed up what I was saying by showing him the pronunciation guide in the text book. He said, “No one likes a smart aleck.” And the detention was extended from a day to an entire week. That was about when I decided not to listen to teachers anymore.

I had an English teacher spend the entire English lesson tallying up our year end grades. Everybody in the class was to take all our term papers and essays scores, average them out in the complicated equation she devised. And if what you got and what she got doesn’t match, she spent the next 10 minutes abusing you. I got called a r****d because in my nervousness and stress I failed to round up to 1 decimal point to her satisfaction. The next day, when the entire class expected her to apologize for her truly bizzare behavior, she only said that “she will not apologize because she did nothing wrong.”

In fifth grade we had to do a creative writing thing and I had a character say “I’m ever so lonely.” I also had a dragon “take wing.” The teacher circled both of those phrases and told me that they weren’t English. ?!?!?! That was the year I realized that teachers weren’t tiny gods and didn’t actually know everything.

I still remember the day my high school English teacher told me “entranced” wasn’t a word and I must have meant “enchanted.”

Yeah, she didn’t like the dictionary trick either. Especially as I was using the word for writing fiction and also explained to her the nuance between the two. Pfft.

(With that said, I had better English teachers in the end, like the one who, after I read the novel we were studying long before the rest of the class, got me the two sequels we weren’t studying, had me read those, and gave me stuff to do in class that took all three books into account instead of just the one.)

When I was in first grade, I got marked wrong on a spelling test for capitalizing “North Pole.” Not because it’s wrong – it’s correct if you’re talking about the northernmost point on the planet, not the north pole of any old magnet – but because we “weren’t supposed to have learned that yet.”

My brother got in trouble when he pointed out to his physical science teacher that aspirin was, indeed, an organic chemical.

I am 41 goddamned years old and I am still bitter about my 7th grade history teacher who took points off of one of my papers because he refused to believe that plethora was a real word. He didn’t appreciate the dictionary gesture either.

Jumping in on the asshole train – I was in third or fourth grade and used the word “minute” as in, something very small. Not only did I have points taken off, my teacher called my mother about this and my disruptive behavior. My mom, being my mom, only heard that I had “acted up” in class and was “very disrespectful”, and grounded me for a month.

I once had a teacher go off on me because I corrected her on an important detail. I was also given detention once for sneezing

Granted this was a bout a decade and a half ago now but my school divided the science classes into ability groups. Idea being that those who needed extra support could get it, whilst those who were doing well could also get the support to push themselves. They did the same with Maths too, and English. This actually worked pretty well. 

I was in the upper group for all of them. And this worked well - we would ask teachers questions beyond what we would be tested on, beyond what we were supposed to learn at our age. And we could do this without taking time away from those who were needed support to get the basics. Until a sub had to come in for a while and they just didn’t get it and wouldn’t go along with it. We’d ask questions and they’d shut us down with it being over the GCSE sillabubs or whatever. We were so frustrated. The teacher just didn’t get it, and was so boring and not good.

Thankfully, we did get our normal teacher back. So that was good.

We had to memorize the first N lines of The Canterbury Tales in 11th grade. I dreaded the idea of working on it for however many weeks we had before the deadline. We got the assignment on a Friday, and I crammed the passage into my head over the weekend. Monday morning, before classes, I went to the English Lit. room and said, “Ms. –, I have something to say to you.” I then proceeded to regurgitate the whole passage. I could tell she was swallowing a grin that whole time. And she accepted my work. (That teacher also allowed another student to bring in Iron Maiden’s recording of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner when we were studying that work.)

My family moved to another school at the end of the year. In that school, English Lit was covered in 12th grade. So the Canterbury Tales memorization assignment came up again. I tried the same thing–crammed it into my brain over 2 days and then asked to recite it. Nope. I had to wait until the day I was scheduled to be graded on the assignment.

That same teacher gave us a term-paper-like assignment. We were supposed to assemble our references each on an index card (this was at the dawn of the age of the PC, and she had come of age in prehistoric times. Her class, her rules). I was working with Les Miserables, and I had a quote from the (original French) book on an index card. She dinged me some points. “This is English class. We speak English in English class.” So the next version I handed in to her was reformatted to include a translation of the quote, citing myself as the translator.

She and various other teachers in that school brought me to tears on various occasions through verbal beratements designed to humiliate me.

In my 3rd - 6th grade years, I was in a school that supplied you with material at the pace that worked for you. We moved to another school district after that and I discovered I already knew most of the 7th grade math material. I worked most of the year’s assignments in the first two weeks (’cause it was fun). There you were supposed to get your parent’s signature at the end of hte assignment vouching that you, yourself, had done the work. I didn’t want to let on to my folks that I had worked ahead. They might say something to the school. I was a Yankee and thus already had a mark against me by existing. (I also did plenty of the things listed by previous posters.) Asking for special treatment would make things worse. So I was always scrambling to remember to get their signature the night before the assignment was due.

how come conservative students think they’re smarter than professors with doctorates and shit

conservative students swear that every university professor is some radical leftist with an agenda when usually it’s a professor that just uses critical thinking skills, context, and has empathy

if you swear all the professors you encounter are wrong, it might actually be that your opinions are outdated, bigoted, and incorrect lmao

This is actually the reason behind the popular notion within conservative circles that universities have a “liberal bias.”

Consistently, conservative students will leave higher ed because they perceive critical thinking, self-critique, and open discussion as attacks on their selfhood, rather than as a process of refining ideas and arguments. All of their accusations about how the people who disagree with them are just “too sensitive” are nothing more than projection, because they very idea that they should question their own assumptions is something they believe would only make them weak. 

walking into the wrong class

kinda funny when english teachers say stuff like “i can tell if you didnt read the book” or “i can tell when people bs their paper”

no you cant.  you can tell when people are bad at bs-ing their paper.  i didnt even read the sparknotes and i barely skimmed the wikipedia and you gave me an A.  you kneel before my throne unaware that it was born of lies

you kneel before my throne unaware that it was born of lies