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Teachers Be Crazy
bainidhe_dub:
"I know where you're from, I just don't care!"
nekowafer:
I can't remember much of elementary school except going to the nurse almost every day because I was an extremely anxious and terrified child. No one thought, "hey, maybe we should find out WHY she feels sick every day" they just let me keep going.
Also I had a creepy old gym teacher in 1st or 2nd grade that wouldn't let me go get a drink of water. I was a fairly intelligent child, so I asked if I could go to the bathroom instead. The water fountain was on the way back to the gym. So I went to the bathroom, waited a minute, then went back out, got a drink and returned to class. Only the teacher was watching me and saw that I got a drink, so he grabbed my arm and yelled at me for it. I was terrified of that man already, and he made it so much worse that day. I saw him in middle school for some reason, a few years later, and almost had a panic attack over it.
I was always falling asleep in class in high school. I stayed up late reading sci fi and fantasy novels so I never had any energy the next day. Apparently my French teacher often spoke to me while I was asleep and I responded. She and the class knew I was out and apparently made me say many hilarious things.
And a high school math teacher made fun of me for being long on hair (it was down to my hips at the time) and short on homework (I never did math homework, I was terrible at it). He was funny but pretty consistently picked on me.
I dropped my 10th grade social studies class because I decided one day that my teacher was a jerk. He said something along the lines of "kill all the old/sick/useless people, better for society" and I'm thinking now that he wasn't serious but at the time I thought he was. So I just quit the class. They tried to get me to go back, saying that if I quit it would look bad to the teacher (terrible argument, I hated him). Also I wasn't really allowed to do such a thing? But I ended up being the art teacher's assistant and that was awesome.
To end on a good note, I sung a They Might Be Giants song (can you guess which one?) with a different social studies teacher and I was the only kid dorky enough to know what he was talking about and that was awesome. I liked that guy a lot. And my horticulture teacher was like a super muscular and amazingly hot version of Seth Green.
Jace:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 11 May 2011, 05:35 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 10 May 2011, 19:20 ---More like capable of recognizing the exact ethnicity, and intentionally referring to them as the wrong one.
--- End quote ---
If that happens to be the worst kind of insult, mind. If he cracked an anti-semitic joke to insult an inuit that would just be all kinds of silly.
--- End quote ---
Hey Jens say something in Swedish, you crazy Swede.
Patrick:
I got thrown off SO HARD the other day when my good friend, a New Yorker, referred to a girl as "looking like a Jap." I had no fucking clue who or what he was talking about, since there wasn't an Asian female to be found, and all the other girls I could immediately see didn't look even remotely Japanese. After several minutes of cluelessness and "What the fuck are you even talking about there is nothing Japanese-looking about any of the girls I see," he explained that "Jap" is not just an amazingly insensitive and dated slur for Japanese folks, but if you call in the next 5 minutes it can also be shorthand for Jewish American Princess.
I still don't use the word "Jap" though, so what fucking use was that whole goddamn lesson?
Method of Madness:
Yeah, I remember learning that in high school, when I overheard someone calling another girl "jappy". So apparently people took a racial slur and changed its meaning to...a spoiled Jewish girl?
I'm sure Japanese-American Jewish girls exist, I wonder if there are any "Japanese JAPs".
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