Jester 2014-09-02 19:01:40

kindergarten was dope as fuck and then education steadily got less fun each year

Jester 2014-09-03 14:18:32

I'm not ugly enough to commit mass murder

Jester 2014-10-05 18:20:10

Glad I've helped give you an idea. There are a couple of teachers who I respect and get along with because they're funny people who either teach me interesting things or find and interesting way to teach boring things. I've always recognized that teachers are normal people generally trying their best to teach me all the things they're legally obligated to present me in a system they frequently loathe. The unfortunate reality is that sometimes people are fuckin' weak, so of course, occasionally I also have teachers who are fuckin' weak and teach accordingly. My financial management teacher seems like a nice enough woman, but somehow even after teaching for ~30 years, she's a mess and desperately wants the lot of us to like her. It's tragic, but the result is that nobody respects her at all, because she's too afraid to make any point of asserting her status as a superior.

I also tend to abhor the whole category of 50-some year old muumuu-wearing 'professional' teachers who have pumped out too many children of their own to have any sort of patience for the ones they're paid to teach, and consequently end up yelling at me when I need to borrow a pencil. That's less of a lack of respect from the get-go and more classic, deliberate hatred because I think they're assholes. I've more or less taken charge of my educational bullshit; I spend half of every day in a digital design class that I really enjoy. I've worked my ass off for classes like Physics and AP Human Geo in the past because they were important to me, and my junior year English class got a notable amount of my attention just because my teacher was a kind woman who told me she enjoyed my voice as a writer, but this year i'm not interested in any of my core classes and have concluded that my english teacher is mean. On those grounds, i'll be spending the year trying to amuse myself every day until it's time for digital design because goddammit I don't care.

This is disjointed as fuck because i'm not entirely awake and am generally only in a semi-functional state as it is, but the point is that I do see my teachers as people and that that can work for or against them. I think you'll be a good one. The key seems to be saying important things confidently while maintaining enough humanity to make jokes.