"I don't think that being a strong person is about ignoring your emotions and fighting your feelings. Putting on a brave face doesn't mean you're a brave person. That's why everybody in my life knows everything that I'm going through. I can't hide anything from them. People need to realise that being open isn't the same as being weak."

- Taylor Swift

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Why?

Why is 'C' called 'Satisfactory' when it's the most unsatisfactory mark a student can get - neither pass nor fail?

Why do adults take the student train and expect schoolkids to give up their seats for them?

Why do teachers use the excuse 'We're just human' but throw tantrums when we say 'We're just kids'?

...Come to think of it, why are teachers allowed to make excuses but we aren't?

Why do we always have to do what they say but they never do what we say?

Why do teachers yell at you if you're dumb and yell even harder if you're smart?

Why do teachers assume they know everything? Why do teachers assume that they're better than us?

Why are teachers allowed to be late but we aren't?

Why are teachers allowed to wear and do whatever they want and we have to wear a uniform?

Why do teachers always use the phrase 'It just makes our job easier'? No-one ever said teaching was easy.

Why are we yelled at if we call in sick and yelled at even harder when we come to school feverish? I've never seen a teacher come to school ill and I've never seen a teacher been scolded for having a cold.

Why do teachers get really pissed when you beat them in something? They're supposed to be happy - it means that someone else has done their job for them.

Why do teachers get really pissed when you correct them about something? They're supposed to be happy - it means they don't have to go to the trouble to teach us to be humble citizens. Oh, wait - don't worry, they never do anyway.

Why do teachers yell at you when you do really messy work because they say 'Presentation is Everything' but give the top marks to the *messiest* essay because 'It's the Content That Counts'?

Why do teachers say we're ungrateful when we ask politely if we can actually learn something this year? It's not like we pointed a gun to their head and said 'Teach us or die'.

Why do teachers say we're ungrateful when we say we can't wait for high school, and that whatever high school is it has to be better than primary? We're just stating the truth - something they supposedly taught us to do.

Why do teachers say we're ungrateful because we're going to a select school instead of the local one? Does it really look like I want to spend another five years slowly dying an excrutiatingly painful death of boredom? I'm half dead already.

Why do teachers always say 'you'll get all of this when you become a teacher' when we complain about their overindulgent priveledges? Does it really look like we want to be teachers, and have this written about us?

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