Mood: in love...with who?
Listening to: 'One Less Lonely Girl' by Justin Bieber
Hungry for: dinner!
I am an advocate for children's, young adult's and students rights, and I normally side with students and do hate rants on teachers. But today I've found one of the few legitimate reasons why many teachers are the sadistic idiots they are.
Idiotic students.
I mean, in our school, there is no legitimate reason to be dumb. We're all chosen for our academic excellence, so you have to be good at something. And it's pretty pointless trying to act dumb, either, because one, it's not sexy, two, it's not cool, and three, it's kinda pointless in a school that is recognised like, across the globe, as an academically elite school. I would never act dumb to get a bigger circle of friends, or to get a boyfriend. It's not like both of those things aren't important to me, but being true to myself is my first priority.
That's not really the case for most of my classmates. Most of them don't think about the life they'll have after high school - they don't see that stratigically-made high school friendships with the most popular people aren't going to do anything for you in the long run, and it's not the end of the world if you don't have a boyfriend before you graduate. I know it seems like an easy thing to do - lose yourself and go with the flow to get a bit of popularity - but I wish people would look at the bigger picture.
Or, at least, stop annoying the hell out of everybody else.
There's a boy at the back of my science class who acts super dumb. He talks back to the teacher, makes smart-ass comments and either responds to a question as though it's the easiest thing on earth, or look at the teacher as though she's speaking Arabic or something. It's enough to drive anyone mad. And it's not funny. It's really not funny. It pisses the teacher off and then we have to put up with a pissed-off teacher.
I don't mind that people don't care about their lives or their future. But they should at least care for other people, then. Care enough not to go out of their way to make life hell.
1 comment:
It's not that being true to yourself isn't important to most of your classmates (indeed, yesterday, I read a post about how we hide ourselves through 'self-expression), it's that they may be doing it in a way that may limit themselves in the widest sense, however it may advantage them in the narrow.
And I would be especially careful, as a person who puts a premium on her intelligence, to avoid words like 'dumb' and 'idiot' even in frustration. Elitist behaviour is not what makes the elite.
Those last two paragraphs really say something. I had a few students in my life make smart comments. It was hard not to be influenced by them.
What are you learning in science at the moment?
(I assume it's general science, without specialisations, or the specialisations not made explicit. I end up learning most of the science I know from TV or radio).
And do your classmates seriously think they are going to die at 18? (Yes, I know, sarcasm. But it can be a very real and hidden fear). Or even 15?
(or whatever the moral or spiritual equivalent of loss/death might be for them).
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