some people!

[aido179]

I know, I know, teachers are people too. I have lately begun to see the more friendly side of a lot of my teachers as, my year as a whole, becomes a bit more mature.

Just when you think you understand some people..wham!

heres the story.
It was mocks week last week, when all exam years have mock exams to prepare for the big ones. were all stuck in one classroom for the week, it gets stuffy, boring and repetitive.
Teachers tend to feel the same way, they usually lighten up though.
I was in business class. after 80 minutes of working up a numb rear end I will admit I was getting giddy (the combination of boredom and not being challenged)
we began doing pie charts, a tiny bit of a chapter without any challenge. the teacher asked: "any one know how to do them?"
I knew so I told her: add it all up, divide by 360 = x, take your amount and divide it by x to get angle. true?
her reply was "no"
??

so I'm wondering how she could be so undermining. She goes on to explain a method, quite like my own. the guy beside me tells her it was exactly what I said and I agreed: "it kind of was my way, miss"
"no, it wasn't"
"well, yes it was, miss"
"what? no aidan! your wrong"
"no im not, miss" (this is getting annoying, she's blatently wrong)
"sorry? Is this just because you want to be right?" (she is very sarcastic) ((very sarcastic))
"NO miss," (my final nail in my coffin) "it's because I AM right"
....long story short, I spent the next 40 minutes waiting outside the door....

She ended up making a huge issue about it; making a written report card and getting me in it deep. despite a genuine apology and a lecture from her about it. I want to contest it but I need to know if I have any chance of being believed over a teacher.

opinions?

[Classicblast]

Sometimes even if you are right when someone is in authority it's better not to say anything.

Well not completely giving in but you made your argument that you had used the same formula she wouldn't give it to you, you can't really win that argument even if you are right.

This happened to me (and I wasn't in school) I was about 22 years old playing for team and the manager signaled for me to bunt. So I bunted. and got thrown out.

I come in the dugout and he says "Just what the hell are you doing out there?" I said "you signaled to bunt and I did."

He said "No!! I signaled to fake a bunt then swing away on the next pitch.

Well I swear he did not. It would have been pull on his left ear and clap hands once was bunt but to fake a bunt and swing would be the same thing adding adjust the belt.

I am positive about 10 years later he did now adjust his belt.

I called him on that. I was benched the next game.

From then on I've either said nothing or just agreed when confronted unless you can discuss without invoking anger.

[aido179]

i understand completely. exept for what a bunt is...

[dannyboy]

A bunt in baseball is a strategy in which the batter doesn't swing his bat. Instead he holds it across and without intending for the ball to go far, he just plans to get a piece of it, and keep the ball in play.

Bunting is done for different reasons but usually it's a sacrifice. The idea if you have runners on bases especially 3rd, you may wish to advance the runners. So the batter holds his bat that way and taps the ball away from 1st base and tries to out run the throw to 1st.

A rule of thumb in baseball is to throw to 1st when there's a ball in the infield. So rather than take chances of getting nobody the defending team will throw to 1st. Usually they get the bunter out that way but the other runners advance.

Therefore a sacrifice.
That's what a bunt is.


As for the rest of this topic. Sometimes just knowing you are right is all you can get from this. Most teachers want their students to know things and won't just try to brow beat them. But there's always a jerk. Like Classic said I think just let it go there's no point in arguing with the teacher.

[Hatson]

Sometimes cops, teachers and bosses abuse their rights as authority. Sometimes they just make themselves right and others wrong because they are having a bad day and that makes themselves feel better. And they do that because they can.

[Phil]

Especially nightshift foremen.

[aido179]

yeah...well, sure my parents are over it now, me too, I can live with it. single again though, that might take a bit more effort to get over

[Phil]

aido179 said:

yeah...well, sure my parents are over it now, me too, I can live with it. single again though, that might take a bit more effort to get over

That's a passing thing, pal. It takes a little getting over. Sure you invest time and emotion in a relationship and it comes to an end. But that's life. Not many of us married our high school sweetheart either.

You gain some party time you will find another.

[aido179]

thanks phil.

[Phil]

Yep I promise you'll do fine.

[Jersey]

aido179 said:

thanks phil.

If you're looking for closure, try this. I found it yesterday.

www.relationshipobit.com

It's surprisingly helpful. I wrote one up for me and my ex.

[Jason O'Lewa]

Or relationship o'b*tchuarys ;D;D;D;D
i had a mean vice principeal yelling at me monday.

im in 5th grade so im suppose to go in the front doors of school
i missed the bus so my mom drove me to school but I knew if I went in the side doors I could make it to my classroom before the plege to the flag

so I go in and this guy said
ostrotkiewicz, what grade are you in?
i told him 5th but he knows that
then he said
and what doors are 4th graders and up suppose to come in?
i told him I might have been late if I went all the way to the front of the school to come inside and he still yelled at me
and he cant even say ostrotkiewicz right

i got home I told my dad what happened my dad said dont worry about him just say sorry next time ill do it your way and dont argue with the vice principeal

[Beangirl]

Your dad is right Jason. You will understand better when you are older. He should not of yelled at you so much but he was trying help you to learn. When I was a child. My dad was a school Vice Principal. I learned all the reasons "school people" do what they do. hang in there Guy.

[Kimm]

Sometimes its a way of venting frustration just to make themselves right because theyre in charge.

I am not saying its right but it happens. And yes Jason your dad is right because thats just not an argument that could be won.

I know its annoying for you because you went in the building on the other side because you were running late and its a shorter walk to your class room (I think I understood it as meaning that) And you get scolded for trying to be on time.


Aido youre going to have lots of relationships before you settle down. Its a passing phase as the saying goes.

[aido179]

hmmm, ya. thanks guys.
I really have no problem with the breakup, its only that after 10 months, her friends will be p***ed and thats what I don't want to face.
the wierd thing is that now, I can already notice some *people taking notice. where they didn't before. maybe i'm getting ahead of myself. lol

[Blastgirl]

I'm glad you have moved on Aido179. I think some people are in a bad mood and they just try to make other people miserable because they are as in some of the posts in this topic.