Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Hamlet

Massachusetts has a Completely shit-faced Assessment System Oh look, I made an acrostic poem. Yes, I believe this is the time for ranting. Subject: MY LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER Ever since the demerit system has been introduced, she's been having a field day. She stands at the doorway with her little clipboard, making every unsuspecting student that was walking too quickly feel her almighty wrath. Today, when someone was walking back from lunch break, he apparently "kicked" someone else. I'm assuming he actually just tripped over the person. He told her that he didn't kick anyone, and that she could even ask the person she thought he had kicked. This was her response: "Oh! No! That's five demerits now! That's defiance!" HOW DARE HE DEFY HER WRATH!? That's so messed up. "Defiance" is worth five demerits. Five demerits is an office detention. Apparently, defiance is also known as defending your case. That's the American justice system working for you right there. Although, I suppose she's implementing the omnipotent bitch amendment. More statistics: She always tries to start class with three people in the room, about three minutes before anyone's even supposed to be there. She then asks where everyone is. Her voice is high-pitched an whiny. I know that isn't a big deal, and doesn't reflect her personality necessarily, but it's still a minor annoyance. She thinks that we're stupid enough to believe her when she's trying to scare us into behaving. Example: Someone erased part of the board, which could easily have been an accident. However, she said this: "Well, that's too bad. Their fingerprints show up on those items, (marker, eraser, board) and I can send those down to the office to be checked." There's so many things wrong with that. 1. A person doesn't need to use a marker to erase something. 2. Our school definitely doesn't have forensic equipment. 3. Our fingerprints are not on file. 4. You wouldn't be able to tell who had done the deed, even if by some stretch of the imagination the above were possible, because there would be too many fingerprints. 5. The fingerprints would be smudged, and they could have used their sleeve anyway. 6. You can't send an entire whiteboard to the office. 7. The office doesn't give a damn. There you go. There are probably even more flaws that I haven't thought of. I think this post has been long enough.

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