Sunday, August 15, 2004

Arg, schools going to start in 2 weeks. Thinking about it makes me think about everything that happened last year. So, I'm kinda going to go a little nostalgic cause I realy need to get this out of my system. Lets start with US History and Mr. Nutter, yes that was his real name and he defentialy lived up to it. He was a...hard to describe teacher. Lets see in his class homework didn't count but you better do it (more of that later), you had nine quarter. One for each week. Every thursday witch was basicaly jugement day you took a quiz on the weeks material. If you had a test it replaced the quiz, same whent for prodjects, but every thursday was a grade. His class you had to study for. Not much maybe 15 minutes to review the material every thursday morning or lunch (depending on the period you had him) for the quiz. If you didn't you'd fail. Lots of people switched out of his classes cause honestly if you can't take quizes well hes not for you. I stayed in cause I was to lazy to switch out, was making good grades in it despite it being hard, and though nutter was an interesting teacher. He expected alot of the class and it didn't deliver though. He once put up a overhead with the number of people in each class that had an a, b, c, d, and e. Our class was the highest with like 4 a, 5 b, 10 c, and the rest d. Most of his class did alot worse, one has 1 a, 2 b, 0 c, and the rest d. These are all honor classes to. Back to the homework. Well he almost never checked it but when he did you better have. At the begening of the year he had every one take out there homework, after not checking it for about 3 weeks. Everyone who did it whent outside including me for about 15 minutes and he closed the door. When he opened it again everyone inside filled out and I swear there eyes were the size of baseballs then nutter said in a controlled scary voice, the kind people get after yelling alot, that he was not going to review with people who didn't do there work and then whent on. I never found out what he said to them but they didn't come in for the rest of class. Another time right after HSA testing he was reviewing some other sheats and relized no one had it (I swear we were the laziest class in the world no wonder everyone was failing no one did anything) He started asking the class questions for extra credit of the sheets we were doing. I'm not joking when I say 3/4 of class sat down before I answered the question (the week before it was HSA and I was stuck in the library for 4 hours a day for 3 days and got realy bored so I did it then). Then the rest of the class sat down. Only two of us did our homework. We had to do a report once about the 60's. I did the grateful dead. Anyway the day of the prodject I come in and nutter is sitting with his feet up on the desk laughing gets up and says score. I relize he's playing nintendo. Some guy brought in nintendo for his project about basketball in the 60s and famous players of the time. Nutter always expected you to make these giant leaps in thinking. He'd give to papers with facts on and ask you what it ment. He was always looking for a very spacific answer too. Okay, enough about history on to tec. I am so glad I don't have to take that class this year I hated it. Ummmm...interesting facts well last year 3 or 4 people through a moletov cocktail through a window of my school, two were expeled a third was in my tec class. The teach Mr. Beatie admitted he didn't whant to teach and was just doing it for finashal security. If it was up to him he'd work at the deck building company he owned full time. He was like a recruter for the consturuction industry. Telling us that us that didn't whant to go to coledge had to do something then outline all the great aspects of deck building while looking pointenly at about five kids. The guy was clueless to. Some of the stuff that whent on in that class...Once we were all in the tec room with machines and stuff and beatie was in his office. A guy brings out a can of axe body spray and a lighter. So, he puts the lighter in front of the the can and does that flame througher thing, beatie didn't notice. I'm sitting here thinking okay when the guy comes in were all 35 of us are going to suspened, or the fire alarm and or sprinklers are going to go off. They don't. He sprays the floor in a desighn, lights it on fire. Sprays his hand, the soul of his shoe, the table, ect. beatie doesn't notice. Then some girl walks in after he just finishes putting away the lighter and spray saying dud, who's using all the body spray, who are you trying to impress. The entire class burst out laughing. Beattie never found out about that. He was also the worst grader. If you worked near him so he could hear and see you, you got an a. If he didn't you'd be lucky to get a high d. We worked in groups of 4 or 5. You work lucky if one other person in your group helped. You do everying and I mean everything and you don't work near him your lucky to get a 10 out of 20 on participation. On are first project he gave us a 5/20 for our backround info cause we didn't highlight anything. He never mentioned highlighting. I don't think he relized that was like giving someone an e. You only had about two prodjects a year so if you screwed up one then your entire grades gone. He once refused to accept anyones prodject claiming he already asked for them even though only one group turned it in. He eventlualy settled for a 45 minute lecture on responsibility and deducting 30 points of of the 100 point prodject. I thin I inded up with a 45 out of 100 on that prodject and it was tec. The easy slacker course was always my worse grade. I somehow mangaged to pull of very very low Bs though. Basicaly cs high enough to round up to bs. I'm glad that class is over. About grades another thing with nutter was he wouldn't round up you could have a 79.99 or 89.99 and he would not round up. Okay well thats it. I'm glad I got that out of my system.
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