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Man, I am so mad at my AP Gov teacher right now. He should not be teaching the class, seriously.
Witness the two most recent incidents:
We're finishing up our unit on the Constitution and were talking about the Fifth Amendment, and I asked about the bit regarding "except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger" and how that works. Well, first he tells me that he doesn't know -- okay, fair enough, except for the part where he's teaching freaking AP Gov and has been doing so for a fairly long period of time -- and then he tells me that it's never going to apply to me anyway. I was too shocked that a teacher would say that to give my writer comeback -- which he probably wouldn't have understood anyway, since it's pretty much, "Well, no knowledge is ever wasted, and dude, I write military fiction" -- or kindly tell him that there's, like, an eighty percent chance I'll be joining the Air Force. And going for a JAG after I get my undergraduate. A.K.A. military law.
Yes. Let's think about the idiocy of his comment for a few minutes. Let's think about the fact he's a teacher and he was pretty damn judgmental right there. Just because I'm a girl and an A student doesn't mean that I'm never going to join the military.
Bit number two. We're having a mock Supreme Court thing dealing with commerce clause cases, and he's already told us which groups are going to be petitioners and respondents on which cases. Then he decides that we're too stupid to figure out which is which and assigns my group to be the citizen complainers and Group A, the group we're going up against, to be the United States, regardless of which one is petitioner or respondent. He did that today. You know when he told us the original assignment? Friday. So I'd been researching for Caminetti v. U.S. assuming I'd be the United States, and now I'm Caminetti. Apparently I was the only one bothered by this, but I was extremely bothered, because, hello, you don't do that to your students, especially not when we're supposed to start presenting our cases tomorrow and you haven't given us the fucking time to make them, and then, b, fucking changing shit around on us. Just no. You don't do that shit.
*seethes*
Witness the two most recent incidents:
We're finishing up our unit on the Constitution and were talking about the Fifth Amendment, and I asked about the bit regarding "except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger" and how that works. Well, first he tells me that he doesn't know -- okay, fair enough, except for the part where he's teaching freaking AP Gov and has been doing so for a fairly long period of time -- and then he tells me that it's never going to apply to me anyway. I was too shocked that a teacher would say that to give my writer comeback -- which he probably wouldn't have understood anyway, since it's pretty much, "Well, no knowledge is ever wasted, and dude, I write military fiction" -- or kindly tell him that there's, like, an eighty percent chance I'll be joining the Air Force. And going for a JAG after I get my undergraduate. A.K.A. military law.
Yes. Let's think about the idiocy of his comment for a few minutes. Let's think about the fact he's a teacher and he was pretty damn judgmental right there. Just because I'm a girl and an A student doesn't mean that I'm never going to join the military.
Bit number two. We're having a mock Supreme Court thing dealing with commerce clause cases, and he's already told us which groups are going to be petitioners and respondents on which cases. Then he decides that we're too stupid to figure out which is which and assigns my group to be the citizen complainers and Group A, the group we're going up against, to be the United States, regardless of which one is petitioner or respondent. He did that today. You know when he told us the original assignment? Friday. So I'd been researching for Caminetti v. U.S. assuming I'd be the United States, and now I'm Caminetti. Apparently I was the only one bothered by this, but I was extremely bothered, because, hello, you don't do that to your students, especially not when we're supposed to start presenting our cases tomorrow and you haven't given us the fucking time to make them, and then, b, fucking changing shit around on us. Just no. You don't do that shit.
*seethes*