I guess I’m just in a ranty mood lately, but to start off with:
For my history class, I made a timeline which was turned in today. I like the teacher for this class, I do well in it, and I have never had a problem. Up until now, that is.
Basically, he graded them while we were taking a test. Which was a long time. So why on earth he felt the need to speed through them all and then come hover over us is beyond me. I got a 12/15 on the timeline. There were 13 individual events, so I’m not sure where the 15 came from, and the only thing I did wrong was put the wrong year for one event. At the end of class, I went to ask him about it, but stupid me didn’t bring it up to show to him. I asked him how many points one event was worth, and his response was “a couple.” Thanks for the specificity -.-
So then I asked him why I’d gotten 3 points off just for the year. And he goes, “well, it was probably sloppy.”
This is the part that irritates me the most. I’m no visual artist and not fantastic at drawing or being neat, but if I try, I can usually come up with something that isn’t too bad. That was the case here. I was proud of that timeline – and I mean, come on, I’m not proud of all that many things in high school – and it’s obvious to me that he was just slapping grades down left and right. Except…
You know the “legacy” students who “know” all the teachers already because of their siblings? We’ve got one of those girls in our class, and I sit near a friend of hers. So I was talking with the two of them about the timeline, and the girl I sit near told us that she’d been marked down for saying 1820 instead of 1821, even though the event took place in part of both. “Legacy Girl” produced her timeline: full marks, same answer. And, I noticed, she’d laid hers out exactly the way I had – so no way could mine have been “sloppy” and hers not!
I know I have a right to be offended by this, because (not to sound vain or anything) I’m a smart girl. We played Jeopardy the other day to get ready, and I think I may have been the only person in the entire class to get every question right (most people got none right, which led to the mention of a mythical “woodshed” behind which “Uncle Elmer” was waiting to kill everyone for not being prepared at EVERY FRIGGIN OPPORTUNITY. I’m talking about opportunities to say “behind the woodshed”, by the way – not “Uncle Elmer” killing people.) I know my stuff. I don’t have anything against “Legacy Girl,” but if you’re going to grade her like that and not me (who actually cares, whereas she doesn’t) then we’ve got a real problem.
ANGER. GRRR. SASDSFDFHDGHFG.
/endrantfornow
