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[Chocofreak13]

@bells: TEACH THE CLASS YOURSELF
@leaf: i was in the middle of making a post and my computer crashed. so, i'll start again by saying i can recommend....

Accel World (TECHNICALLY they fight each other, but it's virtual, sooo....)
Angelic Layer
Black Rock Shooter (once again, each other, but this time it's figments of their imagination)
Busou Shinki
Code Lyoko (maaaaybeeee.....???)
Digimon
Heroman
Megas XLR
Monster Rancher
The Big O (?)
Dragon Drive
Zatch Bell

[winduko]

Teachers who can't teach worth shit. Those are hell on earth.

Why they're hell on earth (has very personal story inside):

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After encountering one of these last year, I became literally afraid to take foreign language courses. It got to the point where I'd skip class whenever the opportunity presented itself (which was fairly often, as I was recovering from a pilonidal cyst surgery for a good part of the previous school year) and because she was so bad at teaching, I became ineligible for the honors diploma. Honestly, I thought her shitty teaching fucked my chances of being considered for NHS.

She was also a shitty person too. She often mentioned (as if it were no big deal) that she almost ran over a student.

And she was really shitty to me in particular, because I dislike being forced to choose the people I work with in a group, and she did that all the fucking time. She even said that she wanted to say bad things to my face (because I angrily called her a bad teacher to her face, not nice but I was sick of being nice to that shitstain), but didn't because she liked her job. I am 1000% certain that she wanted to call me "retarded," as a huge part of the reason why I hate hate groups and group work is because I am on the autism spectrum (to be more precise, I have Asperger's, but I personally dislike the terms that derive from it) which I am supposed to receive accommodations for (which I rarely do because, for the most part, I don't need them, but I needed them for that class because the teacher is, guess what, shitty) but she failed to provide them. She also said that ADHD doesn't exist, which I strongly disagree with (and if I didn't want , and my mom does too, as she said that it pissed her off when I mentioned the shitty teacher said that. After that, I knew she hated me for the fact that I'm autistic.

I was done with her by the time I began to post here though. And now she no longer teaches at my school (whether she quit or she was fired is another story and it probably was the latter)

Even thinking about this angers me to no end however. I'm just thankful that there was a happy ending.

[Chocofreak13]

idk if it's any consolation, but i'm making it one of my life's dreams to be the most kickass teacher ever.

and there's a chance i'm going to teach Art, English, and possibly foriegn languages. (i'm hoping to someday know English, Japanese, Russian, and Korean.)

i hope you've picked a college with adequate faculties for dealing with autistic and asperger's issues. a couple of my friends (including one of my best friends) have asperger's (and i actually thought i had it for awhile, but i think i'm likely just extremely socially awkward), and i know at least one of them had teachers that understood their condition at college, but most of them didn't (the two teachers in question that did, one had a background in psychology and the other was a social worker in the past).

as for ADHD, i agree that it DOES exist, but i also think it's WIDELY over-diagnosed.

[winduko]

Let's just hope they're within driving range. My parents expect me to drive to college (and I doubt I'll be as lucky as Cockle when it comes to single dorms anyways), and I have to attend an in-state college for a scholarship to take affect.

Also, I use accommodations so rarely that the school usually has to force me to use them, despite that my mom has said several times that they're there in case I need them, which is very rarely (last year was probably the first time in three years since I actually needed to use accommodations, and probably the first time since elementary school, if not ever, I used them as extensively as I did).

And that teacher was just shit. I normally get on very very well with teachers. So far, she's the only teacher I actively disliked. Before last year, it was hard for me to choose a least favourite teacher because all of them were awesome. Really, as long as you're not that bad, you'll be fine. I seriously seriously doubt you will be, however.

For the record, in my second semester of that same year, I had a very kickass teacher who also put emphasis on group work, but she also understood the plight of introverted students like me (she once said that when she was my age she strongly preferred working alone, and at the beginning of the semester she mentioned that the emphasis, as well as her approach, on group work was for practical reasons). She picked the groups from day one and stuck with them unless she said otherwise, and when she said otherwise, she allowed students to work alone, no exceptions. She became one of my favourite teachers because of her different approach to group work compared to the shitty teacher. It helps that she's also a great person, though.

However, what I define as a good teacher tends to not be the same as most people's. Most of my favourite teachers are the ones nobody likes (the teacher that I mentioned earlier is actually one that many of my peers liked if I recall correctly, but I think that I have heard horror stories about her in my freshman year).

[Chocofreak13]

i think i'll emphasize a student's right to choose, as some people work better in groups, but i GREATLY prefer working alone. i'll tell them to weigh the benefits and the drawbacks of each and also tell them that if they just form a group with their friends, goof off, and their work comes out shitty, they'll all get failing grades and won't be able to form that specific group again. for some heavier projects, some kids find it easier to split the work, especially if they have other heavy classes. a serious pet peeve of mine was when a teacher acted like a student had LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE going on besides that class. >>;;


that said, what scholarship are you talking about, man? is it state-sponsored, or maybe your high school sponsored it? cause i went out of state and i still got a scholarship from my school. :\


unrelated to everything: so i'm likely going to be pirating a book, lol.

[stewartsage]

That's why I don't have any intention of becoming a teacher.  There's no way I want to have to deal with kids in a formal educational setting other then as a guest speaker/presenter which is basically like being the class' cool uncle.

Some states offer scholarships in-state.  West Virginia will send you to any state school for free if your high school grades are good enough.

[winduko]

That's a good way to go. In fact, it's the best way to go. I believe in choices myself. I also hate it when teachers do that, I get the feeling my teachers are doing it. >_>

I'm talking about the 21st Century Scholars Scholarship, which basically means that the state of Indiana pays for your tuition for a college in Indiana if, basically, you get good grades in high school, keep out of trouble, and were poor (defined basically as having free or reduced prices for lunch) during your middle school years. I am/was all three of those.

[Nichi]

@bad teachers: For me, it's not just teachers; it's most people in any sort of position of power over me. While I have had some good teachers, bosses, etc., I have resentment toward many of them because they think I'm just some shithead >_>;

TBH, IDK if I have any mental disorder; unless "homeschool" counts as a mental disorder :\

So, today got off to a godawful start. Somehow I was both late for work (By 2 minutes, but my boss made it out to be that I was several hours late) and too early at the same time (Personal department called my boss and told her that they "talked to me" about how I wasn't supposed to be in for another 30 minutes because I went over in hours last Saturday, and although the bit on them talking to me was a mistake, my boss refused to believe me because she assumes I'm a retard with the memory of a goldfish just because I don't do well under pressure and often get scatterbrained because of getting bombarded with customers from every angle). In fact, when the personal department made another mistake, on how many hours I was over, the boss once again blamed me (They called her up to tell her about how much time I was over, and they somehow messed it up and said I had like 90 minutes when I only had 20 over, but this was my fault...and I heard her via the speakerphone say something to the extent of "I swear, that boy is an idiot" before the lady in personal noticed I was standing there and switched back to the handset.

So, at least I know how that bitch really feels about me. Hopefully I can get out of there as quickly as possible, before I snap :\

The rest of the day was alright; besides teaming up with a cart pusher to help this really old person with a phone (He and I were both getting frustrated trying to explain everything to this person, but somehow we got it straightened out).

[Cockleshell]

homeschool can definitely cause a mental disorder, not diagnosable per se, but look at me, homeschooled till pretty much 9th grade and had shit social skills all my life until now

[Chocofreak13]

homeschool itself isn't a disorder, but it can cause a host of them, depending on how the parent deals with it. social isolation in any form can lead to disorders, and homeschool is a breeding ground for isolation, even if it's unintentional.

@stew, kodomo: i'm mostly going to become a teacher because it's steady employment. it was either this or social work, and i'm depressed enough already without adding other peoples' problems to my plate.

tbh whether i intend to or not i'm likely going to become a beatnik teacher. i'm hoping to get in somewhere at a cushy private school (the catch is finding a non-religious one that won't force me to live there), but even public schools don't mind sometimes when teachers stray off the beaten path a bit. i had plenty of kickass, unorthodox teachers in high school, and i had bitchy, uninterested teachers who really didn't want to be there. an enthusiastic but weird teacher won't shake too many people up, especially with the credentials i hope to achieve.

and if that gets my ass kicked maybe i'll teach college. i don't really want to, though.

@scholarships: ah, i didn't know that. it wouldn't have mattered in my case, since of the only art schools in the state, one is only for summer workshops, one closed years ago, and the last one sucks balls.

[Nichi]

@Cocks: At least you actually got to go to a public school eventually. Me? Homeschool all 12 years of my life, with the only contact with the outside world being church; where I was universally hated for being "different" from the other boys >_>;

[Chocofreak13]

i almost read that as you finishing school at 12 and i was about to be like, woah bro, that's not how it works.

[Nichi]

LOL -w-;

So, yeah; I plan to get out of Walmart ASAP; given that it's pretty obvious my boss does not like me :\

[Chocofreak13]

too bad there isn't a target nearby. :\

[Nichi]

...so I might be going back to the hospital; reclaiming my old position >w>;