#bigirxn

[academla]

Sorry if I sounded condescending. It's just I'm in high school and most of my friends love it when the teacher points them out so I was pretty confused. Thanks for explaining it to me! 😄

Okay I’m glad, because I was like oh shiiiiit when I saw that. Thanks for being nice about it!

It isn’t that I dislike being praised (who doesn’t like being praised?), it’s that I’m rightfully uncomfortable to be put in the spotlight by a teacher without my permission. If he had even just said (and some teachers have in the past), “Do you mind if I use your essay as an example?” that would be a different situation, and I would have the opportunity to say “That’s fine, but I would rather it be anonymous.”

Teachers in my experience have done similar things too; they’ll post example past essays, but they usually get rid of the name of the student. Grades aren’t taboo, and lots of people within the classroom readily share them so we can either commiserate or celebrate with them, but that should be the person’s conscious choice.

It’s like if at a meeting, an employer jumped up and announced, “Edye does an AMAZING job! Out of all of you guys, she gets a raise of $20! If she can perform that well and get that high of a raise you guys should too!” I mean, how are people not supposed to kind of resent me?

The way that my prof presented it too had very strong undertones of Edye is better than all of you, and you are all stupid and need to work harder. Your goal in this class is now to compete with this single student, whose grades I am sharing with all of you. So, that’s why I consider it inappropriate, and why the administration of schools I’ve attended generally frown upon that kind of behavior. 

(Also, somebody just commented on the original post saying that if they were a student in the class they would feel jealous and resentful and sad. Which is one of my main points.)

[academla]

He said your paper was good, but you take that as calling you out?

Hi! Thanks for the message. Let me clarify a little. So what happened the first time was that I got a 99 on my first test. He announced that to the class, saying that I got the best score he’d seen in years, etc. Then he said “if one of your classmates can get a 99, you should all be able to get a 70.” Which is entirely unfair to say in general, but to single me out to the class is, according to a school counselor, technically illegal. I didn’t think it was that extreme obviously, and his heart is in the right place, but it also puts me in an uncomfortable social position because that means that he’s now holding everybody else in the class to my standard. People don’t like teacher’s pets, understandably, and it’s easy to perceive me as such and resent me because of that as well. I appreciate being told that I did a good job, but that also can’t make other students feel good. It’s also one thing for me to choose to share my success, but that should be a personal choice. I don’t think it’s fair to the classroom or the student for the teacher to show off a student like that.

Another instance was in statistics last semester. My teacher curved the tests because I got a 95, and thus he brought it up to a 100 since it was the top score in the class. He told my entire class that I had gotten a 95. Then I pointed out that he had marked something wrong that was right, and he told the class that because of that, he would have to deduct points from all of their tests as well, because the top score couldn’t exceed 100. Would that really be a position you would want to find yourself in?

It’s one thing to tell the class what the top grade was, or to show the curve and statistics for grades. That’s a good motivator and gives good insight. But to single out a student by name and set them as the standard, as well as to openly lavish praise upon them in front of 30 other students, all of whom might rightfully feel bad, doesn’t seem appropriate in that setting.

I hope that makes sense :)

[succubusscience]

Dead Sea?

Fallout 1

Fallout 2

Fallout 3

Fallout 4

Fallout: New Vegas.

Star Wars

Star Wars

Killer Instinct Spinal

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Mortal Kombat

(Pffft! HA! Good try tho)

[fresh-out-of-the-vault]

bigirxn started following fresh-out-of-the-vault

“Are people taller this far west? Or is it just you? No offence intended.”

[succubusscience]

@bigirxn

“Right, let’s head out then.” Jo nodded as she began walking.

Lucille begins to follow the woman, hands in her coat pockets.

[succubusscience]

"I can’t leave you here alone.”

“I’m fine, love. I can take care of myself.” 

[wandercr-archive-blog]

@bigirxn  ♥ ’d for a starter!

              “ How long have you served with the NCR? ” From what Eliana knew, the Brotherhood and the NCR had quite the beef a couple of years back, but that was irrelevant to her. Soldiers were soldiers, regardless of what they fought for. “ I bet it’s tricky dealing with all the tensions here. There’s nothing like this back east. ” With the Enclave decimated, there wasn’t much of anything that threatened the sanctity of the Capital Wasteland, save for the usual super mutants and raiders, but even that problem had been curbed enough to allow people to live somewhat peacefully.

[vegasvic-blog1]

chaotic good

SEND ME AN ALIGNMENT YOU THINK I AM!

(( Acceptin’ ))

(( Close! It seems chaotic good leans more towards doing the right thing with little regard for law or rules, Hancock for example, would lean more towards this alignment i think. But we do have the ‘good’ alignment down for Vic. At least until someone crosses him :)  ))