Rant #2
What is with screwed advice? I’m in high school (grade 10) and our language teacher just gave us a fifteen minutes worth pep talk about grades and school. She told us that we should try and learn honestly than cheating and that grades should not be our top priority. She told us that we should enjoy our lessons and no one’s going to remember our marks in the next ten years. We were having an online class and she was asking a question right when a classmate got disconnected, she told us she’d give all of us a minus one if we didn’t give her the name of that person within a minute.
If that isn’t the most frustrating scenario in the world, I don’t know what is. I was shocked and disappointed because of what happened. We all got a minus one because most people hadn’t even noticed and our class monitor had marked that person present because they were there for most of the period. They give positive advice, but you’re threatening us with what you know we value. She doesn’t apply that advice to her own teaching style. Why even bother to tell us not to value grades at all?
