History 101
For those of you that read my blog you might know how I feel about my history teacher. He's a nut and more lately he's been driving me absolutely nuts. He gets off point. Spends upwards of 45 minutes talking about non US History subjects and he insists on having current event argument time for the first 30 minutes of class. So I composed this letter in my head last night on my way to the school. I was all wound up and anxious about my first test of the semester and praying that he was not going to spend 30 good studying minutes on his crappy current events.Dear Fatso,
I don't appreciate the 30 minutes of current events which should really be called, "Tell me what your current event is and let me talk about how you don't have your facts straight and I'm always right and you're wrong". If I wanted to sit around and listen to men and woman arguing about politics, and the ins and outs of Democrat vs. Republican, I'd stay home and watch those old guys with big eye brows and boring suits bicker at each other with my Dad. The bottom line: If it's not on the test, and it's not going to advance me towards a teaching degree, under the heading of Early US History, then PLEASE shut the fuck up! I am paying you to teach me facts about early US history - not to hear your statistics on the amount of money the US has spends in battling The War On Poverty or to hear you recite the "fact"
that the Starbucks CEO is now spending more on his employees healthcare then he is on the goods he needs to actually make our $5/cup of coffee. How much NPR do you listen to anyway!? Then to threaten a lesser grade unless we participate in your political mud wrestling contest? Appalling.
I work a full week 40 hours week and then come to your 7:30-1030pm class so excuse me if I don't feel like getting out of class 10 or even 2 minutes late because you got over heated about a quote Barbara Bush may or may not have said on good morning America, three years ago.
TEACH ME EARLY US HISSSSTORY.
I'm not saying that I hate political science. I am saying that I hate the discussion of the topic of political science. I personally wish that everyone would agree to disagree and if you think you can do it better -- do it! But please allow me to be the function in society the way that I'd like to and stop force feeding me your political woes! Politics frustrates me and I think it's rude to forcibly inject others with your political views - especially to the tune of a gazillion dollars an hour -- at a community college. You might should start a blog.
Thanks for listening,
Jess
...............But then after class I felt bad about mentally ranting to my teacher because I really think I rocked my test! And he got major teacher points for putting on the test exactly what he said he was going to. And I realized that most of my frustration probably came from the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, and the Protestant reformation - bouncing off of my brainicles. Now that I'm past the stress hump of the first test I realize it was really just some crazed anger I drummed up in my head on the way to class preparing to fail and then blame others.....Specifically the teacher for clouding my already damaged brain cells with politics. Eck.....
posted by Jessiedc28 @ 9:18 PM
1 Comments:
If you do an semester end evaluation, you should still mention your dislike of how much discussion was off topic and how much he "Pushed" his political views on everyone. Politics is all OPINION and everyone should be able to respect others opinions. That is what our country is known for.
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