Thursday, February 12, 2009

Alyssa's Speil on Teachers

I would like to start by imploring someone to tell me how to spell speil. Now that that's over with, I will OFFICIALLY start by saying that I value my education. I love learning and all that, but, I'm sure everyone in the history of the world who will ever read this will agree with me when I say that some teachers (or teacher's habits) just BUG me. For instance, some teachers, when givng a lecture and upon seeing a student's hand raised, will, instead of just figuring out what the DARN question is, try to answer the queston BEFORE the sudent asks it. Does anyone else see the problem with that? Let me provide an example:
TEACHER: So, I want you to do this graph project-
STUDENT: -raises hand-
TEACHER: And... it's due on September 12th...
STUDENT: -hand still raised-
TEACHER: And... it should be on poster board, but you can pick whatever color you want...
STUDENT: -hand still raised-
TEACHER: And you should type yor essay because I have a hard tim reading some people's handwriting...
STUDENT: -hand STILL raised-
TEACHER: (begins to sweat) And... uh... your essay should be double-spaced...
STUDENT: -hand rasised, begins to tap foot impatiently-
TEACHER: And... um... uh... you can use any brand of computer paper when you print your essay...
STUDENT: -hand STILL raised, arm starting to get sore from being raised in the air for so long-
TEACHER: (feeling light-headed) And... it doesn't matter if you have an HP or a Mac...
STUDENT: -hand STILL RAISED, arm really sore, becoming increasingly annoyed with teacher-
TEACHER: (sweating profusely) And... um... my favorite color is green...?
STUDENT: -hand STILL raised, arm sore, mentally and physically exhausted-
TEACHER: (sweat cascading down face, shirt-front completely soaked, becoming delirious) My house payment is past due, and I forgot to feed my dog this morning, and I ran out of milk because I left the carton out and the cat clawed it apart and drank all the milk...
STUDENT: -ARM IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF-
TEACHER: -FAINTS FROM MENTAL EXHAUSTION-

I know I am exagerating, but can you see what I'm saying? It gets to te point of being ridiculous, and the teacher still won't SHUT UP.
But, alas, don't think this is done! Oh, no, I have many more teacher-related pet-peeves, and this speil WILL coninue. I'm just sick of typing right now.
Good day to all, please immensely enjoy yor week.