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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I'm not James and I don't play him on television but I can answer that. <g> 
Mind numbing boredom.  Teachers who were stupid to the bone.  Teachers who 
were petty little fools.

Example:  Kindergarten.   Teacher:  Please tell the class what your name is 
and where you are from.   Moi:  Ma name is Lynda and I'm from here." 
Teacher:  No dear, where did you move here from.  Moi:  Eureka.  Teacher; 
No dear, I mean, where were you born.  Moi:  San Francisco.  All of my 
answers said with a *thick* Georgia accent.  I got sent home with one of 
those obnoxious notes pinned to my dress.  Totally embarassing.

Example:  Kindergarten.  Teacher:  Now, we're all going to learn how to 
write out name on our paper.  Moi:  I put my name on my paper.  (I had 
written it in cursive)  I got sent home with one of those obnoxious notes 
pinned to my dress, AGAIN!  Why, because I could write cursive!  That was a 
no-no.

Example:  Third grade.  Principle comes into classroom and takes our teacher 
out of the class.  A rather obnoxious old woman stays in her place.  Our 
class is dismissed at the end of the day and were told we wouldn't have 
class for the rest of the week.  When we came back, our teacher had become 
totally depressed and totally unhappy.  She'd been told she had to have 
everyone say the *new* pledge each day or she would be fired.  She was also 
told that she had to say the new pledge OR else!

Example:  Fourth grade.  Teacher:  Lynda, please do problem [whatever the 
heck number it was] on the blackboard.  Moi:  Wrote the problem as it 
appeared in the book and then wrote my answer.  Teacher:  No, you have to 
show the work and how you got the answer.  Moi:  Totally confused because 
I'd always done long division in my head.  Teacher:  Lynda, sit over there 
and during recess I'll teach you how to do the problems the correct way. 
HELLO!  the answer was correct.  The answers were always correct.  But I 
didn't do it the "right way."

Example:  Science class, 8th grade.  Mr. Boriolo to be exact.  Just moved to 
new school district.  I made the mistake of asking a student next to me 
where they were in the science book.  The teacher made a big production out 
of making fun of my name and encouraging the class to laugh at me because 
I'd be caught talking.  I mean, beside the fact that the new school district 
was a year behind the school district I'd just left and they insisted that I 
retake all the classes I'd already taken because I hadn't taken them in the 
"right" year!

I can go on and on about my experiences and those of others.  The mind 
numbing boredom and the absolute idiocy of most things that go on in 
classrooms.  I ignored them and did what I wanted and if I got in deep 
doggie doo because of it my parents read the schools the riot act!

Lynda
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From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>


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> But what did you fight?
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