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⌈ Secret Post #2898 ⌋

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[Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca", 1979 vs. 1997]

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[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]

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[Double Indemnity]

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[Big Hero 6]

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[Statler and Waldorf; The Muppet Show]

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[Ashita Dorobou]

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[Beth, from the Walking Dead]

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[How to Get Away with Murder]

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I'm not familiar with the context, but this reminds me of my old English teacher. She would single out the girl with a stutter and make her read lengthy passages in front of the entire class. The girl always read with the same tone, like she was trying not to panic and only partially succeeding. The teacher never gave her any sort of help or encouragement, and by the end of the year, she was just as uncomfortable as she was at the beginning.

Wow that's awful. I hope that sort of teacher got fired at some point.

Nah, the other staff tended to side with her. I got onto her shitlist for unrelated reasons, and the counselor told me she was middle-of-the-road as far as English teachers went--some were more strict, and some were less. I don't even want to think about what a more strict teacher would have been like.

(For reference, we had two teachers who actually got fired. One hid a video camera in the ceiling of the girls' bathroom. The other was declared negligent after an accident with the climbing wall left a student permanently crippled.)

D: OMG where did you go to school? HELL?

My local public high school is legendarily bad, so I got special permission to go to a school in another town, which was supposed to be one of the best public schools in the state. Turns out it's ranked as such because of its high test scores, and it has such high test scores because they really put your nose to the grindstone to make sure you're ready for the tests. A bit of teacher-on-student bullying is par for the course in such an environment--if you complain, it's because you're a wimp.

(It might be worth noting that while most of the faculty is white, almost half the students are Chinese-American, mostly second-generation immigrants. I don't mean to stereotype, but it was definitely a different academic environment than when I was surrounded by people whose parents and grandparents were born in the U.S.)

aaaand this is why ranking schools solely on standardized test scores is REALLY STUPID.

/soapbox

hooooooly shit. :( :( :(

My Japanese teacher did this to me once. I had a pretty sore throat and during the course he had noticed that speaking for a longer while with a hoarse voice sent me into pretty severe coughing fits. He targeted me throughout the whole thing, calling on me to answer lengthy questions and read out long passages of text even though countless people were volunteering. I'm not sure why he thought that was a good idea, it's not like I was hoarse on purpose just to annoy him.

Maybe the next time you're sick you'll stay home, Typhoid Nonny.

To be fair, a sore throat can be caused by noninfectious conditions.

To be fair some parents can be very insistent about going to school if you're not seriously sick. My mom's policy was that if wasn't puking or bleeding all over the floor and had a fever I went to school.

If you only have three possible sickdays (you fail the course if you miss more than that) in a winter semester where getting snowed in is also a risk you start to get very particular about how sick is too sick to go.

I'm sure that your classmates appreciate that your inability to shovel trumps their health.

How's Florida?

Wouldn't know, but probably still full of rednecks and alligators. I live in fucking New England. "Snowed in" is a good excuse for "too lazy or too stupid to plan ahead."

Let me guess then, you're in a city or the suburbs with snowtrucks that are on top of it. For some of us snow is an actual hazard and shoveling the driveway or leaving an extra thirty minutes early isn't our only concern.

I get it, you're dumber than snow. You're right, you can't afford to miss any classes.

And for the record, 30 minutes isn't nearly enough "extra time" to add to your commute for real snow if you're driving more than two or three miles, you amateur. No wonder you're "snowed in" when the school's still open. Do you even have snow tires?

Depending where you are, studded snow tires may not even be legal. I know they're not in Minnesota--go figure.

But the rest of this comment is spot on.

If you live someplace where it actually snows enough to be "snowed in" for real, your school will be closed because your teachers don't actually live in the school. I'm pointing this out to you because you don't sound intelligent enough to figure that out on your own. If your teachers can get to school, then so can you if you're motivated and smarter than frozen water.

You're really cute, the way you keep accusing people of being stupid when you yourself are too stupid to imagine that there actually are countries other than the US and things don't work the same everywhere in the world.

nayrt

You mean, the way you assumed in your superior wisdom that the ayrt was from Florida?

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I was the shy and quiet girl and teachers seem to love to target people like that. I guess they think pressuring them pulls them out of their shell but more often than not it's just humiliating and counter productive.
Quiet people are usually the ones paying the most attention in class, so I don't get the discrimination against them as long as they are doing well in class.

Honestly, some teachers are just sadists who hate kids, but some of them really don't think you're doing well in the class unless you actually participate in the class. Back before it became all about the test scores, teachers liked to think that part of their job was to prepare students to be successful and productive adults. In most cases, this will occasionally involve being able to talk in front of people and handle being put on the spot without melting down.

Quiet people are usually the ones paying most attention in class...

lol, tumblr introvert detected