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Faulkner in high school
[info]neotwinkie
2009-05-24 05:00 am UTC (link)
I was subjected to "As I Lay Dying" as a 12th-grade AP English student; a surprising enough thing in a school system that showed us so many videos in place of actual reading that my parents and I sarcastically called them "Virginia books." It was a struggle to slog through, and I was one of the few kids that genuinely loved learning and made an attempt to read all the books (as opposed to my classmates, who, even at the AP level, would mostly just pick up the Cliff's Notes or the online equivalent, as I was to discover later that year in a sobering realization. I was pretty naive).

At least in 12th grade I got that book (I guess, in retrospect) because I actually had an intelligent and dedicated teacher who was making a good-faith effort to challenge us (albiet one that backfired). I really got screwed over the other three years.

11th grade gave us a teacher whom my 12th-grade teacher accurately described as "hating kids:" she'd arbitrarily change deadlines and requirements for projects, "lose" peoples' work, and get on class-length tangential rants about, for instance, serial killers (we were talking about a Walt Whitman poem. go figure). My 10th-grade teacher was a paranoid conspiracy theorist, fond of lecturing us on Edgar Cayce and the satellites the government was spying on us with. She was also deeply insecure about her credentials; when I dared to point out that she'd made a typo on a slide about ancient Greece, giving a date as 1700 instead of 700 BC (or some such), it ended in shrieking hysterics and no admission of error on her part. And then there was 9th grade. She was a pleasant enough person… who, alarmingly often, called on me to sound out unusual words for her or to explain to the class what the hell the story was talking about. Just me. Not because she was trying to involve students, but because she honestly, by her own admission, didn't know.

She was a graduate of my high school.

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[info]thebentkangaroo
2009-05-24 03:34 pm UTC (link)
This was just in the comics a couple weeks ago:

http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2009-05-08/

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