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Originally posted by Knight Templar
By stupid, I mean general quarreling over this and that. My bad.

And Handpuppet for who? Civil servants?

Ah ok, didn't realise that, I just really, really abhor wilful ignorance.

Civil servants more applies to the UK, when a government changes hands here, it's just the elected officials that are figurheads for their respective departments (education, culture, sport etc.) however the people that actually do most of the work and make most of the decisions are the Civil servants and these don't change so you'll find that there tends to be little difference between any government over here that is unwilling to tackle them.

As for Bush, I don't really see him as the guy in the driving seat of his own administration is all, which would make him just a figurehead with no power, like a handpuppet for the people behind him and some of the larger corporations (*cough* Enron *cough*)

[Rampage]

Well, all is still encouraging.  He's still teaching at that place, but just until school's over.  He teaches a senior (12th grade) American history class and had to fail about 25% of his students because of poor (I mean, really poor, as I graded some of their tests.) grades.  We did get some phone calls and some surface threats from parents during the night and stuff.  The administration wasn't happy, as these students can't graduate if they fail any class their senior year.

The kids either liked him or they hated him.  Most hated him because they're dumbasymptotes subculturals.  He was hosting an afterschool physics class for the science department for several physics students who wanted to take the AP Physics C exam in May.  The administration closed it down after three months being in session.

Basically he was fluxed by the administration for something he didn't do.  All he did was fail those who deserved to fail.  So I guess the school board saw him as a guy who sucked as a teacher.  He doesn't doubt that he'll ever teach again in another school, as the school board probably had him blacklisted as a "bad teacher".

So - I don't know...  Attempted Suicides will need some thought.  I hope to finish some version of the campaign before I go off to college.  Too bad my sister doesn't like video games (Not Freespace anyway...  She likes that word scrambling game on Yahoo!.) and my brother's too young, or I would be having several more hands in the family to help me out.  My father's been playing Half-Life for the past month to - vent, so I doubt he's in the mood to do anything Freespacy anytime soon.

[Janos]

Note: following post will try to be comedy and fail in it.

Sorry, but this Rampage II / Rampage: TNG / Rampage Advanced is quite funny, because it reminds me of some classic (read: ****ty) sci-fi and superhero movies. You know, like "Birds of Prey" (ack) or any "the hero returns in some form" -series/films?

[Knight Templar]

@ Janos

Rampage TNG: Don't take this personally, your dad could've just gotten stuck with a bunch of ****ty kids, but generally when that much of your class is failed, something is wrong somewhere. It may be at home, it may be their attitude, lifestyle, etc. Or they may just be plain dumb. But part of being a teacher is reaching that and correcting it, and getting through and teaching them.

Don't get me too wrong, I'm not attacking your dad, and it's probably too late to change anything. But you can't really blame the school administration if they see a guy who has students repeatedly failing his class and get worried about it.

In all fairness though, blacklisting like that would be extreme.

[Rampage]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
...but generally when that much of your class is failed, something is wrong somewhere.

Personally I understand.  It may have been my father, but he's always a tough history teacher.  There have been kids who passed his class with flying colors, but I undoubtedly think it's the kids.  Some of them aren't just failing history.  They're also failing or doing miserable in other courses.  Some teachers see these kids as being seniors (I'm a high school senior myself.) and have contracted "senioritis" and give them "special reprieves" on exams, but that's cheating.  My father follows the more conservative method of teaching.  He doesn't give a crap if you're failing and a senior and won't graduate.  So what?  All that poor slob has to do is to delay a year in entering college, take the GED exam, and get a half-asymptotic high school diploma.

As you see, I'm behind my father 110 percent.

[Knight Templar]

Well it sounds like your father has his morals, which is good. Unfortunatly, it's put him out of work.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
@ Janos

Rampage TNG: Don't take this personally, your dad could've just gotten stuck with a bunch of ****ty kids, but generally when that much of your class is failed, something is wrong somewhere. It may be at home, it may be their attitude, lifestyle, etc. Or they may just be plain dumb. But part of being a teacher is reaching that and correcting it, and getting through and teaching them.

Don't get me too wrong, I'm not attacking your dad, and it's probably too late to change anything. But you can't really blame the school administration if they see a guy who has students repeatedly failing his class and get worried about it.

In all fairness though, blacklisting like that would be extreme.

Dunno about the States, but here, that situation, I believe, exists too. And I'm saddened to say that if the teachers may be faulty, I think the failure goes to parents, first. When I look at the kids of taday, I'm frightened. I'm only 23, so there's not a generation gap or anything between us, but I've come to kick ( yeah, litterally ) kids because they were so dumb ( when you're 14 and you try pissing off a ... back then, 20 years old guy, you have to be idiotic ). They just don't give a damn about school, they don't study, they don't even try. They watch TV, they play videogames, they're skipping classes. The parents let it go. Then they complain coz they're kicked back to their previous class ( in France, at least, school doesn't go easy on them ). And then, all of a sudden, you hear the parents, they complain, they shoot, they threaten, they're afraid they won't get rid of the little buggers anytime soon ( oh my! ). If a kid tries hard enough, even if he has difficulties, he will be rewarded. When I look at kids nowadays, they don't deserve being rewarded. The thing is true for students too, I've noticed.
I wonder if there's some kind of idiocy epidemy going on all around the world. I'm worried about the future

'nyway, Rampage ( R2? ), sorry to pollute your thread with that. Welcome to HLP, and give my regards to your father, I like him ( he's about the only one who helped me out when I was working on my Descent campaign, you see, I have some good memory, even if I don't show it often ). I'm sure that American History knowlegde of him can bring opportunities aside from being "just" a teacher.

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Originally posted by Nico
Welcome to HLP, and give my regards to your father, I like him ( he's about the only one who helped me out when I was working on my Descent campaign, you see, I have some good memory, even if I don't show it often ).

Except his father knew you as Venom, Venom.

[Nico]

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