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Grr, school.
Why do they have to be sooo slow?! I am *so* wasting all my time there... give me, ooh, about two months to read through my textbooks and complete all the exercises, and I could take the AS level then... why can't we work at a decent pace? They keep whining about how little time we have to cover the stuff, and then they crawl along teaching it...
I can only assume it's because some people in the class need it that slowly, but I was trying not to be arrogent... looks like that's going to fail miserably. And then they have the gall to tell me off for playing Nethack while I'm waiting for them to tell me something I don't know. True, I shouldn't have zoned out *quite* as much as I had, but when I did look up I could see where we were coming from - true, it's impolite, but so is wasting my time so thorougly!
Mutter. But I probably ought to be paying attention to them even if it is going to send me into a catatonic state, therefore doing other stuff is Wrong, therefore I feel bad about doing it. Can't win, grrr.
I wish they could just give me the textbooks, get on with their paperwork, and let me have a couple of minutes with them now and then when I do get stuck on something, or only go to the lessons on bits I don't quite get. I thought this would end, doing A-levels, but it's just intensified - or maybe it hasn't, and it's just that I've grown impatient because I've *had* my holidays, now I want to do some *work*... and I find that my holidays were vastly more productive than my time at school.
And I bet I won't even be allowed to do the homework from other lessons in other ppl's classes when they're explaning the bits I don't need... well, I can get away with the physics homework 'cos it's on a sheet rather than in a big obvious textbook. (Even got into trouble today for trying to be efficiant in carrying of textbooks and momentarily failing.)
Of course, superficially my life is going wonderfully. Let Helena sit next to me in Economics rather than saving the seat for Sath, and it turned out to be a good call, she hung around with us the rest of the day, she's in my Physics group (in fact, she's in all my lessons and she's also doing Geography), and so on and so forth. I just wish school was more... *challenging*!
I need to find some decent maths and physics books to read, or stuff to do that doesn't look utterly unproductive in maths and physics lessons. This is probably the only way I'm going to survive the next two years, unless it gets better.
Why do they have to be sooo slow?! I am *so* wasting all my time there... give me, ooh, about two months to read through my textbooks and complete all the exercises, and I could take the AS level then... why can't we work at a decent pace? They keep whining about how little time we have to cover the stuff, and then they crawl along teaching it...
I can only assume it's because some people in the class need it that slowly, but I was trying not to be arrogent... looks like that's going to fail miserably. And then they have the gall to tell me off for playing Nethack while I'm waiting for them to tell me something I don't know. True, I shouldn't have zoned out *quite* as much as I had, but when I did look up I could see where we were coming from - true, it's impolite, but so is wasting my time so thorougly!
Mutter. But I probably ought to be paying attention to them even if it is going to send me into a catatonic state, therefore doing other stuff is Wrong, therefore I feel bad about doing it. Can't win, grrr.
I wish they could just give me the textbooks, get on with their paperwork, and let me have a couple of minutes with them now and then when I do get stuck on something, or only go to the lessons on bits I don't quite get. I thought this would end, doing A-levels, but it's just intensified - or maybe it hasn't, and it's just that I've grown impatient because I've *had* my holidays, now I want to do some *work*... and I find that my holidays were vastly more productive than my time at school.
And I bet I won't even be allowed to do the homework from other lessons in other ppl's classes when they're explaning the bits I don't need... well, I can get away with the physics homework 'cos it's on a sheet rather than in a big obvious textbook. (Even got into trouble today for trying to be efficiant in carrying of textbooks and momentarily failing.)
Of course, superficially my life is going wonderfully. Let Helena sit next to me in Economics rather than saving the seat for Sath, and it turned out to be a good call, she hung around with us the rest of the day, she's in my Physics group (in fact, she's in all my lessons and she's also doing Geography), and so on and so forth. I just wish school was more... *challenging*!
I need to find some decent maths and physics books to read, or stuff to do that doesn't look utterly unproductive in maths and physics lessons. This is probably the only way I'm going to survive the next two years, unless it gets better.
Re: OKay, I've put up with you doing this for long enough:
Date: 2001-09-06 11:03 am (UTC)From:If they were teaching me useful stuff like that, then sure, I'd listen. I listen for bits of the lesson, the bits in which they introduce the topic and tell you the new stuff, and I scan the board every now and again to make sure I can follow what's going on. And I didn't say I'd be able to do all that stuff by tomorrow, I did say I'd need a few months of having the lesson time from school to read stuff and *some* time with the teacher when I didn't get bits, just not that much time...
I'm not contesting that I know everything I need to already. I'm in fact complaining that there's tons that I don't know and want to know, and instead of learning it I'm being forced to waste my time listening to stuff I already know or repetitions of stuff that's new for the first 10mins of the hour then old after that... I don't even mind it when we're doing exercises repeating stuff in this way (like we did in Pure, which wasn't too bad) because at least I feel I'm getting some useful practice, it's when it's being explained to the whole class until the whole class gets it, which is going at the pace of the slowest in the class and generally not nice for ppl who happen to get it before then.
I'm quite happy to listen in lessons when I need to. This unfortunately appears to come to about five minutes for every half hour.
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Date: 2001-09-07 07:02 am (UTC)From:I guess the best thing would probably be to talk to the teacher about it, or have a look in the textbook - unless the book's brand new and only has material from this year's syllabus, there's likely to be deeper stuff in there on the topics you cover.
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Date: 2001-09-08 03:38 am (UTC)From:Oh, and the book is brand new and only has material from this year's syllabus.