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English teachers are generally petulant pedantic crocks anyway. We'd probably have more/better writers without them ruining the subject for people as they do.

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aidenn0 7y ago
It's interesting that you say this. I find that I had about as many good/great English teachers as I did in other subjects, but there weren't many mediocre English teachers. I had a math teacher who literally never got up from his desk, visibly counting down the years until he could collect his pension. I had similarly checked out history and science teachers. The not-good English teachers I had, however, seemed mad at the world and out for blood. The name written on an assignment had a stronger correlation with the grade than the content, so the only path to an A was to stroke the teacher's ego I even had a pair of friends do a blinded experiment to confirm this. They each would type out their assignment, then would call each other and flip a coin; Heads they write their own name, Tails they write the other person's name. In another occurrence, I had gotten on a teacher's bad-side and so the grades on my papers had a hard ceiling of a C. I asked my dad for advice, and it was roughly: Talk to the teacher, apologize for "not applying myself" offer to redo back assignments. She didn't even have me redo any back assignments, but suddenly I was getting As and Bs again. Another occurance: I got my first paper of the class back with the only markings on it "58, almost an A paper." Here was the dialog that ensued: ---- Me: How many points is this out of? Teacher: 100 Me: Is the class graded on a curve? Teacher: No, straight 90/80/70 Me: So how is 58 "almost an A paper?" Teacher: Well, just a few tweaks and it would be great,[encouraging tone] I'm sure you'll do well in my course! Me: ... ---- To this day I still have not figured out what was going on in that teacher's mind. It was a rare real-world moment where I honestly couldn't tell if I was being trolled or not.
- ianai 7y ago
  You probably needed to stroke her, his, or it’s ego again. I had a math professor do that to me in undergrad. Fear of his type led me to leave the field entirely after that degree. Just way too much power over me with little to nothing I could do.
  - squiggleblaz 7y ago
    it's = it is. You were looking for "its" gratuitous correction because of the topic. hth hand.
    - ianai 7y ago
      autocomplete made me do it.

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aidenn0 7y ago

It's interesting that you say this. I find that I had about as many good/great English teachers as I did in other subjects, but there weren't many mediocre English teachers. I had a math teacher who literally never got up from his desk, visibly counting down the years until he could collect his pension. I had similarly checked out history and science teachers. The not-good English teachers I had, however, seemed mad at the world and out for blood. The name written on an assignment had a stronger correlation with the grade than the content, so the only path to an A was to stroke the teacher's ego I even had a pair of friends do a blinded experiment to confirm this. They each would type out their assignment, then would call each other and flip a coin; Heads they write their own name, Tails they write the other person's name. In another occurrence, I had gotten on a teacher's bad-side and so the grades on my papers had a hard ceiling of a C. I asked my dad for advice, and it was roughly: Talk to the teacher, apologize for "not applying myself" offer to redo back assignments. She didn't even have me redo any back assignments, but suddenly I was getting As and Bs again. Another occurance: I got my first paper of the class back with the only markings on it "58, almost an A paper." Here was the dialog that ensued: ---- Me: How many points is this out of? Teacher: 100 Me: Is the class graded on a curve? Teacher: No, straight 90/80/70 Me: So how is 58 "almost an A paper?" Teacher: Well, just a few tweaks and it would be great,[encouraging tone] I'm sure you'll do well in my course! Me: ... ---- To this day I still have not figured out what was going on in that teacher's mind. It was a rare real-world moment where I honestly couldn't tell if I was being trolled or not.

ianai 7y ago
You probably needed to stroke her, his, or it’s ego again. I had a math professor do that to me in undergrad. Fear of his type led me to leave the field entirely after that degree. Just way too much power over me with little to nothing I could do.
- squiggleblaz 7y ago
  it's = it is. You were looking for "its" gratuitous correction because of the topic. hth hand.
  - ianai 7y ago
    autocomplete made me do it.