I recently rediscovered the blog a friend kept back in high school, mainly to express his satirical observations of a day in the life of the public school system. Brilliant writing and observations – here’s the first snippet:
I gotta say, my math class….looking back on this year, and my many complaints toward that class, I’m starting to think that most of my frustration has one big root…..it starts with “M” and ends in “ister Brown.” This guy is such a moron. Inspired by Ellie Amico, I started writing down random things he says. At the time, they just seem normal, since you’re mind is under the influence of his class, but if you look back on them later, they’re hilarious. Here are some examples:
When correcting our homework…”The answer is 15/14 + 5/16….which equals……..something. Jamie, you figure it out.”
Leading us through our finals review…”Look in your book, and you’ll find exponents, roots, and stuff.”
Nobody even was talking to him this time, he just randomly said this…”It’s kinda like hardcore drugs. Once you’ve done it once, you might as well keep going.”
We were correcting an assignment…and Mr. Brown starts doing the problem up on the board, and after about fifteen seconds he turns around and goes….”Hmm….what does…..Mindy think?” I swear, this man cannot do math at all. One of the funny smartass sophmores yelled out..”What does Mr. Brown think?”…which he responded to with..”Ummm…..umm….” and then handed the whiteboard pen to a student and walked back to his desk.
Since I have been so tired of what a waste of time his class has been, I started timing the activities of his class:
7:50-bell rings
8:37 & 40 seconds (Forty freakin’ minutes later!-Mr. Brown gets up from his desk and approaches the whiteboard. After discovering he cannot do the math problem that he assigned to his students, he panics.
8:39 & 15 seconds- In a panic, Mr. Brown says, “We’re gonna take a little break here.”
For the rest of the class period we did this fun trick question IQ quiz thing…not math related at all. It wasn’t bad. Wait, I take it back…there was a five minute period of time where Mr. Brown made fun of Mother Theresa. What a guy that Brown is. But if you’ll notice…there was a total of one minute and thirty five seconds of attempted teaching during that 80 minute class period. Just a taste of what life is like in the Sprague Honors Program.
