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Indubiably so. What I meant was that it is not always all the system's fault.
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Very true. Here, the school's curriculum is set by a counsel made up of parents. If they were to leave behind the fad of not caring, we would have a better system and better attitudes within it.
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Ever heard of the book "Don't Care High" by Gordon Korman? It is shockingly reminiscent of some people in my own school.
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I hear ya, sister. No one, including most of the faculty and staff, cares about anything in my school. It depresses me everytime I see all of the people around me 'filled with apathy.' No, I have not heard of this book, but now I will have to pay yet another visit to the library and pick it up.
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No one wants to hear what the teacher has to say because he or she believes that he or she has heard it all before.
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Wow, the Canadian and American systems and students are quite alike. I have always watched this happen, and it paid off in fifth grade. My teacher would catch kids by asking questions you could only know the answer to if you had been paying close attention to him lecture as he spoke very fast. There was this one girl I really didn't like, and he did this to her multiple times...Ahh, he must have been one of my favorite teachers.
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We need to hand on the history we have, but we need someone to do it. Our history teachers, proffessors, and librarians (akhtene, Child, for instance) are such people.
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I agree, though sometimes it feels like so much history has been lost and is never again to be recovered, much like the Hobbits' lore from their wandering days. (You guys, this time I managed to tie in ME!) And thank you, akhtene and Child for passing on that history, and thanks to Aosama, for showing me I'm not the only high school-er turning 47 [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] . Tee hee.
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-but in all the instances in which I have experienced it, whether by sheer luck or something else, the teacher has explained it in a different way, or added something to my knowledge.
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Lucky. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Most teachers here just repeat themselves indefinately.