english is bullstuff

[XR-7]

then loving work on it
you got this.

I did my most recent 1000 word essay two weeks ago and had it finished in a little over an hour, thesis and all, and got a good grade on it. This one, i already have a thesis and two outlines so I can probably shave a lot off.

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[Zloff]

i hated english classes, the homework was frequent and always ambiguous with a long list of requirements. Not to mention, from my experience, a majority of english teachers are very biased and tend to choose emotion over facts. The only class i ever ended with anything lower than a B- I believe was an english class

begin rant

for a final assignment in one class we had to write an essay about anything, we just had to use everything we'd learned throughout the trimester. My essay was on gravity's relation to time. On top of the 8 percent marked off because of legit errors, I got marked down like another 10 percent just because the teacher was too stupid to understand it like wtf your inability to comprehend physics should have no impact on my grade for a paper where I need to showcase proper writing skills

I had another english teacher mark me down once because she didn't agree with my stance on gun control, whilst giving the students who used a cliche writing style and generic format that hated on guns a solid 96 or higher

and then a different teacher(arguably the worst in school: picks favorites/biased grading, general ass, didn't actually "teach" just gave us fill-in-the-blank notes, low passing %, edgy) gave us an assignment with the topic being sports. I wrote a paper on ESPN's bullstuff list of the most difficult sports, arguing how football(#3) shouldn't even be in the top 10, much less higher ranking than rugby, soccer, etc and particularly martial arts. Easily one of the best papers I've ever written. Fatal error: she was a die-hard football fan. Compared my "corrections" with those of other students because I couldn't believe my loving C grade and they agreed it was just another bias issue

[Headcrab Zombie]

how do u get As in all that and then a C in english
I imagine english is your native language. and you have an A in french
o k

Because by the time you get to highschool (probably even middle school), the classes teach two completely different things
French would teach grammar and vocabulary and stuff, which requires little more than memorization
English is just like reading and brown townyzing written works, writing essays, research projects, etc

[Tokthree]

I wish all I had to do was write for my classes. Almost every assignment I've got this term is a research project with a presentation at the end that I am required to give to the whole class while being graded on the quality of the presentation and on my delivery. The presentation must also be correctly referenced with a full bibliography with me being marked on the credibility of these sources. I have to write an essay on the research process for each presentation and then I need to take the criticism from my tutor and classmates, write an essay brown townysing their criticism and then another essay on how I can use their criticisms to improve my presentation and my delivery, providing evidence of me putting it into practice. All this has to be done in one week, maybe two for the larger assignments.

If I plagiarise even slightly on anything the assignment will be refused a grade higher than a "pass" (and it will because my College uses the same plagiarism detection software as all Universities in the UK), if it's late by even a single day (all work must be turned in by 4 pm on the due date) I will be refused a grade higher than a pass, and even ignoring that I can't make any mistakes because I need pretty much perfect marks on my entire course to take the University degree I want. And that's for all four subjects I'm taking, not just my English Literature.

I wish all I needed to do was write a loving essay well to get good grades.


That being said I'm not complaining about my workload; I knew it'd be at least this much and I know it can very easily be much more. I'm more complaining about people who complain about the workload they're given in education as if they didn't expect to have to work hard to do well.

[Maui69]

i get to do fun stuff in my spanish class (which is the country's language) and all the horrible writing and brown townysing stuff in french class (which is just something i learn at school as a side language kinda)
we only brown townyse texts over and over again and i struggle so much with it
there's some kind of level of detail you have to follow and i can't ever figure it out so all my works wind up with some note by the teacher saying like "add more detail" and i just don't understand how to find that detail
shrug
luckily i get to choose a full on scientific course next year and basically discard french
joy

edit: oh i forgot to even talk about my english class i completely missed the topic's objective woop woop
in english class i get a bajillion homeworks involving making things like art projects and short stories that are hardly more than like 100 words
it's very low level but i'm super lazy and thus i never do any of the homework, making me have an absolutely disgusting grade (like a D probably we don't use the letter system so i dunno)

[TristanLuigi]

my english class isn't bad only because the teacher isn't bad
i loving HATE spanish though
it was AWFUL