Thursday, September 3, 2009

Classes

Well, my welding classes are going well. I'm doing fine in English and Metallurgy, and I managed to offend someone in my math class today.
There is a woman in the class, who's brain is directly linked to her vocal cords. Every thought that she has, comes out of her mouth. I've been listening to her every day for the last 3 weeks. Today, she caught me rolling my eyes, or sighing or something. And she started crying. Saying she was sorry she was so stupid, to the entire class, and then the teacher felt bad, and went over the integers we were multiplying, just so she could get it. (We were doing negative base numbers and exponents.)
She turns to me at the end of class, and asks me "Do I bother you?", I said, "Yeah, you kind of talk to much."
Then she said maybe she'd move seats, and I just shrugged my shoulders, and finished packing up my stuff. She got to the front of the class, and she was crying again! (By the way, this is a grown woman, older than I am.) The entire class practically applauded last Friday when she wasn't there, including the teacher, so now, I'm the bad guy, because I rolled my eyes, and she caught me? The teacher told her something along the lines of, "not everyone is going to like everyone else."
The KIDS sitting behind her said that they felt bad for her, and she was already out of the room by that time, and I told them that she was just doing it all for attention.
I maybe shouldn't have been quite so blunt, but at the same time, I'm in the class too. She isn't the only person in the classroom, nor am I. The teacher has to teach all of us these concepts, not just her, and if she can't get them, then she needs a FREE tutor, that is provided by the college. I shouldn't have to wait for her to grasp a concept before we move on, nor should she have to wait for me either. We all are in the same class, but it is a CLASS nonetheless. It's also college, not elementary school, there's no "no child left behind" going on in these classes. If you can't keep up, figure it out, get a tutor, or work harder.
I need to do well in this class, and if someone is disrupting the entire class, I feel it's up to the teacher to speak up, not to the students.
Yesterday, the teacher cut her off, after she had been interrupted 4 times already, and told the entire class that she didn't have time for guesses, or whatever. She was pretty quiet throughout the rest of the class. However, she did the same things today. I feel bad for hurting her feelings, but she is a grown up, and needs to be responsible for her actions.

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