The McFarlane Factor
Well, I resolved on Wednesday that I was going to take every action possible to end Mrs. McFarlane's teaching career. Then I started to feel a little guilty. Then I started to feel angry for feeling guilty. The woman's infinite stupidity once again adversely affected my test grade. This time, I was cheated out of an entire 6%, giving me a paltry 88% for a test on which I deserved a 94%. Because she's such a lousy teacher, one can retake tests for full credit, so that's what I'll be doing. There were very very light lines through my work on a problem for which I got the right answer. This of course led her to believe that I had crossed the work out, for some mysterious reason, despite the fact that there was nothing else written for my work on the problem. The last attack on my grade occurred when I wrote "unreal answer" instead of "no solution" (I'll have you know that I was actually more right than her: there was an answer, but it was unreal). She also deduced points for my writing of an equals sign, instead of an approximately equals sign (that was a legitimate, if picky, judgement). So arm yourselves with pens because the petition plan is back on!! Save the students!!
Sorry Adam, if Brittingham is still there, McFarlane shouldn't be the math teacher gone, and I don't have nearly as many grievences as most do, I'm learning the stuff okay. I guess we'll see next year in Calculus.
Good use of the word paltry though, it's one of my favorites.
While she isn't the greatest precalc teacher (to put things lightly), she seems like she would be a good algebra and pre-algebra teacher (her other 2 classes). Since she's not, er, the brightest, she could talk to those kids in their own terms and not over-complicate things. She should not be teaching precalc though, and as much as I love puzzle days, they are a pathetic waste of school funding. She is getting paid for letting us do nothing! And Adam, I hope you know some people would kill to get your "measly" score of 88.
An 88% is "paltry" not "measly."
Ms. McFarlane will become the Athletic Director next year.
All right, as another one of her students I feel I should contribute to the discussion. While she isn't the best pre-calc teacher (at least for us. You never know if other people might appreciate the dumbing down effect) I agree that she would be fine as a pre-alg and algebra teacher. And personally, as someone with not that much interest in learning everything in the whole world, I like the fact that we have puzzle days and can get full credit on assignments we finish after the test is over. I have to admit I don't religiously do the homework every night. Especially this week I think I'll do most of the homework I don't get done in class over the weekend for this chapter. Anyway that was a bunch of rambling without much of a concise thesis which I will need for the essays on friday (AAHHH!!!) ok I'm just going to stop typing now.
I am so incredibly weirded out by this. How in the hell did I manage to stumble on the blog of a Wilson debater? How? How?! It makes no sense.
(I'm from Lincoln, by the way, and don't worry -- your assessment is fair and correct.)
Oh, I know how I managed to do this. Oh, okay. I had no idea that Wilson was so new as a team, but wow, that's great for you guys.
And the weirdest thing about this is I just came from Pacific at which Hannah Hickman dominated the ADS.