Pet Peeves

But then on that note, I hate when a (particularly gradeschool) teacher goes "Look at me! I completed highschool and need to review my grade 4 math to teach next year because I forgot it! I'm smarter than everyone!"

I'm not saying all of them...but my little sister is stuck with one this year. I (almost finished a math degree) was helping my little sister with her homework. She was doing subtraction by drawing pictures. The question was 57 - 19. She drew 4 sticks (symbolizing 10 each) and 17 little squares (1 each). The reason being, she had to cross off 9 'ones' and thus needed more than 7.

So she crossed off 9 ones, and one ten. Her teacher, who must be Einstein's daughter, marks in red pen "You didn't cross off enough tens." and crosses off another one. Excuse me, but how many 10s are there in 19? 2? Looks like someone's staying one lesson ahead of the kids.

To make things worse, I went in to speak with her...prepared. She looks at me like "Where do you get off correcting me? I'm a teacher!" so I plopped down a stack of my 4th year math/graduate textbooks. If I was any more like my dad, I would have given her a math lesson of my own (my father did that once for me when I was in grade 6, and once for my older sister when she was around that age).



Not to mention, I remember being in grade 3, where kids first learn division. I was surprised to see the question "three divided by zero" on a test, but nonetheless it was there. I was a gifted student in math, so by that point I knew the answer was a sideways 8 (infinity). Sure enough, I get my test back, there's a big X, so I go back to ask her about it and she insists the answer is zero.

I proceed to demonstrate, with my calculator, that 3 / 3 = 1... 3 / 2 is bigger than 1...3 / 1 is bigger than 3 / 2...
So the number gets really really big. How then does it all of a sudden jump back to zero? "Well it does" was her answer.


Being a bit older now, I realize that the less you know of anything (math being a good example), the more you THINK you know. The more math I learn, the broader the world is, and the more I realize I still have left to learn. Gradeschool teachers I find to be the worst in this case. Infact, I've only met maybe 5 gradeschool teachers that I didn't think were morons (perhaps I live in a bad area).

So long story short...I'm predisposed to dislike gradeschool teachers for the above reasons. Not necessarily a Pet Peeve, but it's relevant.

 

I hate slow drivers and I hate when there are parents who just let their childen run all over the place and when my parents wont leave me alone

 

When you dont do anything wrong, but you get the blame
that really ticks me off
or when you do something good, but someone else gets the reward

 

I really hate ignorant people! actually just mean people in general piss me off!

 

Toph, lol. Most friendships are unfortunately like that, without either persons realizing it. Most of mine are like that, actually.


I get really irritated when you know someone for years, then, let's say, you go away for a while, then come back a year or two later. And what happens? They don't say anything to you except for "hey." Tsk tsk, how unfortunate. -_-

 

Stupid people bug me. The kind of stupid people like the stereotypical cheerleader. And wannabe gangsters.