re: #189 William Barnett-Lewis

High school chem (jr year) was a major nightmare for me. I had a “teacher” who had been in industry for some time and then, due to incompetence, decided to teach it instead. We fought. I asked to transfer. I was refused. I tuned out and rarely attended. Year end final came, I intentionally blew it. For the year I had grades of C, C, D, F, & F on the final. Overall F for the year. The next day after the final, we did a city wide test on to see how well the schools were doing. I decided to crack down.

I got the top score in the city.

Needless to say this caused a major uproar in the administration. It only got worse when the school board found out (gee, I wonder how _that_ happened… ;) ) After 4 years of trying I got to take college level courses on HS time in my senior year… didn’t get the incompetent bastich fired, alas. He fucked up several more years of students before he retired.

Sounds like the asshole I got stuck with at the start of my junior year for Chemistry class. The guy had been around for years, you could tell he hated the kids and the jobs, gave me a D. I talked to the other chem teacher (who also taught college chemistry), got transferred to her class, got As and was in her college level class my senior year.

And shithead still was working there after she left because she got tired of playing the games.