I seriously think my P.E. teacher has a bias against me. It seems that no matter what I do, I can never get higher than a B in that class. (Not that anyone in my family cares about GYM anyway.)
I know that I'm certainly not the best athlete in the class, (In fact, I'm one of, if not the, worst.) but my teacher claims your grade is mostly determined by your in-class behaviour (e.g. listening skills.) and effort.
Well, I have been putting in noticeably more effort than last year, (I had the same teacher last year, too) and yet on the first report card, I did worse than in eighth grade, when I didn't try at all.
Also, my behaviour is apparently only "satisfactory" instead of "good," even though I always listen and NEVER talk in class. At all.
So that's why my philosophy about P.E. is that, "If you don't try, you do pretty bad. But when you do try, you do even worse."
Next, my sister's in elementary school and her teacher has very odd rules when it comes to them writing stories in class. For example, they are not allowed to say two people are in "love," they must say that they "liked" each other. Apparently, talking about love isn't appropriate for the younger kids. >_>
However, her teacher makes all these stupid jokes and remarks about things like sex such as: "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water. I don't know what they did up there, but now they have a daughter!"
And the teacher thinks the students are ignorant about reproduction, when of course, they aren't.
But not all things about school is bad... my science teacher last semester often gave me 120%-140% on projects just for drawing a lot of pictures on them.
~Aquarelle