School

nosmo

Well, by stereotype, the sort of people who go to ctyi are the sort of people who hate/get in trouble in school, so how are things in YOUR school?
(or were, in the case of the older members of the boards)

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lordsippa

Actually... most old school CTYIers got on quite well in school. It's all you young un's these days with your hip-hoppin and bip-boppin... y'see, kids these days just don't understand the jazz...

<ahem>...

I don't mind school (certain teachers are idiots, but that's a taken). What i dislike is the fact that the majority of people in my school are narrowminded idiots. Hence I'm leaving! YAY!

Crash

I get on well in school. i just am lazy and can't stand 60 - 75% of my class. So i'm gonig to ashfield

hUgh, for someonme who hates stereotypes so much when applied to you, you are really willing to hand them out and talk about other people in terms of stereotypes.

</very pissed off rant due to very pissed off mood>

Moni

Talking about stereotypes is definitely not the same as believing in stereotypes.


Oh, and I really enjoy school, actually.

Elvish

I do really enjoy school, i have my favourite teacher ten times a week and i'm doing the subjects i enjoy. My principal may be retiring. What more could i ask for?!

-Rob

alaskagirl

school is good. i enjoy it alot of times, however i have a couple of teachers who i reeeeeaallly cant stand. geez i hate it when you get a crappy teacher in a subject ya love, and then its ruined for an entire year!!! i also have the aforementioned laziness problem. sometimes i just cant for the life of me motivate myself to do work!

phaxx

Originally posted by alaskagirl
i also have the aforementioned laziness problem. sometimes i just cant for the life of me motivate myself to do work!

Oh man do I get that badly. I usually just sleep in my english and irish classes.

(I'm not a CTYIer, er, am I allowed to post here? )

Man U babe

Lalalalala, I'm graduating on Wednesday!

qwidgybo

school could be better,but it could be worse too.
since i made an effort in first year,teachers refuse to believe that i'd do anything wrong(see the hitting someone over the head with a hardback story)so i don't get in trouble.lots of people in my year are w'ankers but there are nice people i get along with and a lot of the **** are entertaining(see "mmm poo" story)

lalala

shep the malevolent pixie

i hate school. it irritates the crap out of me. grr arg.:mad:
of course you can post here phaxx, i don't mind at all.
sHep :cool:

halenger

Well i may glote and be all chuffed n stuff cause im on me summer holidays!!!



Life is good, life is great. I surrender my will as of this date!

I know you all hate me now but sorry!!!!
Ah well i gotta do some work again in, oh um, October isn't it?!?!?! That is unless i've got repeats(please god no!!!!).

Hope study's going well for everyone...

Ferror

Originally posted by halenger


I know you all hate me now but sorry!!!!

Don't Worry I’m sure you shall think of a better "excuse"-<Months of freedom should help> ;-)

Surrendering your will sounds like a laugh thou.............

duckgirl

C'mon Hugh. Our school isn't that bad.
At least not for you.
I mean, you're not in Jeff's class.
Oh, and nobody in school thinks YOU'RE a lesbian.

Okay, so the t-shirt(NOBODY KNOWS I'M A LESBIAN) didn't help. And the clay handprints over my breasts probably didn't help either.

And the teachers are rather grotesque.
*Ms Garvey recently asked some of the 1st year girls "Girls, do you touch yourselves." She then said "I touch myself and it's okay."*
That was for anyone who dosnt know how awful it can be.

At the start of this post I was pro-school. But now I've re-covinced myself how bad it can be.
Well, that was helpful.

sisob

Originally posted by duckgirl
*Ms Garvey recently asked some of the 1st year girls "Girls, do you touch yourselves." She then said "I touch myself and it's okay."*

but but <scarry teacher voice> It is ok to touch youself

lordsippa

<AHEM>... IT IS EVIL TO TOUCH ONESELF! <reverts to scary teacher voice> to touch me however....

Crash

DISCLAIMER:

Due to the sensitive nature of this post, it should not have been read by old people, women, men, young children, old children, Yuppies, pets of canine descent, Asian people, Irish people, parrots, sheep, Marketing directors, CEO's or pretty much anyone.

DISCLAIMER TO THE DISCLAIMER:

All the stereotypes mentioned in the aforementioned disclaimer and not based on real people and are simply the product of my imagination.






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All comments dependent on the discovery of oil in Leitrim

Focalbhach

Nope,sorry,I win - I don't think you can get worse than when our teacher started telling us all about her periods in class ("it hurt so much that I thought I was going to faint") ...this,remember,in an all boys school...

Or when the whole year got a talk on "male health" (again,for some reason,from a woman) and got one of the best quotes I've ever heard - "Now boys,it's important to examine your private parts regularly to make sure that everything's ok - but remember,there's a fine line between examining and playing with..."

lordsippa

I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

FINALLY I'VE MANAGED TO ESCAPE THAT MIND ROTTING PRISON FOR THE INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGED <read "my school"> AND AM GOING TO "THE INSTITUTE" INSTEAD!

which yes, i know is pretty much the same, only with richer and snobbier people, but there are more people i like there and there is a certain standard of competance upheld by the staff there. So I win!


BEST DAY EVER!

also... on my last day at my current school I WON a Lifestyle Sports voucher (for 20 euro)... which is BETTER than it sounds as I'm BUYING a pair of runners this SATURDAY!

ZIING!

nosmo

Originally posted by shep the malevolent pixie
i hate school. it irritates the crap out of me. grr arg.:mad:
of course you can post here phaxx, i don't mind at all.
sHep :cool:

Finally! someone who isn't happy-go-lucky about school
sHep, i salute you!

smiles

i used to hate school.

then i got over teen angst and the bullies.

<< Fio >>

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

School rocks, seriously! Even though I go to a school that is 90% "skangers". (I hate the term myself, I hate most stereotypes whether applied to me or some other person or group.) Anyway, I have a laugh with my friends, I learn, I don't have to work ... school rocks.

lordsippa

Hang on... I basically stated that I don't hate learning, I don't like my current school (though I have some hope for my next). The education system is a sham whereby it rewards the mindless herding of our nations youth into nice little office pens, sorry cubicles, with shiny payslips. Pah!

I'm getting so annoyed at being constantly told that to "go somewhere" in your life you have to become a nobody and disappear from the world amid absolutely nothing. It's terrifying to see how I know the names of at most 200 people (celebrity and otherwise) and how that compares to the worlds population. I mean, how many people would be recognisable to more than 1 billion people? Bono, maybe. A few others as well, but that's it. It's a horrible thought, to fade away into obscurity and it's something that i don't intend to do. Hence - "F**K THE (education) SYSTEM!"

<a deep sven is a loud sven>

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Yes, that's it. Fight the "man" and his "system", Jesus Christ. Stop your fscking whining and get on with it. If you truly have something to offer the world, be it art, music, intelligence or sexual appeal then you will probably become famous. Of course, the very fact that you are measuring the education system's success by how many famous people it produces is a blatant example of your idiocy. The education system is there to give you the start you need in life to do anything, whether it be go to college and get a Comp. Sci. degree and become a helpdesk worker, or the CEO fo a Fortune 10 company.

Your life is what you make it, the education system doesn't turn you into a loser -- you do. If you decide to endlessly fight the "man" you will probably become a burger flipper, whereas if you take every advantage you can of the education being offered to you on a plate and use that knowledge to make something of your life then you will have made the "man" proud. Sure, people leave school after third year and still go on to found companies and become billionaires and such -- but for every one of those passionate, determined souls there are 1,000 people who left school with grand ideas and ended up being a 35 year old lounge boy who lives in a bedsit and has no partner or kids.

The moral of this post: stop whining, start working, make something of life.

P.S. You may bitch about the education system, but there are millions of children in this world who don't get any education. They go to work in sweatshops or are sold as slaves, they don't have any "man" to fight -- they have a man who treats them like ****, forces them to do work they are barely able to do, feeds them nothing and uses them for sexual pleasure. So the next time you complain about a teacher, ask yourself would you rather be getting reamed up the ass by your fat master.

lordsippa

<sigh> yet another incompetent to be smiled politely at and then pushed aside for the idiot he is (no offense). Obviously you have no idea of humour. That was not a 100% serious rant (ok, it had serious undertones, such as my fear at how the world we live in strips people of their individuality and makes them into cogs of a bigger machine and not just that but makes them happy to be as such, although i'm sure many are quite happy to be such regardless). The fact that I had a lowercase "education" in brackets during a, let's face it, ridiculous "FÚCK THE SYSTEM" thing (which was actually an attempt to rip the píss out of SOAD yesterday) should have pointed out that I had lost whatever sterness of views I started out with.

But I do forgive you, as you do not know me, nor are you aware of the levels at which i go to to not take things seriously unless vitally neccessary (and even then I'm not a sure thing). But, and this is a bit of advise that should be taken on board for anyone you meet, don't judge me until you know me, or you will not grow to like me, for I will make that certain. But it's a happy board here, so I'll let you away with past grievances.

And on the stereotyping issue (which you raised), words like skanger are used because it's easier than giving an example list of people that everyone might know (and let's face it, no-one will). You even couldn't avoid using it, simply because it gives the idea of who you mean. The only problem with stereotypes is when they're applied freely to real life, in which case such prejudices as racism evolve and, well, people are again proven to be idiots.

Oh, and i don't intend to flip burgers - oh no! I personally intend to be the greatest sodomiser this world has seen since de Sade!

lordsippa

I kinda skimmed last paragraph ("people less well off blah blah") first time i posted a reply, then noticed the reamed by fat master thing. My sodomy thing wasn't in relation to that so please, don't take offense. Beyond being hideously morally offended by sodomy and so forth.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

(I forgot the obligatory </rant> at the end of my last post, but nevertheless.)

Anyway, sorry I went off on a big of a tangent in that last post but when individuals say "fsck the system" or "fight the man" it just pisses me off goodstyle. I absolutely despise people who feel they have an obligation to go on some self-righteous crusade against the structure of our society. We can all be individuals, all get along and accomplish a common goal -- all at the same time -- if we try hard enough. Alas, society does not seem to be bothered enough to do this instead the majority of people decide to just persecute minorities and do their very best to blend into the majority.

Mahotée

Originally posted by lordsippa
<sigh> yet another incompetent to be smiled politely at and then pushed aside for the idiot he is

this is just how i feel about you, and ive known you a while. but i shouldnt say such things because... ive forgotten. i think because we have mutual friends. and whatever doesnt kill us makes us stronger. ok, you said i was good at stopping nasty arguments. there you go.

don't judge me until you know me, or you will not grow to like me, for I will make that certain.

that is quite true. i wasnt aware it was intentional though.

But it's a happy board here, so I'll let you away with past grievances.

how magnanimous. im glad we have a benevolent ruler like you, sven.

i think the irish education system is actually pretty good. yes, the poinrts system does put a lot of pressure on students, but wherever there are exams you'll find exam pressure. and i think we're offered a good range of subjects, even if we dont go very in depth into them, but you get an idea of what theyd be like.

and part of the reason youre going to the institute is to get a better irish education. so you cant really be turning up your nose at it.

i like school well enough. i dont get in trouble. i have some good friends and many amiable acquaintances there. im bored of it by this stage, it might be nice if it was broken into three stages before university, like in the states, instead of two, but being in a familiar enviroment makes it easier to focus on learning. so it doesnt matter much.

sisob

Originally posted by OrangeRhino
Yes, that's it. Fight the "man" and his "system", Jesus Christ. Stop your fscking whining and get on with it.

don't be such a bloody tosser.

sven was making a valid point which was obviously above you, but you thought you would sound intelligent by sprouting out the "stop fighting against the system" speach that you seem to think is origional but that we have all heard b4.

The irish education system is too focused into putting people into office jobs and "proffessions", and whatever sven said .....

he wasnt whyning about school <sign>

Crash

The irish education system is quite good, however in every school the teachers are forced to teach to the lowest common denominator, which kinda fscks it for the others, as they lose out due to one person who is usually too lazy to give a ****e about school.

I agree on the topic that the education system is designed to get you into a desk job, however, there are not all that many alternatives to that aproach. Can anyone name me a country that doesnt have an education system like that?

Warning: actually doing so may crush my fragile ego

Basically, there arent all that many other options, other than setting up your own business (whereby it is handy to have experience in a 9 - 5 before doing so so as to understand better the kind of business involved) or freelance, which, while great and is what i really want to do, can have very little job security.

The Eejit has spoken.

sisob

Originally posted by foobar
The irish education system is quite good, however in every school the teachers are forced to teach to the lowest common denominator, which kinda fscks it for the others, as they lose out due to one person who is usually too lazy to give a ****e about school.

I agree on the topic that the education system is designed to get you into a desk job, however, there are not all that many alternatives to that aproach. Can anyone name me a country that doesnt have an education system like that?

Warning: actually doing so may crush my fragile ego

well that hasnt stopped me b4

american culture is much more enterprise friendly and I'm not saying that that's cus of their education system, but our education system could help foster it in ireland. The fact is if all the international companies pulled out of ireland, we would just be left with thousands of clueless pampered college kids waving their degrees and looking for a desk to sit behind and somone to give them orders.

On a sepporate note: it's soooo much fun to be cynical, let it flllooooowwww

Basically, there arent all that many other options, other than setting up your own business (whereby it is handy to have experience in a 9 - 5 before doing so so as to understand better the kind of business involved) or freelance, which, while great and is what i really want to do, can have very little job security.

of corse there are other options. my god man, don't accept societies limitations. Personally I'm gonna go into IT because i wont be just a peon sitting behind a desk, i'll be the evil programmer guy with alllll the POWER

"take a deep breath mark"
"shut up you, you take a deep breath"
"your asking for it sunny jim"
.....

Ferror

"let it flllooooowwww"

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Mark, I too can see the bad points of our education system and yes it is very narrow minded but the fact is you cannot change it -- yet. Only those who take full advantage of our education system and the opportunities it does offer us can change it. For example, someone without a college degree will find it very hard to successfully change anything about society -- especially education. It isn't particularly fair as some people just aren't suited to college and schooling in general but that's just the way things are. I know the "stop fighting" speech is in no way original, but it is reasonably sound advice when taken the right way.

Lets have examples, three of my uncles are Trinity scholars, I have talked to them all about the education system and not one of them thinks it is fair. They all went through the same education system and all graduated from Trinity with top honours. Not one of them is in an office job.

Uncle #1: Paul.
Paul is a project manager with 3Com, he was hired straight into middle management and as such skipped all of the cubicle business and sitting behind a desk all day. The reason he was able to completely bypass this? Graduating in the top 5 of his class from Trinity, how was he able to do that? By shutting up, putting his head down and getting on with his education.

Uncle #2: Tom.
Tom is a teacher in Terenure Secondary school. Teaching is not an office job, you can see that yourself every day in school. I have sat in on a couple of Tom's classes and they are nothing like my regular ones. He allows students to voice their opinions and interacts with them a lot, he is working to change the system from the inside so to speak. He was offered a job with Cisco Systems 12 months after he left Trinity, the job was an upper middle management job and he could have bypassed all of the cubicle sitting if he wanted to go into IT.

Uncle #3: Séamus.
Sé is the most like you Mark, he had very strong feelings against the education system. He voiced these opinions all throughout his second level schooling and eventually people got fed up of him and he was expelled in 5th year. He was allowed back in the following year and he shut up and worked, he graduated in the top 3 of his class in Trinity and was offerered 6 jobs directly out of college that were paying >£50,000 per year. He turned them all down and went back to college, this time he was at NYU. He graduated with honours from NYU and was offered more good jobs, he turned them all down because of his hate of the "system". Eventually when he realized he would soon be penniless and homeless he took one of these jobs, today he lives in 5th Avenue, New York City with a 2,400 square foot apartment just minutes from Broadway.



Yes, there was a lot of family bragging in there but they were true stories of people who had similar views to you at your age Mark. They are all now very successful but they did not become so until they forgot about beating the "system" and concentrated on making something out of themselves.

lordsippa

First, remove mention of terenure teacher... TRUST ME! people here go there...

Secondly, I never argued against your argument (and i know you aimed at mark that time), just at the fact you took a few digs at me. Heh... but now we're all being rational fun arguing and name calling may again commence!

alaskagirl

my school system focuses on the bottom too! i hate it! it drives me crazy! everything has to be easy enough for the laziest/stupidest person to be able to do it! its nuts. why cant they focus on the middle at least? the only thing this is doing is lowering schooling standards because people think they can get away with the minimum (which is, I admit, something i do, but MY minimum is not quite the same as most other people's minimum ). maddening!!!


thats my rant!

sisob

Originally posted by OrangeRhino

Sé is the most like you Mark, he had very strong feelings against the education system.

*LOL* you seem to mistake me for someone who cares

I do not think that our education system in itself is terrible - i fully plan on going to college and getting a nice job with a fat pay cheque and a convertable and 2 an 1/3 children and all the rest. I actually love the points system cus it sepporates people out into different groups based on intelligence/ability to work - which is better for everyone.

I think it's more society that i have a gripe with - and peopls mindless following of "the done thing" - see mending wall by robert frost

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Sven, some people here go to Terenure -- so what?

Crash

Returning to the specific subjec of how good or bad your school is, what are the funniest/ most unusal/ most insulting or bigoted things a teacher has ever said in your school?

In mine it was "Buddhism is just stupid Loik, its not a real religion. you're an
idiot for being a buddhist" Religion teacher to a buddhist in my class.

"Homosexuals need counselling and therapy" same teacher

lordsippa

Damn... I've heard that if your uncle teaches physics, then he is indeed sound... curses! ;p

Um... religion teacher has called germans "the hun!" regularly. But that's only cause he's a racist pig... um... oh there are things, but i can't think of them now... tired.

I'll post more later.

Man U babe

"What would you do with little boys?"
French teacher
"What is the probability of me getting head?"
My friend's maths teacher
"Joanne, are you a Sinn Fein recruiter?"
English teacher

All real stupid, shows the standard of teaching in Sancta Maria!

alaskagirl

"sex every day! thats my motto!" -my bio teacher

"so you could put that atom in a room with a bunch of other reaaaallly good looking atoms, and you could turn the lights down reeeeaalll low, and put on some sexy music, but it just wouldnt socialize! it doesnt WANT to bond! its antisocial!"
- same bio teacher



gee, i have a bunch of them because my history teacher used to say the funniest things so my friend and i started writing them down and compiled them all... i will have to find them sometime. very funny woman.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Sven, yes my uncle teachers physics, and maths, and chemistry, and he created, maintains and runs the entire computer network. Including the leased line.

My teachers are all pretty cool actually, a few choice examples:

Skanger: haha! Look at the rugby team, covered in grass.
Mr. O'Gráidigh: at least they aren't smoking it you loser.
--

Skanger: miss? How do you make babies?
Ms. Downling: it depends, some people choose to make them by having sexual intercourse. Others, such as your parents, just forget the condom.
--

Mr. Ryan: where were you during my science class today?
Skanger: I felt sick so I went to go and get some fresh air.
Mr. Ryan: bull****.
(Said skanger was then referred to as bull****ter for the rest of the term. By all the teachers.)
--

Bob: sir, I am sorry I don't have the homework done -- it completely slipped my mind.
Mr. Ryan (a different one): Well, just make sure you have it done for tommorow. Seriously lads, do the work and get the qualifications -- you don't want to end up like the coloureds in town do you?
Bob: rather that than end up a narrow minded old biggot like you.
(I then proceded to refuse to shake his hand at the third year graduation ceremony, in front of the entire school.)
--

Skanger: sir? Why aren't people under 18 allowed drink?
Ms. Neary: because you can't handle drink.
Skanger: yes I could sir, I bet I could drink you under the table.
Ms. Neary: I wouldn't go drinking with you, because as soon as I was drunk you would probably try and have intercourse with me because you know that any sober woman won't touch you.
--

Skanger: sir? Is God real?
Mr. McDonald: nooo, not at all. Sure, 1,000,000 Christians have nothing better to do than worship a false God.
Skanger: um, um, um. I'm an atheist.
Mr. McDonald: spell athiest.
Skanger: um, a ... y ... t ... h ... i .. y ... i ... s ... t.
(Skanger beams around the class proudly.)
Mr. McDonald: very good. Now, as an athiest you believe in no God correct?
Skanger: yes sir.
Mr. McDonald: name three races who have survived successfully in the past with no God?
Skanger: I can't sir.
Mr. McDonald: because no race has survived in the past without worshipping a God.
Skanger: oh crap!
Mr. McDonald: do you believe in God now?
Skanger: no, I worship Buddha as my God now.
(Those of you who know anything about Buddha will understand the irony in this.)
--

There are a few more I can't think of right now ... but yes, skangers get a lot of abuse in my school even though they are the majority.

Moni

Ahh, Br. Jim, my wonderful religion teacher,To someone who asked, "what if jesus had kids?":

"What if your grandmother had testicles!?"

Focalbhach

"Lawrence, if intelligence was fatal you'd live forever"...hehheh

Or then there was the time when my religion teacher asked me if I could tell her where to get hash.......I took the optimistic view and decided that she was asking purely to make a point about how easy it was to get it.....:)

imp

This Tom fellow wouldn't happen to be Tom Moran would it?? Its strange that you mention him teaching Physics and Maths because *I'm* not aware of any Leaving Cert classes having him teaching. Also he doesn't (as you imply) single-handedly run the computer network, that job's divided between him and a few other teachers.

Not that I have a problem with the guy, he's actually pretty sound

}:>

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Imp, yes it's Tom Moran. He isn't teaching any physics or maths classes this year, or last year for that matter -- but he has done so regularly over the last 25 years. And believe me, he runs that network 90% on his own. He told me there was one brother / priest / father or something that knew a bit about computers but apart from that Tom does everything.

imp

Fr. Richard knows a hell of a lot about computers and networking etc. actually, he used to be a programmer before becoming a priest, but I think he's just lazy these days. And come to think of it the other computer teachers probably don't do an awful lot with the network (one of them almost burned down the school last year, from inside the computer room).

lalala

}:>

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Either way, I get to play with your school's leased line tommorow, Monday and Tuesday ... so, blegh.

imp

What does that matter when none of the computers have CD-RWs??

}:>

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Imp: I know, that's the part that sucks. Of course when my laptop, which has a CD-RW drive, is connected to the network ... well, nothing more needs to be said.

imp

Ah right. Fair enough. Enjoy!!

}:>

lordsippa

Ok, a few things...

Joanne! DO YOU MEAN THE SANCTA MARIA NEAR COLAISTE EANNA (I can't spell) IN RATHFARNHAM?! Or is there some other sh1tty sancta maria in dublin? If you're where i think you are, we must meet up sometime in august!

OrangeRhino - 1). Who are you? 2). Didn't you say you hate stereotypes like "Skangers"? 3). Um... no offense, but that whole bullsh*tter thing was kinda as5holey... And kill whoever made that "coloured" comment.... um... yeah, that doesn't sound like a great school, but I'm probably getting the wrong impression (a few of those comments were playfully said, right?). If so, I apologise for any implied disapproval of your education facility [school].