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[GAHD]

I find this kind of funny, and have my own little anecdote to add to the pile:

Back in high school I was in french immersion. THe school needed to teach all 'core' classes in french to be considered 'immersion'.

Lo and behold less than half their teachers speak french! Over half the populous is immersion! What do they do? They double up the french teachers and expand class sizes. 28-32 per class is obviously an effective way to teach high school!

Also, for math class, let's get the french major* teacher to teach that, she speaks french, she can do french math! Well as my class was proof, she could not do math. She could copy from the textbook(and could speak french like crazy while doing it!) but could not answer any questions like "why do exponents behave that way?"

So, after half the class has failed every test up to the midterm exam, I go to the principal, explain to him that everyone in my class is failing because the teacher doesn't know math. He tells me to just listen, I don't know what I'm talking about. (here is where I could have stopped, but being an ass like krim when it comes to "things being right, DAMNIT!")

I go to the school board, tell them my entire class will fail this exam due to bad teaching, and that the admin wouldn't listen to me. They will "look into it", but said in a pat the kid on the head and send him away kinda way.

Exams come. Everyone but me and the one I was tutoring fail.

Our class gets a notice there will be a new teacher inside of a week.

*I* get notice that I'm being kicked out of the school.


People don't like it when you rock their little boat.