My Generation is illiterate. Sometimes I wonder where the fuck my generation's going, and what the teachers think about this sort of thing. I'm in grade 10, btw..
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My Generation is illiterate

Sometimes I wonder where the fuck my generation's going, and what the teachers think about this sort of thing. I'm in grade 10, btw.

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User avatar #27 - suitandtie (10/13/2011) [+] (3 replies)
During my senior year of high school, we had to give oral reports in our Gov't&Economics class. This girl gets up in front of the class. For a little back story, she's the one that argued with the teacher that the U.S. was an island because it's surrounded by water. When he reminded her of Mexico and Canada, she told him that the whole thing was an island. Refused to hear the word "hemisphere".

Anyway, she's in front of the class, and mentions Arkansas. She pronounces it, as a high school senior, "Ar-Can-Sus".
Teacher: "It's 'Ar-Can-Saw'."
Her: "Well, that's just how I pronounce it."
Teacher: "Well you pronounce it wrong, Perla. You're an idiot. Sit down"
#30 to #27 - N. Korean citizen (10/13/2011) [-]
lol oral
#212 - valorking (10/13/2011) [+] (1 reply)
current generation = FUCKED!
#87 - kungfuchedder (10/13/2011) [+] (17 replies)
I don't understand the problems people go through in reading and writing. I don't find it difficult at all. Reading is just reading. And writing is super simple, especially if the topic is something I know about. And then it's just arranging your argument into neat paragraphs. I was in World Literature and English III AP.  
I'm not trying to brag or anything, I just ponder what makes this stuff difficult to some people. If it was Calculus and stuff I would understand, but it just confuses me. I feel like I am the only person in my class that actually listens to the teachers and does the work. Instead of talking all day and browsing the internet on my phone like others. It especially get's on my nerves when they complain about the difficulty of the work. Bitch, if you'd fucking listen for 5 minutes, maybe it would be easier to understand. Honestly, I go to a mixed school, which is 85% Hispanic. We only have one teacher in each class and 30 kids or more per class. I'd usually finish my work so fast (usually because the teacher has to dumb down the work for everyone else) that the teacher would sometimes ask me to explain shit to people, which I have no problem with, but when I have to explain the concept of how the Earth rotates around the sun and not the other way round (This actually happened, dumb duck-faced bitch) I die a little inside.  Sometimes the work (especially in Contemporary American History) we would get a study book, a sheep of paper with 10 questions, the chapter we need to look at, and a pencil. ALL of the answers, and I mean all of them, are printed clear as day in the book, sometimes even as Chapter/Section titles. Sounds easy, right? Apparently not, since some people can't finish it in 45 minutes, and do it for homework, except not because they are lazy fuckers that can't spend 3 minutes learning.  
TL;DR People in my school are retarded and cannot complete the simplest of work, and it's their fault for not paying attention.  
/rant
I don't understand the problems people go through in reading and writing. I don't find it difficult at all. Reading is just reading. And writing is super simple, especially if the topic is something I know about. And then it's just arranging your argument into neat paragraphs. I was in World Literature and English III AP.
I'm not trying to brag or anything, I just ponder what makes this stuff difficult to some people. If it was Calculus and stuff I would understand, but it just confuses me. I feel like I am the only person in my class that actually listens to the teachers and does the work. Instead of talking all day and browsing the internet on my phone like others. It especially get's on my nerves when they complain about the difficulty of the work. Bitch, if you'd fucking listen for 5 minutes, maybe it would be easier to understand. Honestly, I go to a mixed school, which is 85% Hispanic. We only have one teacher in each class and 30 kids or more per class. I'd usually finish my work so fast (usually because the teacher has to dumb down the work for everyone else) that the teacher would sometimes ask me to explain shit to people, which I have no problem with, but when I have to explain the concept of how the Earth rotates around the sun and not the other way round (This actually happened, dumb duck-faced bitch) I die a little inside. Sometimes the work (especially in Contemporary American History) we would get a study book, a sheep of paper with 10 questions, the chapter we need to look at, and a pencil. ALL of the answers, and I mean all of them, are printed clear as day in the book, sometimes even as Chapter/Section titles. Sounds easy, right? Apparently not, since some people can't finish it in 45 minutes, and do it for homework, except not because they are lazy fuckers that can't spend 3 minutes learning.
TL;DR People in my school are retarded and cannot complete the simplest of work, and it's their fault for not paying attention.
/rant
User avatar #55 - annaisocoolike (10/13/2011) [-]
last year in history i was reading about how hitler killed the jews and my friend beside me was whispering things to me like "piss, fuckshit, dick in my mouth" i couldnt help but burst out laughing in the middle of saying the death toll.
User avatar #304 - hoaz **User deleted account** (10/13/2011) [+] (1 reply)
"My generation is fucking ill... illah... illareta...-"
#118 - N. Korean citizen (10/13/2011) [-]
My generation is fucking ill... ill... illit...
#203 - Naraic (10/13/2011) [-]
One day in science class, the dumbest bitch of all time, who once got 1-fucking-% in a maths test, was asked "Name a plant that produces asexually through the formation of a runner. I whispered in her ear "St. Patrick's Day" and the stupid idiot, with all of the confidence in the world said St Patrick's Day.
What has become of the world. :(
#293 - happycampur (10/13/2011) [+] (1 reply)
User avatar #299 to #293 - SergeantPWN (10/13/2011) [-]
Mein*
#238 - mustymouse (10/13/2011) [+] (6 replies)
I've was on a grade 12 reading level when I was fucking 4.
I've was on a grade 12 reading level when I was fucking 4.
#43 - GREENGAMER **User deleted account** (10/13/2011) [-]
Then its your turn to read and you read everything perfect
#491 - articulation (10/14/2011) [-]
I wonder if they could read something as simple as this.
#494 - superrobotaizen (10/14/2011) [-]
Yeah I know that feel, I'm in Grade 10 too and I swear me and my friend are the only ones in our classes that can perfectly pronounce easy words like that -.-
User avatar #509 - wiredguy (10/14/2011) [+] (3 replies)
I swear clever people are attracted to these areas of the internet. No meaning to insinuate that I'm clever ;_;
But seriously: I read a whole Shakespearean monologue (the one where Ariel describes some stuff about leading some people somewhere) without fault, first try, in front of my entire class. In 6th grade.
And most of my friends could easily do the same, except Mike, he's a fucking retard.
#383 - mlpmachuplm (10/13/2011) [+] (5 replies)
<---- What made me realize our generation sucks.
#217 - cooljason (10/13/2011) [+] (1 reply)
mfw they do that
mfw they do that
#548 - AslipperyGypsy (10/14/2011) [-]
dumb fucks reading in class, hitting about 15 words/min.
cant take it anymore, decide to read ahead.
teacher tells me to read, they are so far behind cant find it where they're at.
detention for not keeping attention.
#490 - brandontvs (10/14/2011) [+] (5 replies)
I Don't even know what illiterate means
R.I.P Generation of smart people
User avatar #417 - hudsen (10/13/2011) [-]
What I really hate about people reading out loud in class
is their inability to pause at commas and periods,
and how they just ignore punctuation all together.

Everything just sounds like one big mash-up cluster-fuck.
#390 - rightietightie (10/13/2011) [-]
One day I had to read a passage about Moby Dick. I had to read "Moby Dick is enormous and powerful". I have never read in English class since.
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