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Bloody hell.
It just does not end.
7th period today, math, our guidance counselor comes in and starts whispering to Mrs. Dempsey. The rest of us just talked and whatnot and I thought nothing of it until I saw Mrs. Dempsey in tears, crying about something. Quite disturbed, I paused, but did or said nothing. Near 25 minutes later the guidance counselor left, and Mrs. Dempsey decided to enlighten us.
Apparently the school board is replacing our math curriculum, Saxon, with some dumbed down shit that will leave you hanging in college. Mrs. Dempsey has been at our school for about 25 years now and she's worked so hard to get things organized so we can do Saxon and get a really good education with it. Though I don't necessarily get the best of grades in math, the material is really challenging and really prepares you for college. Students who come in from public schools are usually withheld from going into the math with the rest of their classmates and put one grade under because it's that advanced. And now they're just going to yank that from the rest of the students who still have plenty of years to go. Mrs. Dempsey was absolutely devestated.
Also, the school board was planning on uprooting Mrs. Dempsey from teaching high school math to middle school next year without even telling her. To make a long story short, she doesn't want to and now feels forced to quit, this being her final year.
This sickens and disgusts me beyond reason. I was literally ill in class today. My teacher was bawling today in class and it's like the administration doesn't give one flying crap or anything. All that work and now she's being thrown out without even a thank you.
The best part about all this? There's a parent/administration meeting March 30, in which all parents come and the teachers are supposed to give these speeches telling how great everything is going to be next year under new administration. Is Mrs. Dempsey going? Hell no. She said she'd probably start to cry again or something. So Evangelia and I are hell bent on going to that thing and possibly chewing out certain people and actually telling parents what's going on instead of gossip and hearsay from their kids. I swear. I'm going. No way are they kicking me out.
It's not necessarily all that that hurts me (though it really really does), but it's the fact that certain people who made these decisions were people whom I really trusted and admired and etc. I feel confused, hurt, and betrayed. Corruption corruption. If it's one thing I'm going to carry with me for the rest of my life, it's that no one, no one is to be trusted or put admiration into. Thank you for screwing my life over.
I think I'm just sick of humanity in general. Just... everyone and everything. This. Gay marriage shit. Everything being so overplayed and so pushed into people's brains that that's all their focused upon and they can't even bloody think for themselves. How very irritating.
To top it all off, there's a Flogging Molly concert in Ybor coming up which I can't go to because of no money/no one to go with/no car/Mummy is NOT taking me/etc. Feck.
I'm such an angsty teenager today.
It just does not end.
7th period today, math, our guidance counselor comes in and starts whispering to Mrs. Dempsey. The rest of us just talked and whatnot and I thought nothing of it until I saw Mrs. Dempsey in tears, crying about something. Quite disturbed, I paused, but did or said nothing. Near 25 minutes later the guidance counselor left, and Mrs. Dempsey decided to enlighten us.
Apparently the school board is replacing our math curriculum, Saxon, with some dumbed down shit that will leave you hanging in college. Mrs. Dempsey has been at our school for about 25 years now and she's worked so hard to get things organized so we can do Saxon and get a really good education with it. Though I don't necessarily get the best of grades in math, the material is really challenging and really prepares you for college. Students who come in from public schools are usually withheld from going into the math with the rest of their classmates and put one grade under because it's that advanced. And now they're just going to yank that from the rest of the students who still have plenty of years to go. Mrs. Dempsey was absolutely devestated.
Also, the school board was planning on uprooting Mrs. Dempsey from teaching high school math to middle school next year without even telling her. To make a long story short, she doesn't want to and now feels forced to quit, this being her final year.
This sickens and disgusts me beyond reason. I was literally ill in class today. My teacher was bawling today in class and it's like the administration doesn't give one flying crap or anything. All that work and now she's being thrown out without even a thank you.
The best part about all this? There's a parent/administration meeting March 30, in which all parents come and the teachers are supposed to give these speeches telling how great everything is going to be next year under new administration. Is Mrs. Dempsey going? Hell no. She said she'd probably start to cry again or something. So Evangelia and I are hell bent on going to that thing and possibly chewing out certain people and actually telling parents what's going on instead of gossip and hearsay from their kids. I swear. I'm going. No way are they kicking me out.
It's not necessarily all that that hurts me (though it really really does), but it's the fact that certain people who made these decisions were people whom I really trusted and admired and etc. I feel confused, hurt, and betrayed. Corruption corruption. If it's one thing I'm going to carry with me for the rest of my life, it's that no one, no one is to be trusted or put admiration into. Thank you for screwing my life over.
I think I'm just sick of humanity in general. Just... everyone and everything. This. Gay marriage shit. Everything being so overplayed and so pushed into people's brains that that's all their focused upon and they can't even bloody think for themselves. How very irritating.
To top it all off, there's a Flogging Molly concert in Ybor coming up which I can't go to because of no money/no one to go with/no car/Mummy is NOT taking me/etc. Feck.
I'm such an angsty teenager today.
