I have nothing to post about nowadays...when I was in high school, I was posting left and right on this journal, and now...*sigh* nothing interesting ever happens in my life.  Ergo, I don't post.  (Ha, I used a Latin word!  Take that Latin class from which I could hardly learn anything because the teacher was one of those teachers who, whenever we said, 'We want to watch the Disney Hercules movie' she put it on for us...I'm surprised I actually got into Latin 4 Honors, now that I think about it...)(she was the best teacher I ever had.  Including Bohen, Sickler, Hughes, Roundy, and Rizza.)

Kelly and I got our books for our classes on Monday.  I'm taking a Shakespeare English class and all the books for that class are Shakespeare plays I haven't read yet (I loved Sickler!  She was the best English teacher I ever had.  Whenever we read plays, we would call them novels, and she would always correct us.  Really.  She was the most awesomeness English teacher ever.  She made me regain confidence in English after Kasper took it out of me in English Honors in 9th grade).  So I'm very anxious about the class starting next week, as well as all the other classes.  And Kelly signed up for astronomy (and other classes) which is on Wednesday night the same time I have my Shakespeare English class so we get to carpool together to the college.  (Yay!)

Another reason why I am so looking forward to the class is because Khrystina will be in it!  (Yay again!)  So I get to see my friend every Wednesday night, as well as on the weekends.  (It's not that weird.  Back in high school, my physics teacher was Paul Roundy, who was also in my church choir with me.  Talk about weird.  I saw him every school day and every Sunday.  I think I got a B in that class...)

My brother is so bad at math.  Well, he isn't bad.  He just doesn't understand it.  The conclusion I came to is that most of the learning students get depends on the teacher teaching the subject.  If the teacher teaches the subject well, then the students get it.  If he/she doesn't, then the students don't get it.  So the majority of learning depends on the teacher.  The rest, probably about 50%, depends on the student, and whether or not they want to learn.  Because if they want to learn, and the teacher is good at teaching the subject, then the student will do well.  However, if the student doesn't try, then the student won't do well.  But (I know this is long; it'll end soon) if the student wants to learn and the teacher doesn't teach the subject well, then the student fails anyway, and the students who don't care about learning fail even more because the teacher won't be teaching the subject well.

So it's like about 60% of the learning depends on the teacher, the 40% depends on the student.

I mean if I look at the school my dad taught at for the past 6 years, the reason why the students were failing was because of the students, ultimately.  A majority probably didn't care about learning, while a minority did care.  And there were probably some teachers who just didn't teach the subject well enough, or wasn't dedicate to the subject they taught well enough.  But I blame the students, because the teachers must be trying, but the students aren't willing to learn.  It's like what my English teacher used to say: "You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make the horse drink the water."

As for my brother, he just didn't get good math teachers that I got.  In 9th grade math, I was very lucky to get Hughes, who just made me so passionate about math.  She made me like math; she made me get it, the way she taught math.  And Bohen in 11th grade was also a very good math teacher (and very funny, at that.  He and Namba had the same type of humor; I think 11th grade was the funniest year I ever had what with Bohen and Namba cracking jokes left and right constantly.  And I had math 1st period, so it was good I had Bohen then, because he always made me look forward to mornings) and made me like math, and made me get it.  But 12th grade...I think the reason I got a C in Pre-Calc Honors was because, first and formost, I was a senior.  At that point, I had it in my mind that I shouldn't try so hard at math because I was a senior; I wasn't going to be coming back to school the next year.  So I wasn't as dedicated to learning as much as I was back in 9th and 11th grade.  (And this is so totally reflected in the last report card I got.  So totally reflected.)

So if my brother had Hughes back in 9th grade, I think he would have enjoyed math.  I think he would have understood it, and gotten it, and liked it.

So that's my rant about learning.  I have another rant on the English portfolio grading system (basically all the CP English portfolios/essays get graded by the Honors, AP, and IB teachers and all the Honors/AP/IB English portfolio essays are graded by the CP teachers.  So no matter what all the CP English students will always get 3 or lower, and all the Honors/AP/IB English students will always get 4 and higher.  So that system is totally corrupt, IMO.)

Okay, enough ranting from me.

 I have nothing to post about nowadays...when I was in high school, I was posting left and right on this journal, and now...*sigh* nothing interesting ever happens in my life.  Ergo, I don't post.  (Ha, I used a Latin word!  Take that Latin class from which I could hardly learn anything because the teacher was one of those teachers who, whenever we said, 'We want to watch the Disney Hercules movie' she put it on for us...I'm surprised I actually got into Latin 4 Honors, now that I think about it...)(she was the best teacher I ever had.  Including Bohen, Sickler, Hughes, Roundy, and Rizza.)

Kelly and I got our books for our classes on Monday.  I'm taking a Shakespeare English class and all the books for that class are Shakespeare plays I haven't read yet (I loved Sickler!  She was the best English teacher I ever had.  Whenever we read plays, we would call them novels, and she would always correct us.  Really.  She was the most awesomeness English teacher ever.  She made me regain confidence in English after Kasper took it out of me in English Honors in 9th grade).  So I'm very anxious about the class starting next week, as well as all the other classes.  And Kelly signed up for astronomy (and other classes) which is on Wednesday night the same time I have my Shakespeare English class so we get to carpool together to the college.  (Yay!)

Another reason why I am so looking forward to the class is because Khrystina will be in it!  (Yay again!)  So I get to see my friend every Wednesday night, as well as on the weekends.  (It's not that weird.  Back in high school, my physics teacher was Paul Roundy, who was also in my church choir with me.  Talk about weird.  I saw him every school day and every Sunday.  I think I got a B in that class...)

My brother is so bad at math.  Well, he isn't bad.  He just doesn't understand it.  The conclusion I came to is that most of the learning students get depends on the teacher teaching the subject.  If the teacher teaches the subject well, then the students get it.  If he/she doesn't, then the students don't get it.  So the majority of learning depends on the teacher.  The rest, probably about 50%, depends on the student, and whether or not they want to learn.  Because if they want to learn, and the teacher is good at teaching the subject, then the student will do well.  However, if the student doesn't try, then the student won't do well.  But (I know this is long; it'll end soon) if the student wants to learn and the teacher doesn't teach the subject well, then the student fails anyway, and the students who don't care about learning fail even more because the teacher won't be teaching the subject well.

So it's like about 60% of the learning depends on the teacher, the 40% depends on the student.

I mean if I look at the school my dad taught at for the past 6 years, the reason why the students were failing was because of the students, ultimately.  A majority probably didn't care about learning, while a minority did care.  And there were probably some teachers who just didn't teach the subject well enough, or wasn't dedicate to the subject they taught well enough.  But I blame the students, because the teachers must be trying, but the students aren't willing to learn.  It's like what my English teacher used to say: "You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make the horse drink the water."

As for my brother, he just didn't get good math teachers that I got.  In 9th grade math, I was very lucky to get Hughes, who just made me so passionate about math.  She made me like math; she made me get it, the way she taught math.  And Bohen in 11th grade was also a very good math teacher (and very funny, at that.  He and Namba had the same type of humor; I think 11th grade was the funniest year I ever had what with Bohen and Namba cracking jokes left and right constantly.  And I had math 1st period, so it was good I had Bohen then, because he always made me look forward to mornings) and made me like math, and made me get it.  But 12th grade...I think the reason I got a C in Pre-Calc Honors was because, first and formost, I was a senior.  At that point, I had it in my mind that I shouldn't try so hard at math because I was a senior; I wasn't going to be coming back to school the next year.  So I wasn't as dedicated to learning as much as I was back in 9th and 11th grade.  (And this is so totally reflected in the last report card I got.  So totally reflected.)

So if my brother had Hughes back in 9th grade, I think he would have enjoyed math.  I think he would have understood it, and gotten it, and liked it.

So that's my rant about learning.  I have another rant on the English portfolio grading system (basically all the CP English portfolios/essays get graded by the Honors, AP, and IB teachers and all the Honors/AP/IB English portfolio essays are graded by the CP teachers.  So no matter what all the CP English students will always get 3 or lower, and all the Honors/AP/IB English students will always get 4 and higher.  So that system is totally corrupt, IMO.)

Okay, enough ranting from me.