I swear, I was gonna slap one of them.

[QreepyBORIS]

My group was filled with sort-of competent people. Like, C-B grades. I think I was the only person in the A-range in my group (another one of the groups was most of the really smart people, minus myself and about two others).

This part stood out to me.

While you have a valid point, you judged their intelligence solely on their grades.

I seem like an intelligent person to a lot of people, and I am, but I get barely-passing D's in Algebra 1. Your grades do not represent your intelligence, as I've seen tons of people which I am tiers smarter than but those same people have infinitely better grades than I do.

And as they do not apply themselves in this class, how useful is their intellect if they do not exhibit it?

One of the people is quite bright, but a slacker.

The rest I assume are getting B-C grades because of their apparent intelligence. :P I do not know their grades.


And Tass, I DID mention that the sun would eventually fail to fuse with itself, AND several other important issues.

And Sarah M's reaction was something along the lines of "It was opnly hyothetical!" or "It was just about this one book I was reading, sheesh!"



More pain for me. =/

[JurseyRider734]

Luckily i'm not in too many normal classes, just my math class. Yeah, there are stupid people in there, but they are also a grade ahead of me. Some of them two grades ahead. My other classes have been Computers, Gym, and honors classes. I haven't had to put up with too many stupid people...just people who like to debate with me even though they're wrong. That pisses me off. I know how you feel, though, because it used to be like that for me in elementary school.

[QreepyBORIS]

Exactly, Jurs. It's straight out of elementary school. =/

[Jealousy]

Another "discussion" that sidetracked EVERYONE IN THE GROUP BUT MYSELF was "How do you think humanity will have progressed 5 billion years from now?" Aiieaiitngipdrnpdnbipdn. Five billion. People making honest-to-God predictions of HOW ADVANCED we would be. And then one of them related it to a totally different book from the one we were supposed to be discussing.

At least this is an attempt to look smart from these kids. They sound like an intelligent bunch of idiots, if you follow. At my school when the extremes are put into discussion groups (by extremes I mean focused and intelligent kids as compared to kids that act like they've been beaten into submission), the smart kids generally become wallflowers while the cavemen discuss the latest colour of their urine. There's not a trace of legitmately placed conversation in respect to the subject of the discussion at hand. If it's not about bodily functions its about their favourite star being a hermaphrodite, or the recent price increase of top line catheters. Consider yourself lucky.

[deltro300111]

Gah... I know the feeling, I think I have a bigger problem with stupid teachers though.

For a few days in band we had a substitute teacher (I have four hours of band on A day and 2 on B, so I had to suffer through band somehow) Well, first day in Jazz Band, he said to everyone that he was going to change the way we did things. He moved us to the center of the normal symphonic band set up- quite a few of the less then intelligent members of the band were annoyed with this (It seemed to me that he'd never heard "When in Rome do what the Romans do.") so I sort of let this annoyance go. Out of rebellion, we all began to play our instruments horribly out of tune, pulling out slides, lowering/heightening notes half-steps, and overall sounding like crap.

This might sound sort of harsh, but this wasn't any of the band members first encounter with "Mr. MeHalfwit, as I prefer to call him. In an act- obviously to reaffirmmy hatred of him- he began to tell me that the loud trumpet solo (Marked fortissi-issimo, or triple f) at the end of "In the Mood" isn't the climax of the song. The quiet (Pianissimo) long tone held by the low brass/bari sax is. I argued with him for a while, often smirking and talking down to him, as if he were a 6th grader in beggining band.
At the end of band, he pulled in all the 1st chairs of the band, and talked to us, told us about our 'responsibility' as leaders. Apparently, he didn't realize that if everyone around you is telling you your an idiot, you probably are, and you need to stop whatever you are doing wrong, no- he didn't get it, for the last half of the week, he never figured it out.

Fast foward to Friday, during symphonic band- everyone is constantly laughing, and playing incorrectly, even the slightly stuck up 2nd chair (one below me) trumpet, who never joins in the fun of messing with the band director. Toward the end we started to cut loose more and more, by the last run-through everyone was playing random notes, loosely based on the rhythym of the song; and shooting hornets at the bass drum/gong, and the band director himself ( I got one on his stand, he didn't notice, even when I- and a few people around me burst into laughter, during the count-off for a song)

Yea.. stupid people suck.

[QreepyBORIS]

Another "discussion" that sidetracked EVERYONE IN THE GROUP BUT MYSELF was "How do you think humanity will have progressed 5 billion years from now?" Aiieaiitngipdrnpdnbipdn. Five billion. People making honest-to-God predictions of HOW ADVANCED we would be. And then one of them related it to a totally different book from the one we were supposed to be discussing.

At least this is an attempt to look smart from these kids. They sound like an intelligent bunch of idiots, if you follow. At my school when the extremes are put into discussion groups (by extremes I mean focused and intelligent kids as compared to kids that act like they've been beaten into submission), the smart kids generally become wallflowers while the cavemen discuss the latest colour of their urine. There's not a trace of legitmately placed conversation in respect to the subject of the discussion at hand. If it's not about bodily functions its about their favourite star being a hermaphrodite, or the recent price increase of top line catheters. Consider yourself lucky.

And I am a LITTLE lucky in that regard--that it could have been worse, that's just the thing. The mere FACT that it could have been worse is very, very discouraging to me. I know they were ATTEMPTING to be smart, which I appreciate to an extent, but if you do that, then seriously, you have to do RESEARCH on what you are trying to have an intellectual conversation about. They had no fleeming clue, and basically just put out an awful lot of stuff which was painfully obviously not true. =/

But, whatever. I am probably being too bitter about this, but still, rampant idiocy is something that I do not entirely approve of.

[TheTypist]

I know what it's like to be the only one on topic too. It's a burning, frustrating feeling, as if you're about to explode because you have so much to share no one will listen. Yes, the others misbehaving and being off-topic can be very annoying. Right there, right there you have a group of people, capable of accomplishing a task far greater than just one person alone. Yet, the potential is wasted.

But I've noticed that we all seem to attribute the cause to either the raw intelligence of the stutents who are off-topic, or pure malice. But there have to be other things as well. What if some have the intelligence to stay focused in class,without the motivaton? Or, scarier to think of, what if some people are not incapable, but too afraid to quiet their minds enough to think about the heavier subjects?