hmm here's my timetable for today

woke up at 10:30
played one round of dota where stupid people left so i gave up
played warcraft three night elves campaign

lunch at 1:30

read harry potter till 2
eyes got tired and napped till 6

dinner

continued and finished night elves campaign

well kaijun i know you love HER very much and i applaud you for your tolerance and acceptance. but you must realise that you saying that she 'teaches well' has nothing to do with our claims on her being an intolerable bitch.

you must understand why we hate her and argue on equal grounds.

but nevermind, i shall attempt to aid you in your mission against xsh, even though it might be too late to try getitng a new teacher, it would do her good to at least have feedback on her screwed up teaching methods:

firstly, remember the time when she misinformed us about what to study? that shows vast incompetence. also remember the way she replied justin when he asked her whether the format for the mid year exams was going to be old and new. she replied "what do you think?" an example of how bitchiness affects academic performance, if we had been better informed we would have been able to prepare for the exam better and hopefully not spoil our chance at excelling for once because other teachers would be marking the papers

which brings me to my second point, which is her nonsense way of marking our work and tests. take the most recent test for example, she has prepared answers for the personal response questions; are we to be marked down because our opinions do not match those of hers? of course not, how screwed up. and she also didnt even tell us how we could improve and do betetr in the test. and then there is the issue about our projects, it is obvious that her focus is not on content, but rather on the aesthetic value of the project itself. this is wrong, are we to do like wise and shift our focus to the outward beauty of the project in order to get high marks? she is teaching us wrong values and placement of priorities and this is intolerable.

her screwed up priorities and methods of marking has already affected our chinese grade and thus our overall average, she is hindering our progress not only in this aspect, but also in the sense that she is being counterproductive to the purpose of school itself : education. you realise that because of the stupid way she is teaching us, we have learnt basically nothing except that in order to please her we must do well in assignments and test and in short, give her what she wants. teachers are not meant to hinder us, but are supposed to help us grow in knowledge.

there are other aspects about her that are not to be condoned, like her personality and her shallowness and biasedness, but those are not important, we may hate a teacher for his/her personality but if him/her can teach then thats already fulfilling his/her purpose and doing his/her job.

even though i may have a personal dislike for her and that teachers should not affect our interest in the subject and that we should do well in the subject regardless of the teacher; the fact remains that her stupid values and wrong focus render it impossible for us to actually do well unless we succumb to her demands and lose focus of the subject of chinese itself, and that our grades have been affected as a result.

this post is meant to help you kaijun,and also to try to let people know the enormity of having her as our teacher. i have tried to keep this post as impartial as possible. however you want to go about trying to make a difference about xsh, as long as its for the better you have my full support...

oh well