Ethical Trivialities

In our 9 day schedule plan, ethics only surfaces twice, meaning we have 40 periods of it each year. We have watched movies (Hollywood movies, mind you) that underline some of the world’s most pressing issues/conflicts.

Normally when you think watching movies in class, you think: ‘Oh cool, we get to watch a movie and do some small but relatively mellow project on it after.’ Not at our school, obviously. That’s right; the pedantic, *term deleted* of a teacher is making us write a boring text about general themes from the movies. When I say general, I cannot stress the meaning of the word much more. For example, we watched a movie about genocide taking place in a certain country in Africa (coughRwandacough). You’d expect we would be assigned to talk about a relatively precise theme, say military involvement in the conflict or the international actions taken by the countries that supported the afflicted nation. They are more interesting to expand on than what they gave us. Tolerance, seriously? You want us to write only half a page or one page on tolerance when you give us a subject that large? Illogical! Inconceivable!

The worst of it all is, this bumbling bumpkin of a stand-in is being replaced by next week but still wants us to hand the assignment in. The solution I found was to profit from the given time in the computer lab and his devotion to the rejection of vigilance against students who like to do Sudoku on the computer instead of working. People will probably give in a concise work that was done in a rush with practically no diligence implied and the substitute will tear them up and use them for crackers in his soup whilst claiming that ‘it counts for our report card’ or some other weak lie of the kind.

If my constant pessimism has caused you distress, I will be honest and say I couldn't care less and advise you to keep following this blog or else!


Lime

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I would like to add that despite all the hard work we've been putting in, Ethics remain unevaluated in this term's report card, which by the way, is FUBAR. (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) Half the teachers just randomly picked a number between 50 and 100. Some people who regularly piss teachers off, never hand in homework, and barely pass got 92 or 100 while others got a "fuck you, now scram". In part, this is because of CSMB only giving the teachers the eval grids they need now— half way into the year, in other words. The teachers didn't know what to eval before, and the students didn't know what was evaluated. How are we supposed to succeed? We should get top marks just for guessing what they wanted. Oh, and also a medal for not dropping out. Handing creatively crafted shit over on a silver platter to the bosses, that's us.