Today, I got kicked out of English class shortly after our teacher told us we have to write an essay on how the storyline of Harry Potter is one big allegory for "the futility of socialism." Apparently, reacting with disbelief makes me a "disruptive influence." FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, my teacher assigned us teams in a class debate. I landed on the team that had to argue the obviously wrong point of view. When I finished, my teacher told me and the entire class how much I disturbed her, and how I reminded her of Hitler and Napoleon. FML
Today, I got paper thrown at me because I didn't agree with my classmate's conspiracy theory that Brian Griffin's death was planned by the illuminati. FML
Today, I was kicked out of college for not attending a class I wasn't ever enrolled in. FML
Today, I had to explain to my teacher that Czechoslovakia is no longer a country. She kicked me out of class when she found out I was right. FML
Today, I was bitched out by my 17 year-old son's teacher. It seems the idiot teacher made the kids advocate for his own political beliefs in a presentation, and my son ended his speech saying, "And it remains my opinion that our instructor is cramping my motherfucking style." Instant suspension. FML
Today, my professor gave me a huge lecture in front of the class about showing up sick, about how I was endangering the lives of other students, and kicked me out of class. As I left, everyone applauded. I'm not sick, but suffering for horrible allergies. FML
Today, one of my classmates got bullied and the whole class got to wrote 2000 words about that. FML
Today, at school I was sitting with a friend outside, talking about irregular periods and unshaven legs. Ten minutes into the conversation, a teacher sticks her head out the window above us and tells us to leave. We were distracting a classroom who were trying to finish a test. FML
Today, after finding out that my professor likes to talk trash about, and constantly belittle, Muslims in every American History class he teaches, I submitted an essay about Muslim contributions to humanity. He held me back after class and asked why I gave him such filth. I'm a Muslim. FML
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dancinggirl900 17
Stupid teachers make me concerned for future generations.
ZombieSazza 34
This worries me... Shouldn't teachers praise students having opinions, instead of punishing for thinking?
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askingandy 23
I have no idea what "the futility of socialism" means, but did she just assume that everyone knows about Harry Potter? All I know is that it's wizards, they go to Hogwarts, there's a large man with a large beard, an old man with a white beard who's apparently gay, the enemy has no nose, and Harry's friends are redheads. Unless Emma Watson is blonde. I've seen pictures of her hair looking blonde and reddish and I've only seen the first movie, so I'm not sure.
TheDrifter 24
She's naturally ginger, but more auburn. Not nearly as ginger as Rupert Grint anyhow. He's the one that plays Ron.
fluffywaspluka 7
They aren't entitled to an opinion if it's a stupid opinion.
danitaleigh 1
It would be funny...if I knew what it meant...
Wiz_Of_Oz 17
JK Rowling would definitely not argue against socialism. She seems rather liberal herself. The Ministry of Magic is clearly inept but it is also aligned with authoritarian conservative social values.
Wiz_Of_Oz 17
I found something that puts the nail in the coffin: Rowling directly compared voldermort with "a sort of hitler".
magaoitin 4
This is a great assignment if you are a bit twisted and really want to f-with the teacher. Write the paper on the futility of socialism in the context of a teacher giving this as an assignment. Disregard the economic aspect of socialism and focus on the role of the state (in this case the Teacher). The teacher is mandating the means of the assignment (just like the role of the State in socialism) that it must be written on an obscure and irrelevant basis (Harry Potter is as far from economic socialism as you can get), yet everyone has to write an aspect of socialism into the Harry Potter universe.
withasmile 3
I'm sorry, but as a parent who is ordinarily supportive of teachers, I would be making myself heard. This is nonsense.
catmcross 7
I swear that I will never be this type of dipshit teacher... People like this make me ashamed to even admit that I'm a teacher!
blackonblight 33
If I'd been given that I'd have written something about how Harry Potter warns us about the fallibility of authority, including teachers, and cite Umbridge pushing the Ministry's "Voldemort is not back." Propaganda on her students, forcing them to write as if they agreed with the position or face failing grades. Then instead of turning it in, read it to the class to make sure everyone else sees you have Umbridge teaching you.
radianceepica 9
Does your teacher some how another, idiotically, have Harry Potter confused with Animal Farm, which actually is about futility of Socialism?
the_real_dvd 21
This is the problem with the education system: indoctrination. We are no longer free to express or create new ideas, only parrot the opinions of others. Personally, I despise socialism, but a true thinker will interpret the material he or she reads in their own way and should not be censored from expressing it.