/sci/ - Science & Math

When I was a senior in high school I took a "crime in America" electives class because my parents insisted that having a period off would be nothing but trouble.

So I attend this class which is filled with stoners. As an example of how bad this class was, the teacher spent the first 6 weeks in the class trying to teach about the first 10 amendments. 6 weeks for 10 amendments that you should already know.

After that we move on to drug laws, and she starts this out by giving a lecture on marijuana and its capabilities to kill brain cells, cause lung cancer, make you 'stupid.'

I asked her, word for word, "do you have any studies that substantiate your claims?" and she sends me to the principals office for 'trying to make her look stupid.'

Later on she says that "I think these troubles in the middle east could be solved with one well placed nuke," (this is texas) I again say word for word 'Aren't you being racist by advocating the extermination of a certain people because of the actions of a few extremists?' She took me out in the hall and yelled at me that accusing something of racism isn't something that you should just throw around.

Later still she tried to make an example of me for not standing up during the pledge of allegiance. Not because I was trying to make some naive political statement, but because I was reading and didn't want to be bothered to stand just for the pledge. I said that participation in the pledge was optional, and that I didn't want to participate.

She apparently thought otherwise, but the principal sided with me on this issue and I was able to sit, which all the stoners thought was hilarious and so by the end of the year, only like 5 people in the class of 50 were standing for the pledge.

I hated that teacher, I have some more stories too, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind. I still got the highest grade in the class.