Rah! Errors!
So I started my second day of year 12 feeling quite well. I'd finished my homework, checked my previous notes (bah! not much notes) and I felt that I was getting better at being serious with my work. Anyway, I'm doing 3-unit maths, or as it's technically called Mathematics Extension 1, simply because I feel I'll handle it better than 4-unit maths (or Mathematics Extension 2). So you had a bunch of people doing 4-unit maths and...well..kind of showing off that they did 4 unit maths. A typical convo with someone doing 4 unit maths will have this bit somewhere:
4 unit maths person: So what unit maths do you do?
Me: 3 units, I just kept it. You?
4 unit maths person: Oh...well...I do 4 unit maths.
There always has to be this ever so slight enunciation of the "I" in "I do 4 unit maths". This is due to the perception that 4 unit maths is bloody hard and anybody that even attempts to try should be held in high esteem. Of course, this is usually among Asians at our school, as everybody else will be like "what freaks!" and stick to their lower maths, whether it be general, 2 unit or 3 unit. But I rest assured that some people will be dropping it, once they find out that's waaaayyy above their level. Those that stay probably have tutors, to help and guide them. To be honest, there is a slight elitism in the 4 units maths classes. Those slight changes that are there, the head held a fraction higher, the subtle but proud stride. While I hope that the slight elitism doesn't become more pronouced, my 3 unit class had a "clash" with the 4 unit class.
So I walk into class C4 with a few other classmates and our new maths teacher Ms Sharp. Well she's new to our class, not to the school. When Ray walks into our room, freezes and says something like "isn't this 4 units?" and we're like "nah man, it's three". Outside the two classes are frozen because they don't know if its the right room or not. Of course, it was OUR (3 unit) room from since the beginning of the year. Anyway, the 4 unit class shoved off. But that's not the point.
The point (see it has its own paragraph) is that the school screwed up again. Now mistakes will be made, but this could of easily been fixed. Two different classes in the same room at the same time? The organistion level in the school is bad, but its these incidents that take "bad" to new depths. My dad complained once when the school reported I had been late 3 times in the week, when I really wasn't and they said "it's over 1000 students!". Well, some places have over 10000 people employed or some company watches the superfunds of over 60 million people and I've never seen anyone get free money or whatever cos of a mistake. Actually this was only minor. There was another incident where my room was taken over for exams and we were sent to of G6 which had been demolished. The general reaction was like "OMFG! WTF!"
For fuck's sake. Could it get any worse?
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