Getting Really Annoyed.

As I was saying, then, we had our "Business Methods" class. You remember me bitching for two posts about the recent "Flash Project" that was due today. I spent about 7-8 hours of my life on this stupid thing, finally pounding out a decent work yesterday afternoon and sending it in electronically.

Guess what? Sometime on Sunday, our instructor posted a notice to our class electronic bulletin board (that has about 70 or so posts on it) indicating that she was calling off the assignment. I knew nothing about it. Robert knew nothing about it. Shelby knew nothing about it. We all busted our ass to complete this stupid assignment. Robert gave up a day in the mountains with his family to work on it Sunday.

Dr. Yohon said today that "she might give us some extra credit for turning the assignment in when we didn't have to."

You know what, that doesn't really cut it for me. The assignment was worth 100 points out of our 700 points possible for the quarter, I put 8 hours of work and alot of frustration in the project, I want 100 points! Argh!

On top of that, Dr. Yohon's friend Patsy was in class again, talking about her student organization. She spent 1 1/2 hours going on an on about advisory committees, CITs, whose kids she is teaching in her classes and how her student teacher is networking for jobs and a bunch of other B.S. We talked after class and none of us have any idea what she was talking about.

The whole experience is really souring all of us on teaching business education. From what I can tell, a high school business teacher has to teach a whole slate full of classes and then conduct these Student Organizations: hosting meetings, finding sponsors, organizing committees, attending conferences, practicing for competitions, etc. All for no additional pay. I'd rather be a Badminton Coach.

I am more and more liking the idea of being a Junior High School student. All of this extra High School stuff is really turning me off.