Raving Beauty wrote:
nimue wrote:
Raving Beauty wrote:
nimue wrote:
toto wrote:
I am a
teacher and I can tell you that kids who get As usually do so
because they love learning.

Bull****.

Getting straight A's necessitates one PLAY THE GAME

What game?





A) Feed teachers demand for narcissistic supply

I am not sure what you mean by that, and it's not the missing
apostrophe that is throwing me; it's the sentence structure. That
sentence says that teachers demand a narcissistic supply -- but of
what? I suspect you mean that students must appeal to the teacher's
narcissism by offering praise and flattery. Is that what you mean?
If you want to be an effective communicator, you have to write
clearly.

B) Appease teachers demand for form over substance

Wow, you think teachers are narcissistic and that there is something
wrong with demanding "form." Do you mean good grammar? Why is
there this myth that anything that is grammatically correct is
necessarily shallow? The classics of world literature show how
wrong that idea is. It's ridiculous. It's a lie people who cannot
express themselves coherently tell themselves. A grammatical wreck
may have substance, but that substance may be lost because the
sentences make no sense.

C) Always subordinate the truth to being an A student

Oh, so A students have to lie. According to you, there is no way to
tell the truth and be a A student. You have a pretty low opinion of
teachers and A students. You think that A students lie to and
flatter teachers (who are dumb enough to fall for it) and that
nothing these A students write has any meaning. Sure.

Eat grits!

I PLAYED THE GAME long enough to get straight A's to graduate HS with
honors,

I graduated one of the best high schools in the country with honors (not in
math or science, though).

and gain admission and graduate with honors from a first
rate University,

I graduated summa cum laude.

--then, gain admission to an exclusive grad school,

So did I. My grad school is ranked in the top ten.

then, obtain my professional credentials, etc.

I did the same.


Yet---here I sit nearly 30 years later being dismissed as a stupid,
dumb, idiotic, demented, retarded, delusional, psychotic nitwit
because I decline to feed your narcisism, your insistance upon form
over substance, and your demand I subordinate the truth to getting
MY ego stroked by a vindictive narcissistic witch/wizard like you.

No. Your weak sentence structure made it difficult to understand what you
were trying to say. That's a fact. I pointed it out. I never called you
stupid, dumb, idiotic, demented, retarded, delusional, psychotic
nitwit and I have no idea why you think I did. I do think you are
mistaken in your beliefs about what it takes to get an A and what A students
are like. This surprised me, because when you condemn A students, you
condemn yourself. Weren't you an A student? That may be how you felt, but
it was never how I felt. I will say I think you are very angry.

--
nimue

"As an unwavering Republican, I have quite naturally burned more books
than I have read." Betty Bowers

English is our friend. We don't have to fight it.
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