It boggles my mind.
I'm taking this analytical reading class cause it's like the ONLY Reading class I have to take according to my reading placement test (OF WHICH I scored 148.5 out of 150 on. Booyah me.) And she's got us reading this book called "Amusing ourselves to Death" by Postman. My Brother had this class last semester with the same teacher, a Mrs. Dambrosia, and failed.
Yeah, it's kind of a hard book. From the chapters we've covered so far, it's basically making points as to how important reading and writing is and how much it's gone down hill. How our culture is best represented by Las Vegas, which is actually fairly true.
The trouble I'm having? Mostly retaining the knowledge. I'll read the book a day prior to class and go "OH YEAH I GET THAT!" and jot down a note...then the next day I'll forget, look at my note..and wonder what I was noting. I've actually taken to rereading the chapter a few times.
SO, I've been doing the work, reading the book, and Yeah a few quiz's on chapter comprehension haven't gone the best way for me, but overall I'm acing the tests, which focus more on vocabulary anyway which I am magnificent at, and doing well.
Why? Cause I'm doing the god damn work.
SO When people I'm sitting next to start to complain about how much work it is, about how repetitive the book is, what a bad teacher Dambrosia is, and how the class supposedly "Sucks"...I really have to resist the urge to growl in a low, menacing manner. Why? Because These guy's aren't doing the work. I know because She has us grade other peoples tests, and I graded the main protagonist of these complaints test....and I can say he's full of shit.
So yeah, I don't like the guy much.
Also as a sidenote, I asked the teacher about my Brothers performance. She said he was quite bright, but he was either the guy who always left towards the end of class or never did his work....and seeing as my brother has a history of doing the former(Never doing his work)....
Oy vey.
