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As everyone knows, probably, Ivan has decied to take a detour through alabama to get to north carolina instead of taking the coastal route. and i have occasionally alluded to the fact i live there

but lets get to the point

I am special, yes friend very special and lucky, because you see i am one of the few thousand people in alabama who still must attend school today and tomorrow, for I got to UAH, the ONLY school in the ENTIRE state not closed these 3 days.

and why is this? because the president has not bothered developing a policy for the school to close, EVER. apparently there is this little personal policy where it states if he cant make it to school, nobody has to come. the only problem with this is, the only people living closer to the school than himself are those living on campus

yes we are in school despite circumstances because the president lives 3 minutes away from the school

if i have to go tomorrow (when the hurricane will be a good 100+ miles closer at LEAST, widns now are already REALLY BAD) i will find the jackass and kick his ass

how bout you just dont go.

Oh, that just sucks ass...I wouldn't go. I'd stay home and fear for my safety.

how bout you just dont go.
Seriously. Stick it to the MAN!

how bout you just dont go.
It's always useful to remember that your teachers are individuals with a personality, too. E-mail them with a reason why you won't be coming, at least 24 hours in advance, and if it's a decent, reasonable reason, they won't care.

Here's a good way to always get a day off after a (any) football game.
E-mail your professors along the lines of "I'm hungover because (winning team) sucks." Throw in a few spelling errors for that special touch, and make it obvious but don't flat-out admit you're hungover if they know you're under 21. Unless they reply with an agreement or strong disagreement, they won't remember your preferences in a week, but they'll understand.

Simple retribution:

Post his name and home mailing address here and ask every member here to sign him up for at least one snail-mail spam - free vacation offers, drawings, etc.

His mailbox will be overflowing with junk mail before next session begins.

Chess Squares...high school or college?

Chess Squares...high school or college?
college

Then yea...just email your professors and explain why you can't make it. Heck...I emailed my chem teacher to tell her I missed her class because I slept in 20 minutes and therefore could not find a parking spot (even though I started looking for a parking spot 20 minutes before class...it was the first week of school and no one was skipping class yet). She said she didn't really care and I could get my notes from someone else. I haven't skipped class since...but I think I will tomorrow so I can sleep in. I got off with 30 minutes of class today (Jewish comp teacher cancelled comp class because it was a Jewish holiday today and I took a 30 minutes exam instead of listening to lecture in history)...so yea. As long as you don't make a pattern of skipping class, and you email them ahead of time, you should be fine (unless you're skipping an exam or skipping turning in a big homework project).

Jake him.

Discordianism is the best religion in the world.

All of Madison County's schools (the actual school system) will be open tomorrow. No other schools systems around it are open Friday. Oh well, what do you expect? This is coming from a school system that opened at regular time during a tornado outbreak.

P.S. You, by chance, happen to go to HGHS, Chess?

All of Madison County's schools (the actual school system) will be open tomorrow. No other schools systems around it are open Friday. Oh well, what do you expect? This is coming from a school system that opened at regular time during a tornado outbreak.

P.S. You, by chance, happen to go to HGHS, Chess?
i just said college 3 or 4 posts ago

I am special, yes friend very special and lucky, because you see i am one of the few thousand people in alabama who still must attend school today and tomorrow, for I got to UAH, the ONLY school in the ENTIRE state not closed these 3 days.

Maybe, instead of bitching, you should be thankful that you even have a school left, a house left, and friends left to bitch with... there's a lot of people out there that lost everything and you're going to complain about having to go to school?

this county is full of fucking morons

its already dangerously windy outside, and the thing is still hundreds of miles away

Maybe, instead of bitching, you should be thankful that you even have a school left, a house left, and friends left to bitch with... there's a lot of people out there that lost everything and you're going to complain about having to go to school?
im trying to point out the stupidity of the policy
why dont you go throw a pity party somewhere else
and this is MY rant, R-A-N-T, it neither has to be logical or correct, so get out

im trying to point out the stupidity of the policy

Sure. I'm out; I'm tired and this is liable to turn to flames.

YAY! School ranting!

Ok, so my school is supposed to be the "Fine and Performing Arts" school in this local program where every school specializes in something...
Well, almost every single instrument, the new carpet, all our trips...even a lot of the flags for the colorguard are all paid for by the Band Boosters or donated by outside parties.

The orcestra, I hear, is the same way, as is the drama club. As for art, i can imagine it'll be the same.

Now, the football team, on the other hand, gets new uniforms every two years. (The band hasn't gotten new uniforms for 10 years now). And our football team sucks! Last season I think was 5-5, and that was a very good season for them...usually they get their asses beat 30-something to 3 every game.

The band, on the other hand, was undefeated last year. Year before we were first/second. We've been a Virginia Honor Band 13...14? times? like, 3 or 4 in a row?


WAIT! There's more....So I signed up for AP US/VA History back in like, January when they make you do your schedule for the next year. Well, I sucked and barely passed AP Euro, so I didn't want to take AP US...I was under the impression that without a teacher recommendation, they wouldn't put me in the class, but they did anyway. So I went to get a schedule change, but I CANT get out of the frigging class, even though I didn't get a recommendation, and I barely passed AP Euro, all because we signed some stupid paper that says we understand that AP US is an AP class...

Our principal just got promoted to Superintendent (the previous one having been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer). She sucked, but now we got this guy who says stuff like: "The best students have to plan!
And so do you!" and never shuts up...Every period he makes this long announcement...and even though we're well into our second week of school, he insists on reminding that we "should be on our way to our 1st period class."

The AP English teachers have no idea what they're teaching.

My varsity band direct tried to tell me, the bari sax, that I should be tonguing like the flutes (you just...can't...DO...that!).

My AP Euro would go off on 20 minute tangents about his body guard Yolanda, telling us just how hot she was (he was detailed...the shorts, the shirt...yeah...) and yet he still didn't have a thing for her (uh-huh, sure)...

My geometry teacher couldn't fee-hand a straight line (not kidding)...

Ok that's it...I think...I may rant some more later if I can remember anything more.

i got you beat

the AP history teacher at my highschool was old as DIRT, he was a PRINCIPLE at the school my highschool's principle WENT TO AS A STUDENT.

he a senile old bastard and he doesnt teach facts, unless of course you count trivia answers as important information, and half the time he wont tell us shit, or tell us the same thing 3 times. like on one test he asked us something he NEVER told our class but told his other class

AP US is supposed to be an easier course than AP Euro in the American Education system...

Specializing high schools is retarded. That should have been the entirity of your rant.

I just graduated from a high school that had one of the top 15 band programs in the state for the past 10 or so years. Everything that we got, we earned money for from the band boosters and the school paid half of it. Why? Because whether you notice it or not, the same is applied to the football programs. My high school football team had their best season in a decade last year (4-6) but they're looking better this year (beating a school 15-0 that they hadn't beat in 20 years and losing to the number 6 team in AAA only 8-7 which moved the 6 team down to 9), anyway...the sports booster clubs get all the profits from concession and tickets...they earn money really easily. That's how the afford expensive equipment and new uniforms. (Just thought I'd explain that to you.)

By the way, I think I got you both beat... I got a 2 on the AP American test...because my history teacher didn't cover anything past about 1943 or so...

i got you beat

the AP history teacher at my highschool was old as DIRT, he was a PRINCIPLE at the school my highschool's principle WENT TO AS A STUDENT.

he a senile old bastard and he doesnt teach facts, unless of course you count trivia answers as important information, and half the time he wont tell us shit, or tell us the same thing 3 times. like on one test he asked us something he NEVER told our class but told his other class

Eh, mine wasn't that old, but I never saw anything he lectured about on the test. And he'd also go off on random tangents like "What would you do if you had radation poisoning and only had a week to live?"

By the way, I think I got you both beat... I got a 2 on the AP American test...because my history teacher didn't cover anything past about 1943 or so...
got you beat, mine believed the holocaust didnt happen, completely ignored the civil rights movement and ignored everything that could ever be considered important

Eh, mine wasn't that old, but I never saw anything he lectured about on the test. And he'd also go off on random tangents like "What would you do if you had radation poisoning and only had a week to live?"
mine would talk about how much he liked quebec and thought he could speak french

AP US is supposed to be an easier course than AP Euro in the American Education system...

Specializing high schools is retarded. That should have been the entirity of your rant.

I just graduated from a high school that had one of the top 15 band programs in the state for the past 10 or so years. Everything that we got, we earned money for from the band boosters and the school paid half of it. Why? Because whether you notice it or not, the same is applied to the football programs. My high school football team had their best season in a decade last year (4-6) but they're looking better this year (beating a school 15-0 that they hadn't beat in 20 years and losing to the number 6 team in AAA only 8-7 which moved the 6 team down to 9), anyway...the sports booster clubs get all the profits from concession and tickets...they earn money really easily. That's how the afford expensive equipment and new uniforms. (Just thought I'd explain that to you.)

Oh, see, I know that...but half the people in the stands come mainly to see the band. We're the numer ONE marching band in the entire east coast (in the USSBA anyway). We deserve some of that money.
And I know the school has money because they haven't bought ANYTHING important in the three years I've been there...No, wait, they put this dinky walkway that we don't need...i think to replace the ramp that we DID need that fell apart (which, instead of fixing it, they waited a year and trashed it).

Oh, see, I know that...but half the people in the stands come mainly to see the band. We're the numer ONE marching band in the entire east coast (in the USSBA anyway). We deserve some of that money.
And I know the school has money because they haven't bought ANYTHING important in the three years I've been there...No, wait, they put this dinky walkway that we don't need...i think to replace the ramp that we DID need that fell apart (which, instead of fixing it, they waited a year and trashed it).
They buy books. Also, half the people in the stands may come to watch the band, but what kind of halftime show would it be without a football game? My high school started hosting a marching band contest to earn more money for the band program...everyone there is most definitely there because of the bands...so the band program gets all the money...

mine would talk about how much he liked quebec and thought he could speak french
HAHA! That's awesome!

Mine was from Denmark...
OH! And would talk about his wife, who had lympoma (which is really sad...but not history related)

My history teacher was ex-Marines. He also knew essentially everything there was to know about Arkansas history and has written many, many, many papers on Arkansas Civil War battles and such.

They buy books. Also, half the people in the stands may come to watch the band, but what kind of halftime show would it be without a football game? My high school started hosting a marching band contest to earn more money for the band program...everyone there is most definitely there because of the bands...so the band program gets all the money...

We did that too...but we hosted USSBA...don't...ever...host USSBA.

Yeah, we earned some money, but not much.
And our half-time show would be damn good without the football team.
In any case, I'm not saying we should get ALL the money, just some of it. The least the school could do is pay for repares, but they won't even do that.

I would love to reminice more, especially if I went back to my DODs school, but i gotta go...

BUT! Let's see if y'all can top this one...I had a band teacher that was going deaf...

We did that too...but we hosted USSBA...don't...ever...host USSBA.

Yeah, we earned some money, but not much.
And our half-time show would be damn good without the football team.
In any case, I'm not saying we should get ALL the money, just some of it. The least the school could do is pay for repares, but they won't even do that.
Your half-time show wouldn't be a halftime show without the band. Go to any college that doesn't have a football team--do you see them doing half time shows? No matter how shitty the football team at your school is, they are the only reason your marching band exists...and it's a general rule of the universe that good football teams have shitty bands and shitty football teams have good bands.

I would love to reminice more, especially if I went back to my DODs school, but i gotta go...

BUT! Let's see if y'all can top this one...I had a band teacher that was going deaf...
That's dumb...Beethoven (or Mozart...one of the two) was deaf and you knew this before you posted this post.

Your half-time show wouldn't be a halftime show without the band. Go to any college that doesn't have a football team--do you see them doing half time shows? No matter how shitty the football team at your school is, they are the only reason your marching band exists...and it's a general rule of the universe that good football teams have shitty bands and shitty football teams have good bands.

That sums up Oregon this year. We have a better chance of going to the band superbowl before our football team wins a game. Did you hear we lost to the hoosiers!

That sums up Oregon this year. We have a better chance of going to the band superbowl before our football team wins a game. Did you hear we lost to the hoosiers!

Hmm...anyone ever heard Arkansas Tech Marching Band? Or how about Southwestern Missouri State Marching Band? ...or the music program at Hendrix College? ...or the music program at The University of Central Arkansas?
All of these colleges have excellent music programs and crappy football teams (Hendrix actually quit doing football...)

My high school english teacher was so old that he used Confederate money at Taco Bell!

<That's a joke, son....>


Ba-da-Bing!

My composition teacher (college) is Jewish...

"All Jews ever do is bitch and moan" --or something to that effect, and a Jew said it...so yea..

That's dumb...Beethoven (or Mozart...one of the two) was deaf and you knew this before you posted this post.
Beethoven was deaf, you're right. But he was not a teacher. He was a composer. He stopped conducting when he went deaf because YOU CAN'T CONDUCT IF YOU CAN'T HEAR. A teacher needs to tell his students when they make technical errors, and if you cannot hear these things you cannot point them out, and the improvement of the band will be marginal. It's more or less the equivalent of a math teacher giving you a test and not marking it. How can you improve if you don't know what you did right or wrong?

YAY! School ranting!

My AP Euro would go off on 20 minute tangents about his body guard Yolanda, telling us just how hot she was (he was detailed...the shorts, the shirt...yeah...) and yet he still didn't have a thing for her (uh-huh, sure)...


why does your teacher have a bodyguard?

My school...is run by a principal on a power trip, who enforces the dress code if girls are showing a quarter inch of stomach but not if they're wearing a skirt that doesn't even cover their ass.
Football players get their way at all times (no joke...they're the only ones who can get pe credit for weightlifting), and to be "popular" is to party constantly and basically be a slut. Not well-liked.
Luckily, AP classes weed out the worst of the group. Thank goodness for that.

As everyone knows, probably, Ivan has decied to take a detour through alabama to get to north carolina instead of taking the coastal route. and i have occasionally alluded to the fact i live there

but lets get to the point

I am special, yes friend very special and lucky, because you see i am one of the few thousand people in alabama who still must attend school today and tomorrow, for I got to UAH, the ONLY school in the ENTIRE state not closed these 3 days.

and why is this? because the president has not bothered developing a policy for the school to close, EVER. apparently there is this little personal policy where it states if he cant make it to school, nobody has to come. the only problem with this is, the only people living closer to the school than himself are those living on campus

yes we are in school despite circumstances because the president lives 3 minutes away from the school

if i have to go tomorrow (when the hurricane will be a good 100+ miles closer at LEAST, widns now are already REALLY BAD) i will find the jackass and kick his ass


Even though we are on opposing sides of the gun debate, I'm WAY on your side with this issue; you have the freedom to decide what you do to enable your actual safety.

They actually take attendance into account as part of your grade or something similar?

I'd say hunker down, and protect yourself. If they really want to make it an issue, call the local media outlets and let them know what's going on--the school is willingly putting their students in danger. They eat that stuff up.

I hope he doesn't subscribe to the old "Duck and Cover" technique used for hiding for nuclear explosions as taught by the US government in the 50's!

That's dumb...Beethoven (or Mozart...one of the two) was deaf and you knew this before you posted this post.
But he was a composer, not a band teacher...there's a difference. One could recall every note he every wrote down from memory...the other was also gay (which wouldn't have bothered me except for he always smiled wierd at me).
One only has to know what notes he WANTS to be played, the other has to try to tune a band full of people who have never played anything important before.

why does your teacher have a bodyguard?
He was in some international army unit thingy...he had some diplomatic job, thus, Yolanda.

*Lots of evil preppy kids who act like they're better than everybody else
*Lots of stupid /\55holes
*My school just socially promotes them all cause they dont care even if they refuse the education being HANDED RIGHT TO THEM

i got you beat
...
he a senile old bastard and he doesnt teach facts, unless of course you count trivia answers as important information, and half the time he wont tell us shit, or tell us the same thing 3 times. like on one test he asked us something he NEVER told our class but told his other class

Umm... Isn't that the way AP classes are supposed to work? They're supposed to be like college- you learn by reading the book, going to the library, and doing the research on your own. Class is mostly a placeholder to make it fit your block schedules, used only turn in assignments, take tests, and have the more complex concepts explained to you, maybe do labs and flirt with the people who shouldn't be there so you can help them out later?

This is how mine worked, and it was good enough for 30-something credits. AP Euro, we essentially talked about nothing BUT Russia and the Thirty Years War, the whole year (except April and Early may, where we did DBQ's and review tests), regularly took tests every two weeks on everything. By the end of the year, thanks to The Blue Qu'ran (seventh or eighth edition? I think everyone uses the same book, A history of the Modern World, that my father used back in the 60's.), we all knew everything.

Granted, there are some annoying cases of things a senile teacher should tell you. Occasionally, they'll forget to hand you primary source material that they added after the syllabus was printed up, and they're photocopied from the one copy of that book in the state, so you CAN'T dig them up yourself when someone from another class asks you about them...

Umm... Isn't that the way AP classes are supposed to work? They're supposed to be like college- you learn by reading the book, going to the library, and doing the research on your own. Class is mostly a placeholder to make it fit your block schedules, used only turn in assignments, take tests, and have the more complex concepts explained to you, maybe do labs and flirt with the people who shouldn't be there so you can help them out later?

This is how mine worked, and it was good enough for 30-something credits. AP Euro, we essentially talked about nothing BUT Russia and the Thirty Years War, the whole year (except April and Early may, where we did DBQ's and review tests), regularly took tests every two weeks on everything. By the end of the year, thanks to The Blue Qu'ran (seventh or eighth edition? I think everyone uses the same book, A history of the Modern World, that my father used back in the 60's.), we all knew everything.

Granted, there are some annoying cases of things a senile teacher should tell you. Occasionally, they'll forget to hand you primary source material that they added after the syllabus was printed up, and they're photocopied from the one copy of that book in the state, so you CAN'T dig them up yourself when someone from another class asks you about them...
you dont understand

it was NOT a real class, it was an easy a, all you had to do was memorizes his useless trivia for his useless oral trivia tests and not piss him off and you passed, there was no book

you dont understand

it was NOT a real class, it was an easy a, all you had to do was memorizes his useless trivia for his useless oral trivia tests and not piss him off and you passed, there was no book
Sounds like band class, except less fun and without a funny director.