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primitives remember their high school days
« on: April 18, 2013, 01:07:02 AM »
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KurtNYC (11,976 posts)    Wed Apr 17, 2013, 02:39 PM

My Yearbook teacher was a creep.

Woke up from a dream this morning and for some unknown reason my thoughts turned immediately back to decades ago when my yearbook teacher threw me off of the staff without warning or good cause.
 
I went to a high school which had just opened and many of the teachers were either very early in their careers or just starting. There really hadn't been enough time to weed out the bad ones so all kinds of crazy stuff went on. The Principal (married) got my German language teacher pregnant, told her not to get an abortion because he would leave his wife for her. She was like 5 months along when he backed out of the deal. She withdrew from the school. (Aside: the same year, the mayor shot his wife in the head with a 45 while arguing at the breakfast table, she lived and he stayed mayor.)
 
Yearbook was considered a privilege and was only open to Seniors in good standing. I signed up and after about 13 weeks of driving around to location shoots, sports, events, general campus grabs I got called to a meeting with this teacher. She said that because I had not shot enough film I was off the staff. Impossible. I shot hundreds of pictures. The log for this activity was kept by a student and full of casual errors but she wasn't debating. I was off.
 
I stewed around on what the real reason could be. This teacher's husband had a mobile DJ business and so did I. I had taken a customer from him early in the year and was after another one. But that didn't seem like the reason. He had a day job and it wasn't like kicking me off yearbook was going to make me stop DJ'ing in the same town as him.
 
This teacher was late 20s but acted like the yearbook was her high school clique. It was almost all girls. She rarely spoke to me. I hated one of the concepts in the yearbook and said so. Her concept was for the clique to pick 10 seniors and declare them to be "trend setters." Each would get their own sidebar telling the rest of us how cool they were and how they outperformed us all. It seemed very undemocratic and very petty to me. I argued against doing it. Not sure if this factored in. Though I did not say so at the time, I really thought this fit with her immature mindset. SHE wanted to be back in high school as a student and be declared a trend setter by her hand selected clique of girls.
 
Also the main theme for the book was "grabbing the brass ring" (?) which she had to explain to everyone every time it came up. It refers to old merri-go-rounds where you could grab for a ring and you would then get a free ride. So what the hell does this obscure carnival tradition have to do with high school?
 
Nonetheless, she wanted a picture of a carousel so I went and shot dozens of them.
 
Months after I was kicked off, the yearbooks came. I got mine. Open it and the very first picture you see, which was die-cut (mega up charge btw) was this round hole through which you see one of my pictures of a carousel. The rest of the book was similarly full of key pictures which I had taken...
 
I should be over this by now. Thought I was.

Oh boo hoo.

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OriginalGeek (5,166 posts)    Wed Apr 17, 2013, 02:59 PM

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I'm still mad at Mr. Hart. 7th grade principal. Gave me licks because I "sighed". I don't even remember what it was I was supposed to have "sighed" about but I can tell you this: It wasn't me. Hallway full of 7th graders and he thought he heard something and I was the closest person to him so he took me to his office and beat me with a wooden bat converted to a paddle.
 
**** that asshole. A few years later he came into the BBQ place I worked at and I told him what a ****wad I thought he was. He didn't give a shit. He liked being hated I think.
 
Been close to 40 years and I still remember that stupid look on his dumb**** face.

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                (21,741 posts)    Wed Apr 17, 2013, 04:53 PM

6. My only really smokin' hot teacher in H.S. was, of course... my French teacher, Mrs O.

My good bud Dave and I were visiting the school in the Fall following our graduation and spotted her in the lunchtime cafeteria at a big table with a group of her current students.
 
She waved us over and introduced us, telling them that we were constantly misbehaving in her class... and that the ONLY times that we were actually quiet, she could rest assured we were either throwing things at one another or trying to look up her skirt.

And we thought we had been so clever... so discreet.

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LeftofObama (2,204 posts)    Wed Apr 17, 2013, 06:18 PM

9. I will never get over high school.

I was bullied quite a bit and when I got a chance to move I grabbed it. Now I'm back in that town taking care of my mom and every now and then I run in to some of those people. When they walk up to me and say something like, "Remember me? I'm so and so! How have you been?" I usually reply, "Sorry no." And I just keep walking.

Man, what a sorehead.
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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2013, 04:19:43 AM »
Why am I not surprised that many of them are still carefully nurturing supposed wrongs from years back?

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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2013, 05:08:20 AM »
Why am I not surprised that many of them are still carefully nurturing supposed wrongs from years back?

Seems to be part of a pattern, doesn't it?



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LeftofObama (2,204 posts)    Wed Apr 17, 2013, 06:18 PM

9. I will never get over high school.

Mmmmm hmmmm.  Go on.
              

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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2013, 05:45:48 AM »
Why am I not surprised that many of them are still carefully nurturing supposed wrongs from years back?
even then, they were demonstrating how they were unable to fit in with a civilized society.
Their drug use and mental health problems made them the proud little communists of today.

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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2013, 07:35:17 AM »
How is it that every single DUmp Monkey was bullied by everyone in high school, including the teachers and janitors.

It isn't that somepeople didn't try to bully me.  In ninth grade, I got harassed, but I didn't provoke back until one day when one of them left a tack in my seat.  One of them made the mistake of laughing.  I jumped over my desk and crashed into the idiot before he could untangle himself from his desk and beat the snot out of him.  I got ten days, he got ten days and an attitude adjustment.  No one was ever stupid enough to try me again.
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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2013, 07:39:04 AM »
I had some that tried to bully me. I usually ended up punching them and they quit. Funny how that works.
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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2013, 08:37:52 AM »
My smiling face in throughout my senior year book.....but not as often as "Rabbi".... :lmao:... He was in ever club picture taken. He was in every picture but the all girls cheerleadering squad. If he could have gotten his hands on a skirt, I believe he would have been in that one too. :lmao:

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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2013, 09:31:52 AM »
I have pretty good memories of high school.  My 9th grade English teacher didn't like me much for no apparent reason.  He played favorites, and I wasn't one of them. My mom actually didn't like him much either.  My 9th grade science teacher made up for it.  He took me and 2 or 3 other students who were significantly breaking the curve on a special field trip to look at some of the waterways and tide pools that were somewhat local.  I think he felt bad that he had required us to take Integrated Science 1 instead of biology.  He was the head of the new "pathway" system that my school had been trying where we picked a field of interest in 9th grade and then took a number of classes with people who had similar interests.  His rule was that 9th graders took Integrated Science, regardless of their previous performance in science.

I did find out that one of my other English teachers reportedly pressured the valedictorian of my year into some sort of relationship.  Mind you, this was a rumor that I only heard in the past year, so I don't know if it is true, but it sounds plausible. 

I always had plenty of friends in high school, and my best friends to this day are girls that I met while in high school. 

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« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2013, 09:39:57 AM »
You DUmbasses are miserable and butthurt over events that happened decades ago?  Good. 

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« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2013, 10:00:46 AM »
Yeah, I remember one time in high school I was expecting the cafeteria to serve spaghetti for lunch, but instead we got chicken.  That was the turning point.  I should be over this by now. Thought I was.

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« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2013, 10:06:12 AM »
You DUmbasses are miserable and butthurt over events that happened decades ago?  Good. 

Wrt such experiences, people that have any sense of self-worth and dignity would learn from such experiences as to how to avoid them in the future or how to combat them in a way that preserves their dignity. Instead, these crybabies sit around and wallow in self-pity for decades at a a time.

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When I was in my early 20's and in engineering school, I was working in a local grocery store and saw her. She had retired ~10 years prior. I made sure that I was the one to sack her groceries and carry them out for her. I said, Hello Mrs. West, She remembered me even though I was older and asked how and what I was doing these days. I told her that I was working my way towards a BS in electrical engineering. She got this puzzled look on her face and said, "that's hard, isn't it?" I said, " not really, I've been able to maintain a B average. Differential equations and Atomic Physics were tough but, I managed." With her jaw dragging the pavement, she immediately got into her car and sped off. That was a wonderful feeling. She came into the store many times after that and avoided me. That's how you deal with teachers that give you a hard time. You go back to them and show them how wrong and stupid they are.
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« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2013, 10:14:38 AM »
oh good grief -- grow up and get over it, DUmmie losers.

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« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2013, 10:15:50 AM »
It's good to see the DUmbasses admit that they were the misfits in HS that i always assumed them to be.
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« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2013, 10:43:08 AM »
oh good grief -- grow up and get over it, DUmmie losers.

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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2013, 10:51:01 AM »
oh good grief -- grow up and get over it, DUmmie losers.

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I'm still mad at Mr. Hart. 7th grade principal. Gave me licks because I "sighed". I don't even remember what it was I was supposed to have "sighed" about but I can tell you this: It wasn't me. Hallway full of 7th graders and he thought he heard something and I was the closest person to him so he took me to his office and beat me with a wooden bat converted to a paddle.

Good. I'm sure he got paddled for being a clueless idiot.
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« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2013, 11:16:40 AM »
You DUmbasses are miserable and butthurt over events that happened decades ago?  Good. 

Having seen the British equivalent to the DUmmies respond to the great Lady T's death...they don't let things go. Decades from now they'll still be complaining about Pres. Reagan and Pres. Bush Jnr.; there's still many many years of fun to be had with them.

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« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2013, 11:19:23 AM »
DUmmies are abject losers.

It should be no surprise they were abject losers in high school as well.

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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2013, 12:33:42 PM »
When I was in my early 20's and in engineering school, I was working in a local grocery store and saw her. She had retired ~10 years prior. I made sure that I was the one to sack her groceries...

Naturally, you put the bread in the bottom of the bag, with the canned goods on top.......
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« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2013, 01:43:21 PM »
Naturally, you put the bread in the bottom of the bag, with the canned goods on top.......

No. I didn't do that even though the thought crossed my mind. All that I did was talk with her politely and answered her questions truthfully and that is all that it took to send her running.

Years earlier, she would punish my sister (7 years my senior) for writing with her left hand even though she was left handed.
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« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2013, 01:46:39 PM »
A bitter bunch.  :mental:
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« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2013, 02:48:30 PM »
Naturally, you put the bread in the bottom of the bag, with the canned goods on top.......

My first job in HS was a grocery bagger. One time my Leftist neighbor told me to bag her canned dog food and cat food separately because they didn't get along. That's when I knew for sure Libs were  :mental: Wouldn't be surprised if she hangs out at DU now.

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« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2013, 03:37:18 PM »
My first job in HS was a grocery bagger. One time my Leftist neighbor told me to bag her canned dog food and cat food separately because they didn't get along. That's when I knew for sure Libs were  :mental: Wouldn't be surprised if she hangs out at DU now.
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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2013, 04:49:31 PM »
I have two of my high school teachers as friends on Facebook, and when I've comment to them I still call them Mr. and Mrs. , even though I'm now older than they were when they were my teachers.

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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2013, 05:11:41 PM »
I kind of read through what the primitives were griping about.
One thing came to mind.
I wonder if any of them received a senior yearbook?
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Re: primitives remember their high school days
« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2013, 06:22:10 PM »
The spousal unit's step-father is a stark-raving moonbat who also holds an odd fixation on things that happened when he was in high school.  Reading these just seems familiar.