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Duck! And cover!
My History teacher is, at present, engrossed in an effort to indoctrinate the whole school with Cold War propaganda. It all started when he was trying to find “educational materials” for his year 11...
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Classroom Communism
I am becoming increasingly sure that my History teacher’s goal in life is to establish his own Democratic People’s Republic. How do I come to a crazy conclusion like this, you ask? One thing:...
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Talk Like a Pirate Day 2008
Arr! Today it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and in honour o’this grand occasion, I decided to present to ye all the tale of me own Talk Like a Pirate Day, or perhaps I should say the History...
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“Limited democratic rights”
Last Friday morning, I had History class. Tiredly I walked into the classroom — it had been a somewhat sleep-deprived week — and seated myself at a table in the front row, as is compulsory for History...
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What’s been happening?
You’d think that summer holidays would give me more time to write blog entries, but apparently not — they just give me more time to procrastinate and do nothing useful. It’s been almost a week now...
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Good citizenship: part one
Today I’d like to tell you a little story. It’s only really fair enough that I finally tell you this story; I’ve been referencing it like mad for the past few months and it had to be told eventually....
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Good citizenship: part two
This post is a continuation of the story I started yesterday. This story, in case you’ve forgotten, is about my History teacher’s dedication to the cause of “good citizenship”, and his efforts to...
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Top Ten Reasons Not to Study Revolutions at DECV
It’s distance education. You are already at a disadvantage because you don’t have a teacher to explain anything to you in person — you have to work things out yourself. Your school may forget to send...
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Failure
This week I’ve been infuriated by certain teachers’ failure to keep track of their students’ assignments, then blaming me for not doing my assignment and being about to fail me unless I can somehow get...
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