Getting to Know Your Staff!

[thesummerqueen]

Nah, it's not even talking about myself in public that bothers me - in school right now, which is mostly made up of working adults taking night courses, ranging from me (usually youngest at 26) to 60 year olds, the teachers do stupid shit where we have to introduce ourselves and do team building stuff because we "have to learn how to get along with people in the world". We're not fucking 7 years old anymore - if we're out working in the real world and taking night courses, it's almost guaranteed we've learned SOMETHING about how to be nice and play well in the same sandbox as others. It's such a waste of class time and none of those students give a shit about each other. We just want to get our stuff done. My plant ID class has given me the most interaction I've ever had with fellow students, and that's just because there's only 7 people and the older lady took a shine to me for being pleasant, one of the 40 year olds gets coffee at the school cafe with me, and the one Min's age is just a perv. Those are a good example of a working student's priorities!!! And it doesn't matter in regular school either - inevitably, people forgot who everyone else was and developed friends naturally or stuck with their own cliques! So much for fostering "getting along." If you haven't developed it by kindgergarden, you might have some serious issues that a regular teacher can't help with.

Honestly, I think they do it because they're no more ready to start school days and school years than we were/are.