Senior Quote (School: Part 1)

At the end of my senior year of high school, they asked us all for quotes to put into a book to go with the year book.  I didn't give it much thought, and really wanted to see how many people I could utterly piss off.

"Cheat.  Honesty will not earn you any points."

It was a statement mostly directed at my Functions, Statistics, Trigonometry teacher.  He had a hard on for giving out tons of homework and then giving credit/no credit just for doing it.  His grading system was completely fucked up, he would calculate it 3 ways, the highest of the 3 would be your grade - various weightings between homework, quizzes and tests.

In this class, I ended up with about 60/360 points on homework.  Yeah, 17% baby.

A lot of the other kids in the class did their homework everyday ... errr, no they didn't.  A few kids in the class did their homework, everyone else copied it off of them before school every day.  Yet they all received 360/360 on their homework.

I find it completely mind blowing that the teacher wouldn't scratch his head when he received tests from kids who did their homework daily.  "Gee, Johnny does ALL his homework, but only got 65% on his test, I wonder what the fuck is going on?"  I can only assume that because NO ACTION was ever taken to figure out why kids who did all their homework 100% of the time couldn't complete simple tasks on quizzes/test, that cheating on homework was expected and accepted.

So a lot of the kids cheated and they received points for their dishonesty.  I didn't cheat, I was completely honest in all of my work.  So my suggestion to all the underclassmen?  Cheat.   Being honest doesn't earn you points, and school is all about earning points.  Morals?  Psh.  Honesty?  lol.  What is the meaning of school then, if not to become well-educated (if they cared whether or not you understood things, this type of thing wouldn't be going on in an upper-class high school)?

It goes far beyond school into every day life.  Bankers cheat and become rich.  I remember hearing somewhere that our society doesn't believe a crime is a crime until you are caught.  Gee I wonder where they learned that?

I have a LOT to say about school... buckle up, epic rants will be coming.