Grade school teachers really overstated how much professionalism is expected in the way documents are prepared in the work place.
Y'all, if your words spill over so they are superimposed onto a line in a form, it looks like you crossed it out
I'm just saying Mrs Lynn, English teacher, had higher standards
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@CorvidCrone On the other hand primary language teachers tend to interpret so much into texts that the meaning might be otherwise obscured.
@CorvidCrone I'm not sure what is done in schools (except driving underpaid teachers crazy, that should be the same here and there), but from what i remember german language lessons were interspersed with interpreting texts to a laughable degree somewhere in the middle at least.
Is that different in english lessons?
Anyways, filling out forms was way too practical, we learned nothing of the like.
Yes, we had a bunch of stories to interpret in a wild depth that the author probably didn't intend.
Did you get subject to The Planner? A school issued "homework planner" that was just filling out forms in disguise. And you HAD to do it their way. Everyone tossed it as soon as the teachers stopped checking.
@CorvidCrone No, any tests we had were free form (whatever the teacher found, i guess?) and always with content, not just for style/form.
The only similarly ugly thing was the wino music teacher that demanded we copy everything we write by hand at home. He got ignored right from the start.
The Planner was the school system's attempt to make students do their homework, instead of, you know, seeing an issue and actually investigating the root cause.
Kids don't do homework because they are tired and it's boring. A lot of the homework was actual busy work
@CorvidCrone It shall forever remain a mystery why capitalists didn't think of paying children to do the homework.
I mean the condescending "i will trick you" non-solution is not surprising in itself, but not thinking of money is remarkably off-brand, i think.
@admitsWrongIfProven I'm talking about the English class where you learn how to diagram sentences (do they still do that in schools??).
But yeah, Robert Frost was literally just writing about having to go through the words to get home.