I haven't been in school for a while, but boy, I got some war stories. I will sometimes look back at some moments in High School and think maybe I could have handled the situation better. Here, I just shrug and tell my younger self I probably still would have done the same thing. There was a girl my freshman year of high school. She is perhaps the most annoying student I have dealt with. I've taught before, and she is still the worst I've encountered. She would say everything that came into her head as loud as she could, she would never be quiet when she was told to, and she thought everything she said was hilarious so after she screamed what she was thinking she would give an obnoxious laugh. If nobody laughed, which they never did, she would loudly repeat them louder and louder. Before you ask if this was a personality disorder, no, it wasn't. During readings of Shakespeare, she would yell "I don't understand this!" before reading the text or even attempting to understand. She would then proceed to laugh and repeat it multiple times. She thought these incredibly annoying things were "cute" so she continued to do them despite everybody in the class wanting them to stop. And, on the off chance that you are feeling slightly bad for how I'm talking about this girl, you can also know that she was one of those people with nothing spectacular about them that really liked to point out what was wrong with everybody else. As loud as she could. In the middle of class. While she laughed to herself.
This woman now fits the legal definition for an adult, and is only slightly younger than me. I don't know what happened for her, and I don't much wish to find out. There are more, but I don't want to go for hours on this. Plus, nobody was anywhere near as bad as her
I haven't been in school for a while, but boy, I got some war stories. I will sometimes look back at some moments in High School and think maybe I could have handled the situation better. Here, I just shrug and tell my younger self I probably still would have done the same thing. There was a girl my freshman year of high school. She is perhaps the most annoying student I have dealt with. I've taught before, and she is still the worst I've encountered. She would say everything that came into her head as loud as she could, she would never be quiet when she was told to, and she thought everything she said was hilarious so after she screamed what she was thinking she would give an obnoxious laugh. If nobody laughed, which they never did, she would loudly repeat them louder and louder. Before you ask if this was a personality disorder, no, it wasn't. During readings of Shakespeare, she would yell "I don't understand this!" before reading the text or even attempting to understand. She would then proceed to laugh and repeat it multiple times. She thought these incredibly annoying things were "cute" so she continued to do them despite everybody in the class wanting them to stop. And, on the off chance that you are feeling slightly bad for how I'm talking about this girl, you can also know that she was one of those people with nothing spectacular about them that really liked to point out what was wrong with everybody else. As loud as she could. In the middle of class. While she laughed to herself.
This woman now fits the legal definition for an adult, and is only slightly younger than me. I don't know what happened for her, and I don't much wish to find out. There are more, but I don't want to go for hours on this. Plus, nobody was anywhere near as bad as her