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March 27, 2007
McGivney Reunion
11:21 AM
Our high school is holding a reunion.
While there has been widely-known informal reunions in the past few years, McGivney is hosting an 15th Anniversary official alumni event on April 16.
I’m not sure if our school is particularly nostalgic, but c’mon, we’ve only been out of school for five years.
I have a small inclination to go, not because of some righteous reason of wanting to uphold the school spirit of McGivney. Let’s face it, “small talk” and discussing what I’ve done in the past few years is not what I’d place in my “fun” category.
So why do I want to go? For spiteful reasons. There are a few teachers I still hold small grudges towards. My thinking is that I need to be updated about them, so that I can find new ways to make fun of them. Yes, I know I should be a bigger person here, but sadly I’m not. Haha.
I totally want to speak to my World Issues GIS teacher who will only be known as Ms V. Ms V decided to give me and my group partner, Elaine, a 72% on our term project on Urbanization.
So not only did she Asian-fail me, she also made me even more worried about my OAC marks entering university.
Our group ended up getting the lowest mark in the class, lower than than the two ditsy girls who were more concerned about shopping than to actually attend class. Their powerpoint presentation, which was about marine preservation, involved mostly embedding a Quicktime video of whales swimming in the ocean, with almost no content. She also decides to criticize our powerpoint presentation to a certain teacher’s pet behind my back, calling it “busy.”
Ugh! I have the urge to slap her during the reunion, or at least tell her how crappy she was at teaching GIS.
Then there was my computer teacher, Mr B. Mr B is the laziest teacher I know, and his knowledge of computer programming was very questionable. He would just sit there at his desk daydreaming while the rest of us attempt to learn a Visual Basic and C++ on our own. Mind you, the internet wasn’t as developed then, and it’s not as easy as Googling an answer.
Now that I am vented, I feel much better. Perhaps I could now attend the reunion with less spiteful baggage. Anyone from McGivney considering attending?
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8 Comments
March 27, 2007 10:35 PM
She asian-failed you lol.
March 27, 2007 11:15 PM
I have the SAME spiteful reasons... except the person I'd like to see isn't going (and perhaps dead or incapacitated) :( Let's just say a certain somebody whose name rhymes with Pumtois killed my writing spirit in OAC with her "yeah, you won't get into Ryerson's journalism program. You should first go to a writing workshop". Well I got in, biatch! And I won a writing award, so eff you PUMTOIS!!! STICK A WRITING WORKSHOP UP YOUR ASS!!! (not that that's possible but just for dramatic effect...)
I'd like a St Bennies reunion with the likes of Mdme Fruschia and Monsieur LeBlanc (esp if he sings I'm a Mushroom again)... and Ms Austin, why not.
March 28, 2007 03:51 AM
Wow Bev, she's MEAN.
Though she was literally on crack anyways, so bear with her. Haha.
Yeah, I'd like to see what's going on with the old Bennies people and teachers. I'd like to see Ms Austin, and even Ms Ryan. Haha. The French teachers are a must!
March 28, 2007 08:34 AM
My high school guidance teacher told me I wouldn't get into University and I should consider college. (Not that College is bad, but I mean I have immigrant parents that would disown me before letting me go to college!)
And then I had a finite teacher that told me I was no good at stats and I should stay away from Stats! Guess who took three years of stats in undergrad and one year in grad school and still rocked it!
I hate high school teachers! None of them were ever inspirational! And usually they had nothing good to say.
March 28, 2007 08:36 AM
So on that note, I would totally go to my old high school reunion, if they had one, just to tell all these teachers that they were the worse teachers ever and they shouldn't assume anything about a students capability to do great things!
I need to take a deep breaths.. it's not too healthy getting so worked up this early in the morning. :P
March 28, 2007 09:36 PM
wow, that sucks. this post should discourage people into entering teaching.
i happen to like my high school teachers, even the ones that i hated. maybe because i actually went to school in HK and had something way worse to compare to (but then again my mom was a teacher in HK...) anyway, my teachers in HK really lowered the standard. I remember how I almost got kicked out of my band 1 school for having bad ethics because I didn't speak up about forgetting to bring my art assignment (to be fair, my stupid teacher didn't even notice.) my parents had to go with me to school to beg for forgiveness. apparently i'm no good as a student if i lied in grade school. Mrs. Chan, i'm now aspiring to be a lawyer with my problematic ethic. how fitting.
March 30, 2007 02:47 AM
i would love to go to the reunion but can't b/c i'm packed with exams around that time...i don't really have a grudge against anybody except mr. okolowsky hahaha remember?? but then again, he was out of the school long time ago...
April 3, 2007 05:20 PM
matt.. talk bout bein bias..
I will comment on what actually happened during OAC GIS..
Yes Matt did try very hard in that class, He was there everyday.. either sleeping or giggling w/ elaine..
I guess thats y vanlieshout would have negative opinions of u.
and btw ur presentation was "busy" and u couldn't even finish ur presentation .. at least the girls did finish (due to lack of content) ..
.. get over it matt.. its been like 5 years..