First, the story was flat and not well constructed. I got bored halfway through and was unable to finish it. Hopefully you can generate an excutive summary for us.
Second, ah the horrors & drama of high school.
I prefer the rhum.
While I’m telling you how I yelled at him, the second time I say “the five year plan” I mean to say “the great leap forward.”
Oh, and Britain is of course spelled with the “a” first.
I was too mad and lazy to spell check.
Why didn’t you just go up to him after class and make your case instead of doing it in front of the everyone?
Ah, just wait until you get screwed over in the real world.
I’m still waiting for the executive summary. Bullet points would do.
You might also think of getting upset at your English teachers, they’re taught you highly sub-standard composition skills.
Paragraphs, my young friend. Paragraphs.
Hey, Collounsbury…basically I got really pissed at my history teacher. Good enough summary for you?
Podkayne–there are paragraphs. I just didn’t bother double spacing between them. Blame the English teachers.
I think you need to unbunch your knickers. There was something of a clash of egos. You lost. If you hate whining, why are you doing so much of it, especially the all-time #1 loser’s whine : “he likes them better than us?”
Do try to work on your communications skills. The conflict with your teacher might not have happened if they were better and you might be finding more of the petting you want here, as well.
Compositional skills be darned! I didn’t feel like it and it was therapeutic for me. And the point of high school is that I don’t have to worry about getting “screwed over in the real world” yet. It’s certainly real enough for me as it is.
P.S.
I spelled therapeutic correctly. Do I get extra points for that? Or should we give the English teachers a raise?
No. Not a summary at all really.
So far I have adduced you are
(i) immature,
(ii) a whinger
(iii) not skilled in written composition
(iv) not skilled in clarity.
Here is the most important history lesson of your life:
Throughout the entire history of human civilizations, there have been assholes.
The trick is to deal with them and move on.
So if I uinderstand your post correctly, the teacher asked two classses to turn in questions to be used in their respective tests, but he only used questions from one class for the tests administered for both classses, putting your class at a disadavantage. Moreover, when you objected, he made you apologize in an exceptionally petty and condescending manner. I can certainly see your anger.
Moreover, your history teacher is a dunce.
France colonized Indochina–Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia–while Britain colonized Singapore, Malaya (modern Malaysia), and Burma, Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch. So, the teacher’s answer, “France,” was only partially correct. India is not located in SE Asia, so your point about its colonization is irrelevant.
Your teacher is also wrong about the Great Leap Forward, which far from increasing industry in China, was a Potemkin program in which villages across China were dragooned into melting down their metal woks and farm implements and then claiming they had “made” steel, complete with grossly inflated production figures. Moreover, the Great Leap Forward was responsible in part for the disatrous famine that followed because the peasants were so busy “making steel” that they neglected to plant crops. Maos’s intent was to force China into industrialization overnight, but because the plan was ineptly conceived and managed, it led to a catastrophic famine. The GLF did NOT increase industry in China.
Scumpup, I don’t ever throw around a phrase like “he likes them better than us.” This is the first time I’ve ever actually used it. Here’s some reasoning in my defense (and I’m not even yelling–how’s that for communication?)
#1: My history teacher often gives our class more homework than the other class.
#2: While he’s in a good mood in the other class, he begins snapping at our class and yelling at us.
#3: We are not more disbehaved–so far I’ve had the only outburst all year.
#4: I’ve never yelled at a teacher before (nothing to do with “He likes them better than us” but just letting you know I am not generally a whiner–though it is fun now and then 
).
Perhaps you won’t be appeased, but hey! It’s really my call after all, isn’t it? And you wonder why I whine to complete strangers…
Collounsbury–ASk someone else for a summary. I’m tired and want to go to bed. So far, what I have adduced from you is that:
(i) you have a short attention span
(ii) you enjoy insulting people (right back at ya’)
(iii) you obviously take straight dope far too seriously
Good Night!
Wow, even Anders Jonas couldn’t measure the amount of angst in this room.
Wow, people. Give The Great One a break. I would be upset too if my teacher said he was administering a test one way, then used different questions. If he had said he was using questions from both classes that would be different, but that’s not what seems to have happened. Not to mention his seemingly shaky knowledge of the actual answers. gobear is right, his teacher sounds like a moron.
Sure, he was probably over-reacting in his first post, but he calmed down and told the story. I had no trouble understanding what happened. It’s not a literary masterpiece, but sheesh, it’s not nearly as bad as some other drivel I’ve seen here.
I’ve had crappy teachers too, Great One. It sucks when they ruin a class for you, and unfortunately you’ll probably get more of them before your education is over. You sound like you’ve calmed down and have some perspective now, so welcome to the SDMB - keep posting (but next time do include some backstory in your OP!)
You’ll probably think I’m a dick, TGO, but I have to give my perspective here, as someone (just) 10 years removed from high school.
1 - So what? What law says he must treat both classes the same? HE is the teacher, HE makes the lesson plans. You appear to using a more sophisticated version of the “that’s not fair!” complaint commonly heard from 9-year-olds. Well, life isn’t fair. Get over it. Not only that, but it’s entirely possible that he has decided the other class has a much greater proportion of intelligent students, and therefore don’t NEED as much homework. He is entirely within his rights as a teacher to do this.
2 - Maybe there are specific people in your class who annoy him? My stepfather and sister are both teachers in high school, and I have heard them both say on many occasions that specific periods of the day are worse to deal with than others. Usually the classes with the less competent students are the worst for teachers (who are only human, after all) to deal with. See response 1.
3 - Really dude. You think no one is misbehaved because yours is the first “outburst”? Just to give you a sense of perspective, fifty years ago your “outburst” would’ve got you suspended at some high schools, possibly expelled. Look around you in class sometime. Ever see anyone talking, throwing spitwads, composing love letters, or sleeping while the teacher is talking? I guarantee you, he notices.
4 - Being a whiner is the least of your concerns, if you think yelling at someone is an appropriate response to being angry. You can get away with it for now because you are a teenager. But what others have said is correct: if you did such a thing like that to a boss in such a public manner, you would be very, very sorry. Just be glad you’re not my kid, because if you were, God help you if I heard you yelled at a teacher for any reason.
And now I’m done.
Great One, FWIW I have found that I learn more from reading on my own than I ever did in class. Moreover, reading books written from different perspectives gives a more well-rounded view of history than the mere recitation of dry facts from an ineptly written textbook taught by an incompetent teacher like yours.
If you don’t mind, I offer you a reading list of books you can check out at the local library.
The Search for Modern China, by Jonathan D. Spence. It’s a thick volume which can be tough going in spots, but it gives an extremely detailed account of Chinese history from the latter days of the Qing dynasty to Tiananmen Square.
Wild Swans, by Jung Chang. This autobiography recounts 20th century Chinese histroy as it affected the lives of the aothor, her mother, and her grandmother. It includes vivid, first-person accounts of life during the Great Leap Forward, the 1958-1962 famine, and the Cultural Revolution.
Hungry Ghosts, by Jasper Becker. A somewhat sensationalized account of the great famine, this book includes ghastly descriptions of cannibalism and the effects of starvation on the body.
Great One, FWIW I have found that I learn more from reading on my own than I ever did in class. Moreover, reading books written from different perspectives gives a more well-rounded view of history than the mere recitation of dry facts from an ineptly written textbook taught by an incompetent teacher like yours.
If you don’t mind, I offer you a reading list of books you can check out at the local library.
The Search for Modern China, by Jonathan D. Spence. It’s a thick volume which can be tough going in spots, but it gives an extremely detailed account of Chinese history from the latter days of the Qing dynasty to Tiananmen Square.
Wild Swans, by Jung Chang. This autobiography recounts 20th century Chinese history as it affected the lives of the author, her mother, and her grandmother. It includes vivid, first-person accounts of life during the Great Leap Forward, the 1958-1962 famine, and the Cultural Revolution.
Hungry Ghosts, by Jasper Becker. A somewhat sensationalized account of the great famine, this book includes ghastly descriptions of cannibalism and the effects of starvation on the body.