:rolleyes:
Argh.
In my computers class thinking they can somehow fool the teacher(who has a couple of degree’s for teaching about computers).
They are always talking, always doing something annoying. It never fucking ends. Some jackass went to a porn site when we were supposed to review some websites 
They always are talking while the teacher is talking making it hard to listen. And as soon as the teacher is finished talking one of them asks what are we supposed to do…
Half the time they are listening to they’re rap music and “accidentally” have their earphone plug coming out making me have to listen to
YO niggaz bust a cap into ya ass and similar crap.
Yes, theses are those type of people that say “bling bling”
I just want to learn without somebody being annoying and holding up the class.
Yeah, I know this is a very boring rant but it feels good to talk about those jackasss.
And you’re in what grade?
I hate to say it, but get used to it. It’ll be that way at least through highschool. People told me for my four years of highschool, “Just wait for college…it’ll be better.”
It is to a certain degree. I suppose it really depends where you end up, but there will always be people who think what they feel like doing takes precedence over anything else.
Get used to it.
He’s 14, so he’s in either 8th or 9th grade.
SD, you’re telling me that your little school chums are really so stupid that they don’t know what a History folder is, and that the teacher checks it for porn URLs?
Golly.
[sarcasm] Ah, tell them you’ll give them the answers to all the assignments if they’ll just shut up. [/sarcasm] Seriously, some people are assholes who never shut up, and they don’t get quieter or more respectful when high school ends either.
How I long for the olden days, when we took typing classes with typewriters and didn’t have fancy schmancy computers with sound cards and the internet. 
(To be fair, we did have some computer classes, but it was back in the days of DOS.)
Disable their soundcards when they go to the bathroom.
No, but I think they were actually viewing it when she found out.
That is, if the teacher even knows how to check it…*
At my high school, neither of the computer teachers knew how to check the history or temporary internet files folders. The head librarian, who was in charge of a whole lab plus the computers in the main library room, didn’t even know that such folders existed.
- This certainly isn’t meant as a dig at your teacher, SmileyDeath. It’s just an attitude I adopted after seven years at a public jr./sr. high school in rural North Carolina.
Hell, when I was in highschool, they offered a course in C++ programing. Problem was, the teacher barely knew how to program in Basic. Ended up having one of the students teach the whole class.
Not to sound lame or pedantic, but can’t you just–I don’t know–tell the teacher that these students are being nuisances? Any teacher worth his or her salt would care that there’s a disruption in the class, and hopefully they could talk to the kids, issue a warning, and maybe disable soundcards on the computers they use. Or spill that they’re looking at inappropriate websites and listening to noisy, bothersome music. I was in this situation in my freshman year Microsoft class, and after class one day, I quietly spoke to the teacher about how I (as well as everyone around the idiots) wasn’t able to concentrate or learn anything because of their incessant annoyance. My teacher was on it right away, and there were never any problems again.
Just wait till you get out of school and start working for a living.
Same assholes, different roles.
Alas, it’s true.
While I was in college, one particular student used the computer to look at bestiality porn. And threatened me when I “told on” him. Nothing was done and he continued to do it… That particular class was something else, it was like being in grade school again. shudder
Oh, the teacher definetely knows. She tries to punish them, but it just doesn’t work.
Some shrink’s going to put his kids through college on that.
I’ve been on the opposite side, as the teacher, and it really is mindblowing how dumb the students think their teachers are - do you really think that just because your back is to me, but I can see all of your screens, that I can’t actually notice when you’re watching cartoons or looking up things you aren’t supposed to?
Other than throwing the kids out of the class, which isn’t always an option, there isn’t a lot a teacher can do other than repeatedly coming up to the computer that is being misused and closing the program/window/CD player which is causing the problem. That of course, doesn’t leave a great deal of time to do any actual teaching, so it’s a catch 22. It’s a sad fact of life that some people just have no respect for anyone else, and unfortunately, high school is one place where they’re more obvious than usual.
Stick to your guns, SmileyDeath - if your teacher knows that you’re at least trying to learn something, they’ll be more likely to put in the extra effort with you and with the others. And hey, I know ideally teachers should be able to teach under any circumstances, but we’re not robots - if there’s zero appreciation for our work, it feels the same as in any other job, and motivation tends to drop a lot.
I don’t know how feasible this might be. When I was in high school me and a bunch of other computer savvy kids ran the computer labs. The teacher -was- an idiot. But we kept people in line. We had a remote viewer/controller program on the master computer in the front of the desk and we were able to view all the computers as well as shutthem down/lock them out.
It’s as simple as that. If kids KNOW they’re being watched(We blacked out their screens, and told them we were watching) kids will stop. By the end of the year there was very little misuse of the equipment.
-John