Low Self Esteem Issue 10: Portuguese School System - Part II
Portuguese School System - Part II
Written By Aphex Twin
June 20th, 1996
[*] LSE NEWS [*]
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In The Last Issue Of LSE, I Talked About The Portuguese Education System And How It Works (Or Rather, Doesn't Work). I Mentioned The Global Exams That We Have To Take At The End Of The Year, Well Today I Got The Results Of The Exams. The Grades Are On A Scale Of 0 to 20. In Portuguese I Got A 3, But That Doesn't Really Matter Because This Year I Was Just Improving My Grade In Portuguese, In Math I Got A 10 Which Is Enough To Get By, In Philosofy I Got A 16 Which Was The Highest Grade In The Class (Am I A Brainstien Or What), Now Comes The Worst, In Chemistry I Got A 0, I Got This Grade Because Of Some Comments I Wrote On The Test On How Our Teacher Had Never Taught Us Anything About The Question At Hand, And How They Do A Bad Job In Teaching And Motivating The Students. These Comments Weren't Offensive And They Were Written With Sarcasm And Not Meant To Be Taken Seriously, But They Decided To Make A Big Conspiracy Out Of It And So They Gave Me A 0. This Really Pisses Me Off Because This Was A Really Important Test And They Obviously Didn't Really Mind Giving SomeOne A 0 And Flunking Them Because Of Some Insignificant Sentences That I Wrote, And Since When Has The Test Been Graded By Comment, I Thought It Was A Chemistry Test And Should Be Graded By The Subject, No Matter What Someone Writes On Their Test, The Grades Should Come From The Answers Given By The Student And Not The Comments The Students Write On The Side Which Haven't Got Anything To Do With The Subject At Hand, The People Who Correct The Test Should Ignore Everything On The Test Which Haven't Got Anything To Do With The Subject, In My Case They Decided To Ignore My Answers To The Questions And Concentrate On My Comments.
You May Be Wondering, If The Test Was So Important Then Why Did Parker Write The Comments? Well I'll Tell You Why, I Spent Over A Month Preparing For This Test, Going Over All The Material That Was Given Through Out The School Year And Re-Doing All The Exercises We Did In Class Until I Got EveryThing Right, I Knew The Material Like The Back Of My Hand, And I Walked In The Class Confidente And Confortable Because I Knew Everything, Well After We Received The Test Everything Changed, The Majority Of The Questions That Came On The Test We Hadn't Even Studied In Class Or It Was Given Very Little In Class, And On The Test I Stated That We Had Never Giving This Material, After A While And After Seeing That There Was No Way I Was Going To Pass The Test And Thinking About All That Time I Wasted Studying Stuff That Never Came Out In The Test, I Got Pissed, I Decided To Give Them A Little Piece Of My Mind, I Finished Off The Test With The Following Message "By The Looks Of This Test, It Looks As If You People Don't Want Anyone To Pass". Well I Was Right, Nobody Did Pass This Test. So Am I Sorry I Wrote Those Comments On The Test? Hell No, Even If I Hadn't Written Those Comments I Would Only Have Gotten A 3 Or a 4, So I Didn't Really Have Nothing To Lose.
Well Thats About All I Have To Say For Now, School Is Finally Over And Now I Could Chill, To Those Bitches Who Corrected My Chemistry Exam I'd Like To Say "FUCK YOU!!!!", To All My Classmates I Extent A Big Peace Out And I'll See Ya's Next Year.
Its Summa Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yahhhoooooo.....
-- Aphex Twin
