Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets (onemorejump) wrote in incompletedata, @ 2018-01-18 09:27:00 |
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[High School Students]
Apparently I'm going to be teaching you all about the wonders of living things. Meaning biology, if that wasn't obvious. You can call me Mr. Stamets or Paul. Frankly, I don't care.
I've never taught anyone younger than around twenty, and I never particularly wanted to. I would therefore highly appreciate it if you can all act like the young adults that you are rather than like children. I know rebellion is 'cool', but it's also a complete waste of everyone's time.
I'm also sure plenty of you are hoping that this will be a joke. Sorry, but if I'm being forced to teach, you are all going to learn. Might as well make something productive out of this ridiculous situation.
A few more things of note;
1. I will be ignoring anything in the textbook that is dated or otherwise faulty. Being misinformed is worse than being uninformed.
2. Do your work in pen. I don't want to deal with papers covered in chickenscratch that also smudges graphite all over my hands. No damn pencils. I'll tolerate pens because I didn't find a typewriter in my own house so I doubt the rest of you have access to one.
3. We will not be wasting time on pointless endeavors like making candy models to demonstrate the structural differences between animal and plant cells. If you want to make one for yourself, be my guest, but you sure as heck aren't going to be getting credit from me for it.
4. Constructive complaints are welcome, but unnecessary whining will be entirely disregarded.
Deal with all of that and we should get along just fine.