What could you angrily rant about for hours?

The way schools are portrayed in TV and movies. Didn't study for the test? Don't worry, make up some bullshit excuse about being on your period and your male teacher will give you an A. Haven't gone to your French class in three weeks? It's okay, no one will mind as long as you are friendly with the French teachers.

Students in TV and movies never seem to have homework (unless that homework is a plot point), never seem to have to actually go to class, and always seem to be able to "one-up" the teacher in any sort of verbal confrontation.

Teachers, on the other hand, are almost always portrayed as either bumbling morons who have less of a clue about their subject matter than their students, are past-their-prime assholes who just want to make kids miserable, or they are the brilliant, young, cool, good-looking mentor/sexual fantasy of the student characters. Where the fuck are the old, fat, bald men who have taught history for 25 years, know that shit better than they know their own children's names, and are still fun to be around? Show me the average-looking English teacher in her 40's who can quote Shakespeare in her sleep, but who doesn't act like a socially inept moron outside of her English lit bubble.

God...schools in the media are so fucking wrong.

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