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IM MAD

Okay I'm about to rant if you couldnt tell from the title.

A little back story, at my school I take a journalism class and about every month we create one issue of our newspaper.

There are cub reporters and editors, I'm a cub reporter, which is basically the first level of the class.

There is this huge book on journalism that we have to read some chapters out of and answer these crazy long questions based on it, which is annoying!!

So there was this one chapter on editorials titled "How to write editorials"

Basically an editorial is an article that express your opinion in some way without using I. There are editorials that praise, explain, entertain, etc.

So first the lady (teacher) you know what lets just call her Ms. Knowitall

Well anyways Ms. Knowitall made the whole class read that 100000 pages in that one chapter.

Afterwards she had us write an actual editorial piece. Here I am thinking "wow I totally know what I'm doing"

Nope

Spoiler alert

I apparently don't.

And before Ms. Knowitall gives us back our editorials she says

"You guys did not seem to understand what an editorial is so I think it's a good idea to load you up with more work and make you read the chapter again while answering all of these really long bajillion part questions okay? Okay."

BOI LIKE NO I JUST WHY I UNDERSTAND ALREADY HOW TO WRITE THIS EDITORIAL

so I read it again and miserably answer the questions.

After I turn it in I get that paper back before my actual written editorial article and on the top of the paper it says nice job! written in Ms. Knowitall's handwriting. Basically proves I know how to write these things.

So I felt confident that I wrote a good article, because I followed the instructions in the chapter she made us read twice.

I didn't

Today we got back our editorial articles! I look at my score on top,

7/10

WHAT

I mean okay I probably had bad grammar and spelling or I didn't make sense or something.

But no.

Written in ink at the very top it says,

"Reread chapter 13. This is not an editorial."

NO

DID SHE JUST

WHAT

FIRST OF ALL I AM NOT GOING TO READ THAT CHAPTER AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME FOR MY LIFE.
SECOND OF ALL

WTH

HOW WHY WHEN WHO SKANNANANAMANA

I FREAKIN DID THIS RIGHT WHAT IS THIS PERSON TALKING ABOUT

But before I get TOO mad I read over my editorial again, looking to see what makes it not an editorial.

Nothing.

My editorial was to praise and explain and I did both of those things yet in Ms. Knowitall's eyes it wasn't.

I had clearly in sentences explained and praised like an editorial.

Finally I work up the courage to ask her advice and ask why this was not an editorial

I go to her desk and ask if I can redo it if it's not an editorial. And she's says that if I look at examples of editorials in the newspaper such and such

NO

HATE TO BREAK IT TO YOU LADY BUT MOST EDITORIALS ARE BORING

*calms down

Okay phew

And then she says there no point in redoing it now.

Then I ask her what made it not an editorial and I tell her where I explained and praised within it.

She says

"Your just stating information."

I look over my paper again, confused, but right there I see in multiple sentences how I was explaining information.

I wasn't just stating information.

I WAS STATING INFORMATION THEN EXPLAINING IT CANT YOU SEE I JUST WHY ARE U BLIND I THINK U ARE.

I contain myself and point out where I explained.

"Your just stating information you aren't really going that deep into the facts and explaining."

Well then if I'm not then tell me why the heck I wrote this long of an article in the first place?? To state facts and not explain them?

HUH

WHERES THE LOGIC

There is a very fine line between information and explaining.

I end up giving up and saying yes I understand, thank you, when deep down I'm drawing on her whiteboard with permanent marker...

I go back to my table and tell my friends how she made almost little to no sense.

OH

AND REMEMBER THAT PAPER SHE SAID I DID A NICE JOB ON WITH THE QUESTIONS BASED OF THE HOW TO WRITE AN EDITORIAL CHAPTER THAT I HAVE TO REREAD FOR THE THIRD TIME BECAUSE I DONT UNDERSTAND YET I DID A "NICE JOB" ON THE QUESTION SHEET?!?!?!?

*suppresed rage*

Anyways um I'm not taking that class next year for that reason and the fact that that class is SO BORING.

Wow those was a long rant....well have a nice day!!!

-Akeo51