i have a reason to dislike maths
after being rather good at it until year 8, i moved into the class of mr. mcdade, the fish-looking bastard. i had been off school ill, so needed to catch up. however, he would not help me, he simply penalised me for not knowing what i was meant to be doing. i complained to the head of year, nothing was done. i complained to the headmaster, i was told to stop making waves. i tried to do the work i was set, which at that time was algebra and trigonometry. due to the fact that, although i could give the correct answers, i was unable to show how i did it, my work was marked as incorrect. i received an F-grade in my GCSEs.
i tried again in college, then for a third time in night school. each time, trigonometry fucked me up. i finally managed to scrape a D. i won't be trying again.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 18:51, Reply)