So I’m at school during lunch break, updating my blog because of a funny story.  At least it’s humorous to me.  Background:

Chihiro, Ayana, and two other girls did an English project, and picked Paparazzi rights as their topic.  And all they found them annoying, the conceded that it’s a way to make a living to them.  Part way through the project week (last week) they got in a bit of an argument with the teacher.  They had put work in and done it a certain way, and the teacher wanted it a different way.  The teacher ended up telling them to start over, because it wasn’t the way HE wanted it.  They were obviously very mad about that.

So this week, they did the presentation.  At the end, that teacher told them that the first two groups had done very well, but the third group had room to improve, which was of course Chihiro’s group.  I didn’t go to that class because of Japanese Lesson, so I only got around to talking about how it went today.  After hearing about it, I wanted to confront the teacher about it, because I had CHECKED their project myself, and had helped them on it a little.  It was very good.  So for a teacher to single them out as needing to improve set me back.  I’m quite disturbed and angry about it.

Before confronting the teacher though, I wanted to gather background information.  I have no problem talking to teachers, but I wanted to check my facts and make sure that they pulled the presentation off nicely.  So I talked to the teacher from Trinidad who had watched them what she thought.  And she said that they had done it very well, and didn’t see why the recieved the comment that they did.  She said the teachers would meet and talk about the group presentations next week, and she’d see what had driven the comment.

She also said I should probably just let sleeping dogs lie, as Japanese teachers can get maybe kind of scary.  But I view it from the other end.  The teacher shouldn’t have made the comment and made me come in and fix this.  It was an unfair comment, and they will get a good grade on it.  Chihiro’s an awesome girl, and the presentation was good.  It’s annoying when teachers possibly use past arguments as an excuse to critize.  If that is the situation.