<p>Ok, so I don’t mean to brag but this is the only way for me to introduce what I want to talk about. </p>
<p>I’m currently in University and I have a perfect A+ average. I’m enrolled in some of the hardest courses there is to offer such as chemistry, and I get 96+ on exams. I excel in both the sciences and the arts; I have a 99 average in psychology, top of my class. </p>
<p>In the second part of my school year, I enrolled myself in a language arts course because I required a writing credit to graduate/enter most faculties. The general difficulty of university has been foreboding throughout, but especially that of the LA course because all throughout my life, I’ve had nothing but pretentious LA teachers almost inventing reasons to give me bad marks on my work. Well, university teachers must be slightly more dignified, no? Wrong. </p>
<p>My father writes articles for a living. Not just any articles; scientific articles of which some have been published in Nature; others in various prestigous journals and he is also known as a worldwide authority on a famously known disease (disease I will not mention due to possible identification), attributed to the quality of his writing and research. Before writing my first paper for the class, I thought to myself, “what better standards to set my research paper against than my father’s? Surely if he approves then my teacher must as well”. So I set my father’s standards as a reasonable benchmark - or so I thought. </p>
<p>After laboring over a 15 page research paper for nearly a month, I handed it into my father for review. He said that the writing was “very good”. I asked him if it was somewhat decent even by his standards, of which he replied “yes”. Obviously my paper was nowhere good enough to be published in Nature, but my hypercritical father had nothing bad to say about it, so that was good enough for me. I handed it in - proper format, grammar, spelling and everything - and waited a week for it to be graded. </p>
<p>Today, I got the grade back. 78%. What? That’s a joke right? A random bloke who worked on it for a day could’ve gotten that grade. I didn’t work twice as hard as I normally do for usually much harder assignments to get a measly 78%. No offense to those who do receieve such grades; objectively it’s adequate, but for me, it’s not in line with my normal grades. How stupid do you have to be to give an A+ student a 78 on an immaculate work? A work that I’m willing to bet my legs that no one in the class can match? I don’t need some pretentious loser to give me a 78 because he’s some weird sadist. </p>
<p>Honestly, what is with LA teachers? Are they actually that out of touch with reality? I haven’t spoken to the teacher yet but I guarantee he has some completely BS reason to give me that grade. “You forgot a comma, so I took off 22%”. Pig. People like this make me suggest taking LA out of the curriculum, it’s just some sink where useless pretentious teachers can aggregate and break people’s morales. ***, seriously.</p>