Confused

[Fez]

Today we had a Poetry festival, something I would've enjoyed. I entered the last contest with a really good poem (one I made in English and got a 7C for). Got cheered by the judges etc. but when I sat down on the table something werid happened.

I'd been showing a new kid around school, bit of a 'chav', he's dyslexic so we could all feel for him. Anyway I sat down and he just started having a go at me for no reason (general stuff - homophobia, 'geek' etc) and I just asked him 'What the heck?"

When it came to the judges decision, my table got into the semi finals. So we wrote another poem (mainly me) and I was about to perform when 'MC dyslexic chav' pulls some ruffled teared up paper out of his pocket and says
''Use this yer ****."

I told the teacher about it, but because he was dyslexic, she just said

''He was just joking around, use Mattew's poem anyway"
"B-b-but!?"
"Just use it Nathan, you know what Mattew has been through"

Ended up saying poetry about a cow saying meow and going to a house with a mouse (yeah that's all =/). Everybody else had more crap anyway , lol, , most was about ''love is tha bst'' ''love is fluffy and cann feel nice'' half of the kids in Yr8 couldn't even form a strutured sentance! (He went down the street said to tom that gone him [seriously])

So down to judges decision, obviously gonna win 'cos of the other poem. THEY CHANGE IT. TO A VOTE.

As usual my talents get pushed into a corner and some 'chavy' group of girls won...

WTRFTDD?!

Why would a school do this, I mean, Why would I be ushered into the corner and not get anything at all. I was put into some Leeds Poetry Slam thing but I doubt I'll win if it goes to public vote.

/rant

[theJOSH]

I hear you man, I had 7a, for a Poem, but a poem about a trash can,
won rofl. & It was by a person who has been excluded 5-6 times, for trashing the English class room

[Fez]

They just do it to try and give them some 'confidence'.

I'm starting to think capital punishment didn't seem half-bad.

[Teyauna.]

That's wrong. They can't make you use his poem. Just because he's dyslexic...? For real. I would've have used it though. I would've just gone up there and used my own. And if I didn't win, it's fine.

[Janet Snakehole]

I lol'd about the cow saying meow.

Wow, tough day man!
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[FlyingJesus]

Sort of thing always happens, the troublemakers get their way and get rewarded for managing to half-rhyme cow and meow then the people who can actually write go unnoticed.

[scott]

Dosnt sound look it was a good day.
The reason people with talent dont get noticed is because of things like that.

[Nick.]

This annoys me, I get loads of stuff like this happen in our school. For example, these really bad kids, who had been good for 1 hour, got to clean and inspect the engine of some classic Porsche, missing out on 4 periods worth of lessons. Sorry, but, whaa? The good kids NEVER get noticed, we have 'yellow slips' and when you get them they get collected and put into a hat at the end of the year, therefore the more yellow slips you have the more chance of winning, but, we never get them, because only chavs and ******s get them when they're good. We just get the standard "off to next lesson"

They stroll in late to every lesson, does it matter? No. I come in late one time because I nipped to the loo and it was 3 minutes and I got the biggest moaning at of all time. URGH!

[FlyingJesus]

This annoys me, I get loads of stuff like this happen in our school. For example, these really bad kids, who had been good for 1 hour, got to clean and inspect the engine of some classic Porsche, missing out on 4 periods worth of lessons. Sorry, but, whaa? The good kids NEVER get noticed, we have 'yellow slips' and when you get them they get collected and put into a hat at the end of the year, therefore the more yellow slips you have the more chance of winning, but, we never get them, because only chavs and ******s get them when they're good. We just get the standard "off to next lesson"

They stroll in late to every lesson, does it matter? No. I come in late one time because I nipped to the loo and it was 3 minutes and I got the biggest moaning at of all time. URGH!

This sort of thing is what made me give up. Without sounding too arrogant I have an incredible natural talent for learning and especially for writing, but I went through 12 years of school seeing the bad kids and idiots getting praised for I dunno not eating their exam paper or something whilst I only had any special attention put on me and my abilities for one year when I was 7, so now here I am aged 18 with loads of potential and zero motivation. I'm in college but not doing half as well as I would if I actually worked at it, and what do I get told when I tell teachers or parents this? "Doing well should be enough reward".

[Ugawa]

teachers usually do it because they know your talents but they try to give other people a go. I know it's annoyin but its what teachers are like.

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