People Piss Me Off.
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Ok. Simple assignment. Come up with a 90 second film to shoot next class and storyboard it. 90 seconds. That's roughly 10 minutes work.
Simple? Apparently not. It seems stupidity is alive and well and thriving in the Austin Community College student body. ( Frothing at the mouth..... )
Ok. Simple assignment. Come up with a 90 second film to shoot next class and storyboard it. 90 seconds. That's roughly 10 minutes work.
Simple? Apparently not. It seems stupidity is alive and well and thriving in the Austin Community College student body. ( Frothing at the mouth..... )
The justice came down from the teacher.
She pulled me outside and asked me, "Did your group have anything to do with making that movie?"
"Ummm, yeah," it was High School and I was too cool to rat out fellow students, even if they were worthless.
"Are you telling me the truth?" she pressed.
"Ummm, yeah. Ben lent me his tripod," no point in maintaining schoolyard principles at this point. She wasn't stupid and had seen through my thinly veiled attempt to cover. That part about Ben lending me his tripod so I could steady the camera was true, so I was at least being honest about it.
"I see," she frowned, "Well, let me tell you what I believe. First, you did all the work - that's pretty obvious. Second, you're pretty creative and this is by far one of the craftiest presentations I've seen in quite some time."
I muttered a slight 'thank you' and she continued. "I'm going to cut you a deal. You deserve a 100 on this assignment, they do not. I am required to grade the whole group equally on this assignment, but it's pretty obvious that they did nothing to earn anything above an F. Here's the deal. Keep your mouth shut and I will give you the A that I'm proud to say that you earned with flying colors. Tell them about this deal and it's off. Make sure you walk back into the classroom with a pissed off look on your face, but say nothing, deal?"
I didn't know what to say. She smiled, "And I have another favor to ask. Can I borrow the tape of your REM presentation and show it to my other classes? It's really quite clever."
I nodded and she motioned back to the room. "Send Ben out next, thank you, Robert," she said as she winked, "and don't forget to look mad when you walk in there!"
She took my group members out one at a time and broke the bad news to them and, as promised, I got my 'A.'
Yep, Mrs. Taff. One of the coolest teachers I ever had.
Anyway, yeah. Group projects suck. Heh.
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I WISH I could do the project by myself...but alas - no such luck for me. These guys WANT to do it, but they won't stick to one idea. It's a freaking 90 second shot to work on camera placement, and they're treating it like it's the thing that will catapult them to stardom.
*sigh*
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