#idr? fifth grade? i was young

[doomed-era]

honestly aside from it being an arthurian thing (all things I hate about fantasy seem to come from king arthur. how did this happen.) where does the whole chosen guy kingly whatever protagonist thing come from it's so annoying.

[chososhoeso2]

In fifth grade our English teacher tried pulling this same thing. They gave us a test and idr if they verbally directed us to read through everything first or if it was the first direction on the actual test paper, but either way we were told to look over the whole test first before starting and the last question said to basically do the same thing - write your name and today's date, wait for a while, then turn it in. And the questions on it were absolutely outlandish. Like one question was to stand up and loudly say something (idr what). So it didn't make sense but we were young students doing what we were told (to a degree since we obviously didn't read all the way).

Some kids did actually read all the way through beforehand and did everything correctly. And the craziest part about that is that the two of those kids in 5th grade who I remember doing it correctly ended up being valedictorian and salutatorian when we graduated. I don't remember how many others did it right or who they were, but isn't that fascinating?

Anyways, my ass with undiagnosed and untreated AuDHD who had just entered public school after spending my entire school career homeschooling, was quite displeased and it taught me to be skeptical and not trust anyone or anything. So like, I guess that's a plus? It made me start questioning things that didn't make sense instead of just accepting things at face value. So I suppose you could say that I still learned a valuable lesson.

Long story short, critical thinking is necessary and should be taught and I'm glad that this professor (and my 5th grade teacher) emphasized the importance of taking in all available information before making decisions and responding

In my first year university course there was a class I remember as being mandatory (at least for English majors) about fallacies and biases in writing. And this prof was all about reading the whole article before you formed your argument. That was his whole thing. You know measure twice cut once he was read twice respond once. He stressed this so much that on our final exam (which was two long form essay questions and a few short answer questions) that I decided to read the WHOLE exam booklet before I grabbed my pen.

Turns out that is what he wanted. The final page, the final question, informed the student that if they wrote 1. Their name, 2. Their student number 3. Their favourite fallacy, and wait for 30 minutes so they don't arouse suspicion, you will literally be given 100 percent for the exam WORTH 40 PERCENT OF YOUR GRADE.

I think about it to this day. The prof literally saw the "reading comprehension on this site is piss poor" and said I can fix them