Think Before You Get Hit By A Chair

I am currently in the process of finishing off my last Social class ever. Throughout my Social 30 class this semester Mr. Gnandt has walked us through the material and every once in a while poses a question to the crowd of students. After about ten seconds of silence he will move on, answering the question for himself. The trick is that in the ten seconds many people become uncomfortable and will be more likely to shout out an answer they were too nervous to put forth before. This mind game is, at times, very useful in helping me understand the concept better thanks to the occasional intelligent answer. However, more often then not the person speaking, as well as the words coming out of their mouth are highly insignificant and only hinder my learning experience.
The following is a near-accurate version of something that has happened in Social 30:

Mr. Gnandt: So you think that the media gives you the knowledge you have about places outside Canada?

Idiot: No, the media doesn’t control what I know and don’t know about other countries.

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You are either a complete moron or you travel all over the world catching up on current events in the time that you aren’t feeding me and my peers bullshit in Social class. I will assume the former as, if you were rich enough to do something like constantly fly around the world you would probably have a personal tutor and I wouldn’t have to worry about holding back my constant urges to hit you with a chair every time you open your mouth.
Now, since I’m not the greatest when it comes to Social I don’t answer many questions and I am not tortured as much by a stupid answer (mostly because I couldn’t do much better, unless the answer given, after peeling my head off of my desk, was “I wasn’t paying attention.”) I feel bad for those people who know the answer better than anyone but keep it to themselves. For example: I sit by our Valedictorian, Alix, and wonder what goes through her head when Mr. G throws out a question to his half-conscious audience. Maybe she’s sitting there thinking about whatever the hell she wants, (she is already graduating at the top of our class, putting in hundreds of volunteer hours and getting perfect marks in gym 10, all the while making time for her friends) she deserves it. Or maybe she’s answering the question in her head, and with her being the “soft-spoken valedictorian” she is her answer is rarely heard by anyone but herself. But more likely than not, she is wondering the same thing as the rest of us: How hard do you have to hit someone with a chair before they shut the hell up?

-Teck

She doesn’t need protection