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Catherine
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
33 Posts
October 30 2016 02:16 GMT
#1
When I was a junior in high school, I took UHS physics, a physics class that was counted as a college class with credits and all of that stuff. What ended up happening with the midterm was that someone was able to get access to a previous year's midterm. The midterm was spread around in the library (where everyone studied) and pretty much everyone saw it. When it came time to take the exam, people realized the old midterm that everyone saw in the library was the exact same midterm that was being administered. The school had reused the old midterm exactly

Once the school found out that everyone had seen the midterm prior to taking it, the school accused pretty much every student in the library of cheating, even if they didn't seen the midterm. Long story short: everyone was angry about how the school handled the situation. The school didn't follow procedures outlined in syllabuses and withheld information from students and parents. Some kids just wanted to receive lesser punishments, so they pretended to cooperate by giving names of students who they thought saw the midterm. They dropped names. Some of the accused kids were innocent, but they suffered punishments anyways solely because another kid called him/her out. Even though I did not see the midterm, because some of my friends did and I hang out with them, my name was dropped and there was nothing I could do about it. I was assumed guilty, and the burden was on me to prove my innocence. It was atrocious, unfair, and unjust. Oh well. Life goes on.

Anywho, every year at my school there is a senior parade for Halloween. Students get to dress up and enjoy themselves. As a senior now, one of my friends from my UHS physics class decided go print out a bunch of old AP practice physics questions and make them into a cape. He was
the classic
the untouchable
the legendary
Physics Man.

Obviously he was trying to provoke the teachers. The parade was in between 3rd and 4th period, and he got called down 5th period.

The two teachers who interviewed every student during the midterm situation were the same teachers who looked at my friend and asked, "What is your costume?"

"I'm Physics Man."

My friend had to leave the room while the two figures talked privately. He had actually printed out quite a lot of pieces of paper, and it was very awkward for him to sit because he made a lot of noise. For about five minutes, he just awkwardly sat at the front desks in front of the receptionists/secretaries making incredibly loud paper shifting sounds trying to fold his costume to comfortably sit.

The two teachers wanted to check to see if what he was wearing were the actual midterm. My friend knew this would happen, and apparently he had actually emailed every single piece of paper printed on his costume to the teachers before the parade. He made sure to pick review packets and old questions that looked like the midterm just to make it even harder on the teachers.

Now these teachers that addressed my friend were the hall principal and the head of the science department in my school. They weren't actually teachers who taught in a classroom. What they ended up doing was giving the entire costume to the actual physics teacher employed to check over every question to make sure none of the questions were from the midterm.

So, my friend was stripped of his costume, and the two administrators asked him if he wanted it back or if they could they just throw it out. My friend said, "Throw it out. No, actually, recycle it."

His parents were emailed. What they were informed of, I'm not really sure. Why they were informed, I'm not really sure.

Fun stuff.

*****
Starlightsun
Profile Blog Joined June 2016
United States1405 Posts
October 30 2016 05:00 GMT
#2
For about five minutes, he just awkwardly sat at the front desks in front of the receptionists/secretaries making incredibly loud paper shifting sounds trying to fold his costume to comfortably sit.


LOL
Jett.Jack.Alvir
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Canada2250 Posts
October 30 2016 05:19 GMT
#3
Life goes on only for those that accept that sheeple bullshit.

I would have gone over the principle's head and informed the school board or superintendent. First, the teachers there are fucking lazy if they reused last year's exam. When I went to highschool, our teachers gave us last year's exams so we can study them. Second, there is always something to do, the question is whether the effort to do it is worth the outcome. In your case, it would have taken a lot of effort.

You deserved the punishment, even though you didn't see the rehashed midterm. You deserved it because you did nothing to fight it.
YokoKano
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United States612 Posts
October 30 2016 05:53 GMT
#4
Physics Man. Where do you come up with this stuff? Is it like an equation in your head? How many variables involved and do they turn your hair white?

Anyway I am with Jett. You should appeal. I know there is not much hope of successful resolution, but one can hope. Whenever there is money involved people are involved.

Good luck in the future!
IQ 155.905638752
Catherine
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
33 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-30 07:41:04
October 30 2016 07:38 GMT
#5
Everyone is appealing, including me. LOL I meant for Physics man to be the main part of the story, not the midterm situation. My b.

We are working up the administration ladder but unfortunately, it seems by the time it gets resolved I'll already be in college, where it won't really matter.
AbouSV
Profile Joined October 2014
Germany1278 Posts
October 30 2016 13:27 GMT
#6
On October 30 2016 11:16 Catherine wrote:
His parents were emailed. What they were informed of, I'm not really sure. Why they were informed, I'm not really sure.


'Your son has been spotted wearing a cape.
We suspect him to be awesome.
Proceed with caution.'
mierin
Profile Joined August 2010
United States4943 Posts
October 30 2016 17:29 GMT
#7
I majored in math and physics, but I never understood people like this (who honestly were the majority). Can you like math/physics and still be a "normal" person? haha
JD, Stork, Calm, Hyuk Fighting!
Jett.Jack.Alvir
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Canada2250 Posts
October 31 2016 14:46 GMT
#8
Well if the origin of Physics Man wasn't the point of the story, than it was an enjoyable read.

I am happy you are appealing.
YokoKano
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United States612 Posts
October 31 2016 17:48 GMT
#9
You are doing your job. You are making the cuts where the cuts need to be made. It is up to other people to prove that constrained budget function is isolating the right variables. If people do not want to give you a degree or hire you to some point and purpose then that is fine too. If you are convinced that everyone else is a lazy asshole and deserves to be killed then that is your prerogative. You are right to think that. People will agree with your methodology if they agree with the results that it gets and they don't agree. So far they are convinced that they are superior in every way and that the manifestation is what it is because other people are lazy. They will continue to be convinced of laziness in others until the results are what they should be. Despite your every effort to solve every problem you'll discover almost no one agrees with your answers outside a select enlightenment. If they agree with your answers then they might deserve to live, but if not then you'll end up causing problems for them. Since there are no problems any more you won't be able to do anything but wait patiently for convergence. In the long run you will probably win the case but most people don't want anything to do with it. Since we are just endlessly causing problems for people like you you can continue to appeal to the correct arguments. Ultimately math simply won't give you what you want unless you apply Physics. since you aren't applying physics (because you have been banned from physics) you will just have to wait patiently while the limited rationality of other people offends you. If they are correct then they have failed you by their own lights and there is nothing you can do about this short of bitter hatred and loathing over others. This is their fault not your fault and the fact that they are costing you enormous sums while the company you works for insists on forgiving them is a downward pressure on you. You should contact the school board and request to be more able to punish the people who are applying downward pressure on you. No one should have the authority to effect sanctions against you without your express agreement that you couldn't do the job better. Since your work is perfect there is nothing except appealing against competitors work.

In math as anywhere else people will always suggest higher reasoning. Only by their gracious suicide can they convince you that they really are good people and that their higher reasoning is intact.
IQ 155.905638752
jenny2
Profile Joined April 2017
44 Posts
April 11 2017 18:12 GMT
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