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I cheated my way through most of my technical drawing classes with a 0.5mm mechanical pencil and a lot of skill with pressure.
Monday, 02-May-16 01:14:43 UTC from web-
@nerthos i bought a 0.3. it magically disapeared after the course finished
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@hakui They can't take back my title now so go ahead. It's not like the teachers were innocent either. I had to go to summer exams in the first year even though all my... however you call the drawings in english were 7 to 10 because the teacher didn't go to class, I called my mother to pick me up, and on the way out from school I saw the teacher with three women and greeted him. He took it as me snitching on him to my mother and made sure I didn't approve. I was 12.
Monday, 02-May-16 01:19:54 UTC from web-
@nerthos i-i was just kidding (´・ω・｀；；； )
but you started learning technician-y stuff at 12? wow-
@hakui Yeah, technical school. Following a reform of the educational system in the 90s technical assignments were changed for other stuff but at that school they managed to sneak it into the curriculum by fitting it into the art category. A technician needs to start practicing since middle school to be peoperly used to it by graduation. So I had technical drawing from first to fifth year, and on the last year practical assignments often required láminas (that's the spanish name for it, I don't know the english one) to be attached to them, like for example a projection for a factory's electrical installation or lights disposition required it be drawn professionally on top of all the math.
Monday, 02-May-16 01:31:54 UTC from web-
@nerthos oh, that's interesting! i tend to forget other school systems are a thing as well ehehe
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@hakui I always like comparing to the systems of other places. What is it like over there?
Monday, 02-May-16 01:39:22 UTC from web-
@nerthos at home it's 6 years of primary education where it's just languages, math and science, then 4 years of secondary education, after which one can either start vocational training or continue on to pre-university
pretty good for mass-producing basic literacy, but the arts are horribly sidelined though-
@hakui Here it's two years of optional preschool starting at 2, a year of mandatory preschool at 5, six of universal primary school, and then six of secondary school (or 7 if you choose a technical one, as they reverted to the classical system a few years back, I think my promotion was the last one in the 90s system). Secondary school can be radically different depending on orientation though, as you can pick commercial, technical, art oriented, agropecuary, or many more depending on the area you live in. After that there's tertiary courses that are 2-3 years, and university which is 4-6.
Monday, 02-May-16 01:49:11 UTC from web-
@nerthos preschool at 2…whatever happened to letting kids play (；´Д｀)
mm your secondary school seems definitely more focused! for us it's just more of the same, albeit maybe a split between liberal arts and sciences halfway through
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@hakui As for art I always considered it as something that should be taken as a secondary, optional thing, at least in my opinion. Not having it as a mandatory assignment but being able to pick classes on what you like (music, painting, sculpting, writing, whatever)
Monday, 02-May-16 01:52:03 UTC from web-
@nerthos art classes (and PE) from what i remember were taken by teachers who taught some other subject as their main, so they had a limited idea of what constituted the subject
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@hakui PE teachers are absolutely TERRIBLE here. PE teachers and English teachers are 90% people who don't want to do any work, and since those two areas are very loosely regulated they sign up for that. In six years in secondary school I only had one PE teacher who actually cared about teaching and went to most classes (he was about to retire too, and was the area chief of PE so he didn't care what the other "teachers" said about him). As for English teachers, I had some decent ones but I also had one who freely admitted she was there because she was related to someone in the ministry, and didn't actually know more english than a weeaboo knows japanese. I proved it once by rearranging words on the chalkboard to turn something about moms and baking a cake into a futanari story, and she thanked me for doing the class' work, while I and the one other guy in class who understood the language fought to choke back laughter.
Monday, 02-May-16 02:08:53 UTC from web-
@nerthos in brazil a usual PE class consists in the teacher tellign people to play soccer and chatting with the people in the bench
Monday, 02-May-16 03:03:59 UTC from web-
@mushi That's exactly the same as it is here, so I'd try to get as many doctor's orders to avoid that pointless waste of time as I could.
Monday, 02-May-16 03:18:53 UTC from web
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