High School Stories

That One Trig Unit

Year: Junior

My math class for this year was Trig/Pre-calc. So for the first semester, the teacher did pre-calc, and for the second one, he moved on to trigonometry. This incident happened in the trig section. Throughout the year, this class had a specific schedule. On Monday, we would be introduced to a new topic, and on Friday, we would take a quiz on that topic.

So on one Monday in April, as I was walking through the hallway, I needed to use the bathroom. The passing period was five minutes, and the bathroom was in the same hallway across from my math class, so I figured that I'd have enough time. But first, I decided to peak into the classroom so that I could see what the topic of the week was on the projection screen. It said "Vectors in the airplane."

I made it to class on time. After everyone arrived and quieted down, the teacher began his PowerPoint lecture. As he's talking, we're taking our notes in the packet he gave us. Eventually, he gets to one slide that defines what a vector is. He clicks on a YouTube link, and this is where things get weird. I don't think I need to explain this. I'm not going to bother to search for it, so have this instead.

As the rest of the class went on, I kept thinking, "what the fuck" and just couldn't wait for the week to be over so that we could move on to another topic. In my art class, there were these two girls who sat at my table. They were in the same class with the same teacher, but they were in his other period. According to them, the teacher made one kid get up and reenact the scene. I don't know if me not being there to see it is better or worse. At least my math teacher didn't show us a video of Shrek breaking into a fan's house.