This was so true xD
LOL this is what I was thinking the whole time while watching the movie…
‘The once-ler in his younger years is kinda attractive.’
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more ROTC problems..
People complain that there is favoritism in ROTC and every year they try to get rid of it, sorry to break the news to you guys, but there will ALWAYS be favoritism. Every year new cadets join, in the beginning of every year, we don’t know them or what their personality is. After a month or so we come to realize what they are like. We have the slackers and the listeners. It is not our fault if we show a bit of favoritism to those who choose to listen to us versus those who ignore and mock us when given instructions. Like when teaching knowledge, when the upper classmen try to help the lower classmen, I sometime see the lower classmen putting on their ear buds listening to music when they’re given instructions. Really now?? ROTC is SUPPOSE to be a classroom like environment, just because there isn’t really a teacher teaching, we do have a class commander, you should respect the person in charge of your class period during whatever period you have ROTC in like a teacher. If you have trouble in one portion whether it’s drill or knowledge, come up to an upperclassmen and ask for help. We can’t possibly know what you have trouble on unless you tell us, it’s just like what you would do if you had trouble in any other subject right? Don’t you ever give me the bull crap that we send you off individually in the beginning of the year, I was there to teach 1st year cadets how to put on their uniform, And I am pretty sure I sat down with a couple of NS1 teaching them how to remember knowledge. I offered help to cadets to come after school so I can help them with their marching or if they don’t have time after school, I ask them to tell me if they understand columns, flanks, obliks,or etc during drill days. We might have a few bad upperclassmen, but we have a lot off good upperclassmen too. Is it our fault if the lower classmen chooses not to listen? I don’t think so, we can’t force them to do something they’re not interested in, every subject/elective has this. Like in my English 3 class, there are people who my teacher tried so hard to make them do their work, yet they continuously refuse to do it. Idk why they don’t, they just don’t care. So what are the upperclassmen suppose to do? We don’t have a degree in teaching like professional teachers have, and they face the same problems we do and can’t fix it either. We’re just high school students. Just like the lower classmen, we still have a lot to learn. Favoritism can get out of hand, but we try to control it, it’s hard though, being marching unit commander, I get frustrated when people give me lame excuse that they can’t go to practice. I cannot do my routine with just 7 committed people showing everyday. So yeah I would like the people who show up everyday to practice versus the people who lie to me about saying they have to go somewhere when they’r really just hanging out with their friends, the people who give up on learning saying “oh it’s too hard to learn this beat.” They then offer for anyone to take their spot, but when I find somebody who does, the person looks disappointed. They offered their spot up, and once it’s gone they completely give up on attending marching unit practice anymore. People get bitter about things. Like when they don’t get the rank they want. They trash talk so much about the unit, it drives me crazy. I remember freshmen & beginning of sophomore year, people told me that I would never get chief/officer rank, and they did not see any potential leadership skill in me. Guess what? that helped me. I strove to prove them wrong, and by the end of sophomore year, master chief invited me to attend Leadership academy. Too bad i had asthma so i couldn’t go, but it’s ok I got over it. People still say I didn’t deserve to rank as high as ensign when my drill routine got 1st in Burbank. They said my platoon did all the work. Excuse me? I had to spend a lot of time coming up with the routine, not to mention I had to teach my routine to my team, and reteach it to those who didn’t show up one day when I was teaching it. I spend as much time, maybe a bit more, at drill practice. So maybe the problems isn’t entirely the upperclassmen at all, maybe it’s the lower classmen too. Did anyone ever think of that? No. so before the lower classmen begin to say there’s favoritism, look back, did you do anything to deserve the discrimination? Do you occasionally ditch class, disrespect the upperclassmen, and YOU chose not to listen? If you answered yes to any of the listed above, then maybe you’re the one who is creating the favoritism in ROTC.
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