First School Reflection

"In the IB design cycle-- the process of learning something is just as important as the final product. What do you think about that?"

Well hey, I understand their point. Yeah, it's important, but as to it's being more important, they're wrong. We work our butts off to try to meet their demands, and we think we've finally got it right until BOOM! we have a mediocre D on it because of the teacher's choice not to base a portion on effort. Instead it's based on:
Writing down the facts with the teacher's opinion--not ours, even if they ask for it--because we don't know what we're talking about (too young, too naive, too uneducated [to the educated bit, i say "hello? you're the teacher!"], too uncreative.

I could give you a few examples:
A test the teacher tells you they expect you to fail.
A story you've made-up from scratch, you go, you write it, and you don't do too well because "it doesn't make sense". Hello? when does fiction make sense? It doesn't, not really.

Okay, I'm done ranting for now, and I hope I didn't freak anybody out about "what is the world coming to when smart kids have trouble in school?" and stuff.