About life, the universe and everything that pisses us off.

I am not writing here to be judged or to judge you, all I want is to express my opinion about a particular behaviour in my classroom. I don’t want you to agree with me either. First of all, I don’t want you to think I am an atheist, part of a sect or something like that. Let’s be impartial. It’s Tuesday afternoon and I am sick of some sort of comments that a particular teacher is used to make at school. Worse, inside the classroom. He hasn’t been teaching there for a long time, actually he’s been teaching there for two weeks or so. Now you ask me what the hell he would say to us that makes me feel so weird during his classes. Well, first let me show you my opinion about some things.

I have got a really good History teacher who once said that teachers act differently, or at least should, inside and outside the classroom. We were learning the Protestantism and he was criticising some ways of acting of some church’s representatives. Someone’d asked him what religion he followed, and he simply said that a classroom isn’t a place to talk about belief, he’s there to show us facts, not to show us what kind of misterious forces he believes in; when the bell rings when he isn’t our teacher anymore, he’d talk about anything we wanted to.

But the thing is, that the new teacher doesn’t think like my History teacher or like any other teacher I have known in my life (I have got very good teachers who can discuss this without trying to make us think like them). He arrived two weeks ago, he started talking about God, about Jesus, about his belief. Well, talking would be OK if he had stopped in the first class. He didn’t, and everytime he arrives in the classroom he writes some phrase which is written in the sacred book he reads, or whatever his belief says, on the board. ON THE DAMN BOARD we have to look during the class. Now imagine: you don’t agree with him. You don’t follow his religion. You are paying school to learn some subjects to get into university and you have to deal with this kind of teacher, who isn’t even a teacher of religion. Actually it pisses me off. Twice a week I am obliged to read and listen to things that I don’t believe or agree. I am like this: when something bothers me, it doesn’t matter if it’s a big deal or not, I just can’t pay attention to anything else until that ‘thing’ stops. So, I just don’t pay attention to his classes. It’s been like this for two weeks. Two weeks of hell and no attention at classes. It’s not only me who feels unconfortable with this thing, I know many people in my school who disagree with him and feels the same way but we just can’t talk to him about it.

He noticed I am not very interested in his classes (HOW could I?) and tried to talk to me on the hallways today morning. He asked why I keep reading other things during his classes and why I don’t even look at the board. Well, I wanted to throw everything that I think up. But I just couldn’t and simply said I am not into his subject. It isn’t that I can’t stand other people’s religion or preferences, I get along really well with it. I was born in a family which my father is catholic, my mother is spiritual and my grandmother is pagan, but FAMILY or FRIENDS aren’t the CLASSROOM, not like school where I am at to learn maths, portuguese and science.

And as far as I know, I don’t study in a religious school.


(I think he should lock him-damn-self inside a shelf shell with the people who think like him and leave us alone to believe in what we want to)