And we gather here today to acknowledge the passing away of something that has always been with us until today... something called LOGIC and SANE-NESS.

Now unless i am incorrect, the right of students to receive a reasonable school mark regardless of their academic ability should apply to absolutely everyone and EVERY SUBJECT AM I CORRECT?? TELL ME, when you receive your maths common tests back, do you have "YOU FAIL" drawn in red on the front page because ohhh "you should know you know, you got to make it clearer because you know mathematic and you know that in mathematics you technically CANNOT WRITE (insert load of bullshit here)???????????//

MY ARESE, NO!!

ohhhh so SHE thinks that SHE is such a perfecto piano musicianist, non?? -sees her demonstrating the PENTATONIC SCALE- (uses one finger to randomly stab at keys on the piano while the rest of the class is scratching their head in confusement)

So here is what happened. (EXACTLY- NO EXXAGGERATION INVOLVED I TELL YOU)

it was friday afternoon and the class was murmuring in excitement (not) as she handed out this year's MAJOR MUSIC YEARLY EXAMINATION (psht). Totally bemused, i flipped my paper the right way up to find: HUUHHH???? 15/20 ONLY?? (meanwhile sideglancing at easwar and arkash beaming in pride at their full marks)

Naturally, I quickly "flipped through the thick mass of sheets stapled together" to find the question i answered wrong: dun dun DUN... ms sgnow's world-famous 4 crotchet- bar exercise. My first reaction was: WTF how could i be so stupid to get this question wrong??

My second reaction was "wait a minute that is a hunred percent correct!!! why you littlee.." - adds homer style hand gestures-

Unless my first grade mathematical skill had failed me yet again, it ALL ADDED UP TO FOUR. The following is exactly what i wrote (in blue) for that question, and it was CORRECT.

OHHH ROCKET SCIENCE NOW, IS IT??

Then, waving our arms in the air desperately:

"ohhh ms gnow ms gnow!! I don't get why you marked this as wrong... it adds up to four!!"

Then, squinting at the piece of paper, she replies:

"OOO NO NO NO... you see it doesn't add up to 4 counts."

ME: "but but.. i didn't even cross out the dot!! So including the half, it adds up to four (gawdammit)

HER: "No but you see, in music, you know, you got to know that sometimes you cannot read it that way. You see, in music, there isn't actually anything that is like this" -scribbles diagram on my paper-


HER: "you see now?? There is NO such thing, if somebody reads this they won't know what to play. Do you understand?"

(at this point in time I am thinking that I am hallucinating and at the same time glancing at Anna's paper to find that she made her correction in exactly the same way)

ME: "BUT... I even drew and ARROW to show where the rest was meant to be!! (how else am i meant to make the correction? WHITE OUT THE HOLE PAPER, REWRITE IT AND SCAN IT JUST SO BLOODY MUSICIANS CAN READ IT WHEN THEY PLAY THE PIANO?? ohh yes ofcourse musician's sightread out of scool music exam papers)

HER: "But you know, in a way if you write it like that it is IGNORANT to music you know, i mean you can't write it like that because there are two ways of reading it, you know? So writing music like that is ignorant. Ahh you have an arrow!! let me keep this paper and maybe i will make it more reasonable.. maybe I will give you two out of four, you know, so, but you cannot write it like that you know, because musician's can read it in two different ways, you know? "

=.="

So know, while the non-musical people of the class prance home with 99 AND 98 for their music yearly mark, OUR group is left with 75%. KILL ME NOW BUBS.

I don't see anyone else with 0/5 just because they made a correction. What's next?? OHH YOU FAIL BECAUSE YOU DREW AND ARROW AND WHEN A PIANIST IS READING THIS MUSIC THEY WILL GET CONFUSED... YOU KNOW.. IT IS IGNORANT TO MUSIC TO WRITE THINGS LIKE THAT.



you will never believe what she does next. She calls us into her office and lectures about how our THE music video- THE AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR NOMINEES 007- THE oscar award-winning 5 week production- THE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0d0xVcAv28, did not suit the music in most parts and that was "GREATLY DISSAPOINTING, YOU KNOW."

I mean, he was saying how "when there is a scene where you are reading, you should have a piece of music that actually suits it"

"excuse me but when they were reading books there was classical music in the background..." -gets cut off-

"so you know, the music in a movie is the most essential part, soo ill give you 12/15, and when we watch the projects, i will be stopping between your scenes and poitning out parts to show the class"

DAM THIS WE'RE FAILING MUSIC.

why??? what has the school done???

im gonna go bash the piano nows