Your teacher sounds like a douchebag. Whenever my teachers would read stuff from the students, they would never say "and so-and-so wrote this..." It was always kept anonymous. Your classmates also sound like retarded children.
He actually wasn't a douche that often, but apparently I hid a nerve with the whole "this person, whose teachings you follow in many important aspects of your life, was an cowardly jackass" thing. Although he could be very passive-aggressive when angered. Example A: he didn't say "so-and-so wrote this" (because the school strongly discourages but doesn't outright forbid naming names when reading student work aloud), he said "the person in the seat next to closest to the stapler wrote this essay". To his credit, he gave me full points on the essay even when I actually called him (Martin Luther, not the teacher) a "cowardly, delusional menace to society" because I gave evidence.
However, you're right about my classmates being retarded children. I was almost always the youngest person in any given class, yet I could usually write/debate circles around my classmates. Unfortunately for me, I was severely outnumbered by idiots and thus the designated pariah/punching bag until senior year.
I present for you all, "I'm gonna punch you in the head for Jesus."
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My headphones came unplugged while I was listening to this and now my mom won't speak to me.
<sincerity mode> THANK YOU! </sincerity mode>
I initially read that as "Martin Luther King Jr." and was appalled by the description that followed.
Nope nope nope nope nope. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an amazing man and a world without him would be a much darker place.
