The amount of kids in my school who think that Tax day=sales tax free weekend holiday is staggering. There was no tax free weekend last year and I very much doubt there will be one this year, how hard is it for people to take in their surroundings, I really feel like I'm the only one who does that around here. It's as if people aren't aware of the world around them, no one is noticing changing environments around them. In one of my classes, somebody transferred into it from another class and there was the usual "This is... They transferred into the class and will be with us for the rest of the year," two weeks later the person sitting next to me asked who that person was and if they were always in our class. How hard, really, is it to observe your surroundings?
Also, annoying is people asking "who cares" about something that they most likely find boring. For example, in history we were quickly going over the building of the Panama Canal and the teacher put in a documentary about it from the History Channel. Of course several people go to the who cares output, many people do care because it is an engineering marvel that triumphed through so many obstacles. Also kids wondering why we're learning about history as, according to them, it doesn't affect us. This infuriates me because it has everything to do with us, it has everything to do with human nature and the age old question of "Why are we here," and "Who are we," just because you're bored with it doesn't mean everyone else is, I love it personally! As well as some kids asking why they did things back then instead of lounge around, like last year learning about the Oregon Trail someone asked why they moved around and what was wrong with where they were, obviously didn't understand the idea of Manifest Destiny and that back then inane things like texting and facebook wasn't invented. GRR!
/rant