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You know, against all my expectations, I really do like the IT teacher we have this year. He kicks ass. He's really nice, too... Take this morning, he'd never actually talked to me before but he stopped me in the hallway, asked me how I was, etc. because he knew I was a second-year student and since I was not around the whole last week he'd guessed I'd been ill.
And he explained nicely that he doesn't want to be forced to lower people's grades because they don't pay attention in class / never show up to class / are noisy in class. Which is really quite reasonable of him. Most teachers I know would just say "ah screw it" and lower grades straight away. But of course my classmates see what he did as being "strict". --;
Meh. Anyway. I reckon I'll enjoy this class. \o/

It's very encouraging when a teacher takes an actual interest in you.