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Here’s the story. I’m a sophomore, and I’m editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Journalism is a joint class with yearbook and newspaper being combined and printed with a staff of 10 for a school of 1,300. Any who, last Friday, my journalism teacher took me out into the hallway and was like “I’m removing you from editor because “you’re not objective and you don’t make good choices in choosing what goes in the newspaper, it sounds like you’re angry and it will cause an uproar in the schoool.” I was completely hurt, because I do the whole paper by myself, everyday I come home and design, and write the whole thing. Nobody else contributes, I asked people to sign up to write articles, but nobody ever paid any attention to me and so the paper was always my writing. She went on to say that I never interviewed people in my articles and that I wanted the newspaper for myself and such. I was like first of all, I interview at least two to three people per article. Secondly, the newspaper is a free forum for speech and I only took the job because I wanted the students to be able to speak their mind freely in print. So any who, she had the co-editor of the yearbook take control over the newspaper and I was left to design it. I was completely angry because she made writing articles worth grade points and so all my classmates (all seniors) turned in their work. I was like how come you couldn’t have done that when I was editor, because then this wouldn’t have happened. Any who, so today we were sitting in class and I was staying after class for about 2 hours and I was working all fine and stuff. And I was like sitting there saying how much I can’t stand this class because I’m always left to do everything while everyone leaves. And she was like “I’ve never been rude to you. Don’t you want the best for the paper”, I was like “yeah, of course” and she was like “or do you want it to be like one of your stories or you journal” and I was like, “that was never my intention” and she was like “are you trying to undermine my authority” and I was like “what are you talking about, I haven’t done anything.” So I just sat in silence and didn’t speak anymore. Don’t get me wrong I love that class, or at least I loved it until she fired me as editor on Friday. It was so much fun and really laid back and a good place to vent and stuff, I trusted her and stuff. But now, she’s all hostile and bitchy and she seems vindictive. I hope I can get through the rest of this year, but scheduling classes for next year is next week, do you think I should take journalism again next year? The seniors would be gone. Side note, I do not want to be a journalist, I plan on attending Cornell University to major in pre-med and become a cardiologist/neo-natal surgeon/pediatric surgeon… so journalism is not in my future.
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Hi Smallvil,
Your question, “Should I take Journalism next year?”
At the end of your letter/question you have in fact answered your own question. Your words, “Side note, I do not want to be a journalist.”
I noticed that you begin some of your sentences with the words, ‘Any who’, I believe you should be writing, ‘Any how’. You need to develop a more structured way of beginning sentences.
As soon as you noticed that students were breaking their promise to contribute to the newspaper, you should have informed your journalist teacher. You could have told her that it was pointless to have journal without any contributors. This placed a pressure on you to fill the space!
Sometimes our love for an idea clouds our good sense. Your teacher was clearly afraid that you would through your articles undermine her authority. There is an element of unfairness evident in the whole process that you were involved in.
These are the life-lessons that educate us. You have done your best without any decent backup. Put the paper to bed and learn from this experience.
So,
you say that your teacher is not nice. And she said to you ” it sounds like you’re angry and it will cause an uproar in the schoool.”
And from this post, it sounds like she is on target.
Not that it will do any good, because your personality is already stamped, but you should look up 301.81 in the DSM IV. And you probably had at least one of your parents that were too.
Good luck, but you probably will never change. That is the big trick with personality disorders.