I got back today a quiz in civics, and the teacher knocked off a fair amount of points because I was supposed to 'write in my own words the definition of [some ridiculous ideal]'.
Yesterday, when we were visiting friends of the family for the holiday, their son and his friend asked me to help them write the answer for the question 'What was your opinion about this song', regarding a song called Time is Like a Ferris Wheel. I told them it's supposed to be their opinion, so they said half-jokingly, 'Tell us what our opinion is!' So I told them to write that it's shite, that it was written by an amadáin who thinks the Jewish Yom-Kippur experience is something the whole world knows, and that he's a bad lyricist because he uses homeoteleuta and poor rhymes. They didn't want to write it ('We have a "military" teacher!), but I told them I wouldn't help them otherwise. Eventually they wrote it down, but they erased it and wrote something unrelated.
It's funny that the Ministry of Education tells us to write our own opinions, but tells us what these opinions should be.
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