Insubordination: The Story
Okay, this one may take some explaining. This is from a personal story.
We’ve all had a bad teacher or two. The most memorable one I had was my English teacher from senior year of high school. She treated us like kindergartners, tried to induce singalongs, the works.
Often times we’ve had to argue with her over grades. We’d been covering old poems, ones by Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe, for example. We all have our own interpretations of what the authors meant from their stories and poems. Obviously, this would form some form of conflict over exam answers. During days when we would try to defend our answers and try to explain ourselves, she would refuse to listen to other peoples’ interpretations.
Until one day, she snapped and yelled, “You are all being insubordinate!” To which she turned to the chalkboard, spelling “INSUBORDINATION” in all capital letters, screeching lines of chalk included all the while.
The thing about memes is, they spread, quickly. The next day, almost all the senior class knew about “INSUBORDINATION”, joking said over minor disagreements between friends. “INSUBORDINATION” written in neat letters under photographs in the yearbook as senior quotes. “INSUBORDINATION”, fondly remembered between my friends from that class, years after we’ve graduated.
Never let it be said that I don’t know how to spell “INSUBORDINATION”. It’s now embedded in my brain (not that I didn’t know how to spell it beforehand).
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