since we had a comment about not being relevant to bikes i want to put this in before my next comment:

took my bike to an lbs saturday to be worked on and managed to prove i have an almost single digit score. there.

hopefully i will graduate next year as a teacher and i have taken all these experiences to heart. i thank all of you for helping to enlighten me more.
some 'teachers' and 'educators' (admin staff) should not carry those titles. probably continuing the cycles in which they were 'taught'. berating instead of encouraging.