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The original was posted on /r/amitheasshole by /u/Shoddy-Priority-490 on 2024-01-22 23:07:41+00:00.
I live in Wales and (with the right qualifications) you can go to college from age 16 (I'm 18). I had been kicked out of further education in school because I was having mental health struggles and I stopped going to class, the school dealt with me horribly. I am now studying creative media production in college and have been since September. I have 4 tutors on my course, one of which is an audio teacher who is hard of hearing. Yep, you read that right. A practically deaf audio teacher. You couldn't write this.
Now my timetable is structured OK apart from one day, Monday. On this day I have a 3 hour session in the morning with a graphic design teacher who's lovely and energetic and gets everyone going on a Monday morning, I then have a 90 minute break until a one hour session with said deaf audio teacher. Now I went to this session every time I had it before Christmas, and I realised that this teacher doesn't actually teach anything new within the session, and given that when we ask him questions, he always comes right up to us given his lack of hearing, so it's altogether a really awkward session.
Furthermore, the session is timed horribly as the end of the session is precisely when my bus back home leaves, so I have to wait a further hour or spend an extra £2.90 for a SINGLE to a place where I have to catch another bus which is always delayed due to school ending at the same time. So in the end, I decided the session is not worth going to. Not in the mind of the lecturer. He thinks that the hour is incredibly valuable (despite the fact that I can also do the work at home), and that if I persist in missing this particularly shitty 1-hour session, he will call my parents and tell them I have been missing loads of college which isn't the case as I attend all his other sessions (no matter how painful they are). So AITA?