Wastrel_ posted:

Not completely sure how classroom management is done in other countries, but in all these tales that involve uniquely bright students the teachers seem to always let them behave however the gently caress they want.

Speaking as an actual teacher, I allow my students to express themselves but there have to be clear limits to behaviour. Wearing a set of headphones every lesson is ridiculously over that limit. No, it doesn't matter how much of a *~~*brilliant and special snowflake*~~* you are.

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I first asked him about the story last summer, during an interview in his Dallas office. I said: “Now, I have to ask you about an incident that I’ve heard about. I heard it happened at a gas station.”

He said: “You mean the time I shot two guys trying to steal my truck?”

I sat there stunned for a few seconds. The incredible story I’d heard, I figured there was no way it was true.

“It’s true,” he said.

He proceeded to tell me about that day. It was in January 2009, just weeks after he retired from the Navy. It was cold that morning, and he was wearing a heavy winter coat. He was driving his truck — his now famous black F350 with the large rims and impressive grill — when he needed to stop for gas. He pulled into a station right off highway 67.

As he got out of the truck, two men approached. Both had guns in their hands. One pointed his weapon at Kyle. They told him to hand over his keys. Kyle was out of the truck, on the passenger’s side.

“I told them I would get them the keys,” he told me. “I told them they were in the truck and to just let me reach in.”

He noticed the man pointing the gun didn’t seem very confident. Kyle knew what confidence with a gun looked like.

As Kyle turned, leaning into the open passenger door of the truck, he reached into his own waistband. With his right hand, he grabbed his Colt 1911. He fired two shots under his left armpit, hitting the first guy twice in the chest. Then he turned slightly and fired twice more, hitting the second man twice in the chest. Both men fell dead.

Kyle leaned on his truck and waited for the police.

He said he was later told that trucks like his are very popular among car thieves because they’re frequently taken over the Mexican border. He said they’d passed up the car in front of his, even though it was a relatively new Cadillac.

Kyle told me that the entire incident was caught on the gas station’s surveillance cameras. He said he gave the responding officers a phone number to call. Presumably someone high up in the government explained to the officers who Kyle was. He said the officers were very understanding, that they didn’t want to drag a just-home, highly decorated veteran into a messy legal situation that would surely draw a harsh media spotlight.

Kyle told me that he knew the tape was out there somewhere, because he would randomly get emails from police officers all over the country, thanking him for “cleaning up the streets.”

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After our talk, I called the police chiefs of several towns along 67. Most of them had heard of the incident. One, speaking only on background, said he knew some of his men had at least seen the tape. But request after request provided no police reports and no tape ... Now that the story is coming out in other places, though, it needed to be confirmed. So consider this story confirmed from the man himself. In every sense of the word, Chris Kyle was a true American badass.

canyoneer posted:

When I was a kid, the students who were true terrors tended to get away with a lot.
The teacher would probably rather let someone chew gum in class than say something and risk having the kid in foster care who is failing all his classes throw a chair at her. Again.

Fathis Munk posted:

I too regularly compliment random people on their hairstyle. That's what actual people do right ? The fact that this person claims to have social anxiety doesn't render this even less believable, no siiir.

Duke Igthorn posted:

Hell, I'm a locksmith so I have a TON of ridiculous stories that would be, and have been, labeled STDH and none of them include a long speech (and only one with Albert Einstein)

Fathis Munk posted:

I too regularly compliment random people on their hairstyle. That's what actual people do right ?

Turtlicious posted:

yeah those loving foster kids always throwing chairs.

Lowly posted:

Do you actually learn what year every gun was invented just from going to the shooting range once a week?

nucleicmaxid posted:

Yeah. He was a giant tool and he was completely full of poo poo in every way. He may be good with a rifle, but he's such an atrocious person over all that it's been super annoying lately.

Palisader posted:

I do If I'm in an especially good mood I'll compliment other people (that I may or may not know) on things that I think look especially nice. I guess I like to think that sometimes a random compliment is a nice thing to receive?

And I do have social anxiety, though I tend not to do that sort of thing when I'm feeling, you know, anxious. I've also never had anyone break down in tears because I said I liked their shoes.

nucleicmaxid posted:

I do that sometimes? That's not that weird is it?

nucleicmaxid posted:

I do that sometimes? That's not that weird is it?

Fathis Munk posted:

I guess it's just that I have never been complimented by a random stranger There you have it, the truth is out, are you happy now?

I really wonder why Clint picked that American sniper book to make a movie of. It has just so much ugly attached to it. Why not just make a story up so at least you don't glorify a person like Chris kyle.

Pidmon posted:

Probably because he's a huge racist?

Fathis Munk posted:

I guess it's just that I have never been complimented by a random stranger There you have it, the truth is out, are you happy now?

I really wonder why Clint picked that American sniper book to make a movie of. It has just so much ugly attached to it. Why not just make a story up so at least you don't glorify a person like Chris kyle.

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The Name Shame
SCHOOL | CORNWALL, ENGLAND, UK | FAMILY & KIDS, LANGUAGE & WORDS, PARENTS, TEACHERS
(My husband’s family are Irish and we have a very traditional Irish surname, 12 letters including an apostrophe. Most adults can’t pronounce it, let alone spell it. My daughter has been in year one for about three weeks. She is a good student, enjoys school, and is well behaved so I am surprised when I go to collect her and the teacher asks to see me.)

Teacher: “Mrs. [My Name].” *she tries twice and can’t say my surname right so we stick to my Christian name* “We haven’t had a good day. Your daughter has been very rude to both myself and our TA. She has refused to do a piece of work the class was set and at one point even called the TA stupid.”

(I look at my daughter and she looks both angry and upset. As this is unlike her I ask her what happened. The teacher interrupts her and talks to me.)

Teacher: “We have been practicing writing our full names and [Daughter] was having some trouble. She asked for help and it was given the first time but we can’t do the work for them.”

Me: *to my daughter* “Again, what happened?”

(This time the TA interrupts to try and tell me something.)

Me: “Okay. I’ve asked my daughter twice now and both times she has been interrupted. Are you going to let her tell me or are you trying to hide something?”

(This keeps them quiet long enough for my daughter to explain. The children were given a typed piece of paper with their name on it. They had to copy it into their books and write the name several times. My daughter had asked for a little more time when the TA took the typed names away. She was told which letters to write to finish the first one but had to do it herself after. The teacher then shows me my daughter’s book. On the first line our name is spelled wrong so she then copied it with the mistake. The teacher had admonished her for doing it wrong and asked her to do it again but she had refused, called the TA stupid for spelling it wrong in the first place, and been angry with them all day. I close my daughter’s book, take her pencils and paper off the table, push it over to the teacher and TA, and ask them to write our surname out. They look flustered and just stare at me.)

Me: “Having trouble? I thought so. You do realise you want a five year old to write a 12-letter word. Neither of you can do it, so how the h*** do you expect her to be able? I understand it’s a difficult name but don’t you think that if two, highly educated people in their 30s can’t do it then it will probably be even harder for someone who has only been writing for a year?! You tell her the incorrect spelling then tell her off for spelling it wrong and then wonder why she thinks you’re stupid. I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. First, I’m going to see the Early Years coordinator and explain what happened. Then I’m going to explain to my daughter how even if people are stupid you shouldn’t say it to their face. Then I’m going to practice writing our surname the CORRECT way – at home, where she won’t be ridiculed for someone else’s mistakes and ignorance.”

(I gather my daughter’s things up and take her hand. Just as I’m leaving the room I turn to see them sitting there totally bewildered but realising what they had done to my daughter.)

Me: “Maybe you two should write my surname out 10 times each without any help and I’ll pick it up tomorrow when I bring her to school.”

(Needless to say, the coordinator was horrified by both their actions toward my daughter. The typed name cards are now laminated and left on the children’s table for them to use whenever they need them.)

Zaphod42 posted:

It doesn't even make any goddamned sense.

Let us, from 2015, travel back to when Hitler was alive and go kill him with AK-47s.

"The AK-47 wasn't invented until 1947!!!"

That's the most implausible part of this? Not like, the time travel??

I mean if you can time travel who gives a gently caress when the Kalashnikov was released?!?
Plus it was designed in '46 and released in '48 so wrong anyways!

Then says "no need, he killed himself" well of course the point would be to kill him before the war started.
And if she wasn't assuming time travel, then he whenever fictional time this is they're going to kill Hitler, he's still alive.

Khazar-khum posted:

Why not go see the movie and then you'll know what it's like? Hell, people make movies about criminals all the time.


As for criminals, look no further than this:

Duke Igthorn posted:

I got away with a lot of stuff simply by being polite and nice and not making waves (also charming and handsome and humble) and once had a girl start literally screaming about how I get special treatment and get away with everything and how the rules don't apply to me while I was eating potato chips in class. I just kinda put my chips away while she was sent to the principal. You'd be surprised what you can get away with just by not looking like you have anything to hide so I can believe stories about students not getting in trouble for some stuff. It's the long righteous speeches that make it STDH for me. Hell, I'm a locksmith so I have a TON of ridiculous stories that would be, and have been, labeled STDH and none of them include a long speech (and only one with Albert Einstein)

Khazar-khum posted:

Why not go see the movie and then you'll know what it's like? Hell, people make movies about criminals all the time.


As for criminals, look no further than this:

jodai posted:

That whole premise doesnt make any sense. Putting aside the idea the kid would probably just think they messed up and not get righteously indignant with the teacher, the teachers knew they hosed up and tried to cover it up twice. Why would they even bring it up to the parent? The whole story was made up by someone who doesn't have a kid and probably just saw a long last name once.

jodai posted:

That whole premise doesnt make any sense. Putting aside the idea the kid would probably just think they messed up and not get righteously indignant with the teacher, the teachers knew they hosed up and tried to cover it up twice. Why would they even bring it up to the parent? The whole story was made up by someone who doesn't have a kid and probably just saw a long last name once.

trickybiscuits posted:

O'Shaughnessy?

Pidmon posted:

Probably because he's a huge racist?

Kimmalah posted:

Considering some of the teachers I had in elementary school, it actually wouldn't surprise me. Some of them absolutely can't handle the idea that they hosed up and a young kid was right, to the point that they will notify parents about it.

I mean the story itself sounds like it either didn't happen or was incredibly exaggerated/embellished, but not so much because the teachers and administrators are being dumb.

Fathis Munk posted:

I guess it's just that I have never been complimented by a random stranger There you have it, the truth is out, are you happy now?

Fathis Munk posted:

I guess it's just that I have never been complimented by a random stranger There you have it, the truth is out, are you happy now?

nucleicmaxid posted:

You probably don't live in an area where it's common. Some areas of the U.S. it's normal. Some it isn't.

Palisader posted:

Fathis Munk, I just want you to know that your shirt today looks really nice on you and also your avatar is great.

Fathis Munk posted:

Well I don't even live in the US I guess French people are compliment stingy. Especially in Paris which does not surprise me!

StealthArcher posted:

Kimmalah posted:

Considering some of the teachers I had in elementary school, it actually wouldn't surprise me. Some of them absolutely can't handle the idea that they hosed up and a young kid was right, to the point that they will notify parents about it.

I mean the story itself sounds like it either didn't happen or was incredibly exaggerated/embellished, but not so much because the teachers and administrators are being dumb.