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dijon du jour posted:"Unfortunately 90% of the students learned nothing because she only bothered to explain things to the final class of the day." Plus news crews showing up to find out about this craaaaaazy teacher the same day she started some silly desk shenanigans? I guess kids these days all have cell phones, but still.  Also the school was totally cool with news crews just invading a classroom and setting up.
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Zaphod42 posted:Also the school was totally cool with news crews just invading a classroom and setting up. Imagine 27 veterans, 27 desks, 20-something students, multiple news crews, all their equipment, and the teacher all crammed into your average-sized classroom. Is this class taught in the gym? dijon du jour has a new favorite as of 00:30 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Mar 20, 2015 00:28
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That might be the most annoying story I've read so far.
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dijon du jour posted:"Unfortunately 90% of the students learned nothing because she only bothered to explain things to the final class of the day." Seriously, what the gently caress
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Mar 20, 2015 02:06
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Zaphod42 posted:
Do countries besides America and those under military dictatorships, have thus weird fetishisism for their armed forces? The continuous pushing of THEY GAVE US OUR FREEDOM, in spite of the fact that they keep attacking people who haven't attacked them, really comes off as creepy propaganda.
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Mar 20, 2015 02:10
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dijon du jour posted:"Unfortunately 90% of the students learned nothing because she only bothered to explain things to the final class of the day." Not to defend a terrible story, but it's likely the same class all day, with the day broken up into different periods. This is how my elementary school experience was.
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Mar 20, 2015 02:12
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Zaphod42 posted:
According to Snopes, this is embellished but more or less shit_that_did_happen.jpg. Still very  tho
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kazil posted:Not to defend a terrible story, but it's likely the same class all day, with the day broken up into different periods. This is how my elementary school experience was. I was thinking that too until I reread it and it says specifically that she's a Social Studies teacher. Unless it's normal in the US for one entire day to be devoted to an entire subject? We used to have that one day a fortnight at one school I went to because it was the latest in ~*~college style~*~ teaching or something. gently caress I hated PE Line Day because I'm a goonlord.
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Non Serviam posted:Do countries besides America and those under military dictatorships, have thus weird fetishisism for their armed forces?
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ajkalan posted:According to Snopes, this is embellished but more or less shit_that_did_happen.jpg. Still very That actually happened?  Starting your Military History class with a big dramatic demonstration about "Respect are soldiers dying for are freedoms!" is really loving creepy. In what kind of country is that -- oh wait, it's from Arkansas. Carry on!
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Mar 20, 2015 03:03
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Lmfao at anyone who respects a veteran or a person in the military.
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That includes you grandpa.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:I was thinking that too until I reread it and it says specifically that she's a Social Studies teacher. Unless it's normal in the US for one entire day to be devoted to an entire subject? We used to have that one day a fortnight at one school I went to because it was the latest in ~*~college style~*~ teaching or something. gently caress I hated PE Line Day because I'm a goonlord. Yeah, I somehow read the word "kindergarten" into the beginning of the STDH. But the talk about periods makes it clear that it is different classes coming in and out throughout the day. Some might be the same kids repeated, I know the fifth grades in the school in my district for instance may have 3 or 4 classes with the same teacher, but it's not the same continuous group throughout the day. IME it is not normal int he US to have an entire day devoted to one subject, though that just might be my region. By the time you get to middle school and start having teachers who have specializations, you have a day of varied classes with different teachers.
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Maybe some schools with low budgets have only one set of remedial teachers that students have to spend the whole day with and the story is more revealing about the author than intended If you want a glimpse of military fetishism on this very forum, go check out the American Sniper thread on CD. Not sure about the beginning of the thread, but at least the last half dozen pages have some really nutty augments that I don't want to spoil
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ajkalan posted:According to Snopes, this is embellished but more or less shit_that_did_happen.jpg. Still very My opinion of this as an American with both friends and family members who are veterans and who are currently serving: loving barf.
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"You earn your desk by sucking each of these soldiers' freedom-giving dicks."
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"And once you yourself have your first confirmed kill under your belt, we'll give you chairs."
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One student piped up "teacher, I still don't have a desk." The teacher replied "I know, we're using it for the recruitment officer right over there. Incidentally..."
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Mar 20, 2015 08:19
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Hey kids you don't have to earn anything, old people will do it all for you, relax.
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quote:Giving The Teacher The One-Finger Salute Yeah, I really believe a sub gave a poo poo.
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Khazar-khum posted:Yeah, I really believe a sub gave a poo poo. I loving hate idiots who think a thumb is not a finger, and I would have flipped the sub off too.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I loving hate idiots who think a thumb is not a finger, and I would have flipped the sub off too. Thumbs are a subset of fingers; but still fingers! I have had some teachers / professors pull some pretty  poo poo like that on me, though. I had a teacher give us a ridiculously long test and say "make sure you read all the questions through before you begin" and then on the very last page it said "just turn this in blank without answering anything and don't tell anybody else why, go back to your desk". I've also had a teacher ask a question, then we gave the proper answer, but then she demanded we keep giving out answers until we gave out the naive "wrong" answer, to which she corrected us to the answer we gave in the first place.  But yeah, for a substitute teacher that's a bit much.
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Why were they teaching a bunch of 5th grade children how to count to 5 anyway.
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Zaphod42 posted:I had a teacher give us a ridiculously long test and say "make sure you read all the questions through before you begin" and then on the very last page it said "just turn this in blank without answering anything and don't tell anybody else why, go back to your desk". That seems pretty reasonable
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EmmyOk posted:That seems pretty reasonable Its more of a "how literally can you take things" or "how good are you at recognizing trick questions" more than "how well do you follow instructions" though.
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Zaphod42 posted:Its more of a "how literally can you take things" or "how good are you at recognizing trick questions" more than "how well do you follow instructions" though. I took a test like this in 6th grade, and it's actually not pedantic at all. It says in bold "READ ALL QUESTIONS FIRST BEFORE DOING ANYTHING", then question ten tells you to ignore all previous questions and turn it in blank. It's about prioritizing work instead of just sitting down and trying to reinvent the wheel without fully understanding what's required of you.
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I did one of those in 9th grade, and it only tripped up one girl in a huge double-class of like 50 students. She must have felt pretty stupid after jumping up and down on one foot and yelling "I am almost done with the test!"
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Zaphod42 posted:Its more of a "how literally can you take things" or "how good are you at recognizing trick questions" more than "how well do you follow instructions" though.
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By the time I got that, it was about the third lovely trick a teacher had tried on me, so it was obvious. It's a lovely twist, because literally every other assignment that has a 'read every question before starting' or 'read each question' or whatever means on a question-by-question basis, not the entire list. I think the version I saw also had that instruction as 'question 1', so it was one of those self-contradicting dealies.
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I recall getting one of those tests in 5th or 6th grade, that went something like this: 1. Read all instructions before beginning 2. Write your name at the top of the paper 3-29: a bunch of silly instructions like "poke three holes in the top right corner of the paper" and "circle every third word in this sentence." 30. Only follow instructions 1 and 2. Just about everyone in the class failed. Perhaps it didn't help that, on all of our normal tests, the teacher stated very clearly that we didn't have to address the questions in order. e: Some content: At a birdwatching event last month I met a guy who told this story about a friend of his: the friend asked someone if fishing was allowed at this particular park, and right after he asked a nearby Great Blue Heron grabbed a fish, walked out of the water, and deposited the fish on his foot-- before stabbing at it. He also mentioned another friend who got his hand stabbed right through by a roadrunner that he was trying to feed. SerialKilldeer has a new favorite as of 18:45 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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SerialKilldeer posted:I recall getting one of those tests in 5th or 6th grade, that went something like this: If it went exactly like this, it's created a logical paradox and is arguably impossible to complete according to instructions
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Gabriel Pope posted:If it went exactly like this, it's created a logical paradox and is arguably impossible to complete according to instructions Why? Read them all, follow only 1 and 2. Or am I missing something?
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30. Only follow instructions 1 and 2. (Meaning "don't follow instruction 30...")
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Serperoth posted:Why? Read them all, follow only 1 and 2. Or am I missing something? Then you shouldn't follow rule 30 the one telling you only to follow rules 1 and 2 The point of the exercise is to teach people to be familiar with every step of a process before beginning it and running into trouble because you weren't expecting a step. But goons lead to the above.
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Gabriel Pope posted:If it went exactly like this, it's created a logical paradox and is arguably impossible to complete according to instructions LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MOTHER
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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EmmyOk posted:The point of the exercise is to teach people to be familiar with every step of a process before beginning it and running into trouble because you weren't expecting a step. And it does an incredibly lovely job of teaching that. Does a great job of making students learn 'teachers are untrustworthy', though. Almost as good as DARE, on that front.
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PYF stories of lingering psychological trauma from jokey elementary school activities.
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Kalos posted:PYF stories of lingering psychological trauma from jokey elementary school activities. Seriously. Some thin skinned fucks in this topic
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spincube posted:LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MOTHER 
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oldpainless posted:Lmfao at anyone who respects a veteran or a person in the military. As a vet I can dig this. I also dig socialism. When I joined they gave me free housing, free health care, travel money, food, everything I needed. And yet everyone there still voted republican. Huh.
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