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She only knew "One, Two, Many, Lots"
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EmmyOk posted:I've told this story before but I had a history teacher who couldn't pronounce any number over 100,000. The first time she flubbed one a few times so I tentatively said it correctly assuming it was just one of those things that happens. Like when you erase a typo then write it again the exact same way. From then on though she'd call on me to read out any number over 100,000 for her which was a lot of pressure because I'd have to pay attention instead of play snake on my phone. When we covered World War II it was a nightmare reading about the death toll not because of the horrific human tragedy but because there were so many big numbers. My first grade teacher actually rapped my knuckles with a yard stick for impudently insisting that she was wrong about how the letter "X" was pronounced. She was teaching that the words "fox" and "box" were pronounced "fosk" and "bosk". To her logic, if they were pronounced the way that we all normally say them, they would be spelled "focks" or "bocks" instead of with an "X". That's when I learned to just go along with whatever and keep my mouth shut. It was also a grade school in rural Louisiana 30 something years ago.
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Jun 21, 2017 16:37
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BioEnchanted posted:She only knew "One, Two, Many, Lots" Detritus would probably be a smarter teacher.
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Jun 21, 2017 16:52
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Mushika posted:That's when I learned to just go along with whatever and keep my mouth shut. It was also a grade school in rural Louisiana 30 something years ago. Yeah, the smartest thing you can ever do in primary and secondary education is just keep your head down and your drat mouth shut.
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Jun 21, 2017 17:33
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Found you guys some more human trash! https://mobile.twitter.com/NoGazis/status/877486431354138624 Yw!
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Jun 21, 2017 18:02
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The fact that people with morally reprehensible ideas now proudly call themselves deplorable makes me wonder if I'm living in a children's book.
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Jun 21, 2017 19:00
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Almost like these people can't actually be defeated by playing nice, and explaining to them how the things they believe are hurtful.
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Jun 21, 2017 19:02
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I had an English teacher who constantly asked us how to spell words while he was writing in the board.
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Jun 21, 2017 19:35
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In my English class our teacher had us spell 15 new words every week!!
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Jun 21, 2017 19:44
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If you disagreed with my fourth grade teacher, she'd make you write a report on why you were right and present it to the class. It was pretty ingenious.
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Jun 21, 2017 19:45
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I had a math teacher that apparently was really brilliant but he just didn't give a poo poo. Sometimes he'd correct home assignments on the blackboard and if he noticed that he'd made a mistake somewhere and things were not working out, he just muttered "This one's trivial anyways." and wiped the blackboard clean. I did a lot of learning from books that year because all my teachers were trash in their own way. Also having done some teaching during my PhD showed me just how much grades are made up bullshit.
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Jun 21, 2017 19:49
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Gorilla Salad posted:Yeah, the smartest thing you can ever do in primary and secondary education is just keep your head down and your drat mouth shut. Grades are strongly influenced by the teacher's opinion of your intelligence. Sit in the front 2 rows and try to seem smart. But not too smart, or the bullies will come for you. 
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Jun 21, 2017 19:52
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Facebook Aunt posted:Grades are strongly influenced by the teacher's opinion of your intelligence. Sit in the front 2 rows and try to seem smart. This is also true at work.
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Jun 21, 2017 19:53
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 Pay me to tell you to sign up to MLM schemes! Each 'life coaching' session includes a COMPLIMENTARY signup under my Beachbody account!
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Jun 21, 2017 20:08
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Tall Poppy Syndrome! It's beloved the world over!
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Jun 21, 2017 20:08
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Facebook Aunt posted:Grades are strongly influenced by the teacher's opinion of your intelligence. Sit in the front 2 rows and try to seem smart. Oh my god this is 90% of the reason I did so well in high school. I was quiet and have an intelligent-sounding voice and good vocabulary. College was a bit harder than I was expecting.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:16
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oh hey u guys wanted more LITERAL HUMAN GARBAGE right?? well here I am to the rescue. in the comments for the video of Philando's fiance being handcuffed after he was murdered, trapped with her terrified lil daughter who at one point begs her to be careful so she doesn't also get "SHOOTED"  these people do not deserve our empathy, understanding, explanations, etc. They're human trash. Watch the video and tell me you don't feel the same. Yeah, I'm angry, I'm real loving angry.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:17
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Punkin Spunkin posted:oh hey u guys wanted more LITERAL HUMAN GARBAGE right?? well here I am to the rescue. in the comments for the video of Philando's fiance being handcuffed after he was murdered, trapped with her terrified lil daughter who at one point begs her to be careful so she doesn't also get "SHOOTED" I'm confused. Is she saying it's not the correct video of the shooting or that the video itself is staged? I can understand the former with all the bullshit that gets posted on social media nowadays, but if she's claiming the latter, then she should throw herself through a plate glass window.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:54
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Gross Dude posted:In my English class our teacher had us spell 15 new words every week!! This was university. We weren't doing spelling tests, we were analyzing literature. I also had a general education arts class where we were going to be "writing about images". I'm a photographer so I though it would be cool. It ended up being about memes. I had to chooses a meme to write about for our final exam so I chose Loss. The Cyanide and Happiness mockery of it, to be precise.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:59
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Picnic Princess posted:This was university. We weren't doing spelling tests, we were analyzing literature.
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Jun 21, 2017 21:25
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Maybe Republicans are right, maybe college IS a waste of money
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Jun 21, 2017 21:31
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Yawgmoth posted:I took a Mythology course for some GE requirement and our final exam was to write an essay about why Star Wars was an example of modern mythology. We had until the credits finished rolling on Empire Strikes Back to turn it in. That's just evil. How would you get anything done?
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Jun 21, 2017 21:31
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chitoryu12 posted:She couldn't say "one hundred thousand and one" but could say all the other words separately and in other combinations? Was there just some kind of mental block? SpacePig posted:Would she say, like, millium and billium or something? She'd mess it up by saying 126,000 as 100,026 and stuff like that. It was the first thing she did that got a laugh out of the class so I suspect it was more about winning us over as she was a student teacher than it was about a mortal fear of big numbers. We also had a teacher who got so mad with people yelling in class he told the class he'd write everything we yelled out down. Shockingly people instead of going mute started screaming that his mother was a prostitute. We were able to look at the sheet when he went off to the principal and he'd spelled prostitute wrong twice in different ways. content: 
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Jun 21, 2017 22:07
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Picnic Princess posted:This was university. We weren't doing spelling tests, we were analyzing literature. This sounds like how you get the class on modern cultural phenomenon, the meme, past whatever stodgy body is controlling how classes are listed. One of our religious studies professors was studying vampire cults, and the class on it was something really bland like "occult religions and alternative culture."
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Jun 21, 2017 22:34
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They should really hire B-Movie producers to choose names for classes. "Yeah I'm taking a class called LIMB FROM LIMB about the history of amputation and a biology class called ORGY OF THE BLOOD PARASITES" FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 22:43 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Jun 21, 2017 22:41
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Tiggum posted:I had a teacher in highschool who got the definitions of dependent and independent variables backwards somehow and told us the textbook was wrong. Worst one I ever had was a geography teacher who couldn't tell New Zealand, Hawaii or Brazil apart on a map. I live in Hawaii. We were in a Hawaiian public school. She could not find Hawaii on a map. She thought it was Brazill. Even the worst student in the class lost their poo poo laughing and telling her she was wrong so she doubled down and pointed to New Zealand saying that was Brazil, and that Brazil was Hawaii.
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Jun 21, 2017 22:52
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I remember the day I realized some of the teachers were dumber than the children. I was like 9 or 10, it was English class and the teacher kept insisting that the only correct word for thumb was "thumpkin" and that "bear" was pronounced in the same way as "beer". I should stress that this was English as a second language and that this was a rather old teacher* but it was then I realized that teachers were not all knowing bastions of knowledge and some of them were even morons. *though she was probably just middle aged and seemed ancient to kid me. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 23:11 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Jun 21, 2017 23:08
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My sister was an english teacher (as in second language) and she pronouncing "focus" as "gently caress us" during her first months of teaching was the best thing ever  She realized of her mistake later and her reaction was even funnier.
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Jun 21, 2017 23:25
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Desperado Bones posted:My sister was an english teacher (as in second language) and she pronouncing "focus" as "gently caress us" during her first months of teaching was the best thing ever I had a Russian film teacher who did this too. Couldn't stop talking about how great Citizen Kane's deep fuckus was.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:08
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That stupid loving image of the wolves in Canada keeps popping up again, the one where it claims wolves are so smart because they put the weakest at the front of the line to set the pace. Yeah, so smart, making the weakest do the hardest work by breaking the trail through snow up to their bellies. That won't kill them through exhaustion right away. Definitely a much better solution than getting the stronger ones to break the trail in order to allow easier travel for the older or smaller. Not to mention there's actually no such thing as alpha wolves in wild packs. That was debunked years ago by the same guy who wrote the original paper that morons keep trying to apply to human beings today.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:14
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In 9th grade English, I was asked to use the word "delivered" in a sentence. "He woke up with a splitting headache, in a bathtub full of ice, and suddenly realized he'd been delivered." I got detention. I thought I was funny.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:39
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If my kid ever gets detention for a pun that choice I'll have that teacher's job.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:47
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Desperado Bones posted:pronouncing "focus" as "gently caress us" My mom's Cuban nurse drives a gently caress Us and loves it. She wanted to know how it compard to our Fusion.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:49
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I got removed from an honors history course after politely correcting the teacher that the wehrmacht was not the German Air Force. "I think you mean the Luftwaffe" "No, the Wehrmacht was the AF. The Luftwaffe was a division in it." "I'm pretty certain you are wrong on that." Smugly, "Prove it." When I came in the next day with a stack of history books and the glossary entries highlighted, he kicked me out if his class, and out of the honors history program. In retrospect, I was probably a smug little poo poo about it. When I taught years later, I made sure to double check the notes for the lecture, and gave the students a chance to explain if they thought I was wrong -mike without being a dick.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:50
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EmmyOk posted:She'd mess it up by saying 126,000 as 100,026 and stuff like that. It was the first thing she did that got a laugh out of the class so I suspect it was more about winning us over as she was a student teacher than it was about a mortal fear of big numbers. We also had a teacher who got so mad with people yelling in class he told the class he'd write everything we yelled out down. Shockingly people instead of going mute started screaming that his mother was a prostitute. We were able to look at the sheet when he went off to the principal and he'd spelled prostitute wrong twice in different ways. Innumeracy (the inability to do simple everyday mathematics, like calculating change or estimating the price of a single item in a pack) is surprisingly common. I don't know if there are any formal studies of its prevalence, but it's estimated to be at least as common as illiteracy, which affects 15% of the American population. Also some psychologists believe that there may be a mathematical counterpart to dyslexia, where people simply can't comprehend written numbers and equations. I'd like to think that that sort of thing would be caught before the person had earned a teaching credential but that's not how the American educational system works Sagebrush has a new favorite as of 00:53 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Jun 22, 2017 00:51
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Picnic Princess posted:That stupid loving image of the wolves in Canada keeps popping up again, the one where it claims wolves are so smart because they put the weakest at the front of the line to set the pace. It works for wolves in captivity, and captivity describes the discourse bubble and basements "alphas" have contained themselves to.
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Jun 22, 2017 00:53
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Robot Style posted:I had a Russian film teacher who did this too. Couldn't stop talking about how great Citizen Kane's deep fuckus was. I have a French friend who says it like this (also, he's offered each of us "diet cock"), and we've made a joke of it to the point that today in traffic, I was stuck behind a Ford Focus, and kept saying "gently caress you, fuckus!"
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Jun 22, 2017 02:19
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FreudianSlippers posted:and that "bear" was pronounced in the same way as "beer". Isn't it?
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Jun 22, 2017 02:34
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swampland posted:Isn't it? Maybe if you're Aussie or Kiwi.
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If you live somewhere where there are bears, you don't want to shout "bear!" and have your buddy think you want another beer.
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