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Some teachers seem to react violently hostile to kids knowing about concepts before they 'should'.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:22 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:48 |
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mystes posted:One of my elementary school teachers insisted that third person omniscient narrators didn't exist and that if you had a third person narrator in a story they couldn't describe the thoughts of the protagonist (I guess this is pretty minor and he did later apologize but my reaction at the time was like "wtf has he ever read a book?") My 6th grade science teacher threatened me with detention for insisting that pencil lead was in fact graphite. Her evidence was the little box of replacement leads for her mechanical pencil. "See, it says 7mm lead, they could only do that if it was 100% lead, because Truth in Advertising." Same teacher accidentally broke a mercury thermometer, and gathered the class around the pool of mercury on the hallway floor and let us play with it. Later one of my classmates got in trouble because she found out he scooped up some of the mercury into the cap of his pen and took it home to play with. I am not 100% sure but I believe she disposed of the remaining mercury by flushing it down the toilet.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:24 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:One of my weirder childhood moments was a second grade teacher getting increasingly insistent and angry that you can't subtract a larger number from a smaller number, and that negative numbers did not exist. I assume this happened someplace with a warm climate or the weather forecast would be very triggering to her each winter.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:24 |
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Stoner Sloth posted:It's even dafter than that cause aphelion (when the earth is furthest from the sun) occurs in July and perihelion (when the earth is closest to the sun) occurs in January. So in fact when it's summer in the US the earth as actually as far from the sun as it gets and at its closest in winter. Just another reason why we're the skin cancer capital of the world
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:25 |
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Just lol if you believe "truth in advertising"
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:26 |
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wheatpuppy posted:My 6th grade science teacher threatened me with detention for insisting that pencil lead was in fact graphite. Her evidence was the little box of replacement leads for her mechanical pencil. "See, it says 7mm lead, they could only do that if it was 100% lead, because Truth in Advertising." Apparently touching mercury isn't actually as dangerous as you would think, though (but liquid mercury is still quite dangerous because of the vapor)
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:27 |
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Stefan Prodan posted:how am I supposed to have -3 apples 1 weird trick to void mortgages, banks hate it!
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:34 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Some teachers seem to react violently hostile to kids knowing about concepts before they 'should'. Of course that's what it really is, now they have to go out of order on their plan to introduce these concepts to the other kids. But it really undermines the kid asking those questions, and education as a broader principle in favor of sticking to a curriculum.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:44 |
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A competent teacher should be able to tell a student that they're not covering something yet without getting mad
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:46 |
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AITA for not telling my family I could cook and letting them embarrass themselves in front of my ILs?quote:Growing up as the youngest in my family, I (27f) was often treated like I was a little princess who couldn't do anything for myself, which was aided by the fact I was a very clumsy child and some things took me a lot of practice and patience to get right. I was the butt of the joke and my family loved to tease me and crack jokes about the fact I couldn't boil water or I was a disaster everywhere I went. They would always say I could never be trusted in a kitchen and would need to find a man who could cook and clean for me in the future. It was something I resented and it did make me feel self-conscious. I would try really hard to not mess up but somehow I always seemed to. How dare you not tell us you're not as incompetent as we told you that you are! You're making us look bad by letting us make fun of you for all these years!
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:08 |
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FMguru posted:It came from r/AmITheEx quote:But if we really did break up, don't you think he would have blocked me by now? Maybe he sees me texting and maybe reconsider about what happened from our fight quote:Whatever boundaries he requests which I'm hoping it'll make him finally understand my feelings about this whole Valentines gift drama. I want to show him that I'm willing to do anything to make him feel comfortable and secure in this relationship and that he should do the same thing for me
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:10 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:One of my weirder childhood moments was a second grade teacher getting increasingly insistent and angry that you can't subtract a larger number from a smaller number, and that negative numbers did not exist. My 60+ year old mother was trying to brush up on her mathmatics for some reason (job related I think) and was venting to me about how she just could not seem to wrap her head around negative numbers and how they work, like it just wouldn't stick and kept sliding off. I suggested she think of it like how we overdraft sometimes and your bank account can go negative and it instantly clicked and she no longer had any issues.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:15 |
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Hughlander posted:AITA for not telling my family I could cook and letting them embarrass themselves in front of my ILs? I'm glad this girl found healthy people to be around, but I am also saddened that the world may never see the clumsiest serial killer born from hate and stubbed toes. For real though, good for her. Glad her husband's family has her back by just being decent.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:29 |
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Kitfox88 posted:My 60+ year old mother was trying to brush up on her mathmatics for some reason (job related I think) and was venting to me about how she just could not seem to wrap her head around negative numbers and how they work, like it just wouldn't stick and kept sliding off. I suggested she think of it like how we overdraft sometimes and your bank account can go negative and it instantly clicked and she no longer had any issues. I think (or I suppose hope) that the teacher didn't actually fail to comprehend the concept, the anger and pushback was around having to explain it to a room full of kids. But gaslighting a child out of convenience is terrible pedagogy.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:33 |
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mystes posted:One of my sister's teachers insisted that your body produced vitamin c in response to exposure to sunlight Every single mammal can do this except for people and guinea pigs
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:39 |
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Zorak of Michigan posted:If that was my kid, this story would not be over until one of those adults cried. People like you is why there is an exodus from teaching .
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:43 |
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wheatpuppy posted:My 6th grade science teacher threatened me with detention for insisting that pencil lead was in fact graphite. Her evidence was the little box of replacement leads for her mechanical pencil. "See, it says 7mm lead, they could only do that if it was 100% lead, because Truth in Advertising." https://youtu.be/GvVaaZ21C44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvVaaZ21C44
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:44 |
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icecastle posted:People like you is why there is an exodus from teaching . There are lots more important reasons than people like me. I'm delighted to say that my kid went through public school and college without me ever having a less than pleasant experience with a teacher. But if one of them was not only teaching incorrect facts but modeling this bullshit "I am a person in authority, never question me" poo poo to my kid, I'd have let my temper off the leash. I can live with a teacher being wrong. I can live with a teacher saying right or wrong, we need to move the lesson plan forward and stop discussing this. Just don't insist you have to be right because you're the teacher. Modeling bullying for the classroom is where I run out of sympathy.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:50 |
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Stefan Prodan posted:how am I supposed to have -3 apples you're in debt to me for 3 apples. we try to teach this to kids early on with school lunch debt.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:52 |
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icecastle posted:People like you is why there is an exodus from teaching . maybe some teachers should exodus
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:55 |
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I think I just learned about a thing I always had? My teachers always complained about my fine muscle coordination, I'm bad at anything ball related, I bump into things a LOT, and when I do crafts I'm slower than everybody else in the class. poo poo. I mean, I walk into pillars all the time. Re dyspraxia.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:55 |
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mystes posted:One of my sister's teachers insisted that your body produced vitamin c in response to exposure to sunlight Vitamin D. They were only off by one letter.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 07:10 |
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i remember when i was in first or second grade the teacher said something like “you can’t go below zero” and when i said “but what about negative numbers” they said “oh uh yeah but that’s really college level math”
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 07:13 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i remember when i was in first or second grade the teacher said something like “you can’t go below zero” and when i said “but what about negative numbers” they said “oh uh yeah but that’s really college level math”
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 08:02 |
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PancakeTransmission posted:TIL that basic banking is college level maths for the US No, you're never taught anything about banking in the US. Some things you're taught might incidentally apply to banking, but you're taught to pass the tests.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 08:24 |
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Baronjutter posted:oh yeah he's big time autistic, and back then he refused to admit it. Almost all his childhood he refused any medication, therapy, or even just acknowledging his autism. He was 100% normal, it was everyone around him who were unpredictable liers launching a coordinated effort to constantly send him into meltdowns. He was also terrified of being officially branded as special needs or different and thought it would ruin his life, rather than actually allowing him support. He wouldn't even go through the process that would let his mom collect some extra support money or anything like that. It wasn't that long ago that he would have been 100% right that it would have destroyed his life* I was recently reminded how, if you were diagnosed as being on the spectrum when I was young, your life was effectively over You'd be sent to the special school (called literally the Spastic Centre) where you would be drugged so heavily you could barely move and that would be your life until you hit 18 and the centre threw you out. There would be no finishing high school, no university, no job. You would be branded as worthless. Forever. I got away with being "bookish", "quiet" and a "nerd". It terrifies me how easily I could have had my entire life taken from me before it had even really begun. * as opposed to now where it still can happen, but isn't quite as likely.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 09:04 |
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Inceltown posted:Just another reason why we're the skin cancer capital of the world I read somewhere that the highest per capita rate of deaths due to skin cancer is Papua New Guinea and the lowest is Indonesia (they share a border on PNG's main Island). A lot of SE Asia has a huge fixation on lighter coloured skin (Myanmar women routinely put a clay like substance on their faces while out and about) and I often wonder if the lighter skin thing come out of generational if unspoken knowledge that lighter skin means less death. PNG absolutely puts no positive spin on having lighter skin.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 10:00 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:It wasn't that long ago that he would have been 100% right that it would have destroyed his life* I thought that was for cerebral palsy only? But I really don't know much about it.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 10:10 |
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icecastle posted:People like you is why there is an exodus from teaching .
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 10:27 |
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Hughlander posted:AITA for asking wife to abort 1 twin Twins For Algernon
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 11:50 |
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Im marrying a monsterquote:My fiance and I have decided to move later this year, in preparation of that we been going through our stuff and condensing/ getting rid of this and that to cut down on the amount moved. Tonight I find her sitting in the hallway fiddling with our boardgame collection in the closet. She was removing each game from their respective box, placing the contents in a zip lock bag and then depositing all of this into an extra backpack... When asked why she would do such a thing, "there's lots of extra space in the boxes, this makes it less to move."
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:05 |
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Mazerunner posted:Im marrying a monster Acid vat.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:15 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:If the alternative is having teachers happily giving lessons that are objectively wrong, then make sure you wipe the rear end mark off the door after it hits you. As a teacher myself, part of the joy of teaching is telling the kids things that are blatantly wrong. I have convinced several year 5 and 6 classes that Penguins can fly, and actually migrate to Brazil over the harsh Antarctic winters. (Thank you Terry Jones and the BBC)
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:18 |
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Multiple containers of different sorts of rice also take up needless space, combine them then there's also less to move.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:18 |
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honestly if they're all games like Monopoly or Scooby Doo Clue then fiancee did nothing wrong
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:59 |
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But what about the boards?!
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 13:25 |
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artsy fartsy posted:But what about the boards?! Take a photo (it lasts longer) and just draw it (or play on a TV screen face up?) each time.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 13:26 |
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mystes posted:
A sunny day does make me feel like grabbing a refreshing glass of orange juice, does that count I wonder?
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 13:50 |
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They should just mix all the board game pieces together, like cereal
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 14:01 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:48 |
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Mazerunner posted:Scooby Doo Clue belongs in the Scooby Doo Clue box. I can’t stop laughing at this.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 14:18 |