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Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

Some teachers seem to react violently hostile to kids knowing about concepts before they 'should'.

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wheatpuppy: Apr 25, 2008; YOU HAVE MY POST!

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?")

One of my sister's teachers insisted that your body produced vitamin c in response to exposure to sunlight

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:24

the holy poopacy: May 16, 2009; hey! check this out; Fun Shoe

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:24

Inceltown: Aug 6, 2019

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 :australia:

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:25

SulfurMonoxideCute: Feb 9, 2008; I was under direct orders not to die
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Just lol if you believe "truth in advertising"

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:26

mystes: May 31, 2006

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."

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.

When I was in high school my chemistry teacher for some reason got out some mercury for some sort of demonstration and then left the room for like 10 minutes and a bunch of the other kids started to play with it by touching it

Apparently touching mercury isn't actually as dangerous as you would think, though (but liquid mercury is still quite dangerous because of the vapor)

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:27

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Stefan Prodan posted:

how am I supposed to have -3 apples

that is absolute nonsense

I get 3 apples and now I'm at 0 apples??? listen to yourself!

1 weird trick to void mortgages, banks hate it!

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:34

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:44

mystes: May 31, 2006

A competent teacher should be able to tell a student that they're not covering something yet without getting mad

# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:46

Hughlander: May 11, 2005

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.

Moving out to attend college was the best thing I ever did. I met so many great people, including my husband, and I thrived in an environment where nobody was making fun of me. One of my friends was in culinary school and she taught me a lot of cooking skills that I could use in my day to day life. She was really patient and suggested that I might have something like dyspraxia. She recognized some of my difficulties as being similar to her brothers. Sure enough, I went to my doctor and she referred me to specialists to help diagnose me. I have a milder form which is why it was never brought to attention enough. I just looked like I was careless or clumsy as a kid.

I didn't see or speak to my family a lot during this time. When I did it was awkward. My husband (then boyfriend) would come with me sometimes and he was always so annoyed by the jokes they'd make about me. When we got married... we actually eloped while on vacation overseas with his family. It was amazing and made for a much less stressful wedding. My family and my ILs had seen each other once or twice before but briefly. So when my family decided they wanted to come and see me and stayed for a weekend (in a hotel) we decided to host both families. And I cooked. But we didn't announce that until my parents had started making their little jokes and crediting only my husband for the food and the cleanliness or our home. My ILs were aware of how my family act but they didn't realize how little they believed in me. My husband giddily informed my family, after they had really made asses of themselves, that I had cooked the whole meal and that we shared those responsibilities. He said the same thing goes for the cleaning. My family were like no she can't but my ILs said I was cooking almost as long as they knew me and I did a good job every time. My MIL mentioned my diagnosis and my dad told her they thought I was just trying to make excuses. My family were awkward and my ILs left with a better understanding of my family and a nice dose of anger at them for how far they were going to humiliate me in front of them.

My family were also pissed off at me for not explaining things better beforehand. Not the condition but the fact I do cook now and could do it. They said I tried to humiliate them out of pettiness. AITA?

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!

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:08

Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

FMguru posted:

It came from r/AmITheEx

My BF and I had an argument regarding his female friend and need to know the best way to approach her to fix this.

eta: from comments

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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

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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

he has to understand that he needs to change if I ask and I will change if he asks (i assume he will never ask)

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:10

Kitfox88: Aug 21, 2007; Anybody lose their glasses?

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. :iiam:

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:15

DangerDongs: Nov 7, 2010; Grimey Drawer

Hughlander posted:

AITA for not telling my family I could cook and letting them embarrass themselves in front of my ILs?

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!

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:29

AreWeDrunkYet: Jul 8, 2006

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:33

Ziv Zulander: Mar 24, 2017; ZZ for short

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

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:39

icecastle: Jun 9, 2008

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 .

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:43

BallerBallerDillz: Jun 11, 2009; Cock, Rules, Everything, Around, Me; Scratchmo

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."

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.

https://youtu.be/GvVaaZ21C44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvVaaZ21C44

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:44

Zorak of Michigan: Jun 10, 2006

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:50

DeeplyConcerned: Apr 29, 2008; I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

Stefan Prodan posted:

how am I supposed to have -3 apples

that is absolute nonsense

I get 3 apples and now I'm at 0 apples??? listen to yourself!

you're in debt to me for 3 apples. we try to teach this to kids early on with school lunch debt.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:52

Mx.: Dec 16, 2006; I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!

icecastle posted:

People like you is why there is an exodus from teaching .

maybe some teachers should exodus

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:55

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 05:55

The Lone Badger: Sep 24, 2007

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 07:10

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

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�

# ? Feb 13, 2024 07:13

PancakeTransmission: May 27, 2007; You gotta improvise, Lisa: cloves, Tom Collins mix, frozen pie crust...; Plaster Town Cop

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”

TIL that basic banking is college level maths for the US

# ? Feb 13, 2024 08:02

aegof: Mar 2, 2011

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 08:24

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 09:04

Electric Wrigglies: Feb 6, 2015

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 10:00

Hughlander: May 11, 2005

Megillah Gorilla posted:

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.

I thought that was for cerebral palsy only? But I really don't know much about it.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 10:10

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

icecastle posted:

People like you is why there is an exodus from teaching .

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.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 10:27

idiotsavant: Jun 4, 2000

Hughlander posted:

AITA for asking wife to abort 1 twin

Twins For Algernon

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Mazerunner: Apr 22, 2010; Good Hunter, what... what is this post?

Im marrying a monster

quote:

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."

While technically her logic is sound, it just feels wrong. Monopoly belongs in the monopoly box, Scooby Doo Clue belongs in the Scooby Doo Clue box.

It's pure chaos and Im now worried I have become engaged with an unrealized serial killer.

All jokes aside, I love her. But am I crazy for thinking this is mildly infuriating, or am I just being anal.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:05

ReelBigLizard: Feb 27, 2003; Fallen Rib

Mazerunner posted:

Im marrying a monster

Acid vat.

# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:15

BrigadierSensible: Feb 16, 2012; I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

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)

# ? Feb 13, 2024 12:18