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The_Franz posted:Oh, and loving long division. "This is very important and you will need it throughout your life" yeah if it were up to me i would spend like a week on long division just so it's understood conceptually, never test on it and then never mention it again
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Jun 22, 2022 19:40
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YeahTubaMike posted:I can't tell if I can't think of any lies teachers told me because they didn't lie (lol) or because I didn't listen it was vi
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Jun 22, 2022 19:42
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"The rules apply to everybody, buster. No exceptions." Also, being told in history class that collective punishment (by the Romans vs Carthage/Gaul or something, idk exactly) only breeds contempt and defiance, and then at lunch on that same day the entire cafeteria was made to eat in silence with one seat empty between each person and because one table got "too loud" the other day.
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Jun 22, 2022 19:46
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:oh yeah lol this guy too. what is it with elementary/high school teachers extremely warped views on the post-secondary world? they were basically wrong about everything. if they were to be believed, the "real world" after high school is nothing but insanely rigid disciplinarians Roumba posted:"The rules apply to everybody, buster. No exceptions." This makes more sense when you remember that American schools were designed to produce good little industrial-era worker drones.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:01
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On the opposite side of the spectrum, I kept falling asleep in class during AP Bio and some of the other students were complaining that the teacher wasn't doing anything about it. So the teacher said, well this is supposed to be a college level class and in college they don't give a poo poo soooooo e: I had the highest grade on the AP exam in the entire class and I think I made a few poo poo lists that day
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Jun 22, 2022 20:07
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"America isn't ready for a black president and if Obama is elected, he's leaving office in a hearse" He was half right... Beyond that, I had a *lot* of insanely conservative teachers growing up in the midwest. I had to go to the principal to get a grade reverted when my AP history teacher gave me a zero for putting Reagan down for the "Worst president in US history" paper. Had my middle school teacher in 2000 spend a whole day preaching about Bush's greatness and how we should pester our parents to vote for him because Gore will take away the Simpsons and Pokemon from us. Renegret posted:On the opposite side of the spectrum, I kept falling asleep in class during AP Bio and some of the other students were complaining that the teacher wasn't doing anything about it. My favorite science teacher in HS said day 1 that he didn't give half a gently caress about what you did in class as long as you were a B student or better and didn't bother anyone else. I read so many lovely fantasy books in his classes. Deki fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 20:09
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:oh yeah lol this guy too. what is it with elementary/high school teachers extremely warped views on the post-secondary world? they were basically wrong about everything. if they were to be believed, the "real world" after high school is nothing but insanely rigid disciplinarians The only ideas of "the real world" I ever got were from my mom & grandmother -- I don't know whether or not they told me not to listen to my teachers about it or what, but I have absolutely no memories of my teachers telling me to do stuff because I would have to do it in "the real world", and that includes cursive and long division. ninjoatse.cx posted:it was vi I was never able to tell the difference, but then again, I switched majors from computer & information science to history because I kept failing the math requirements.  edit: Deki posted:My favorite science teacher in HS said day 1 that he didn't give half a gently caress about what you did in class as long as you were a B student or better and didn't bother anyone else. Sciences and languages were the only classes I cared about and the only classes I continued to excel in after 6th grade. I graduated high school with an 89 in my chemistry class (and a 2.8 GPA altogether, weighted), and I was so disappointed. YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 20:11
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They always told me I was gonna be a failure because I didn't follow rules, it actually made me very successful so lol at teachers trying to crab bucket kids b/c they never left the academic environs themselves.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:11
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"You need to learn how to do this calculation on paper because you won't always have a calculator with you."
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Jun 22, 2022 20:15
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On uniforms: "You need to get used to wearing a dress shirt and tie, because you're going to have to do it every day as an adult" oh, and the school computers were always 'broken' 'broken' in the sense that the teachers didn't know how to use them, so it was easier if nobody did The_Franz fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 20:15
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Zil posted:"You need to learn how to do this calculation on paper because you won't always have a calculator with you." me in college: *doing pages and pages of calculus from memory* me working as an engineer designing robots: *googling "circumference of a circle calculator"*
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Jun 22, 2022 20:19
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The_Franz posted:'broken' in the sense that the teachers didn't know how to use them, so it was easier if nobody did ohh yeah I remember a "broken" laptop in the library that I booted up because I knew it was gonna be something funny. Only thing wrong with it is that somebody changed the desktop picture to some low res and extremely stretched out image of one of the sports illustrated bikini covers. Whoever did that didn't even have the decency to use proper porn.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:20
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The_Franz posted:On uniforms: "You need to get used to wearing a dress shirt and tie, because you're going to have to do it every day as an adult" I only went to one school where a uniform was required. The only place I ever worked at that had any sort of dress code whatsoever was Starbucks.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:26
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I also had it out with the art teacher in charge of the yearbook because she swore up and down that sending an image over the internet reduced it's quality. So even though the photographer hosed up and sent the wrong picture of me for the yearbook, it became my problem to go to the photographer's office to get it burnt on a CD and bring it in. I ended up calling the photgrapher, having them e-mail me the image, and I burnt it onto one of my own CDs. She then took my picture and squished it down to about 1/8th of the original size to fit in the yearbook. She tried explaining to me, an incoming computer science teacher, about how pictures on a computer are made up of lots of tiny dots and.... (She also got mad at my friend, another incoming Comp Sci major for changing the desktop image on one of the Macs because she thought it would use up all the RAM)
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Jun 22, 2022 20:26
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YeahTubaMike posted:I was never able to tell the difference, but then again, I switched majors from computer & information science to history because I kept failing the math requirements. That gets a lot of people going to college to be computer touchers. I'd have graduated a year earlier if not for the high level math classes and random electrical engineering class with a bullshit hardass prof. Naturally I've used none of that poo poo since graduating. YeahTubaMike posted:I only went to one school where a uniform was required. The only place I ever worked at that had any sort of dress code whatsoever was Starbucks. I've interviewed with a place that wanted full suits, but they sucked even outside of that. Everywhere else has been business casual, with jeans being discouraged but allowed. And of course now, in the age of WFH, it's a rare day that I have jeans or pants on when I'm on the clock.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:28
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“New York City is doomed, and all corporate headquarters will soon be in Stamford Connecticut, because New York has foolishly raised taxes too high.” What is it with Republican teachers preaching nonsense to their students??
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Jun 22, 2022 20:29
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Deki posted:That gets a lot of people going to college to be computer touchers. I'd have graduated a year earlier if not for the high level math classes and random electrical engineering class with a bullshit hardass prof. The funny thing is that I do QA for an analytics team, so it's entirely possible that Math Concepts in Computing might have been a helpful class, but I kept failing it, so I was like, gently caress it. Of course, that's also assuming that I would have remembered anything from it, and I don't remember anything from any classes other than Japanese, so  quote:I've interviewed with a place that wanted full suits, but they sucked even outside of that. Everywhere else has been business casual, with jeans being discouraged but allowed. I attended a Zoom meeting without pants just because it felt kind of like a WFH rite of passage, but it felt weird and wrong so I stopped. Sweat shorts that come up above the middle of my thigh are fine though. edit: Chicken Butt posted:“New York City is doomed, and all corporate headquarters will soon be in Stamford Connecticut, because New York has foolishly raised taxes too high.” This actually sounds vaguely familiar...is this some weird early-mid '00s New England public school propaganda?
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Jun 22, 2022 20:35
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:yeah if it were up to me i would spend like a week on long division just so it's understood conceptually, never test on it and then never mention it again That's what they did in my school, but lmao I was sick that week. I have literally never done long division on a number and never will  I later did it on polynomials though, which is also something i've never found a use for but it's kinda neat i guess.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:39
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"Buffalo are extinct." Not endangered. Not nearly hunted into extinction. 100% extinct. Done as the dodo. Imagine my surprise when I moved to Montana and they were hanging out on the side of the highway. Other completely wrongs: "Brown is a neutral." "Abraham Lincoln was born in Illinois." Possible truths at the time that aged like milk: "Adults write in cursive." "No one will accept Wikipedia as a source." "You have to learn to balance a checkbook."
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Jun 22, 2022 20:40
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the reason they say "x will be important once you reach highschool/college/real life" is mostly just to get you to shut up and do what the teacher wants you to do and to not ask any questions which in itself is the real lesson or more realistically the teacher is very very tired and being around our asses all day is very annoying
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Jun 22, 2022 20:43
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Das Boo posted:"Buffalo are extinct." If someone told me that an animal was extinct, and then I saw that animal -- especially in large numbers -- just out & about one day, I would probably poo poo my pants in shock.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:47
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YeahTubaMike posted:If someone told me that an animal was extinct, and then I saw that animal -- especially in large numbers -- just out & about one day, I would probably poo poo my pants in shock. Humans are extinct
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Jun 22, 2022 20:49
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Mooey Cow posted:Humans are extinct If only
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Jun 22, 2022 20:52
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Here's the only lie I tell my students: "You're all my favorite students." Most of them are, but I like the ones who tag my desks a whole lot less.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:55
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YeahTubaMike posted:If someone told me that an animal was extinct, and then I saw that animal -- especially in large numbers -- just out & about one day, I would probably poo poo my pants in shock. I followed the stages of grief pretty closely. "That can't be a buffalo. Bison? Are bison different? Maybe those are bison." "WHY WOULD SHE LIE TO ME LIKE THAT?!" "Maybe she confused endangered for extinct? Maybe a specific breed? Maybe national park buffalo don't count as wild and she meant extinct in the wild?" "Oh god, how many times have I repeated that and people thought I was an idiot?!" "Look at all those buffalo. Goddamn it."
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Jun 22, 2022 21:02
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YeahTubaMike posted:If only You have to poo poo your pants now, i said the thing!!
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Jun 22, 2022 21:03
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Mooey Cow posted:You have to poo poo your pants now, i said the thing!! I said probably, you goofball
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Jun 22, 2022 21:06
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That Cornell Notes were some kind of objectively superior note-taking system that we would use all the time in college. My highschool was absolutely obsessed with them and made us use them for every loving class. I hated them, and once I actually moved to college I never used the format again. Hell, this is the first time in about 15 years that I've even thought about them.
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Jun 22, 2022 21:48
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"You'll outgrow it" "You're just doing it for attention" "You'll never graduate college" "You can breathe. Breathing means the same thing as inhaling"
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Jun 22, 2022 22:32
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Harry Potter is evil because it contains wizardry. Lord of the Rings is fine.
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Jun 22, 2022 22:40
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Colonel Cancer posted:If you study hard you can be anything you want when you grow up "Even an astronaut?" *checks my science and math grades* "Uhhh... Maybe."
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Jun 22, 2022 22:46
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Evolution has been disproven. Carbon dating doesn't work. The universe is 6000 years old. Noah's Ark was found but the Soviets covered it up. Bibles have to be smuggled into China.
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Jun 22, 2022 22:48
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History teacher once told us they call gonnorhea "the clap" because it makes it hurt so hard to pee that you have to clap your hands.
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Jun 22, 2022 22:52
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Also the "you totally will need to know how to do long division in life" jives well with the "you won't always have a calculator on you" thing. Even in an alternate reality where we never invented computers that fit in our pockets we always have on us... In any scenario I would actually need to use complex division on, I would always have a calculator on me, even a small basic one, or one of the classic Casio watch ones, because I wouldn't trust my own hand done division for anything actually important and requiring precision where a mistake could have consequences. And not wasting time, "uh okay boss, let me go find a pen and paper then give me 10 minutes to figure it out and double check my work." Like don't lie man. Just say "hey, I know this is annoying and useless, but the curriculum mandates we have to do this. I'm sorry, just grit your teeth and we can bang through this and I'll make it as easy as possible so we can check that box off." The Butcher fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Jun 22, 2022 22:58
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The biggest lie of all doesn't happen until college and it's when the professor says that all the books you are supposed to buy will definitely be needed for the class.
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Jun 22, 2022 23:09
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Meme Poker Party posted:The biggest lie of all doesn't happen until college and it's when the professor says that all the books you are supposed to buy will definitely be needed for the class. Regurgitating what's in the books is the fastest way to an A though.
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Jun 22, 2022 23:10
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Meme Poker Party posted:The biggest lie of all doesn't happen until college and it's when the professor says that all the books you are supposed to buy will definitely be needed for the class. I at least had some profs who were like "this whole system is bullshit, I was a contributing author on this, so here's a PDF with a copy on it that I'm going to forget about on my desk. You guys figure it out." But more then one who were like "you will need to go buy my book I wrote from the bookstore." Since presumably they got a cut. Guess which ones were more chill and which were arrogant pricks?
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Jun 22, 2022 23:15
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:can't even tell you how many teachers told me i'd never hold down a job if i couldn't show up on time. that my future bosses would never let me make my own hours. Pretty much this, yes.
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lol if you remember anything your teachers said (im a gigantic moran)
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