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To: reaganaut1
“We can feel stronger going back to our hallways,” the teacher, Elisa Weidenbaum Waters, said, “going back to our homes, going back to our society, and saying: ‘You know what? What you said is a stereotype, and that’s not cool.’ ”

Would it be a stereotype to say that teachers like her are stupid? A stereotype is a characteristic applied to every member of a group that is true about enough members of that group to have become noteworthy. Idiocy seems to have become a noteworthy characteristic of many in lower education. Elisa is one such idiot.
4 posted on 10/23/2010 2:36:52 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan

I concur.

All the way through my master’s, I have not ever heard the word “cool” in the classroom.

That said, the ed students were the least bright in the schools I attended. So, it figures that they do feelings since arithmetic is beyond them.


6 posted on 10/23/2010 2:48:10 PM PDT by benewton
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To: aruanan
Would it be a stereotype to say that teachers like her are stupid? A stereotype is a characteristic applied to every member of a group that is true about enough members of that group to have become noteworthy. Idiocy seems to have become a noteworthy characteristic of many in lower education. Elisa is one such idiot.

Try creating a stereotype about Japanese being lazy and shiftless, or Amish being violent thugs.

11 posted on 10/23/2010 3:26:41 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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