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To: susannah59

You don’t get it.

This is exact.y the kind of thing the educational establishment wants to spend time on. There’s no hard and fast criteria for correct or incorrect. It will spin the kids up on both sides. It will disrupt classrooms for a month at least, with any luck until June.

Anything, absolutely anything OTHER than actually teach match, science, English, or history....anything.


14 posted on 04/09/2012 9:42:25 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker
Wow, I guess I'm getting really old.

Back in my day, it was the students' jobs to distract the teachers from teaching, and the establishment/administration which encouraged them to teach math, science, English, whatever.

It was a game; if you could get the Chemistry teacher to talk about his "glory days" playing football at that same high school, or the History teacher who was also a coach distracted into talking about the game on Friday, or the English teacher persuaded to talk about whatever it was she was interested in besides the topic at hand, it was a "win" if it took more than five minutes of class time.

It sounds like they are taking all the fun out of it for today's students. What do they have to do, try to trick the teachers into actually teaching??

27 posted on 04/09/2012 10:13:08 AM PDT by susannah59
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