"WTF?"
Posted on 05/30/2019 7:39:40 AM PDT by EdnaMode
A Florida high school teacher raised eyebrows this week after allegedly writing “WTF is this?” on a student’s homework.
Melinda Smith, the student’s mother, told Panama City’s WJHG on Tuesday she was shocked when her son showed her his science homework with the comment: “WTF is this? absolutely no credit” written on top
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I agree, I want to see the evidence.
That’s an excellent question.
“I’m glad you asked that!” <—— That means they are not happy you asked that.
Education (formerly known as “teaching”) today is a highly scripted process. The “experts” used to rail against “rote learning”, profoundly mistaken by the way, but teaching by rote is how it’s done. One needs to regurgitate the correct buzzwords, magical incantations, and latest shrink-approved word salad to advance. It’s important to look good, not be good. This is kind of a reflection of that. If kids aren’t turning in homework, the answer is to get rid of homework. Entire classes failing, get rid of grades.
The problem here isn’t necessarily that the student is illiterate, the Teacher used a bad word.
So YOU’RE the guy!!!
Probably wrote about nuclear power being clean energy.....
But I'm still not buying that even with all that it's on par with cost of living in the hell hole that is my home state of New Jersey. And to anyone who is going to jump in with "I live in Florida and the schools in my area are fantastic!" I'm just repeating what people are saying to me.
“IF” the teacher even wrote the letters!
(Were they in the same color, same ink, same style as the comment itself?)
I am appalled!
This teacher failed to use WTF in a complete sentence/interrogative.
Besides that, WTF wasn’t in Spanish?
Que carajo!
wow thats funny
Maybe he floated an air biscuit, and she really wrote
“Whoa, That’s Flatulence”
He was probably dyslexic and she was telling him FTW (For the Win) so he woulld understand. The mother had it wrong.
I can tell you from experience teachers now get fired for treating their students like anything but little kings and queens. I put more effort into grading each paper, test, or quiz than 85% of my kids put into writing them. Each one. It is a thankless job and I have thought “WTF is THIS” over and over and over again.
There are two sides to this coin.
First it is a sad indicator of the coarsening of our culture.
Second it’s kind of funny because I imagine the teacher had reached her limit imbecilic drivel submitted by illiterate high school students, and just had enough.
"WTF?"
Some freepers are old. Regulations used to be much more laid back. Now I have to keep old exams under lock and key even in an office that is locked when I am out. Why anyone would take such things, and what they would do with them is beyond my ability to imagination.
FWIW—
I believe that it is an Argentina expression referring to a desire to see the Pope dance while one drinks.
Whiskey! Tango, Francis.
My 17 year old goes to a very “urban” hs. He said one of his teachers has muttered somewhat loudly, but under his breath at the same time:
Why am I even f****** here?!
I was appalled... appalledthat he didn’t say it louder for all the little darlings to hear. ;)
It does provide a decent living and retirement, and can be fairly guaranteed employment, but I think I’d probably rather dig ditches than teach in most secondary schools—and I teach at the post-secondary level. My hat is off to you.
In the early 60s in Mississippi, my (fidgety at the time) older brother was tied up with a jump rope by his 1st grade teacher to keep him in his seat. I think that’s kinda cool.
“This is a Big F’ing Deal”
~ Groping Joe Biden 3/23/10
so...yeah...
My guess is that paper was near the bottom of a tall pile to be graded, and the vast majority of them were typical student writing-—absolutely horrible. The by-now-tired teacher wrote that out of sheer exasperation. I’m not defending it, they could have and should have written another comment, but that’s my guess. As a former science teacher, after reading a paper that was poorly written and decidedly short on correct information, I remember decrying that this was a science class, not science fiction.
I wonder how deep in the bottle she was when she wrote that,
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