Posted on 01/25/2023 9:48:43 PM PST by grundle
1."In 4th grade we were learning about bats. And the teacher asked the class to name as many different types of bats as we could. I raised my hand and said 'Vampire Bats,' and he said 'Name only real ones please.' They are real, and I knew it. But he made me feel like an ass."
2."I got sent to the principal's office for using the word 'plethora.' The teacher thought it was a swear word. So did the principal."
7."That the moon emits light, just like the sun. As a nerdy kid interested in space I told her that it’s actually reflecting the light of the sun, but she did not believe me."
12."That Abraham Lincoln was the first American president. I told her she was wrong, it was George Washington, and she snapped, saying, ‘Well why do you know so much about American politics it is pathetic.’ And all the other kids in my class started making fun of me for being stupid."
13."I was told in no uncertain terms that the match in shape between Africa and South America was coincidental...That is to say: The match between the Western coastline of Africa and the Eastern coastline of South America."
14."Middle school not elementary, but my sixth grade science teacher told the class that sound travels faster than light because 'If a plane is flying overhead, you hear it before you see it!'"
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Unless you sat next to a juvenile Ben Franklin while attending school, your teacher had no excuse to teach that!
Regards,
That’s because they were generally in the lower quartiles of their high school classes. A lot of so called teacher’s colleges had very low admissions policies and were the only schools the kids could get into.
“Unless you sat next to a juvenile Ben Franklin while attending school, your teacher had no excuse to teach that!”
LOL! I know, but to be fair, the grade school teachers back then were geared mainly for teaching the three Rs. Anything technical was beyond them.
Plate Tectonics Theory was developed in the 1960s.
...The ocean floors do not simply represent submerged continental land....
Sure they do!
Zealandia (pronounced /ziːˈlændiə/), also known as Te Riu-a-Māui (Māori)[2] or Tasmantis,[3][4] is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust that subsided after breaking away from Gondwanaland 83–79 million years ago.[5] It has been described variously as a submerged continent, continental fragment, and microcontinent.[6] The name and concept for Zealandia was proposed by Bruce Luyendyk in 1995,[7] and satellite imagery shows it to be almost the size of Australia.[8] A 2021 study suggests Zealandia is 1 billion years old, about twice as old as geologists previously thought.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia
I like to keep it simple.
They probably thought “dictionary” was another swear word.
In 1972, my family’s first trip to Yellowstone Nat’l Park, I was informed that bison were endangered.
In 1974, they were apparently so unendangered any more that Mom was able to buy us “buffalo burgers” at a fair in Washington State.
Sometime in the early 2000s someone started farming bison outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan, near the home of one of my cousins. Still see them wandering around when we go that way. I was unable to tell a child whether they “moo”.
*dumbing
:)
MOST of the ocean bed is NOT continental in nature.
Regards,
I still remember in elementary school being called to the board to write vocabulary words spoken by the teacher. This was in Illinois, and my teacher had a really strong, somewhat unusual midwestern accent (never knew exactly from where). One word she gave me she pronounced as “min.” So, I wrote “min” on the board, and she immediately said “no” and repeated it again, “min.” Well, hearing again what I thought I heard the first time I again wrote, “min.” At this point she was getting really frustrated and said once more, but more insistently this time, “min!” Still confused for a moment, a light finally went on in my head and I suddenly realized what she was trying to say, whereupon I wrote, “men” and all was once again well with the world.
“Now that our brother has given us the Word of Prophecy, we await the interpretation.”
(j/k)
One wonders how she pronounced “min”.
4-7 = -3 Second grade teacher marked me wrong. She also had a wrong idea of what the flaps on an airplane were for.
Back in gradeschool, k-8th, I went to a parochial lutheran school. The first period everyday would be religion. That was all fine and good until later on with science, geography class. I was told back then that there was no such thing as dinosaurs because they were never mentioned in the bible so they did not exist. Then there was the evolution of species, like how dogs came from wolves, etc. Hard to explain when you are taught that the earth is only 6500 years old.
Was it a botany teacher?
Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach....
And those who can't even teach go into politics .....
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“The education majors received a kindergarten level course.”
Can we really say now that “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”?
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