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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Sounds like a trip to a school board is needed. Plethora. Did either of these incompetent idiots ever think to check a dictionary?
These all sound like contrivances to me.
Read a book, how old school\s
I thought a Plethora was a dinosaur, just like a Thesaurus.
You’re thinking of Mothra, clearly! 😉
In the 1960s, we were taught in grade school that American Bison (called buffalos) were extinct. You can’t really blame the teachers for this one: the Encyclopedia Britannica said the same at the time.
A plethora is a lot of moths.
Number 13, I never even thought about. The shapes of two countries being alike are a coincidence. Maybe the argument was, they were results of the same geological events, they are not coincidences. Either way, so what? Not a bone I would bother to pick. Some people, be they student or teacher, cannot handle being told that they are 100% WRONG!
I was a teaching assistant in Biology at a state university. The classes we taught basket weavers was incredibly more difficult than the ones we taught education majors. The education majors received a kindergarten level course.
It’s always been like that. I argued with third-grade teacher about moon’s gravity. She insisted there was none. This went on for a whole quarter or whatever it was.
It is the woke stuff that is relatively new, by my chronological standards.
In fifth grade, I told my teacher that Abraham Lincoln was born in a integral of 1/cabin = d cabin and she sent me to the principal’s office.
I had an incompetent history teacher say women could only vote in wyoming before 1920. I tried to explain that many states women could vote before 1029, and that my grandmother was an election judge in Colorado in 1916. She implied i was lying. I went to the school library and asked for help from the librarian to prove i was right and she knew I was so she found the book that had a chart and i took it to the teacher. The teacher was always making nasty remarks about me. And hated me worse after that. She admitted she was wrong, but just continued to act like a jerk. A classmate informed me years later of her timely demise but jokingly wouldn’t tell me where she was buried. “I don’t want to be responsible for you getting some Haitian to put a voodoo curse on the grave…..”
They sound like American teachers to me:
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/what-the-tests-tell-us-about-new-teachers
I had an incompetent history teacher say women could only vote in wyoming before 1920. I tried to explain that many states women could vote before 1920,, and that my grandmother was an election judge in Colorado in 1916. She implied i was lying. I went to the school library and asked for help from the librarian to prove i was right and she knew I was so she found the book that had a chart and i took it to the teacher. The teacher was always making nasty remarks about me. And hated me worse after that. She admitted she was wrong, but just continued to act like a jerk. A classmate informed me years later of her timely demise but jokingly wouldn’t tell me where she was buried. “I don’t want to be responsible for you getting some Haitian to put a voodoo curse on the grave…..”
At one time there was one continent on the earth. It split into the continents we know today. South America and Africa were together.
A long time ago Rush Limbaugh was the guest on the Oprah show. The agreement was there would be no discussion of politics and that El Rushbo could make a five minute statement of his political beliefs and the end of the show. What followed was one of the funniest hours in TV history as both of these old lags exchanged anecdotes and stories from their experience on radio and TV.
One story that got La Ophra howling with glee was when Rush described a station manager forbidding him to use words of over three syallablies on his daily radio show as the broadcast audience would not understand him.
Yes. I’ve always heard that. If one looks at a classroom globe, assuming those still exist, you can see how certain countries and continents fit together like a mildly shaken jigsaw puzzle.
No mention of these teachers’ demographics?
35. That the spanish/american war was an example of US paranoia about communism.
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