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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I trust you caught that was deliberate.
Or perhaps you’ve never seen the shirt “I is a college graduate”?
"Water dissolving and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Under the water, carry the water
Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean
Water dissolving and water removing?
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was"
- Talking Heads
I pointed out #13 when I was in grade school. I got the same response from my teacher. It wasn’t until years later when I read about Pangea.
In a college psychology class, they taught about the Tasaday tribe in the Philippines. I pointed out it was completely fake and by then even National Geographic admitted it. That day I got a fail on a test that should have been an A. From that point on I just gave the professor what he wanted to hear and took my A on everything.
“That’s still a theory... What’s under the oceans? Land covered by water.”
I heard a navy recruiter jokingly say that he used to tell future inductees that “if you join the Navy you’ll never be more than 5 Miles away from land.”
How deep is the ocean at it’s deepest point in the Marianas Trench (now known as Challenger Deep)? 5 miles. And Mount Lam-Lam on Guam is the summit of the worlds tallest mountain.
If you have enough line you can bring up fish off of the slopes of that mountain at thousands of feet deep and they have developed with no occular capability (eyes) because they don’t need them that deep. I’ve seen it. Good eatin’ too!
One of my kids was on remote class for high school, and the math teacher started talking about the hippo-tense of a triangle.
“Plate Tectonics Theory was developed in the 1960s.”
And confirmed by an Apollo 11 experiment left on the surface of the Moon which measured continental drift with lasers.
From what I’ve read in recent Earth Science textbooks and physical Geology textbooks is that the continents drift apart about the rate that a human fingernail grows (as an example).
Sounds like they were just being niggardly with the vocabulary training.
Not a coincidence by modern thinking. Pangea and plate tectonics are the terms you need to delve into.
... and “keeping” face matters more because school is primarily a political institution.
That’s funny! And it sounds like them.
Understanding complex geological features in Africa and then reapplying that insight in South American has led to discovering and now producing billions of barrels of crude in Brazil.
Let me guess - she thought flaps did what ailerons do?
Thank you for defining plethora, it means a lot.
Put a wallet in a seizure victims mouth so they don’t swallow their tongue.
I corrected my teacher a lot. She hated me but told my parents I was usually right
They got me with that in the 1970s. In grade 5, a weird male teacher, in hindsight obviously gay, insisted the National Socialist German Workers' Party wasn't really socialist. Schools still tell that lie today, despite the Nazi plank almost identical to the modern Demonrat plank, down to the animus towards Jews.
Regards,
I almost spewed coffee on my keyboard. You are the one responsible.
I believe that that honor belongs to Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Regards,
That’s true. Ornery critters.
In college, a History teacher told the class that President Nixon got us into Vietnam. When I pointed out that JFK had sent advisors there and Johnson escalated the war, long before Nixon, the ‘teacher’ quickly said 5 or 6 non-sensical statements in a row, asked a rhetorical question without waiting for an answer and moved on to another subject. He was smooth. My grade dropped from an A to a C and he knocked me off the Dean’s List. Learned a good lesson about libs.
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