I think maybe daddy should find out why she won...
This is disturbing, the teacher should be fired!
If the fathers first instinct is to attack the teacher, the kids may have a point.
Sadly, too many teachers simply want to BE a student, rather than teach. The teacher here seems to want to get into the yearbook-thing, and be part of the "let's nominate our classmates" thing, and gets to disguise it by saying that she merely wants to get students to think about such things, hiding behind liberal elitism and "open-mindedness". There are better ways to fear-monger pubescents about sex and AIDS... not that I think this should be part of a school's curriculum, mind you.
Yeah. Have the kids do the outing for you. That's probably safer path, career-wise.
Or maybe not.
Maybe the teachers should just focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic.
First of all, this absurd ‘survey’ is relying upon the reasonable, seasoned and logical sense of children (har har) and fails to account for the fact that kids (and lots of adults for that matter) are too quick to be smart asses and say something like “hey, I think so-and-so is gonna get AIDS, lol” or “hey, she looks like a slut, bet she gets knocked up!” without ANY regard whatsoever as to whether their off-the-cuff comments reflect reality or their own immature attitudes.
If a teacher is stupid enough to allow such behavior to run rampant by passing out some ‘survey’ which encourages kids to sneer, smear and slander any of their classmates that they choose, that teacher has NO place in a classroom, the ‘survey’ should be banned from any and all teaching environments, and the local school district should be facing a massive civil suit by the parents of the child or children who have been needlessly humiliated and slandered, perhaps slandered and unjustly labeled for life. Those sort of things do not always just disappear, are not always quickly forgotten, they linger and cause a lifetime of grief in some cases.
Fire the damn teacher, sue the bloody school, and hold the sumb!tches to account!
I don’t see the scientific aspect in this lesson. I have to say this teacher sounds wildly stupid.
Kids can usually think this stuff up without the teacher’s help.
Well, we know who is on the list, “Teacher most likely to face a lawsuit”.
Those questions were out of place and inappropriate. I want to know what was the lesson in that?”
That lesson was about an agenda. Had nothing to do with science or teaching children. It had everything to do with a liberal teacher using the Government’s Liberal School system to further the Governments agenda in gaining power and control over future voters.
If I had school age children you would not be able to force me to have them in the government schools at the point of a gun.............”
My grandchildren were removed from “public” schools and are now home schooled. There are more polite, more mature, and more intelligent then they were in the “public” system. They have wide ranging interests that go beyond who is wearing what and which video game is the more violent.
Two nephews are either home schooled or in a Christian School and both are doing very well and have fewer problems then children in the area that are in the public school system.
Some public schools may still have teachers that really are there to teach not to brainwash with a social or liberal agenda. But I think they are the exception to the rule in that system.
Government schools are evil.
It sounds like the teacher wanted to know who the biggest whore is.
This was way, way out of line. To get it from a teacher, who is supreme authority to a 6’th grader, that you are a slut and will die in AIDS. Poor kid. I say, make the teacher explain to the entire class how wrong what he did was. Then make him apologize to the girl and her father, in front of the class. Then fire his ass and make sure he never teaches again.
Also, I questions the “science” behind this “survey”, being as how it was a science-teacher who put it forth. How about we discuss matters such as undue bias in polling sample.
Given: 100% of Freepers dislikes Hillary Clinton.
Question: Is it fair to say that according to polls, 100% of americans dislike Hillary Clinton.
Discuss.
Given: Majority of classmates thinks the Honor student is a slut (and they also like to pick on her at recess because she’s way smarter than them).
Question: Does this mean the Honor student is a slut?
Discuss
I would have selected the wrong one(s) in 6th grade.
The girl that got pregnant was the preacher’s daughter. She delivered the day after graduation. That made a really nice sight during the ceremony.
...and here I am teaching population ecology exercises, using predator/prey relationships(mice/fox).
Honor students can get pregnant.
Dad needs to open his eyes
Hey daddy, your daughter is a slut.
You must be the last to know.
They all are, but I get your point, Mr. Lyons.
My first reaction would have been...”oh no you didn’t!” I would be all over that teacher, the school, the school district, the Board of Education, and anyone else who thought that that test was appropriate.
What kind of an idiot doesn’t know how cruel kids can be, and will ALWAYS point out the one they are the most and jealous envious of?
No sir, that teacher would dread the day she ever heard my name after that episode.