I thought it would be easy - and fun to meet the teacher anyhow. I was wrong.
The math problem was simple division with a remainder. I went to the classroom - explained in a light manner what the problem was... out of the blue the teacher took offense. She said the answer on the test was wrong. It wasn't. I asked her to explain. She showed me the answers in the back of the arithmetic book - where she had taken the test questions from... She looked at me with dead angry eyes and asked if I thought I was smarter than the people who wrote the book. I said it was a misprint - and started to explain. That angered her more.
It was my first brush with a ‘union goon teacher’. She was defensive because ( as I found out later ) other parents had also complained about things like letters sent home with spelling errors... etc.
She stayed on as a ‘teacher’ and I started on my path becoming a conservative... A bad teacher's like being mugged - a recruiting tool for Republicans..
It’s a for the good since it set you on the conservative path, but I think your kiddo would have learned better had he/she taken it up with the teacher directly—and seen first-hand how fallible the teacher.
A “teacher” who lacked the ability to do a simple division problem! That is the reductio ad absurdum of my brief against grade school teachers - the prevalence in the profession of people who want to teach children, but who consider long division to be higher mathematics. Which explains why a child who loved word problems in arithmetic which the rest of the class hated could get to tenth grade without knowing that he was good at math!I had a teacher who was on strike lie to my face about the upcoming school board meeting which - as she knew and I strongly suspected - was to be closed to the public. And she knew that I would find out that she had lied! ‘Course I was conservative long before that . . .
A “teacher” who lacked the ability to do a simple division problem! That is the reductio ad absurdum of my brief against grade school teachers - the prevalence in the profession of people who want to teach children, but who consider long division to be higher mathematics. Which explains why a child who loved word problems in arithmetic which the rest of the class hated could get to tenth grade without knowing that he was good at math!I had a teacher who was on strike lie to my face about the upcoming school board meeting which - as she knew and I strongly suspected - was to be closed to the public. And she knew that I would find out that she had lied! ‘Course I was conservative long before that . . .