Scary Teacher Postings

Illinois Loop ^

[VetoBill]

If you really want to confuse these people, when working on a car, ask for a 3/8 18 inch breaker bar with a 6 inch extention and a 9/16 deep well socket out of your toolbox.

[Always Right]

Please tell me how I can find the diameter of a circle if I know the radius. Thanks!

Its pretty complicated, but you take the square root of the square of the radius, multiply that times 4 Pi, then divide by 2 Pi.

[Darksheare]

But. but... it's more important to know about the political ideology of gay fruit flies that to actually have any real knowledge. And it's more important to 'feel good' about being a functional illiterate. THAT'S what they do in ed school.

Oh, and teach fourth graders how to put on a condom.

[Illbay]

How embarrassing!

Reminds me of a oft-repeated quip from an old college buddy of mine: "Have you ever thought about how really STUPID 'average intelligence' is?"

[vnix]

I have to say that I was pretty fortunate. Our high school was really good. Matter of fact, our entire district was run pretty well and it still is (my kids go there now) They're still into the basics and they don't teach all that touchy feely crap. Maybe it's not the norm, but they really do educate our kids and do a great job. I hear a bunch of stuff about the public school system in general and it actually scares me. My boys are 10 and 13 and I think I'll keep them right were they're at. I get alot of help from them too. I'm a single dad and they actually arranged it so my boys can stay after school till I get off work. It's not latch key, a couple teachers stay late so my boys stay at their rooms till I get there. They get their homework done and it keeps them out of trouble. They're at that age you know.

[dd5339]

That giant sucking sound you hear is society going down the drain at a high rate of speed!

Semper Fi

[LiteKeeper]

Can anyone spell "home schooling"? Hint - it is between the two sets of little marks.

[Crispy]

"Its pretty complicated, but you take the square root of the square of the radius, multiply that times 4 Pi, then divide by 2 Pi."

Lol. That is almost as funny as the question.

[Britton J Wingfield]

the use of science fiction as a tool in science education. Actually, I've learned a lot of science from science fiction. It's not exactly an efficient way to learn a broad topic, though.

[RAT Patrol]

What every home school parent knows is that you do not have to be an expert to teach almost anything. You have to be smart enough to find excellent curriculum and disciplined and determined enough to see that the student does the work. It also helps if you are inspiring--by that I mean if you creatively work to motive the student to WANT to learn. Student effort plus great resources equals success. Too often, in public schools, I think clever students can go through the learning motions without really setting the lifetime habits it takes to acquire high knowledge, reasoning and thinking skills.

[billybudd]

A bunch of these were funny, but then a lot of them were just regular posts, and the commentator's derision just didn't make sense. For example, the one about the debate instructor looking for some good internet sites that discuss the current resolution. That's a totally legitimate question, since debate resolutions cover a lot of ground and it's necessary to use different resources to construct affirmative and negative arguments. The commentator just displays his ignorance when he suggests the instructor just construct his own "pro and con" list.

[Lassiter]

Do any 1 no were i kan bye a metrick hamer 4 my hun houn hooon corean kar?

[Lassiter]

Please tell me how I can find the diameter of a circle if I know the radius. Thanks!

With a calculator.

[PatrickHenry]

We're in BIG freaking trouble...

You didn't know?

[txzman]

"Subject: Veteran's Day lesson plans Does anyone know where I can get interdisciplinary lesson plans for Veterans' Day? A posted reply...

How about something about how we saved France twice in world wars, after which they went on to teach their children math while we do interdisciplinary lesson plans?

My personal favorite! I still cringe when remembering the Phys Ed teacher who was assigned to 'teach' my math class Trigonometry in High School. No wonder I became a History Major!

[Scully]

I just thought we were in freaking trouble, not BIG freaking trouble. Egads!

[Scully]

Here is my favorite:

"...but doe's prove a point..."

Does this mean, "but does prove a point", or in some weird way is the author trying to say that a "doe" is responsible for proving a point.

Ah, "The King Who Reigned"! :-)

Edukators...phooey!

[SAJ]

Pretty humerus. (g!)

[PatrickHenry]

My sister, who used to be a teacher, blames this on the women's liberation movement. Now that a bright girl can study to be an astronomer or a brain surgeon, bright young women no longer automatically go into school teaching, as was once the case. Instead, the girls who become teachers today are those who, in a prior generation, would have become housemaids and hair dressers.

[TotusTuus]

"1/2" crescent wrench."

Just tell them - and this is very important - that they should use a metric crescent wrench...