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"You don't have the motivation to succeed, and that's not something you can obtain. You will never be successful."
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Teachers who say things like that make me want to vomit, eros. I hope you've made a life's mission to prove him/her wrong.
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Former Science teacher: "When babies are born, their skulls are made out of cartilage since the bone hasn't developed yet. So you can drop a baby on its' head and it would bounce back up because of the cartilage."
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quote:Originally posted by Belle: Teachers who say things like that make me want to vomit, eros. I hope you've made a life's mission to prove him/her wrong.
She's over 40, single, a high school math teacher, and unhappy about all of the above.
I'm young, make more money than she does without a degree and love my life.
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"You're in this class because your boyfriend is in it."
Um, no, actually. There are these things called "graduation requirements" and I need this class, so . . .
But yeah, she's kind of a sad, lonely, mean, single, over 40 Statistics teacher, and no one likes her. Like, the other teachers hate her and talk about it around students. So I'm ok with it. Also she's on my list of people I would ok with dying. It's very short.
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The best I ever had was my World History teacher pointing to Cuba and telling us how the Japanese flew in there to attack Pearl Harbor. When someone tried to correct him, a student born in Hawaii, he told the class we needed to learn our Geography!
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I had a high school teacher who insisted a student could not listen to music while studying and retain the subject matter. She went around the class and made each student repeat that individually ( except those she ended up sending to the office) Posts: 2711 | Registered: Mar 2004
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I've had a wide spectrum of strange teacherness. I presently have one that completely did not believe me when I told the class that there was an oil spill off the coast of Lebanon.
Since, apparently, Lebanon has no coastline.
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quote:Originally posted by romanylass: I had a high school teacher who insisted a student could not listen to music while studying and retain the subject matter. She went around the class and made each student repeat that individually ( except those she ended up sending to the office)
If she was saying this because someone was listening to headphones in her class, I sympathize with her situation, even though I don't necessarily agree with that statement. Kids who listen to headphones while I'm teaching make me very, very angry.
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"Right here in front of the class admit that you were wrong and I was right!"
PE teacher who insisted that I had dropped my watch on the field and lost it and not that she had lost it when I put it in the basket she had passed around.
She was Scottish so man it was hard to stand up to that temper, but in my memory I could see myself clearly placing the watch in the basket, and its perfectly plausible it bounced out of the small basket and onto the field floor.
The comment was only stupid because she could have talk to me after class or off to the side, rather then try to make me acknowledge that I was wrong in front of the whole class. She was pretty pissed when I didnt back down (but I think she was secretly pleased I was bull headed, I imagine the Scottish can appreciate that trait).
She really enjoyed me being in her classroom in the class I took from her the very next semester.
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rivka, I am very, very tempted to kill said kids. Usually, however, I just embarass them into the ground. If they die of it afterward, then I suppose that would count.
Public Service Announcement: Do not listen to headphones in class when someone is teaching. It is dreadfully, horribly rude. It makes people want to kill you. It makes you-know-who kill a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.
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quote: Public Service Announcement: Do not listen to headphones in class when someone is teaching. It is dreadfully, horribly rude. It makes people want to kill you. It makes you-know-who kill a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.
First you people guilt me out of my onanism; now you guilt me out of my study habits?
I will kill you until you die from it.
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quote:Originally posted by Megan: Usually, however, I just embarrass them into the ground. If they die of it afterward, then I suppose that would count.
That was certainly my preferred method.
(I don't teach anymore. And frustration with students is a big part of why.)
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I had the most inappropriate history teacher in jr. high - she was literally crazy. She told us once in class about how she was saved, and since she became a Christian she had never sinned and if we would all only convert to her church we could be sinless too.
Sure, we could have complained, but she was so crazy and her tests so easy, she was pretty entertaining so we all just took our A's and went on our merry way.
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Erosomniac, study however you like when you're on your own. But listening to headphones in class, when you've got someone in front of you teaching, is extraordinarily disrespectful.
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quote:Originally posted by Megan: Erosomniac, study however you like when you're on your own. But listening to headphones in class, when you've got someone in front of you teaching, is extraordinarily disrespectful.
I was kidding.
It pisses me off when people don't seem to be paying attention to what I'm saying, even in a casual context, even with eye contact and verbal responses. I can't even imagine how angry I'd get at someone who put on headphones.
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quote:I had the most inappropriate history teacher in jr. high - she was literally crazy. She told us once in class about how she was saved, and since she became a Christian she had never sinned and if we would all only convert to her church we could be sinless too.
That makes her literally crazy in your book?
*gets fitted for a straight jacket*
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My 3rd grade teacher told us that Indians and Pilgrims had, "parties, and hung out with each other." I didnt learn about manifest destiny until 5+ years later.
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quote:I had the most inappropriate history teacher in jr. high - she was literally crazy. She told us once in class about how she was saved, and since she became a Christian she had never sinned and if we would all only convert to her church we could be sinless too.
That makes her literally crazy in your book?
*gets fitted for a straight jacket*
*Blinks* Do Mormons believe they're sinless once they convert?
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I had a teacher once (fifth grade, I believe) who argued with me for almost an entire class period that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel. When I informed him that it's Jerusalem, and that I was in fact born there, he reprimanded me for daring to argue with him when obviously he was the more knowledgeable of the two of us. After school that day I complained to my parents (I KNEW I wasn't stupid!!) and my dad flared up and my teacher had to formally apologize to me the next day. I felt kind of bad, but there was a certain satisfaction as well!
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Literally was probably the wrong word choice there. The whole sinless thing wasn't the only reason we thought she was crazy, it's just the first one that comes to mind.
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I can't remember any really silly things that any teacher might have said to me. But that's just because I don't remember the silly things anyway. It just gets filtered out somehow.
I have however attended class while wearing headphones. It didn't make the teacher happy, but he knew there was no way he could stop me from doing so. Also, it was the in-ear type of speaker, so you'd hardly notice them anyway. Especially since I only wore one of them; the ear most visible to my teacher was empty and with it I was marginally paying attention to whatever he was going on about... He was continually explaining things to the rest ofthe class that I'd already understood as I'd made the assignments. also, my grades were always good enough, even though I hardly put in any effort. For clarity I think I have to add that this was a course in my native language, the class was scheduled for the last two hours every friday (between 14:00 and 16:00 hours, roughly). Because I didn't want to skip the lesson every week and having it appear on my attendance sheet, I hung around, but most of the time I didn't learn much besides how to kill time.
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quote:It didn't make the teacher happy, but he knew there was no way he could stop me from doing so.
Are there not rules in these classes? Do the teachers not have the authority to forbid headphones? I know in my kids handbook it reads that any headphones or cell phones used in class will be confiscated. The parents can come to the school and redeem the item but it won't be returned to the student.
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I don't know whether there were any explicit rules that forbade the use of headphones. Cellphones weren't an issue at that time, that's for sure. The teacher just let me be. Since my grades weren't aversely affected by my lack of classroom participation, he must not have seen any reason to stop me.
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quote:Since my grades weren't aversely affected by my lack of classroom participation, he must not have seen any reason to stop me.
difference in teaching styles then - had you been in my class your grade would have been aversely affected.
I've noticed some teachers at the college level take attendance and are really big on participation and others don't care. Some classes I see people texting each other all class long (annoying, because even if it's silent, it's still distracting to have someone texting right next to you, you can hear the keys clicking at the very least) and some classes people don't dare even pull out their cell phones because the teacher makes a big deal out of it.
Personally, since I plan to teach middle or high school, I'll be pretty strict about it, to the extent that school rules allow me to be. If I can confiscate electronic items, I certainly will and if the parents won't come redeem them by the end of the year I'll donate them to charity.
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Yeah well, you have to take into account that I live in the Netherlands. We tend to have a different outlook on rules...
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quote:difference in teaching styles then - had you been in my class your grade would have been aversely affected.
Why? If it isn't impacting his learning or the learning of the other students, what benefit is there for lowering a student's grade for wearing an earphone?
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quote:*Blinks* Do Mormons believe they're sinless once they convert?
No, but that doesn't matter for my point.
Belle said that her teacher was "literally crazy" because of what she believed about sin and her religion. I'm sure I believe things about religion and sin that Belle doesn't agree with. In Belle's eyes, does that make me "crazy" just like her teacher?
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Personally, I think it's pretty crazy to be bringing her religion into the classroom, especially since it seems she was trying to convert students O_O
Edit to clarify: As to exactly what she believes, doesn't matter to me. Just thought maybe there's some law against what she was doing!
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Tresopax: thank you for backing me up. I would only listen to music when the teacher was explaining things I already understood. Besides, I was sitting in the front row of the class and nobody was sitting next to me. In this way, none of the other students were adversely affected by my insolence. - Though it might have annoyed them that I could get away with it... Posts: 993 | Registered: Jul 2006
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quote:Personally, I think it's pretty crazy to be bringing her religion into the classroom, especially since it seems she was trying to convert students O_O
I'll agree that it was inappropriate, and possibly foolish, but do you really agree that it's "literally crazy"?
What sort of treatments do you think should be forced upon her to cure her of this condition?
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Ahhh... you're speaking to a twenty-something who still acts like a teenager. I use words like literally to mean totally, absolutely, really, so, etc. So when I read them, I don't at first take into effect that they have, well, literal meanings besides being slangy emphasis words.
That said... No, I don't think that that makes her literally crazy, just zealous or even just enthusiastic. Though it sounds like there are other reasons we haven't been told that might otherwise make her so, I'd be curious to hear the whole picture.
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mph- I totally see what you mean. I just thought I understood basic mormon beliefs pretty well. I was going to be fairly surprised if I'd missed something that important.
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