Student Calls Out Teacher in Front of Class

[gwax23]

good for him. I like the whole "packet" thing. Had a lot of teachers like that.

 

[Weston White]

This is simply proof that the public education system is actually working. See, the children of our nation have acquired such a vast wealth of knowledge they're literally capable of teaching themselves. So of course the next logical step is to hoard them into classrooms for the 12-hours out of every single day of the week throughout the entire year. Those genius teachers of ours!

 

[BAllen]

Blame the teacher. One of the teachers I had would help kids learn. If they put forth no effort, she turned their desk to the back of the room, and gave them a 0 for the day. That was encouragement enough for me to learn.

 

[Lucille]

One star? And the other thread on this (sorry I missed it!) was getting dinged too. Someone likes packets.

 

[opal]

I'd like to +rep the kid

 

[Todd]

Glad I grew up before all this "packet" crap.

 

[opal]

can you just imagine how lost that twit would be having to teach a lab class? Do they even have labs anymore

 

[paulbot24]

can you just imagine how lost that twit would be having to teach a lab class? Do they even have labs anymore

That depends on whether the teachers "guilted" enough parents into paying for it during registration.

 

[AGRP]

Students are basically copying from textbooks material in an outline form. Usually a few pages. It's not teaching at all but merely parroting what they are reading and then receive a grade essentially upon conformity.

One can learn more from a 20 minute Ron Paul video than filling out an entire packet.

 

[AGRP]

Poor naive kid hasn't learned yet:



Seems like he's the type who will eventually find out.

 

[fr33]

One star? And the other thread on this (sorry I missed it!) was getting dinged too. Someone likes packets.

He doesn't look like a conservative I guess

The local right wing radio this morning are busy criticizing the kid. How dare he get so uppity and speak truth to power!

 

[jbauer]

That was how high school was for me, and the sad part is I caught my English teacher grading my packets WRONG. That stirred up a real shit storm. That's worse than teaching. It's... stupifying.

We had to do a presentation on a "country" back in school. I ended up with Germany. Part of the project was to make a flag for them. This was right after the unification but prior to any internet or smart phones. She gave me an F because I didn't do "both" flags. I politely informed her that unification had happened and they were one nation with one flag.

Not sure if she was under a rock or something but the wall falling was one of the bigger events in our lives. Ended up getting an A after several days of arguing with her. It finally took a meeting with the teacher, principal and my folks to get it cleared up. When the principal heard that she gave me an F for not making 2 flags he turned a ghostly shade of white. You could see in his face that this teacher must be the biggest moron on the planet.

 

[jbauer]

"Packets" were basically my whole education. Slight exaggeration but very few teachers actually got up in front of class and taught. Even if they did try to actually teach I'd say it was about 50/50 at best if they were capable of doing it, I went to a pretty rough school tho so I don't blame the teachers 100% for that.

How old are you if its ok to ask?

I'm early 30s. It wasn't that way when I went to school or even college but maybe school has changed that much? I ask because I've got 2 small ones, one about to start Kindergarten.

 

[jbauer]

Another fun story.

Had a history teacher in high school. He was tenured so there was nothing you could do about him. He literally had a recliner in his room. It was not uncommon on nice days for him to pop a video in and go drive golf balls outside.

Anyway, his grades were as follows: If you read the book, turn in all the homework you get a C. If you miss even one homework your grade is entirely dependent on your fill in the bubble test scores. I knew that I could get an A just doing the tests. I didn't do one single piece of homework. At the end of the year he called me up and chewed me out for not "participating" in class by not doing his homework. (there were no checks in his book for homework) I asked if that meant I get graded based on my test scores. He said yes. I asked him what my test scores gave me for a grade (I knew it was an A). He opened his book for the first time and added all them together. He said an A. I said thank you and walked off.

 

[Lucille]

He doesn't look like a conservative I guess

The local right wing radio this morning are busy criticizing the kid. How dare he get so uppity and speak truth to power!

Are they really?! I hope callers are taking them to school, so to speak.

 

[Lucille]

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=53885

IMHO , a child’s education is to valuable and essential to their well being as a child and upon becoming an adult to be trusted with a dumbed down, bureaucratically manipulated public school system.

It is the 100% the parents responsibility to ensure their child gets a well-balanced and useful education.

Anyone who depends entirely on a public school system for instruction,like the frustrated kid in the video seems to suggest, are setting themselves up for a lifetime of disappointment.

Without further ado, I give you a glimpse of the future.
[...]
"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."
Mark Twain

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.
Mark Twain

Everything has its limit–iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
- What is Man?

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
- Mark Twain’s Notebook, 1898

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates–1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don’t know what happened on either occasion.

 

[affa]

That was how high school was for me, and the sad part is I caught my English teacher grading my packets WRONG. That stirred up a real shit storm. That's worse than teaching. It's... stupifying.

in 2nd grade, i was marked wrong on a math test. the 'back of the book' answer in the teacher's edition was incorrect, and the teacher insisted i was wrong despite me doing everything i could to show her i was right. i ended up getting in trouble.

i was, of course, correct, and the book was incorrect (my dad ended up sorting out the teacher). and there went my respect of authority.

re: this video -- loved it.

 

[KingNothing]

The local right wing radio this morning are busy criticizing the kid.

At the very least, the teacher handled the situation HORRIFICALLY. There's no reason to criticize the kid. There's never a reason to criticize a kid who actually wants to learn. They act the way they are raised and taught to act, and a teacher that deserves respect will receive it.

 

[jtap]

Signs of intelligence in the classroom!

I believe the intelligence just left the classroom.

 

[One Last Battle!]

in 2nd grade, i was marked wrong on a math test. the 'back of the book' answer in the teacher's edition was incorrect, and the teacher insisted i was wrong despite me doing everything i could to show her i was right. i ended up getting in trouble.

i was, of course, correct, and the book was incorrect (my dad ended up sorting out the teacher). and there went my respect of authority.

re: this video -- loved it.

I had a teacher in the 8th grade who insisted that "shut up" was a compound word, despite it being two separate words.