Let's Have a Funny Pic Thread! Mk XV

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my nephew (then 6 th grade) came over (which was pretty much daily since i lived pratically next door) and asked me "you were in the military, right?" me: "yes". him: "why did nixon start the vietnam war?"
me: "where did you hear that nixon started the war?". him: "my teacher taught us that today"
so then i had to explain to him that LBJ is the one who sent all the troops in (after JFK was killed) and that in the end it was Nixon who got us out of the war.
so he goes to school the next day and gets in trouble for 'correcting' his teacher.

agenda driven teaching has screwed up the country maybe more than any other one thing, except maybe agenda driven news reporting.
 
mongooz said:
my nephew (then 6 th grade) came over (which was pretty much daily since i lived pratically next door) and asked me "you were in the military, right?" me: "yes". him: "why did nixon start the vietnam war?"
me: "where did you hear that nixon started the war?". him: "my teacher taught us that today"
so then i had to explain to him that LBJ is the one who sent all the troops in (after JFK was killed) and that in the end it was Nixon who got us out of the war.
so he goes to school the next day and gets in trouble for 'correcting' his teacher.

agenda driven teaching has screwed up the country maybe more than any other one thing, except maybe agenda driven news reporting.
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I don't know if that is really agenda driven or just a stupid teacher. When I was working for a school district, I was in a elementary school classroom working on some networking gear and I hear a student ask the teacher, why is that called the tomb of the unknown soldier, and her response was, I don't know, maybe he was so blown up they couldn't tell who he was. :facepalm:
 
Chad said:
I don't know if that is really agenda driven or just a stupid teacher. When I was working for a school district, I was in a elementary school classroom working on some networking gear and I hear a student ask the teacher, why is that called the tomb of the unknown soldier, and her response was, I don't know, maybe he was so blown up they couldn't tell who he was. :facepalm:
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Whether you know the answer or not, the correct response is always, "How can we find out the answer to that question?"

I know. It's not a how-to-research class, but for f*cks sake, school isn't a memorisation exercise. It's a how-to-keep-learning-for-the-rest-of-your-life journey.

I know. I'm wrong. That's what it should be, but it really is a memorisation exercise.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
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Whether you know the answer or not, the correct response is always, "How can we find out the answer to that question?"

I know. It's not a how-to-research class, but for f*cks sake, school isn't a memorisation exercise. It's a how-to-keep-learning-for-the-rest-of-your-life journey.

I know. I'm wrong. That's what it should be, but it really is a memorisation exercise.
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That is how it should be and with the internet in all the classes there is no excuse. The problem is the state exams. Teachers are so focused on getting their kids to pass them, if it isn't on the test, they don't care to get into it. But lets get back to funny pics.

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People have some pretty amazing expectations: Teachers are supposed to have the correct answer to every single question that comes up on any one of an entire universe of topics, and if they get something wrong, they are pilloried by the politicians and parents.
 
bsman said:
People have some pretty amazing expectations: Teachers are supposed to have the correct answer to every single question that comes up on any one of an entire universe of topics, and if they get something wrong, they are pilloried by the politicians and parents.
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Agreed. It's absolutely fine to say, "I don't know."
If it's your job to know, then you have to promise to find the answer.
A teacher's job SHOULD be to help students find the answer so that they learn how to do that for themselves.
 
bsman said:
People have some pretty amazing expectations: Teachers are supposed to have the correct answer to every single question that comes up on any one of an entire universe of topics, and if they get something wrong, they are pilloried by the politicians and parents.
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A good teacher already knows the answer. A great teacher shows the student how to figure it out.
 
Chad said:
I don't know if that is really agenda driven or just a stupid teacher. When I was working for a school district, I was in a elementary school classroom working on some networking gear and I hear a student ask the teacher, why is that called the tomb of the unknown soldier, and her response was, I don't know, maybe he was so blown up they couldn't tell who he was. :facepalm:
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no, that teacher was pretty left wing and anti-republican anything. but still, the point is that she was teaching something that was completely wrong and incorrect history.
 
mongooz said:
no, that teacher was pretty left wing and anti-republican anything. but still, the point is that she was teaching something that was completely wrong and incorrect history.
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More accurately, she just didn't know and made a really bad guess.

Which is almost as bad as actively teaching something wrong and incorrect.

I say, "Almost" because I would hope some students would say, "What the hell? That's not a answer. I'll go find it myself." and go read a book. At least she wasn't saying "This is the answer." and then giving ignore the information.

By the way, I don't know the complete answer, but I'm going to look it up.
I have a vague recollection of what our tomb in Canada represents. I'm going to look up to see if it's any different for the one the US. I suspect it's the same, but that's the part "I don't know."
 
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