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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Failed a high school required class because I have poor writing abilities. (I word good.. just my penmanship is trash)

Literally got a 0 on a midterm because the teacher "couldn't read my writing"

Crap like the green text and my high school experience is why parents need to be involved in a child's education.

thats been 30 years ago.. I'm still bitter. But it'll make me a better father to school aged kids

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I still remember my teacher bitching me out in front of the class when we were learning negative numbers because when he asked me how I figured out the correct answer I said that the positive numbers and negatives cancelled each other out. Like -4 and positive 5, the negative 4 cancels out 4 on the positive side and you are left with 1. Maybe that wasn't the correct verbiage but it gave me the correct answer every time. He was a dick about correcting me though.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There’s not much worse as a kid in a learning environment, or even with your parent(s), to be shut down painfully for being right about something that they don’t know or don’t think you know. Really crushes the satisfaction of nailing a win and turns it into bitterness and starts the lifelong process of keeping your mouth shut when you’re right and letting others win when wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The time I told the story about how I had mud pies for my 5th birthday and said they used Oreo crumbs to make it look more realistic …. I was stood in front of the entire kindergarten and made to say the word and what it meant.

Idk why I don’t like attention 40 years later

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In fourth grade we would read short stories and answer multiple-choice questions about them. One such story was about romantically involved terrapins, and the question was "What would be a good title for this story?" The answers included

a) A turtle love story

b) Two turtles in love

I don't remember which one I picked but the correct answer was the other one.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (10 children)

I had an elementary school teacher who insisted that gravity came from the earth's rotation, and that if the earth stopped spinning there would be nothing holding us down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did your teacher believe in the hollow Earth theory?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had an 8th grade social studies teacher/football coach tell us black people had an extra bone in their leg and that's why they were so good at sports. He was pretty well liked teacher tbh, we watched Oliver Stones "JFK" in his class. During lectures he'd come around and sit on the front of his desk to seem more relatable. He ended up on the school board eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I would understand "unsolvable" or something but 0 just hurts. Later you learn to specify "within natural numbers" and it's totally reasonable to stay within the number range you have learned so far and it would be fine to tell the kid "you're not wrong but let's keep it simple". Just don't teach things they have to unlearn later.

My brother was in a similar situation where he said the square root of -1 is i and the teacher was impressed and it was discussed as a positive thing at home

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Impossible" would be a more mathematically accurate answer than "zero".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yea, or “the first twenty are free but the remaining five you don’t have to give are a problem”.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It's not a matter of accuracy even, if for any two natural numbers x < y it holds x - y = 0 then x = y, which is a contradiction. So this is basic consistency requirement, basically sabotaging any effort to teach kids math.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

My English-as-second-language teacher hated me because I kept correcting her spelling and vocabulary. But it was okay because I hated her right back and took every opportunity to annoy her (for the sake of rigorous accuracy, of course). Fortunately she couldn't actually harm or sabotage me because I aced almost all of my tests and had good scores in national ESL competitions, and a sudden drop in grades would likely have been too obvious.

The point where I'd had enough was a test about the anatomy of vehicles. She had crossed out my answer to "left side of a ship" because I'd written port or larboard (not that I expected someone with a master's diploma to know the etymology of nautical terms*, or not to confuse larboard with starboard because they looked similar), but what made my blood fucking boil was when she crossed out my answers of hood and trunk because I'd used the American words instead of the British bonnet and boot, and when I pointed out that she'd marked those same answers as correct in others' tests, she went back and fucking changed the scores on the other tests. I told her it was "deplorable conduct for a teacher" (approximate translation, and as polite as I was going to get that day) and she dragged me to the principal for disrupting the class.

That was the third year of high school (I think "junior" is the American equivalent). I took an option to graduate one year early from ESL, in part out of spite. I'm sure she was glad to be rid of me.

* I knew "larboard" and "starboard" and the names of individual sails from Assassin's Creed 4. Much of my vocabulary comes from games (including some Russian from STALKER, Metro, and MGSV).

edit: A resurfaced memory! Still regarding sailing -- she thought "in distress" meant that things were calm and safe because "di-stress" was the opposite of "stress". I swear I'm not making this shit up!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

this is all really surprising. what were the native languages here? it was in the uk right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Europe, but not an English-speaking country. No native speakers were involved.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 4 days ago (8 children)

This shit happened to me, but in kindergarten. I grew up in a bilingual house. I spoke English and Spanish equally. I went to the school with my mom to get assessed. She said I could read and was bilingual. The teacher didn't believe it and made me read from one of their books.

To add insult to injury, when they had Spanish class, the fucking teacher taught us that "purple" was "porpuda" and "lizard" wad "lizardo." Shit like that... My mom put me in another school.

I'm 48 and still laugh about lizardo. How absolutely stupid.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You had Peggy Hill as a full time Spanish teacher‽‽ She's supposed to be a substitute!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

To add insult to injury, when they had Spanish class, the fucking teacher taught us that “purple” was “porpuda” and “lizard” wad “lizardo.”

That's ridiculous! Everyone knows the correct world is lizarda! Spanish is a gendered language, the genders matter! /s

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

lol porpuda. was she trying to say púrpura instead of morado?

y más lagarto = lagardo = lazardo = lizardo??

poor kid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Exactly that. Porpuda is now a joke between my girlfriend and I and we intentionally use it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (4 children)

When I was in kindergarten, my mom got a call day 1 because I didn't know how to count to 10 supposedly. Even though I did it multiple times. I just did it in Japanese cause they never requested I do it in English. Tbf, I'm white and not bilingual.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

why does this gat dang kid keep complaining about his itchy knee?!?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My experiences were to answer correctly, and then they go 'well, yes', and then don't ask me questions in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me, but it's a job site and the teacher is my manager and I'm 28. Had a possibility to leave in contrast to this 7 years old child

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You got a trade? Self employment is a wonderful thing, lemme tell you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Nothing beats not having a boss.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The worst part is that he was grounded by the parents. When I was younger a teacher told me I was wrong for saying that Portrush was in County Antrim, not Londonderry like she told the class. My mum brought it up at the parent teacher conference.

Same teacher also marked me wrong when asked to list loughs in Northern Ireland and Iisted Lough Beg. I was right, but it wasn't on the list that SHE gave us.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

Absolutely not fake, nor gay

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

This happened to me in 6 grade and the teacher was like annoyed bruh when I confidently raised hand to give a more accurate answer. Maybe she thought I was showing off the way she reacted

[–] [email protected] 253 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Average autism experience tbh

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Really? Seems like.a very shit teacher and school. Dont think a 7 yr old getting upset by that is unusual. Id be furious of that had happened to my kid.

Its kind of a perfect example of how mediocre has become acceptable and even celebrated. And the attidues of don't question, or don't challenge. Scale that up and you start understanding how the world is as it is, particularly in the US.

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[–] [email protected] 189 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That, and teachers really fucking hate being called out on something for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 days ago (4 children)

All my teachers were fine with it honestly :3 at least after primary school.. if you corrected them they might've given you extra credit

But the general notion of saying something correct and people saying that that's wrong, and not knowing why still stands

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I asked my science teacher why and how the periodic table was setup like it was, I got "that's how it's setup"

But why, there as to be a reason

That's just the way they made it

Yeah because they have to have gone by something what is that something

That's just the way they did, stop asking questions (please don't fucking learn in here)

Godamn that pissed me off.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Really? We got a detailed breakdown of why the periodic table is the way it is

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Once I got into Gifted teachers were like that. My first couple years in normie classes suuuucked.

Then in Gifted the bullies got much smarter. Fun times.

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