Author Topic: Letter from the teacher (Read 2538 times)

SOHC4ever · « **on:** December 15, 2009, 05:29:23 PM »

I don't know about you guys, but if my (notional) kid turned up with a letter from the teacher like this, I would be beyond proud.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #1 on:** December 15, 2009, 05:47:39 PM »

I have come across similar things as well. My daughter was 5 years old and in her first year of school when the class was asked different questions about fruit and vegetables, the teacher asked the class what a Tomato was and my daughter put up her hand and said it was a fruit. The teacher told her that she was wrong and when Dania {my daughter} said that "my dad told me it was a fruit" the teacher told her to go home and tell your father that he is wrong.....great start to school eh.....I sent her to school the next day with the dictionary which clearly states that it is a fruit and she was still told she was wrong again. I phoned the principal and had a short and pleasant conversation in which he was very annoyed at the teachers performance and shortly after I received an apology letter from the teacher.........she never said a thing to my daughter......what an arse....

I also had a teacher at my school when in the 7th grade ask "if a circle has a radius line drawn in it how many radii would it be possible to fit in the circle, after a while the teacher told us it was "infinite" when i pointed out that the radius line had "area" all be it small and it was impossible for it to be infinite, i was given detention.....

Mick

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2009, 05:55:43 PM »

Well, the kid didn't have to say the stupid teacher was lying to the class, that is a bit disrespectful.
Kinda reminded me of a soils teacher I had in university that wrote the textbook we used, the guy was never wrong even when students pointed it out that he was wrong.

Drove everyone in the class stupid crazy when that happened, I was happy with my C in the class.

BobbyR · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2009, 06:21:55 PM »

I spent 6 years on my local Board of Education. It is frightening who we trust our children to.

72 yellow · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2009, 06:44:18 PM »

Quote from: BobbyR on December 15, 2009, 06:21:55 PM

I spent 6 years on my local Board of Education. It is frightening who we trust our children to.

Very aware of that. In 1967 my high school counselor advised me to stop wasting their time and the taxpayers money quit and go in the military. I told him to keep his advice to himself. I graduated a half semester later.

demon78 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 16, 2009, 04:31:35 AM »

Yeah the school system has changed a lot since I was thrown out ( the powers that be claimed I was leading a revolution) I think perhaps it may have swung to far the other way now.
Bill the demon.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #6 on:** December 16, 2009, 04:39:49 AM »

You mean a kilometer isn't longer than a mile?!

Kidding aside, it's pretty scary.

I hope the parent did their best to get it published in the local paper, if nothing else in the Letters to the Editor portion, if their paper has one.

BobbyR · « **Reply #7 on:** December 16, 2009, 06:06:20 AM »

Quote from: Bob Wessner on December 16, 2009, 04:39:49 AM

You mean a kilometer isn't longer than a mile?!

Kidding aside, it's pretty scary. I hope the parent did their best to get it published in the local paper, if nothing else in the Letters to the Editor portion, if their paper has one.

I have some knowledge of School Politics, if it is small let it go. The Teachers are like little kids and they can get vindictive as a group.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #8 on:** December 16, 2009, 06:17:44 AM »

Quote from: BobbyR on December 16, 2009, 06:06:20 AM

Quote from: Bob Wessner on December 16, 2009, 04:39:49 AM
You mean a kilometer isn't longer than a mile?!

Kidding aside, it's pretty scary. I hope the parent did their best to get it published in the local paper, if nothing else in the Letters to the Editor portion, if their paper has one.
I have some knowledge of School Politics, if it is small let it go.

It's not in my nature.

BobbyR · « **Reply #9 on:** December 16, 2009, 06:54:39 AM »

Nor mine, but I did learn is that you can shovel Sh1t against the tide, but the tide always wins. My tenure on the Board gave me nothing but comtempt for the way Schools are run and the people that run them. It is a closed loop system that benefits only themselves. Our Teachers started at $65K and top pay was $125K. Not bad for 180 days work. Oh, we were a middle paying District for the Region.

Inigo Montoya · « **Reply #10 on:** December 16, 2009, 07:04:37 AM »

One of the issues is also the discouragement of free thinking in public schools. Teachers want to teach 1 thing and do not want to bend on it. You get many of the older teachers and they refuse to brush up on the subject. What they learned in the 60s still applies according to them.

Some things are a constant, things like basic math and science; but many things change over the years as more is discovered. I think instead of these 3 months off that teachers get, they should be like the rest of us working stiffs and be required to make use of those 3 months in brushing up on the subjects they teach. I mean of course some time for vacations but a teacher should not be allowed to skate by once they get their masters to teach. Their education should be ongoing.

I will say that it APPEARS that elementary teachers are the worst. Not only do I think they are the worst but it is even more damaging as that is when kids are most impressionable.
At least in high school, you start getting teachers that are willing to discuss things and allow students a little freedom with their thoughts. Of course not always.

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #11 on:** December 16, 2009, 12:33:45 PM »

What was that quote from Twain about school boards?

BobbyR · « **Reply #12 on:** December 16, 2009, 12:35:46 PM »

Quote from: Dukiedook on December 16, 2009, 12:33:45 PM

What was that quote from Twain about school boards?

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

edbikerii · « **Reply #13 on:** December 16, 2009, 01:28:00 PM »

http://www.thecartelmovie.com/

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #14 on:** December 16, 2009, 02:44:18 PM »

Quote

The Teachers are like little kids and they can get vindictive as a group.

Its funny you should say that, after a ridiculous ruling against my son at primary school {i won't go into this one but it was so stupid !!!} I said to his principal, "you have been making decisions for children for so long you are now making childish decisions"....... You should have seen the look on his face......priceless ..

Mick

333 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 16, 2009, 02:56:02 PM »

The same type of thing happened to me, way back when, only no detention and it didn't get ugly. But the teachers mistake was stoopidly obvious. She kept referring to Henry "Wordsworth" Longfellow. I, of course, couldn't STFU, and corrected her every time. "Don't you mean "Wadsworth"?" She, then, kept passing it off as a tomayto/tomahto type of thing(I hope my phonetic explanation worked). I told her that my Mom and Henry shared the same home town, and NOBODY said it that way.

The other kicker to the story? This happened at "Longfellow Intermediate School"!

Really? · « **Reply #16 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:10:32 PM »

It is surprising how many teachers still refer to Pluto as if it designation had not changed. Yanno, Planet to Dwarf Planet. I have had to correct a few already.

Inigo Montoya · « **Reply #17 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:50:01 PM »

I think it is because a body of people just decided to not call it a planet just because.

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #18 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:12:28 PM »

Quote from: BobbyR on December 16, 2009, 12:35:46 PM

Quote from: Dukiedook on December 16, 2009, 12:33:45 PM
What was that quote from Twain about school boards?

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

Thanks Bobby, that is one of my favorites from Twain.

Don't get me started on Pluto, why can't we just keep Pluto as an exception under the new rules set for planets? I just don't get it, grandfather it in already- don't make it a planet and then yank the status away.

seaweb11 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:19:12 PM »

I loved one of the comments below the letter.

hook ninja says:
December 2, 2009 at 21:56
wadda stoner…. its written on 4/20
Reply

edbikerii · « **Reply #20 on:** December 16, 2009, 06:09:03 PM »

Turns out 4/20 is also Adolph Hitler's birthday (according to the snopes article). Dude, how's that for harshing the mellow?

Quote from: seaweb11 on December 16, 2009, 05:19:12 PM

I loved one of the comments below the letter.

hook ninja says:
December 2, 2009 at 21:56
wadda stoner…. its written on 4/20
Reply

Sam Green Racing · « **Reply #21 on:** December 17, 2009, 07:01:18 AM »

I think the kid was well out of order. In the UK, a kilometer is much further than a mile.
I can walk out of my house and there are miles everywhere, they are all over the place, I'd have to travel about 270 miles to France to find a kilometer.

Sam.

Inigo Montoya · « **Reply #22 on:** December 17, 2009, 07:32:45 AM »

Now we know who was the trouble maker in your school don't we sam!

ColinMc · « **Reply #23 on:** December 17, 2009, 07:46:37 AM »

Once my teacher started talking about planes and conveyor belts...and I couldn't keep my mouth shut on that....I kid I kid.

Although teachers can be wrong, I DO think it's a combination of stubborn teachers and the kids being rude about it too...both sides are acting childish. I'm not saying the teachers are in the right in this case, but I don't know...kids can be pretty arrogant even if they are completely wrong. If the teacher went into depth about every single little thing that the kids disagreed with they'd never get anything done. NOW on the other hand, teachers should know whether a tomato is a fruit or a veggie hehe.

Inigo Montoya · « **Reply #24 on:** December 17, 2009, 07:59:01 AM »

I didn't know it was a fruit? I thought it was ammo! (kidding, I knew it was a fruit but it works so much better in a big slingshot!)

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