Sorry sir, but I can't take you seriously.

[Brandon237]

Sure, because there's no chance they might come back to it later in more depth, or anything like that. Why not leave the professional curriculum decisions to the curriculum professionals (ie, teachers)? You're just too quick to pass ultimate judgment on someone whose proven qualifications far, far exceed yours because he happened to have what you judge to be a bad day.

Sorry, mate, you're just not qualified to make that judgment. He has already proven his capability to his teachers from first year up through university. He has proven it to whatever licensing boards govern education in your area. He has proven it to the administration with whom he interviewed. And they'll continue to measure him, as well. These are people with likely hundreds of combined years of experience and thousands of hours of training.

That carries a lot more weight than some kids looking for any excuse not to listen to a teacher because they have a case of the "teenage know-it-all"s.

I know from your profile that you are a teacher, but regardless, you are taking this WAY too personally. I said I couldn't take him seriously, not that he is an idiot. What he said was not a simplification, it was in no way simplified, and the rest of the work we were doing in that same lesson with him was of a high enough level that the people listening would know what he was talking about. He kept details, plenty of them, but they were just WRONG. To teach a grade 10 science class[footnote]grade 10, 11 and 12 form what is essentially one advanced course for most of our subjects here, we do a good amount of final-year work now that is not revisited in later years.[/footnote] something that is blatantly incorrect is just... terrible.

He also mentioned something else that lesson that made me die a little inside: "Some birds are able to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field, it is in their blood. Why do I say it is in their blood? Haemoglobin. What does that contain? Iron, and Iron is magnetic." That same lesson. I did not want to get off on a bad foot with him so I said nothing, but damn... two strikes in one lesson.

See the footnote: We don't come back to a lot of it, and we are doing most of it in good depth now.

And this was not in the curriculum, he told the class this out of his own knowledge, as fact, as a science teacher, and we added it to the curriculum information. Being a teacher does not give you the right to teach whatever you like. And people believe him as he is a science teacher, I know because I spoke to many of the people about it afterwards. Also, the people who make decisions about the curriculum are the Heads of Department and the Department of Education in my school, no single teacher has the choice to change that.

He is not qualified yet, he still needs to go through his final evaluations. And every day he has some trouble balancing the equations (Basic ones) and understanding what he has to teach us.
For your second paragraph, see "not yet qualified".

I can still say he is not a great science teacher and that I cannot take him seriously, why can I not say that? What law is in place that prevents me from saying it? Free speech, and this is not hate speech.

I listen to him, that is the problem. I am a good student to most teachers, and I allow him to teach his class without disrupting it, although I don't like a lot of what he teaches or how he teaches it. I, as a student, can still recognise that he is not a good teacher. I can compare him to other teachers, see how well he imparts the knowledge necessary to his students, myself included, measure how well he understands his subject among others. All these things lead me to the conclusion that he is not great teaching material, or at least he shouldn't be a science teacher, maybe a different subject would work perfectly for him and the students, but science does not.

 

[DeadFOAM]

The first day of my Understanding Film class, my professor made the claim that "2 + 2 = 4 is not a fact, it is an opinion." You have now lost my attention, I will now spend most of your 3 hour class doodling. It didn't help that the guy is a pompous, egotistical ass when it comes to "opinions." His is the "right" opinion, any others are wrong. I tried debating him about a different point last class, but he kept interrupting and talking over everything I said.
Good job sir. I was interested, but now I give up. This is now a class primarily done for the grade.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I could no longer take my friend seriously after she said last November, "Why do we wear poppies? Is it for 9/11?"

Who ever wears poppies? >.>

Oh right, sorry I forgot it's an international forum.

On the 11th of November every year in the UK and other European countries we ware poppies to mark Armistice day (the day the First World War ended) as an act of rememberence to those who died.

 

[TheKramers]

I could no longer take my friend seriously after she said last November, "Why do we wear poppies? Is it for 9/11?"

Who ever wears poppies? >.>

Oh right, sorry I forgot it's an international forum.

On the 11th of November every year in the UK and other European countries we ware poppies to mark Armistice day (the day the First World War ended) as an act of rememberence to those who died.

Then I can see how stupid your friend must've looked when she said that xD

 

[Nuclear_Suspect]

Well back when I was a wee lad with a bounce in me step I had an awful english teacher.
He gave me a 'D' on a paper i wrote and underlined all the words that i had mispelled... thing is.. I did NOT make any errors, I was using words he didn't understand such as "Oxymoron" and the like.

I spent the next 2 years "Upgrading" every single paper i wrote with the oddest most far out sentences i could find, if he gave us a book to read I'd plow throught it in 2 days and then bringStephen King's: Nightmares and Dreamscapes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_%26_Dreamscapes] to class and read it there, while sucking in his bitter looks for he knew that he could not teach me anything at all.

/EDIT
Now that I think about it, I was quite the little tosser back then
/EDIT

 

[esperandote]

Once i had a substitute english teacher and one f my classmates asked how do you call a persona that is always tripping, bumping into stuff, and spilling glasses of water, etc. I said "clumsy" and the teacher didn't know the word. When my actual teacher, he's american, returned i told him that and he sais that of course she didn't know what that means because that wasn't the type of words they teach in english schools.

There was another teacher with wich i debated that the translation politicos (spanish) is politicians and not politics. He looked it up and corrected himself the next day.

 

[Halceon]

Uh, he's kind of right. It's a bit of a simplification, but he's right...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29

Auroras result from emissions of photons in the Earth's upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 miles), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of solar wind and magnetospheric particles being funneled down and accelerated along the Earth's magnetic field lines; excitation energy is lost by the emission of a photon of light, or by collision with another atom or molecule:

Or in other words, matter hits matter and then light is emitted. There's no bending.

 

[kurupt87]

Had a teacher that caused £16k worth of damage to a language lab, who then proceeded to try and blame it on a student. That was fun.

 

[Brandon237]

Had a teacher that caused £16k worth of damage to a language lab, who then proceeded to try and blame it on a student. That was fun.

Sixteen thousand POUNDS?!?!?! To a... let me get this straight... a language lab?

I really want to hear that story, because it sounds like he set off an IED in there.

Can't remember how, but in English one day we started talking about Evolution. My teacher said "It's called the theory of Evolution. I told him if he wanted to teach people the wrong pronunciation of Capulet that was fine, but he shouldn't misinform students on a subject he wasn't qualified to teach.

I don't know hoe many people I have mentally slaughtered (think hang-man in my head with chainsaws) for that "just a Theory" line. And normally respectable people too!

 

[Brandon237]

My teacher last year said that our classroom was a democracy.

And this democracy was highly successful AND democratic, wasn't it? I can see the votes coming in, 27 - let's do work. FUN! 10 - Let's have free lesson to talk to our friends, how boring! Totally successful democracy.

EDIT: Double post. I fail... don't take me seriously you cruel, cruel world.

 

[Cheesus333]

I had a Graphics subsitute teacher who I didn't take seriously, but in a really really good way.

There were a few of us in the class, quietly working, when he suddenly gets out a ukelele emblazoned with a giant skull. He'd designed and built it all himself. He just nonchalantly began to play, breaking the silence. It was amazing.

He also happens to be one of the best cartoonists and graphic designers I've ever seen, let alone met. I have great respect for the man, but taking him seriously is both impossible and something he'd hate you for.

 

[0986875533423]

Anybody who begins a reply to something I have said with "I agree with 90% of what you said".

What this actually means: "I don't agree with anything you said, but I like you and you stated your point clearly and efficiently and rather than blithely ignoring it I actually listened and it made me think. Unfortunately in this americanised western world of ours an expression of opposition to an opinion somebody holds is generally interpreted as a personal attack, so rather than openly say I don't agree with it I'm going to pretend I do agree with it so you'll listen to my response and realise I mean you no harm"

Considerate as this may be in its own little way, I do not have time for this bullshit or for anyone who isn't brave enough to say they don't agree with me.

 

[funguy2121]

I'm just glad that someone was kind enough to escape you from that situation, where you were forced to hear a foreign accent for an hour and a half out of the day, wracking your inner xenophobe's last nerve, and rendering you an "escapee." I think "evacuee" would likely be a better term.

I might be wrong, but I think the OP was using 'escapees' as a term for folks who come to The Escapist. Sure, most folks I've seen have referred to them as 'escapists' - but, hey, whatever works.






Of course, the correct term is 'Escapistonians'.

Yes, agreed. The OP was using the term "-ee" as a person who does something, when it means a person who has had X done to them.


Besides, everyone knows it's Escaptionistas.

 

[Sethzard]

Back in the heatwave we had over here in the UK (I say wave but it was only 36 deg C), I heard someone in school say with no trace of irony "36 degrees, that's hotter than the sun".

 

[Supertegwyn]

Back in the heatwave we had over here in the UK (I say wave but it was only 36 deg C), I heard someone in school say with no trace of irony "36 degrees, that's hotter than the sun".

That sounds like a metaphor.

 

[kurupt87]

Had a teacher that caused £16k worth of damage to a language lab, who then proceeded to try and blame it on a student. That was fun.

Sixteen thousand POUNDS?!?!?! To a... let me get this straight... a language lab?

I really want to hear that story, because it sounds like he set off an IED in there.

Well, she broke it. Thinking about it, it can't have been £16k worth of damage. But, that is the value we were told it was worth (by senior staff, because of what happened) and so the figure stuck in my mind.

Anyway, to what happened.

One of the student stations had a problem and so had been removed. A lad still had to sit in the seat infront of it however, plugged into his neighbours station.

There were one or two wires poking out of where the station had been and he was fiddling with them during the lesson. The teacher saw this, told him to stop and asked him what they were.

Now comes the fun part.

She decided to confiscate them. The wires. Confiscate the wires.

No word of a lie, she reached in and yanked on them. Then again. Then, with her body weight and newly exposed wire to give her a good grip, pulled them again.

Strangely, the rest of the lab then ceased to function. For the rest of that school year. And yeah, she tried to blame the lad who'd been fiddling with them.

Ahhh, Spanish lessons were amazing.

 

[Supertegwyn]

In science class a few years ago somebody was dumbstruck that the Moon revolved around the Earth, and didn't just "disappear" at night. I also know a lot of people who pronounce the letter z, zee, not zed. We live in Australia morons, learn to speak English!

 

[Creator002]

Recently, in class, I was writing a biography on Adolf Hitler. One girl comes up and asks what I'm doing.

"I'm doing the biography task."
"Oh, who on?"
"Adolf Hitler."
"Oh."
*Long pause*
"Are you racist?"
*facepalm*

Do I have to be a racist (even though Hitler was anti-Semitic, not racist) because I want to look at a vital part of my favourite country's history?

 

[Creator002]

I also know a lot of people who pronounce the letter z, zee, not zed. We live in Australia morons, learn to speak English!

I blame Seasame Street (and just the general American influence in the media) for that. I had to break out of the "zee" habit myself in primary school.