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Posted by Willem on 03/10/07 21:57
Randy wrote:
) I've had this problem on more than a few occasions with my own kids,
) where their textbooks have outright falsehoods in them, which of course
) you can either argue with, and get answers wrong on the test, as the
) current crop of "teachers" know nothing that isn't in their class guide
) given to them by the education agency, or you can spend a lot of time
) having the kids give the pseudo-correct answers in the class homework
) and on the test(s), while making sure they know the real truth
) independently.
Ideally, you would go speak to the teacher immediately after seeing the
mistake, so that the mistake would get corrected before the test.
Of course, the world is not ideal by a long shot, and cynical minds would
agree that teaching your kids to pretend to agree with their mana... er, I
mean teachers, would help them to get along better in the real world.
I should know. As a kid, I got some pretty bad grades after publically
correcting the teacher on a mistake he made. Which he, obviously, insisted
upon and 'to teach me a lesson' he then made me look up the 'right answer'.
Me, cynical, ya think ?
) Don't get me started on teachers that can not spell or do math problems
) correctly. On more than one occasion a grade has been reversed because
) it was marked incorrectly, and then I had to actually go speak with the
) teacher and show them how to solve the problem correctly on their own
) tests.
Well, teachers that can't do math problems correctly should be shot on
sight, but with all the spelling reforms that seem to have come into
fashion, one could argue that it's way too difficult for the teacher to
know the spelling rules-du-jour.
) ...
SaSW, Willem
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Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
made in the above text. For all I know I might be
drugged or something..
No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT
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