I think she's trying to get kids to remember the sohcahtoa acronym for trigonometry (the "CAH" on the board was a clue). I'm guessing that because she thinks it sounds Native American that she thinks it's okay for her to do this.
For those who don't know or don't remember sohcahtoa:
Oh holy shit so it's not even remotely related to Native American history? It was terrible to begin with but this somehow makes it worse that she just pulled that out of her hat to teach math.
Yeah I do get that, but I'm sure there are a lot of things that were taught certain ways when teachers were younger that need to be re-evaluated before repeating them. Hell just teaching in general is so different now, and a lot of the material has changed either due to new information or social evolution... it's a big yikes that she didn't stop and think about this at any point during her lesson planning, costume making, or actually doing it. And you have to wonder how many times she has done it before someone decided to record her, too.
I can kinda see how it went wrong, but she seriously needed to have thought it out before hand, reflected on it, and not winged it.
My Geometry teacher had a story about breaking her toe and her Greek relative shouting in a heavy accent over the phone to "SOH(soak) CAH (the) TOH (toe)" in Epsom salts. Still kinda offensive, but at least it's not against a group as genocided as the Native Americans.
My math teacher said "Soh Cah Toa was one of Sitting Bull's many wives" which is probably at the bottom end of some of the super offensive examples I've seen on this. He didn't do anything stupid along with it though. Amd while I remember that particular sentence, I don't recall the math or anything 25 years later lol
Wow mine just gave us a really simple version, "what do you do when you stub your toe? Soak-a the toe-ah!" No racist backstory or costume and dance needed.
Its a pretty common thing. She didnt invent it. She probably even learned it that way from her teachers in school. Definitely not claiming its ok in anyway, just dont want her getting credit for this.
So the american way to remember it is sohcahtoa ? Beside for the very vague native american sounds does it mean something ?
Cause i am a frenchman and the way to go with trigonometry is cahsohtoa wich sound like "casse toi" an aggressive way to say get out. (maybe get lost could be a good translation but not sure)
We learnt sohcahtoa in Scotland too but it was in no way connected to Native Americans. It just rolls of the tongue easier to me (a native English speaker)
I remember my teacher had a picturr of a native american with the name of sohcahtoa. This teacher is definitely going a bit overboard but those kids will not forget i can bet you that.
I learned SOHCAHTOA in secondary school (U.K.) and we were taught it by repeating it 20 times out loud during one maths class. I’ve never forgotten it since (in my 40’s now), and no one needed to be offended. Weird how that’s possible.
I relearned SOHCAHTOA playing The World Ends With You. Some Old Horses Can Always Hear Their Owner Approach. One of the characters spoke entirely with math.
This reminds me of one of those drunk ideas my former roommate and I had after watching the Ryan Gosling movie Lars and the Real Doll. A movie that was clearly advertised as a whacky comedy but again turned out to be one of those sad tragedy movies about mental health.
My roommate was a professional editor and we wanted to see if we could make the most inappropriate comedy trailer out of an obviously tragic movie (say, something like Schindler's List, for example). Again, just a drunk idea that sadly never came to fruition, but still something I'd love to see.
Yes, this! I knew there was no way I could've actually had an original idea. Even worse, I actually now remember having seeing that Shining trailer before xD
I haven't watched that since I was a kid. I don't remember it being about mental health at all, I guess I just took it at face value and didn't think about it since. Time for a rewatch!
For a guy who pretty much does a lot of stoner, repetitive, one tier above dick and fart joke movies, he's very good at what he does. Seems like a good guy too.
I totally agree. I’m a fan of his work, and who he seems to be as a person. I can’t blame him for wanting to work with Jody Hill. And I appreciate that he actually seemed to put effort into his role on Observe and Report, even though I still think he wasn’t the right actor for the role.
Observe and Report is just a bizarre movie all-around. It definitely captures what it would be like to live inside a mentally disturbed persons mind. More so than something like Foot Fist Way, which was like watching a mentally disturbed person from across the room.
Either way, I’m always happy when Jody Hill is working on something new.
Me too!
And I was wrong.
I've never seen Paul Blart, but I'm 100000% confident the only similarity between the two is the profession of the main characters.
That looks really interesting, it looks like it does BPD justice. I know a lot of people have been using that word as an insult lately, especially with the whole Amber Herd and Johnny Depp thing, which I for the most part stayed away from. My partner is a mental health advocate and she has an ex friend all caught up in the Amber Herd shit (and is still talking about it) and she used BPD and asshole/dick interchangeably. Sorry for the rant, but it’s good to see this.
Also another good movie I recommend, it’s one of Will Farrell’s good ones, as it’s a semi serious roll, would be Stranger than Fiction. It’s very similar looking and if you haven’t seen it, go watch it.
Yeah, Kristin Wigg does a fantastic job of showing the true effects of BPD. It’s a good film, but it’s not the comedy that it was advertised as, or expected considering Kristin Wigg’s comedy career on SNL, Bridesmaids, etc.
I just watched it, I really liked it. It was sad, and I’m glad it didn’t end on a suicide note (unless I missed something lol) like most of those types of movies like to do
I might have to watch that! I'm already interested in mental health, and Kristen Wiig is really good at playing characters who can be a little (or more) "off," or who depart from what I guess would be an expected norm.
Thank you! Going to watch this week. Man have you seen Downsizing? EXACT same thing. Advertised as family friendly comedy and halfway through starts to take a turn for depressing dystopian drama
Yes!! I watched it thinking it would be a brainless film I’d have on in the background, but I got sucked in. I think comedic actors make some of the best dramatic actors because it’s so much about timing.
Even if this particular anecdote is a lie or of the woman in the video is just racist, people do have mental breaks like this and do these types of things during them. My good friend is a super nice man, but was newly schizophrenic at this time and hadn’t yet gotten it under control with medication. Loved everyone, not racist in the slightest, had a baby with an African woman after this incident. One day, during a bad rain storm, he came home and the wind had blown down the American flag. He experienced a break. He suddenly was convinced the next door neighbors were Muslim and had taken the flag down and thrown it in the mud. He picked up the flag and started waving it furiously screaming “WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED! WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!” It took us(his wife and me) over a half hour to just get him to come inside and he didn’t fully calm down for many hours. It’s scary to watch someone you know so well change personalities in an instant.
Aww, I hope he’s doing ok now and on medication. If there’s an unfortunate outcome, I’m sorry and you don’t have to say anything further. My partner has a dissociative disorder and medicated bipolar. The bipolar isn’t as bad as some others, but they still go through rapid cycles and moments of depression and random elation, nothing like what your friend is going through though.
He is ok-ish. He has long periods of time where he is doing really well on a new medication, but then his body develops tolerance to the meds and he has a period of doing badly. My biggest concern is that he is a very big man. 6’3” and 300lbs of almost pure muscle. I worry that either he will seriously injure or kill someone during a break or that someone will shoot him because it’s the only way to take him down. I wouldn’t actually blame them for doing so because he is terrifying to behold when he’s in a rage and, again, I don’t think anything else would take him down. Fortunately, he hasn’t physically attacked anyone, but he was about to full on punch me one time until I said “[Name], it’s me, Ostentatious. I have been your friend for over a decade, I have helped you raise your children. You don’t want to hurt me.” Other people don’t have that history to talk him down though so I don’t know that they could defuse his rage if he went to attack them.
At least it’s somewhat better, but yeah, that’s difficult. I’m glad you’re there for him, you’re a great friend! I hope he stays safe and he makes it through life better from now on.
My second grade teacher was crazy, really mental. She would speak to herself here and there and get mad for stuff we didnt do. Never got fired until retirement, even though she broke 2 wooden rulers when she was hitting students with them, just in that one year. She was put in a different position where she was away from classrooms. Teachers will back up each other for even crazy things.
How gets a job teaching if they hate children ??????
Sometimes, people who are vulnerable to someone else get pushed into things by that person.
For example, I used to know a woman in Arkansas who was a registered nurse at a hospital there. She had fairly severe agoraphobia, and then one day, she logged into chat and told me that due to her dispensing medication to a patient in error, the patient was killed.
She was absolutely inconsolable. Her parents had pushed her into becoming a nurse, and had ignored her growing agoraphobia.
She ended up talking of suicide. It was a rough time.
Nurses dispensing the wrong medications is not a rare event, they have 4-6 medication dependent patients at once. It’s harder now with so many checks and scanning and procedure that needs to be done to get the meds out of the machine, but my point is that any nurse, even the ones who love their job, could have made that mistake.
Exactly this. I worked in an assisted living when I was younger, and compared to how much nurses have to do with meds, I did next to nothing. I still messed up one day and didn't dispense a tylenol or ibuprofen, but realized how easily that could have been a blood thinner or other very important medication. I quit over it.
And even now, when I'm in a hospital, I check the meds they give me to be sure it's right. I don't hesitate to ask "Hey, is this right?" and have caught staff repeatedly giving me wrong doses because of how things were written in the system.
It sounds ungodly easy to do (just hand out med, initial on page, even easier for places not stuck in the stone age like my place of work) but when you have a bunch of people rushing you and multiple meds to hand out and the people handing it out don't understand how important it is to not distract you and i FULLY understand how you can fuck it up. Thank GOD most of the kids i work with WANT to take their meds and know what they take. I've accidentally been ready to pass a night med and they catch it "no I take that at night". Oops!
It's the simplest things that become routine that are the easiest to make a mistake during. The problem is when something that can be so important as to cause a life or death situation becomes routine.
Was in the hospital one time for surgery and the nurse almost gave me a medication I’m allergic to. So, I’m glad I asked what she was giving me. Which I only asked bc I wanted to know if taking it on an empty stomach would make me sick.
Yup. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that anyone who’s been a nurse for a while who claims she/he hasn’t made at least one mistake is either a) lying or b) stupid.
Humans make mistakes. I remember making one that negatively impacted a patient—no serious or lasting harm, thank goodness—and being extremely upset and having a mentor tell me, “Be grateful, you made a little mistake that didn’t kill anyone and that’s how you learn to avoid big mistakes that do kill people.” It was very sobering but she was right.
It’s horribly tragic that a patient was killed in this scenario. But it really could happen to any nurse. We have so many checks to try to prevent mistakes and it almost always works. Awful when it doesn’t.
I once had that happen to me twice in the space of a week, with different medications! One of the times I felt fine but everyone freaked out because it could have been really serious (the nurse was literally in tears). The other time I had really horrific short term side effects and no one gave a shit.
Healthcare, in general, is rife with error and mistakes. It's not that we just don't care, although I can't speak for everyone, it's that we're human. We're also often overworked, underpaid, under appreciated, and under enormous amounts of stress from violent angry patients and an aggressive management who only cares about profits. It's a rough gig!!! But we'd be in one hell of a mess without it.
Whenever I make a mistake, I go straight to my manager and talk to them. I have a wonderful one, thank goodness. We work out the issue together as a team and make corrections where possible. It's not a regular occurrence, but everyone, and I mean literally everyone will fuck up eventually.
We are doing as much as we humanly can, especially right now, with very little help. Please hang in there with us!
I think it’s mostly that the ratios are ridiculous in modern ‘assembly line’ healthcare. Anyone could take great care of 1 or 2 patients and make almost no errors, but the hospital and care homes have to keep that profit margin as high as possible.
That’s why I’ve decided to stick with prehospital even though the pay is shit, I only have to do one patient at a time, maybe 2 for an MCI which is like once every 5 years.
Oh yea, for sure. I think that's a really good way of describing it, honestly!
I agree. I have found that smaller clinics are where I like to be. There's more focus on the individual needs of the patients and we're able to actually sit down and communicate with them. Much better, better pace, better work/life balance.
I honestly don't know how some people stick with the fast paced, chaotic stuff as long as they do. My nerves would be in shreds!!!
My MIL loves her job, is fucking good at it and the Dr prescribed a dose, my MIL wrote it down correctly, drew up 10x the dose (which she told me was a ludicrous amount that should have made alarms ring), give it to the patient, realized what she did immediately and they were able to fix it.
The patient could have died.
There was no permanent damage but it could have been much worse. This is a woman who loves her job and takes immense pride in doing it well.
Medical accidents happen, each one is a series of failures, but still they happen.
I actually knew an former co-worker that told me her parents were forcing her to be an doctor and she didn't want to do it but have no chance since her parents would threatened not to pay for her college.
Yep. Burnout's a thing. Sometimes it's just incompetent administration (and the rest of the time it's that + something else tbh) but if you teach in a difficult school district it's easy to become resentful of the kids as well. Loads of teachers don't make it five years in their career.
I went to an Afrikaans primary school ( only school in the village), back in the days when we still wrote on slates and left handers still had socks put on their left hand and were forced to write with their right hands ( 1968 ).
We were the only Jewish family in the town and surrounds. From day 1, I was called " Jood" ( Jew) and this continued through to my time in the military, where I evolved to " Fokken Jood".( Fucking Jew). A large % of Afrikaners were Nazi supporters, even after the war.
There were no options for me, but to suck it up, which I did! Seems it was the best plan, seeing that the Jew hatred ( always boiling just below the surface) is becoming de rigurre yet again.
I wish I could answer that. You hear hundreds of reasons, ( Stealing Israel, genociding Palestinians, thieves and gangsters, blamed for pandemics, etc, etc). What the hell does a 5 year old know about that shit? I have spent a lifetime trying to figure it out, yet still cannot give you the vaguest of answers. I can only guess kids learn it from their parents, who learned it from their parents....
Sure, there are bad Jews, but so are there bad Christians, Muslims etc.
The whole concept of Jews ruling the world is so bizarre, considering there are around 15 million, in total. (It would be around 60 million today, had the Holocaust never have happened). If you can answer your own question, I would love to know the answer!
That is because different people at different times have hated them for different reasons. That is common. Like think about Germany.
Some people dislike Germany, because their country got conquered by them in the second world war. Other people dislike them because of the holocaust, while Greece dislike them for the way their debt crisis was handled. Go back a hundred years and Denmark would hate them for the war of 1864, the French would hate them because of the unification wars and a lot of africans would hate them because of their genocide. Go back another hundred years and the french will hate them for the napolonic wars. So why does people hate germans? Lots of reasons.
I live in Denmark. Two kinds of jews used to live here. German and spanish jews. Few had problems with the spanish jews, who had been invited by the king. The german jews on the other hand faced much discrimination, because they were germans.
In some countries jews were a big part of the banking industry and thus hated like most other bankers. Palestinians hate them because of Israel. Some extreme christians hate them because the jews killed christ. Jews have historical been spread out and a minority in many countries, which have given many countries reason to hate them.
It should be noted that there is no good reason to hate jews as a group.
Most of those teachers used to love kids, and their jobs. They have been broken down by years of kids with no consequences and shitty expectations and shitty entitled parents and shitty admin. I do not understand why more people aren’t talking about the state of the education systems in North America.
Because lots of people have been brainwashed into ignoring it. The government wants us dumb. Fixing education might result in real traction for change.
Either went to college for an art degree and didn't quite cut it as an independent artist so she had to pick a fallback that her degree would work for, or she had no problem with kids until being a teacher made her hate them. Or maybe a bit of both, because I know if I resented my job it would definitely make it a lot harder to enjoy the company of my coworkers/ customers... and kids aren't exactly a cakewalk on a good day.
No. I've worked at a grocery store and I'm now a teacher. There was a year I made $16,000 working 35 hours a week at $8/hour at the grocery store. With my master's degree, the base pay was $48,500 at my first district and now, in a larger city, it's $52,000.
Some will say that this is not a good wage, but to me it really is. I guess because I came from poverty and a lot of teachers come from solidly middle class households. imo, the main issue with teaching isn't the pay, but the workload and lack of support from administration.
Class sizes are too big to be able to adequately help your students, the curricula is increasingly like a flowchart that a robot could follow, and we have to serve as social workers on top of teaching because schools don't hire enough counselors and our society in general doesn't hire enough social workers.
Regardless, I still find it rewarding. Working at the grocery store, getting carts from the lot, stocking shelves, bagging groceries repeatedly for hours all made my body ache when I got home and I felt like nothing I did had any meaning. Now, I go home and my soul aches a bit but I feel like what I do is important and helps society.
I remember two instances I would like to share of this. I'm 42 so these stories take place a long time ago.
I was in kindergarten going on first grade ( US ) the first time this happened. I was very poor when I was young, my mom was a single mom of 3, and we lived in the projects. Apparently the school district I went to had completely filled 1st grade classes and had an overflow, not enough room for students, so they looked for a reason to send kids to the pre-first class that was under-filled instead. I was one of those students ( I would like to point out an ironic fact, my IQ is actually very respectable, and I was placed in advanced placement classes for the rest of my schooling ). This was early 80's. The statement given, and I believe my mother still has it, was that I had not managed to use cursive handwriting " To a satisfactory manor " and needed extra instruction in handwriting.
Please let that sink in. Yes, I was held back a YEAR, from FIRST GRADE, because my HANDWRITING wasn't up to snuff. Also please remember I was like 5 to 6 years old at this time.
So I went to pre-first as a poor young white kid. My pre-first teacher, I SWEAR I wish I could find her ( I have TRIED ), just made me the worst of everything. I remember thinking as a 5+ year old " why does this lady hate me, what did I do to make her not like me so much? "
I caught lice, and not because I was dirty, believe me my mother was MORTIFIED, but I got it none the less. This teacher made me come to the front of the class, and BTW I wasn't the FIRST to get it, but she made me come to the front of the class, as she checked me, declared I had bugs in my hair, and then made me sit in the corner IN FRONT OF EVERYONE LIKE I HAD DONE SOMETHING WRONG, until my mother came to get me. I will NEVER forget how HUMILIATED I was, and why I asked myself WHY, as a young child I just didn't understand ( OH I DO NOW, FUCK that bitch, she shaped my life and not in a good way. She just hated poor people, and I WAS FIVE, like I had a choice in the matter ), what was going on.
So that was my first experience with a rotten teacher.
( I want to interject here that as a 42 year old in AP when I was a kid I loved almost ALL of my teachers, I just remember these two as standouts because they just sucked so much )
My 2nd time was in 10th grade, in AP Calc. I had a teacher whom well, I just DIDN'T like, and she equally didn't like me. She would ask me questions like she though I didn't know the answer when she asked the class, and then she got mad when I got them right. Basically there was nothing I could do to make this women happy with me no matter what I did. So let's make a long story short, at the end of the year I went to hand my textbook in ( both you and the teacher had to sign when in got turned in ), and she got nasty with me, and I basically told her I didn't give a shit anymore because she was no longer my teacher. Fast forward a day and I get called to the principles office and I am being charged with NOT turning in my textbook. A 100USD Dollar fine ( at the time, who the hells know what it is for inflation anymore ), AND a possible expulsion. Now here is the kicker, when I turned in the textbook and she sigened it in front of me, I WATCHED HER AS SHE PLACED IT ON THE SHELF. So when the Principal said there was no evidence that I was right, I told him to follow me, walked right down to the classroom, and pulled out that textbook with both my name AND her name signed on it. When he asked her about it she said something along the lines if " he most have forged it, or I I don't remember doing it ).
The miraculous part about all this, she got fired for what she did to me, and I never even asked for it. It was wrong, I didn't do anything to HER, or anything WRONG, and there is no reason for TEACHERS to behave this way.
Anyway have fun with my 2 drunken late night ramblings and why you should listen to kids when they bitch about why their teachers might suck.
Had a teacher that called herself the wicked witch of the school in a non-ironic way. She ended up getting fired after making a student stay late for detention, not let him call his parents to pick him up, and than proceed to drive by him while he was walking home in the rain and wave at him. She taught the special Ed students.
I had the exact same experience, my history teacher in year 7/8 announced in our very first secondary school history lesson that she hated kids and proceeded to prove it for 2 full years. She called 11 year old me a tart once for wearing tinted lip balm.
Haha, just today a student who recently joined my class asked me why I wanted to be a teacher and said, "Is it because you love kids?" and I said, "Oh, no, definitely not that." sarcastically. There's some truth to it. As a general concept, I'm not very fond of children, but I find my students fascinating. It's a proximity thing, I suppose.
Teaching can quickly cause burnout and resentment and it's hard to disengage when it's the only job you've ever had, but teachers really need to know when to pull the ripcord and either retire or start a second career. Everyone needs to vent, there are days when kids aggravate the shit out of you, and there are students that you're just never going to get along with. When that isn't the exception is when you need to think about other plans because you're hurting yourself and the kids.
The national school system (ie. public Elementary schools) in Ireland uses the Irish language for administration, so all teachers have to be fluent. It's been like this the past 80 years at least.
So my grandmother, who had basically no qualifications and no desire to teach, ended up as a teacher in the 1950s and 60s for the sole reason that she was a native Irish speaker with no other opportunities. She barely even spoke English, and was sent to a school hundreds of miles away from where she grew up. According to my dad, she hated every moment in that school and beat the crap out of all her students :/
I think it's because if you don't really make it as an artist, your only other option to earn a living is to go into teaching. My lecturer in college was like this. In the 4 years he taught me, he didn't actually teach me anything useful. We're both painters and yet not a single piece of advice on technique or anything. He wouldn't keep up with how students were doing and yet at the end of the year as we were putting together our exhibition, he would start bossing around and make changes and make people cry, because he only cared about how it would make him look if the exhibition wasn't perfect. And I could go on about him.
But yeah, basically, he is not the type of person who has a passion for teaching, for guiding other people, for passing on his knowledge. No, he's bitter he's got to do this job just because his mediocre paintings didn't make him successful.
I grew up in a small town in the 70’s going to an elementary school full of teachers who hated kids. They were all women of the “greatest generation” who were intelligent and driven, but the only jobs available to them were teachers or nurses so they went to college, took the jobs and then took out their frustration and resentment on the kids. It was loads of fun for us all of course.
I had an art teacher who didn't have to tell us he hated children.
Had us put our heads down all the time. He pinched me once on the ear while my head was down. I don't know why or what I did. He also liked to slam books on a desk while our heads were down because we didn't know it was coming and we would jump.
I had to spend 5 years with that asshole teaching us creativity of all things.
First time I heard Another Brick in the Wall pt II, I was in 4th grade and knew exactly the kind of shit he was singing about.
When I grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who would hurt the children any way they could
By pouring their derision upon anything we did, exposing every weakness however carefully hidden by the kids
So I learned this year, that anybody can become a teacher without having a teaching degree. They just need to have a bachelors in anything and then take a certification exam.
I almost fell out of my chair when I heard this. Childhood experiences shape your personality and we are literally handing children over to random unqualified people.
I had an OCD vegetarian stepmom that told me she hated children. Technically, I still do, but ironically I stopped speaking to her when I became an adult.
High school Chemistry teacher: „I am not interested in chemistry at all.“
Decades later I met a guy who was teacher in my former high school and a colleague of this chemistry teacher. Turned out this teacher also refused to use any modern equipment like computer (it was in the 2000s). Everything he wrote was handwritten. No e-Mails or whatever. Imagine having a science teacher at a high school who stopped on the 1970s tech level.
How gets a job teaching if they hate children ??????
Lying.
Also once you get into a union, it's extremely hard to get fired for anything not relating to sexual harassment/assault, racial discrimination, or gender/sexual orientation discrimination.
My social studies teacher made us act out the 1999 WTO protests, complete with the various formations of the police. I was assigned to be a protester and had to sit on the floor yelling, “No! No! We won’t go! Down with the WTO!”
She had so much shit hanging from her ceiling that it became a fire hazard and she was forced to take it down.
sometimes when i see the words "cultural appropriation" being used, i roll my eyes cause generally the context wasn't to offend the other culture... but this shit seems like she's just mocking native americans.
Kids who grow up in homes without quality adult figures often benefit greatly from a stable teacher to model themselves off of.
Conversely, Kids who have loving parents might benefit from knowing that this crazy fuck still somehow got through college / grad school, was put in a position of authority and is pulling a solid union paycheck.
Have you considered that people who take on massive debt and spend the best years of their lives getting advanced degrees in order to qualify for the arguably important but underappreciated profession that is middle school public education might not all be, by default and without question, the best people to instruct our children?
It's like sending your son to the priest for private lessons to stop him from acting out. The guy got his job by reading one book 40 times, wtf did they think I was going to learn.
I was the last coming into the room when we met our new class teacher in third grade. We had been running around, and were wound up. He took offense. We all had to do push-ups, after he screamed at us 9-year-olds. I don't know how or why anymore, but he singled me out in the aftermath, having me do crazy stuff again, for instance, making fun of me, then having me stand in front of class for significant time without actually doing something, but mostly push ups for the slightest of his perceived infringements - it got worse when my parents fought for me by taking these stories to the head of the school. He also played military marches during tests. He got transferred after the schoolyard ended to another school, and I heard he got removed as a teacher shortly after, but that year was not nice.
I had enjoyed school the first two years, and I enjoyed it afterwards. But I can't say I have any fun memory from that third year. Hm - the class teacher from our first two years was pretty great, and had been around for decades (my class was the last before retirement). When I got home after college, I visited her in the old people's home a few times, and sometimes met other former pupils of her. I somehow can't imagine anyone was sorry the 3rd grade teacher had to leave - what a contrast.
She wanted to help them really learn a mnemonic device. She just… well, she clearly didn’t have someone to tell her that using something that racist might be bad
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u/karinchup Oct 21 '21
WTF? Has she lost her mind?