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I’m glad I live in Sweden where people are worth something.
Yeah… But, they make you buy a whole one when all you want is a breast and a thigh.
Fake. Normal office typewriters did not do properly tilted quotes. Some retard tried to pull a hoax without knowing a damned thing about the older tech he was trying to fake.
I agree this is a hoax. Not even public school teachers are quite this bad yet.
It’s from 1994 well beyond type-writers. There is a computer font exactly like that.
Klutzz is right. Do an image search for “courier font” and see for yourself.
Hmmm. Might of been a Macintosh. Entirely possible in a school.
I’ll withdraw my accusation.
“might have”
I like your reply, and the only way to show it is by making this reply.
I like your reply, and the only way to show it is by making this reply.
I like your reply, and the only way to show it is by making this reply.
I like your reply, and the only way to show it is by making a C-C-C Combo Breaker!
Languages change. “Might of” is becoming a popular usage. Deal with it.
No. “Ain’t” being accepted as a word is language changing. “Might of” is you not realizing you’re actually saying “might’ve.” Deal with it.
I like your reply, and the only way to show it is by making this reply.
I like your reply, and the only way to show it is by making this reply
I like your reply, and I like that so many others also like your reply, and the only way to show it is by making this reply.
Lol, wow…gotta love kids these days.
1994 -.-
the might of this argument ways heavily.
Can’t tell if trolling….
Doesn’t mean it’s correct.
No. It. Is. Not. Please stop justifying your mistake. Do you realize the respect you would earn if you just responding something like: ‘Oh… MY BAD… LAWLS!” or some-such?
Only an idiot and an uneducated jackass would use “might of” instead of “might have”. This is the 21st Century and grown-ass men and women STILL don’t know how to use the English language? No small wonder that our children are messed up!
“Durr, all my friends say ‘might of’, too, so that means it’s popular and I’m right.”
It’s *wrong*. Lots of people saying something that doesn’t make sense doesn’t suddenly make it correct.
People SAY “might’ve” which is pronounced roughly like “might of”. It is however MIGHT’VE, the contraction of MIGHT HAVE.
I used to think that teachers stopped making sure students learned the difference between such word as except and accept because they didn’t think students were smart enough to get it. Now I think it is because teachers were/are too stupid to get it. Or too lazy to teach it properly.
Yeah. The teacher said a kilometer is longer than a mile, that didn’t make it correct, did it?
Is that your reason for f****** up such an elementary word? Only idiots use language like that. You are an adult? Are you serious? This is a reflection upon your teachers AND your parents! Are they just as stupid and uneducated?
Yup, Apple used to discount to schools like crazy so it probably was a Mac.
well beyond ?? what PC did you own at the time? the PC ownership nationally in ’94 was around 5% (as most people didn’t have 3G for a PC and 1+ G for a non-impact printer to spare – in 93 I just blew 1600 for Motherboard & SCSI card) and schools, usually are at the tail end of technology, had mostly mainframe units with Daisey-wheel printers or IBM Selectric type printers nether tilted the quotes to match additionally the smudging is standard carbon copy smudging, though it could be crease lines and elevations causing copier issues
I took a typing class at my school in ’93, and that was at an elementary school in a suburban hell hole outside of Atlanta. My family has had a computer in it’s house since 87 or so, and we where anything but wealthy.
I graduated in 89. I took a computer class in a lab full of IBM pc’s in a rural Georgia high school.
Actually I got a negative progress report for being “argumentative” in 1993 for a similar situation. My chemistry teacher wrote a question in such a way that if you spoke English properly the answer was the opposite of what she intended. Another classmate and I challenged her for marking the question “incorrect” on our papers. She was an idiot.
I had a geography teacher that was the same.
The problem is that you don’t need to be very smart to be a teacher, you just have to go to a couple years of collage and get 50%+ on each course. I’d say that I was regularly smarter than my teachers in highschool. Some were awesome, others were just avereage joes with a job.
College*
with the educational standards nowadays, I’m pretty sure that he means that you only have to do a couple of years of “collage” in order to be a teacher.
That would explains a lot!!!!!!!
“A pair rently” your English teacher was a below average Joe.
Perhaps if people would stop assuming that every teacher is stupid and worthless – and even though you tried to rebound with your last sentence – when you write things like “you don’t need to be very smart to be a teacher”, that is exactly what you’re saying. It’s people with attitudes like you that are affecting education more than teachers. When you express your opinions openly, that same negativity spreads to the kids. Thanks for making this not-so-stupid teacher’s job just a little bit more difficult.
Joe, it is a good thing you were smarter than your teachers…right? You can’t even spell the words “college” and “average” correctly. I think you should go back to high school and take some English/Grammar courses. The only reason that you can read this post is because you had some teachers that were just more than average in your life. Teachers should be one of the highest paid professions because nobody would be where they are at in life without teachers!!!
I think someone else needs grammar lessons. Look at your last sentence. Take out the “at” after “are”, it’s completely unneccesary.
No, it is fine actually. Well, it may be unnecessary but that doesn’t make it syntactically inaccurate. If you took out everything slightly unnecessary in language it’d be kinda boring.
“Some were awesome, others were just avereage joes with a job.”
“others were just avereage joes with a job.”
“avereage joes with a job.”
“avereage”, “joes”.
Funny how your name is joe :p
@Joe. Apparently, where you’re from, you don’t have to be smart to be a student, either. You can’t spell “college” and “average? How dumb can you be? If you are going to talk about others, then at least be enough of an adult to use proper spelling in your assessment! I hope you don’t have children….
That’s completely inaccurate.
oooooo unfair. Teachers have four year degrees and it ISN’t easy to become a teacher. The issue is that after becoming a teacher and getting all settled in, some tend to think they have done the difficult part and start letting things slide…and, no, I am not a teacher.
I never got a negative report, but I did end up one teacher’s least favorite student. He was trying to tell the class that “to be or not to be” was a quote from Macbeth…
He was only teaching so he could coach.
He didn’t do much “teaching” in the first place, though.
Coaches the bane of all highschools. I had an english teacher who did not like books (and read a fraction of what I had read in junior year) and a pottery teacher who never heard of ancient Greece and the kind of vases the ancient greeks made. I also had a phys.ed teacher who did not know that east and west Germany were reunited…. in 2005!
Might’ve been because they were reunited….in 1990!
I think he means that it happened in 2005
Good catch, Nanners! Some people just need to stay OFF the Internet…
defintely dumb teachers out there, they’re usually the ones that can’t except they’re wrong so when you mention how they messed up, instead of considering what you said you just get introuble.
*accept
Dumb TEACHERS? Who was YOUR teacher? Are you another grown-ass person who can’t spell properly? “EXCEPT?” Are you serious? The proper word is A-C-C-E-P-T! This is why our children are so f***** up!
I had a teacher who insisted there were fifty-two states. Her whole class of eleven-year-olds told her that there are fifty states and her response was “Nuh-uh! You’re forgetting Alaska and Hawaii!”
You wanna bet? (That some public school teachers COULD BE that bad.)
If you are so skeptical, then please read this TRUE STORY that happened in my daughter’s class in 2nd. grade (she’s now a sophomore in high school), in a blue ribbon school in Irvine, CA – rated one of the best public school districts in the country (for obvious reasons, I won’t give names):
The teacher asked the kids to tell the names of different wild animals they saw or read about, and what was special about those animals. One of my daughter’s classmates said “wombat”, at which the teacher denied that there is such an animal. When the kid insisted there is, the teacher acted pretty much like the one in the original, telling the kid to not contradict him, because he knows better. Moreover, the teacher wrote a letter – not email – to this kid’s mom, saying that the boy wanted to make fun of him in front of the class with an invented animal, the wombat.
I know it is true because that boy, his mom and dad just happened to be our family friends, and she has shown us the letter – I read it. My daughter also confirmed the story.
Hoax or not, (some of) the current teachers are now as they were in my day (when education meant something). Many a well acclaimed, successful person can tell you of the teachers that discouraged them and told them they would never amount to anything. Yes, he shouldn’t have called her liar. I wouldn’t even stand for that from my own child, who is homeschooled. As for authority, he should have simply stated, after politely raising his hand, “teacher, I believe that you are incorrect.” As an educator, it is a welcome opportunity to be wrong, as it is a teachable moment; one in humility, and allow the student to (‘school”) educate the teacher. “Thank you for telling me that this is wrong. Class what did we learn from this?: ‘Never accept an answer from anyone without first finding out accuracy for one’s self!’ Excellent. That was wonderful. I stand humbly corrected. Would you like to come up to the board and explain how you drew your conclusion?” And so the journey of lifelong education continues–we learn from one another. Blessings.
Yeah, and it’d be a good time to explain how “lying” is not the same as “stating something that is factually untrue.” In order to lie, you have to know that you are doing it. E.g., getting a math question wrong is not lying about the answer.
But yeah, in general I support the idea of discipline for attitude even when the student was factually correct and the teacher was not.
What worries me, though, is the 1984-esque tone of part of this letter. “Every other student in class accepted my lesson without argument, but your son refused to believe what I told him… In the future, Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance.”
Not “sit quietly and discuss it with me after class, so I can give a retraction the next day” or the like, but “Accept my lesson, accept my teachings, without argument, and believe what I tell you.” That sounds dangerously close to indoctrination. Brrrr.
I suspect Dan Rather. And Peter Gleick.
I don’t see why it has to be a typewriter. There were plenty of computers in 1994, and the formatting did look pretty boring like that as best as I can remember.
It just looks like a bad scan of a computer typed document.
It’s dated 1994, not 1964.
uh this happened to me once in 7th grade, i corrected my science teacher when she said cavemen road dinasours, SCIENCE TEACHER!! i left the school got my GED and scored higher than anyone in the state in science lol
Why would your science teacher have been talking about Caveman Road? Are there dinosaurs living on that street?
Supplementary question: how did you manage to get your GED? Would have to assume it was not done in the English language.
+Like!
You got your GED in 7th grade? Did you take the exam on your game boy? It must have been really difficult being that superior and not being able to drive to the job you weren’t old enough to go to. At least you had Barbie to come home to.
LMAO! What an idiot and a damn shame! @wisest foolGive your GED back, because you are too stupid to have one in the first place. This is another reason why GED’s are manifestations of FAILURE in the U.S. education system and should NOT be accepted!
I’m pretty sure Caveman Rd is just down the way from Deadmans Curve
Bragging fail. Saying you got your GED really young is like claiming to be the world’s youngest janitor. Nobody cares…
It’s freaking photo copy that is tilted.
Great catch, most of us don’t get that detailed to catch one bad quotation mark – can’t even properly fake that on a PC – it’s an automatic
But it would be a lot funnier if it wasn’t so dang close to the truth – even though my sister is a teacher (in NV) I have little respect for the teachers I have had to deal with – their unwillingness to actually teach , maybe inability since I find way to many teachers that themselves do not posses the skills that they are trying to teach or at least need to teach (linguistic skills, open approach that there is more than one way to solve a problem etc)
Another self proclaimed student of stupid teachers. Or maybe you were just a mediocre student. A smart student will excel in spite of poor teachers. “… I find way to many teachers” should be, “… I find way too many teachers.”
Normal office typewriters also don’t create jpg files, mate. Scanners do. Maybe you should check your logic before jumping to conclusions.
^ This was classic
don’t be so smug, you’re barely f**king literate, please uninstall and gtfo
Uninstall what…? His web browser? That phrase is so overused…
And also, the US is far behind many other countries when it comes to education. Just saying…
pfff, uninstal da internets, easy.
*avinstallera internetarna
perhaps a quick search on the internet will show you that the US has 10 of the top 15 universities in the world.
Yes, our average education is not the highest, but that’s mainly because we have greater freedoms to achieve greatness OR falter.
do a quick search and see how many of your top students are us-americans – without any immigration background.
Did you think about what you were typing either before, after, or while typing it? The subject here is teachers, not students. Even were it otherwise, your implied claim is absurd.
I think he’s got a valid point.
Argument: US school system is trash
rebuttal: But the US has 10 of the top 15 schools universities in the world
rebuttal: Those schools are at the top because of the acheivments of foreign students attending those schools, not as a product of the american education system.
and a small addition, just because your universities are among the best in the world it doesnt mean that your midle and high school are too, just that a small percentage comming from these places with bad education are actualy smart enough to be part of the best universities.
Besides the way they rank the universities worldwide is plainly wrong, they take into account several things that, IMO, they shouldn’t. What they SHOULD do if you want a true rank of universities, (at a world level) is to have all of the ones interested to agree at some sort of “unified evaluation” to see how the students actualy grade.
There are too many spelling errors in your post for me to take your opinion of education seriously.
It’s funny because you’re from Germany and you’re two ranks behind the US in education as of 2010
It´s funny because you don´t even say which ranking you quote… Btw. 2010!? What happend 2011?
All Americans apart from a handful of native tribes have an immigration background.
Fail.
Really? It’s pretty obvious she was referring to people who were not born in the U.S. Not to people descended from those that rode over on the mayflower. You’re splitting hairs.
Fail.
Oh snap!
Dude, I’m not saying the Swedish guy is right, but your education system is screwing you. It isn’t “freedom” it’s a fundamentally disfunctional society. Most countries have either very cheap or free post-secondary education, while America keeps that for elites only, and then any profession that the graduates practice (e.g., medicine) ends up being ultra-expensive. Yeah, you do some good research, but then you’re an affluent country of 320 million people. If any other affluent state had that many people would it do any worse?
First, the U.S. system abides by the “educate all” policy. Everyone must go to school, and, consequently, most classes are taught to the lowest student.
Second, your invocation of “freedom” is feeble. Societies that have paid for education always have it on the backs’ of taxpayers. Hence, it isn’t “cheap” or “free”, it merely shifts the costs elsewhere.
Third, higher education isn’t kept for “elites” in the U.S. In fact, there are so many government and private loan programs for the poor that virtually anyone who is qualified to get into a school can pay for the school — often times with a totally forgiven debt.
Fourth, the cost of education is the fault of educators in the U.S. But then again, if the U.S. has the best higher education in the world, perhaps that’s because it’s also funded properly. And so if the price for Harvard, etc. has to be $50,000 per student — and that cost is what makes Harvard Harvard — then so be it.
Cool. Moderation. Are comments over a certain length automatically moderated?
Actually, Harvard is a very good counterexample. They are SO well-funded that they can ensure that any student who qualifies for admission is able to attend regardless of their ability to pay, and ability to pay is not taken into consideration when deciding admissions. This is the #2 school in the world by multiple ranking methods.
I’m sorry but “often times totally forgiven debt” is a complete farce. I’d love a citation there.
The main problem with American K-12 education is that there is virtually no school choice or competition among the public schools, leading to degraded standards. Most people are locked into attending certain schools based on where they live, which decreases competition to absurdly low levels. However, our university education is nearly the best, and perhaps the best, in the world. I mean, people come from all over the world to attend US universities, but who comes here to go to our high schools?
Some people do, but only so they have a higher chance of getting into our colleges!
As someone who has degrees from US and Swedish universities (BC and Linköping) I will tell you you get what you pay for, The Swedish system is not without its merits but trust me when I say that Sweden is no paradise. The resources at major US universities are far superior to what you find at Swedsh universities. A lot of kids are in school on the taxpayers dime because they have nothing better to do.
There is another problem with research and “schools of thought” where differing ideas can get you fired.
In addition Sweden is a country full of nepotism (friends helping friends is the main way of career advancement which means almost all immigrants are SOL).
They are a smug bunch though for living in what is really a backwater….
No one from the Euro zone should waste their time trying to tell us ‘Mericans we are wrong. We just don’t accept it regarding education or foreign policy.
Well, Sweden is not within the ‘Euro zone’… so I suppose the criticism is completely in order then?
You’re a dumbass.
The issue isn’t higher education in the USA, it’s the K-12 system that has the most issues.
Are you implying having the best universities equals having best highest AVERAGE performance?
Id like to cite the fact of having Lebron on your team does not equal a championship. Just saying.
BULLSEYE!
My name is Kevin and I did not write this what the hell
Haters gonna hate, trolls gonna troll, and educational statistics gonna be manipulated.
Liars figure and figures lie. Or as Benjamin Disraeli said” There are lies, damn lies and statistics.”
They still have problems. Homeschooling isn’t a reason to take someone’s kids away.
Depends on whether it’s actual homeschooling, or “homeschooling” like I’ve seen far too often by people who probably shouldn’t even have kids.
You’d better be glad, so you didn’t have to live with an American geography/history teacher that thought Taiwan was communist. (seriously? f-cking c-nt thought that Taiwan was communist, and when I tried to tell her otherwise, she just handwaved the issue away, now there is about seven classes of students wandering around thinking that Taiwan was communist at one point.)
I’m glad you do as well, because otherwise the intensity of your smugness would kill off all my cats.
Unless your not Swedish (I live here too!)…
Not like our schools are any better nor our cancer survival rates…..
Dumb people are everywhere. Doesn’t matter where you live.
So true… But it’s sad when it’s misinformation from teachers. -.-
That is REALLY not cool to say. Have some respect for other people.
This MUST be fake… please let it be fake.
Sounds like the teacher was this close to a break down…….
You are absolutely right; it’s fake. In 1994 word processors could not yet type curly quotation marks like “You’re lying!”
They could only type straight quotation marks such as “You’re lying!”
You’re lying!
Ever heard of something called typewriters?
No, but typewriters did. Note the deep paragraph indentations.
As someone who was writing high school term papers in the early 90s, I’m pretty sure my word processor was fully capable of writing smart quotes in Courier. In any case, checking to make sure that April 22, 1994 took place on a Friday seems like an unnecessary hassle for someone trying to create a fake, especially when the underlying humour isn’t conditional in any way upon its having taken place seventeen years ago.
The “unnecessary hassle” being about 5 seconds using the calendar in microsoft windows.
And its these 5 seconds that separate a quality prank from the common *couldn’t think of two words for prank*.
Hijijnk, just because hijink has three dotted letters in a row.
tktk123 has trolled all of you and wins 1 Internet(s)
I was using an IBM PC in 19-EIGHTY-4 and it did “slanted” or “curly” or “smart” quotes in Courier 10 _years_ before this alleged incident.
Not true. In the 1990′s, many word processors would print curly quotation marks, although some could not.
Having said that, however, I suspect that the letter is not genuine. At least, I hope it’s not.
This is fake, old, has been rewritten numerous times, and is stupid.
Hell I had a Social Linguistics professor that unless you prounounced the word “pen” correctly he would reach in his desk and hand you a straight pin. He quit mid-semester and we were glad to have his grad assistant finish the term. His name was Theodore Bickle.
Social linguistics. Are you serious? From the other side of the fence, everybody sees sociolinguists as being like “yay variation, accept ALL the pronounciation differences!” and stuff. How long ago was this?
Wtf? A kilometer is shorter than a mile. One kilometer is equal to about 0.62 miles.
yes?
Did you eve F*cking read it? Or did you just look at the yellow line and make that comment?
Tone is very difficult to express through text. The emphasis is meant to be on “shorter” and the tone was to express anger and frustration with the teacher.
By all means though, continue to insult me using incorrect grammar and typos, what else is the internet for?
If you had bothered to read the rest of the letter, you’d see that the REAL fail here is that while Alex was correct (i.e. the teacher admits getting it wrong), he is now in detention for having the nerve to dispute her. Instead, the teacher claims, he should have sat there and just accepted what the teacher was saying (despite knowing it was wrong).
Apparently it was rude of him to contradict the teacher, even though the teacher was a muppet.
But as you don’t seem to know that (even after lolno’s comment) it seems clear that you didn’t read the rest of the letter. So perhaps the insults were valid?
What about either of my comments implies that I didn’t grasp that aspect of the fail?
just… stop talking…
*typing
*breathing
Everything. There is no comprehensible reason for making such a comment if you’d read the whole thing.
Also, if you want to express emphasis, most/many websites including this one let you use HTML tags in the comments. (Italics is i, in pointy brackets, don’t forget the /i tag after the bit you want to be in italics.)
Your attempt to explain something that is obvious to anyone who recognizes the fail, that’s what.
Except the student WAS wrong. The teacher was right. A Kilometer is SHORTER than a mile. The teacher admitting wrongness is the real joke here.
Nice job reading the post here, Doctor.
That would be Internet you dolt – but blather on smart guy.
Nonsense, there’s no consensus on ‘internet’ being a proper noun. The OED itself varies the capitalisation.
going to read the full thing anytime soon?
Thank you Ted, that was the joke.
which is the whole point of this being a fail
It sounds like this kid was raised by people who knew better than this teacher, so hopefully he didn’t have to go to detention!
I don’t know…. In the third grade, I was sent to the office for telling the teacher, who was writing the spelling words on the board, that surprise has 2 “r”s. So much for magnet schools. In middle school I had to stand in the hall for half an hour for correcting a substitute teacher’s math. I was only allowed back into the classroom after another math teacher walked down the hall and asked why I was there. He then went in and corrected her math himself. He purposely used very large numbers and multicolored chalk. American schools are failing for a reason.
So this is what teachers are like nowadays?
1994 = nowadays?
awesome, I’m much younger than I thought
now being close to than not to twenty years ago – - NASA called they said “thanks anyway”
Thats the perfect exampel of what school shouldn’t be like. ^^ I’m glad here in Germany most teachers exept critcism of their pupils and sometimes even want that you quesiton them.
That’s*, example*, accept*, question*
Ok, your turn. Give us some German and let Fabse correct you.
Hier ist meine schlecte Deutsche. Es ist sehr schlect.
Sie saugt.
“Hier ist meine schlecte Deutsche. Es ist sehr schlect.” If you are trying to say “Here is my poor German, it is very bad”, you have made so many mistakes I don’t know where to begin.
I car d’ont a bout youre silly langauge.
except**
Fail
***accept
****Expect! how many fail what?
*****Equesept
C-c-c-combo breaker~~~
Udo Dirkschneider?
Seriously?
Expect*
criticize properly
Not if you attend school in Bavaria. My history teacher was not amused with my constant questioning him. But then again rural area in Bavaria is ridiculously conservative.
uhh, it’s the Left that wants to control people. They just perpetuate the lie that it is more common for a conservative to be less interested in truth, and more power mad, than themselves. Yet think about it. The Left want more and more government to make decisions for us (for example) which means more and more power to them who are growing that government. They do so by demonizing their opponents and against groups, to get them to depend on them. The Left depends on the fear and helplessness of the dependants. (looks what’s happened to every Left controlled area of the US in the past 40 years. Especially education since Carter the public teacher’s unions. Results have plummeted, steadily.)
I dunno, conservative schools tend to be more strict and oppressive from my experience.
Oh you poor person, you don’t even know what “left” is.
The most conservative part of Bavaria is more left than the “left” controlled areas in the US.
That’s correct. Thank you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
And how many “left” govts have you had in the US since Carter? None, actually, since Clinton and Obama certainly don’t qualify (centrist at best).
The “left” in the US is considered centrist or moderate-right to the rest of the world.
As for control? Well…
-Telling women they are not allowed to make their own decisions about their bodies, and are thus not worthy of the Constitutional right to bodily domain.
-Telling homosexuals they can’t marry because… um… it’s icky or something. And then trying to outlaw, kill, and/or force them all into hiding while making them 2nd-class citizens, if that.
-Trying to force religion on everyone, while either ignoring the 1st Amendment or telling people it doesn’t say what it most certainly does.
-Constantly using bizarre personal revisions of history to tell people that founders like Jefferson & Adams were devout Christians who wanted this to be a Christian nation.
-Supporting segregation. (Keep in mind that the Democrats were once the conservative party in the US.)
-Trying to have science replaced with religious stories.
Totally all liberal stances. OH WAIT.
Fun fact (and possible Godwin’s Law): The Nazi party of Germany was far-right-wing. In fact, that is the extreme end of right-wing… religious justification & all. Thankfully, most right-wingers in the US are more moderate than that (despite the loud minority that keeps popping up).
Now, here’s the surprise: I don’t mind conservatives. I’m fiscally conservative, but socially liberal. And I dislike both extremes, and I really dislike the stereotypes & political “us vs. them” crap. If you honestly believe all that you posted, you’re either astonishingly ignorant or intellectually lazy.
TL;DR – Wrong, stop generalizing, educate yourself or gtfo.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Build a spaceship, go to a planet covered in crude oil, build some nanobots that eat crude oil, and watch them evolve.
omfg we got a constantly decreasing fun factor here!
what is a ‘fun factor’?
It’s an old 1994 TV show where people would be put into tanks of live butterflies, have to eat heaping handfuls of cotton candy and have to jump from a very plush rug into a pile of soft pillows. It didn’t last very long and was replaced with some other show featuring Joe Rogan…I don’t remember what that one was called though.
………..FEAR Factor? You can remember that nobody’s name but you can’t remember Fear Factor?
Thst was the joke, you idiot.
*That
Successful troll strikes again.
This better be fake. Not only is the kid right, but an insistence on the truth over authority is a virtue, not something to be punished.
If it’s real, it sounds like a teacher got schooled by a student and decided to punish a kid for the humiliation of being called out as obviously wrong. That’s just vindictive and petty.
I think the detention has more to do with how Alex contradicted the teacher.
Then again, the teacher should have defused the situation right away with “Ok, let’s check the encyclopedia to see who’s right” rather than getting into a “I’m right! – No I’m right!! – No I’m righter!!” argument.
If he was right, it’s his DUTY to contradict that teacher.
In a polite manner, yes. As a teacher, I can handle being told I’m wrong… I cannot and will not tolerate impudence.
“This better be fake. Not only is the kid right, but an insistence on the truth over authority is a virtue, not something to be punished.”
Not in the mind of a liberal brainwasher (teacher).
What if the teacher voted a straight Republican ticket? Are all teachers liberal in the conservative bubble?
Over 90% voted Left, so yes, most public, union teachers and administrators do indeed hold a secular leftist value system. It is they who live in a bubble. Look at the Universites which teach these teachers (to be teachers). They’re like secular leftist seminaries and have the least free speech of anywhere in the country.
oh it’s you again…
everybody move on – nothing to read here.
Cool story, bro.
You’re absolutely right. My old photography teacher once said he thought Karl Marx should have been shot, and I’m pretty sure it’s because he thought Marx wasn’t enough of a liberal elitist leftist communist. And I’m certain the English teacher who runs the Christian Club is only doing it ironically.
Don’t get me started on my history teacher, who was such a liberal coward during the Vietnam war that he dodged the draft by hiding on the bridge of a destroyer for several years, and when he returned he decided the best way to protest the war was to vote straight Republican tickets for the next 30 years. That showed ‘em!
If the teacher was smart as you speculate the whole incident would never have happened.
Oh, it’s you. Stupid failure of a troll.
Tell us the story of how science is an evil conspiracy, and that a religious creation story should be taught as scientific fact.
And how the Establishment Clause in the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution doesn’t exist (or, alternately, imposes a theocracy).
Ooh, and tell us the one about how the Holocaust never happened. That’s a good one.
Now gtfo until you can learn to troll properly.
Kid was wrong. Kilometer NOT longer than a mile. Shorter.
This was funny back in 1998 when it made its first rounds.
1994?? Old news.
Yes, it was some years ago. But since a year is shorter than a week, it was almost a couple of days ago.
Source.
I’m a teacher. You must accept my teachings without resistance.
I lol’d.
Yeah, I had a college professor who did pretty much the same thing. She said something to the class I knew was wrong, and we’d probably be tested on it. I knew the teacher knew the right answer, but had accidentally stated it wrong, so I corrected her, hoping the entire class wouldn’t flunk the test by repeating what the teacher just told them. She pulled me aside after class & flamed me for daring to correct her in her lecture. I told her what I thought of her behavior & dropped the class.
sounds like a good choice, if you would rather teach something incorrect than be corrected by a student, you shouldn’t be a teacher. I would’ve dropped the class too.
that happened to me too! but on a test. she marked everyone wrong who put the right answer, and refused to give us the points when we showed her the correct answer in the text book. she just made up some crap about how she was right.
This is why you always threaten with a lawsuit. A student suing for a missing point? Not gonna happen. An entire class suing for this reason? That will get somewhere and the teacher will fold.
Cheaper and easier: going en masse to the Dean.
Cheaper-er and easier-er(?): Smiling, giving the answer asked for, then once the teacher is not present explaining the facts as they actually are to the rest of the class. This way, those who deserve the truth recieve it, those insisting on ignorance continue living in their colorless utopia of idiocy, and everyone concerned saves a great deal of time and stress. #LFMW.
(P.S. This sort of thing, among other major factors, is exactly why I chose to be homeschooled: nearly zero beuracracy, sane schedules, one chooses one’s peers thus avoiding negative peer pressure aside from what one would already recieve, and an education one can actually be proud of when speaking to people in the world outside of conservative America.)
(P.P.S. I’m 16, American, and can speak/write intelligently… I am the 1%)
But, you can’t spell bureaucracy. Probably because you never had to deal with it, I’m sure. It’s good that you got to choose your peers and schedule because that prepares you for how the real world is going to be… if you own your own online business or some such thing that continues to allow you to choose who you want to be around and what schedule to keep.
Most people can’t spell bureaucracy. Especially at 16. It’s a word most teens have never had a need to write and have probably only seen written a handful of times.
Have to agree with you about the peers though…
I hope that you don’t promote homeschooling, as you have just proven it ineffectiveness. You can’t even spell “bureaucracy”, and have you ever heard of “i before e, except after c?” It’s R-E-C-E-I-V-E, and there is no excuse!
Correction. I am typing on an Acer Iconia A500 tablet and it is a pain in the ass at times. The correction is shown below.
I hope that you don’t promote homeschooling, as you have just proven its ineffectiveness. You can’t even spell “bureaucracy”, and have you ever heard of “i before e, except after c?” It’s R-E-C-E-I-V-E, and there is no excuse!
““i before e, except after c?”
That rule is deprecated on account of the 900+ exceptions. Trying spelling “species”, or “science”, or “weird” with that rule.
Also I doubt misspelling one word is indicative of the quality of this person’s education. Saying “you can’t even spell bureaucracy” would assume they’ve never managed to spell it correctly, which is a fact not in evidence by a single post on failblog. It also assumes that one must spell every word correctly in every instance in order for their education to be effective, which isn’t true of any education.
If that is what you recieved, then good lukc to you.
wow you showed her – so she’s a tenured Prof and you scrub toilets – good move. that’s not bravery that’s foolish.
He wasn’t trying to ‘show her’ or be brave – he was trying to ensure that the class was understanding correctly because she slipped up her words. I would have done the same thing if I were him, and most teachers would simply correct themselves and even be grateful for the correction, but she decided to get all prideful and be stupid about it.
Wow,
I called my professor out on how gold contacts are less conductive than silver and he told me I was wrong.
So I said I would write a paper proving my point and he would give me extra credit if I was right.
Not only did he give me extra credit, but he apologized to the entire class.
When our college profs made a mistake we corrected them, they said they were just testing if we were paying attention, we knew they lied, they knew we knew and we all moved on. This comment is not a dupe.
I’m confused. A Kilometer IS greater than a mile. The teacher was correct..
nice try, kid.
You’re lying to the class.
A mile is rougly 1.6 Km
1.6 > 1
As in, it takes more than one kilometer to make one mile.
As in, a kilometer is shorter than a mile.
They just don´t see it that way.
This is how they see it:
If 1Km = 0.625mille, then 1Km must be larger than 1mille.
Because 1 is larger than 0.625.
The average weight of a chimp´s brain is 14 ounce, the average human brain weights 3.3 pound.
So, according to this teacher the chimp must be smarter than she is, because 14 is larger than 3.3… In this case, she might be right. The chimp is actually smarter than she is.
It’s true. The whole metric system is fcking great!
LOOL
Ugh. Almost the same thing happened to me in my high school physics class, when my teacher told us that lightyears were a measurement of time. I told him lightyears were a measurement of distance, and basically kept raising that point until I got into trouble. That was almost 20 years ago, but it still makes my blood boil.
Physics classes are a great memory for me.
When studying light in highschool, I asked the teacher whether photons were a particle or a wave since they were stopped by solids except transparent ones. The teacher declined to answer and explained this by “photons are too advanced, your classmates probably don’t even know what they are”.
wave/particle duality isn’t something that you usually get into in high school physics. I don’t blame the teacher.
I did. Not ’till A-level though.
I agree, that’s fair enough: it’s not as though (s)he tried to tell you something wrong.
The concept of the photon, however, is fairly common knowledge.
I don’t know what the usual is, but I was fully aware of wave-particle duality in middle school.
I did too… but again I live in Europe.
You better understand it if you want to pass physics in New York State.
What are you talking about? Light*years* is how you measure light’s age, kind of like dog years (7 human years).
You’re thinking of parsecs. I think there are 12 of them in a kessel run.
Nelson FTW
There are less than 12 parsecs in a Kessel Run.
But only if you’re flying the Millenium Falcon.
Well… i don’t think it’s fake… my son came home the other day saying his teacher was laughing at him, because he said salami is a typical Italian food. It was culinary for kids and they were preparing food from different parts of the world, and she didn’t allow him to make a Italian sandwich with salami because she said salami is from Germany…
Actually there are many types of Salami that are from different countries like Germany, Hungary and France. They are based on the Italian Recipe but they gave it a twist to make it somewhat different but still their own.
The same goes for hotdogs in america, You call them hotdogs but they are originally frankfurters (German Sausages) It goes for so many things. I can somewhat understand where this teacher is coming from. EdelSalami for example is typical german food but also a variaty of salami.
Yes, I know that… they are typical specially in the Mediterranean regions, but c’mon!!! Salami is an Italian word!
And saying that a sandwich that contains salami can’t be Italian is nonsense…
If you put Berlusconi behind the wheel of a Ford, you don’t magically get a Ferrari…
take italian bread and you get a “panini”. Otherwise, it’s just a salami sandwich and really doesn’t qualify as typically italian
I had something like this when a teachers was explaining the penguins are not found in the north pole, they are only found in Antarctica I corrected her and told her the live in Africa as well. She would not listen , argued for athe good 5 minutesI and ended up mocking me and telling me I could believe it if I wanted but it didn’t make me right, causing the whole class to laugh at me. When I stood up, grabbed a dictionary and showed everyone the map proving it, that’s when she decided I was disrupting the class and needed to go to the office. I wasn’t punished, she just wanted me gone to save face.
*punished;
Silence, Comrade! This one is not worth the Gramrer’s time. Let him/her be.
a dictionary showed you where penguins live? on a map? last I looked it tells you they live in the southern hemisphere…. that, my friend, is a great dictionary!!!
I can’t believe I did that, encyclopedia not dictionary. Sorry
I once took a test in second grade where a question was “Right or Wrong: the sun gets colder in Winter”.
I answered “No, the Earth moves further from it” (I know, the Earth actually tilts, which makes some countries further from the Sun in Winter than in Summer but that still was a pretty good answer for a 7 year-old).
Teacher gave me 0 points on that question. When my parents asked her about it, she said (and I kid you not) “A 7 year-old should believe that the Sun gets colder!”
Wha–? I’ve never thought the Sun changes temperature! I’ve never heard of anyone who thought that! What seven-year-olds has this crackpot talked to?
Sorry but i got to fix that notion. The earth does not wobble in they way you are talking about (it does wobble like that but on the time scale of roughly 26,000 years.) It is a common misconception that the earth is wobbling on its axis and that causes the seasons but if that were true then a year would be determined by the rate at which we wobble and not how long it takes to travel around the sun. Just imagine it from the suns perspective. You see the earth and it has a tilt and as the year goes by the orientation of the tilt never changes but you do still get the seasons based on the relative position of the earth and the sun. Not saying your stupid btw just trying to fight that misconception
I have a teacher at school who says stupid things:
*Honey spoils
*Penguins are not found in South Africa, South America (Falklands), and Australia
*The Sun is at the center of the galaxy
*When selling products, price is everything, and the quality doesn’t matter
*There is no place called Invernes (In Scotland)
*etc. etc.
So yeah, she is retarded, yet she teaches astronomy, economics and geography…
this is why i want to homeschool my children. there are so many things in schoolbooks that are wrong or so outdated. but they keep teaching them. and the teachers don’t want to accept that what they know is no longer relevant.
Personally I’m going to put my kids in school and sue the hell out of the school if the teachers are retards. Maybe once the school/city get tired of losing money to me, they’ll give these schools more budget to hire good teachers.
You don’t solve problems by running away from them.
“You don’t solve problems by running away from them”?
That’s an arrogant statement. As if public school is the “correct” method of education and anyone who chooses to exercize a different option is “running away”.
It’s called a “Social Problem.” Sometimes, people actually care about more than just themselves.
Homeschooling can be a good idea for some, but for many, I fear, it is the very worst idea. There are a lot of dumbass teachers out there, but there are also a hell of a lot of dumbass PEOPLE who become parents.
The country where i live uses a national (government-paid but not controlled) college of wise men/women who assess what minimal level of education kids need to have when finishing the different levels of schooling. This is to prevent certain styles of schools with religious aspects holding back the general knowledge base children need in higher education. Schools are free to teach how they want, as long as the end-levelof knowledge is within the norms set by the wise men/women.
The school level that is best compared to US high school, the levels that give access to college and university, has a national test with the questions and answers published once the yearly exams are past. Mistakes (rarely made) in the tests are thus easily noticed by the populace and ammended in the scoring. The actual correction of the national exams is done by teachers from different schools (the schools swap the exam papers with another school, sometimes on the far side of the country, to avoid nepotism).
This schooling system was set up to guarantee each child has access to a minimal level of education regardless of religious background or parental income. It was not set up to promote exceptionally gifted children’s development, and that’s where the schoolsystem is sadly lacking, although recently initiatives from parents and certain bigger high schools have made possible classes for gifted children so they are not held back / forced to adjust to schoolmates’ lower pace of information absorption.
Homeschooling is only allowed by exception and requires a severe (religious) argument (no schools withing X km from home with the right religious background), but for the child to have access to higher education later on, it would have to pass the end-of-school national exams.
And what is that country? France?
I actually did just throw away some honey that had gone bad. “Spoils” probably isn’t the right word, but it had crystallized to the point that it wouldn’t come out of the bottle. Maybe that’s what she meant?
You should have just heated the crystallized honey in the microwave, or boiled it in its container, in water. That brings it back to its perfect, liquid form.
I will try that next time, thanks!
Hold on there. Don’t boil it in a plastic container. Plastic begins to chemically degrade at high temperatures and will poison the honey. Glass is okay, but let it sit and cool naturally. Pulling it out of the boiling water may be enough to shock the glass and shatter it.
These last four comments are the most civil and helpful I have ever seen the internet. Congratulations, you all have leveled up.
The game.
Thanks for the additional info. Most of the honey we buy comes in a plastic container. At the rate we go through honey, I think it’s probably easier just to spend the $1.19 every 4 years or so for a new bottle, than it is to attempt to revive the last 1/3 of the current bottle.
Totally!
As long as it’s kept in a sealed container, it is fine. They have found Egyptian honey in tombs that were still edible.
I highly recommend you buy your honey locally to not only ensure you’re getting real honey, but to ensure you’re not getting one laced with chemicals (such as the Chinese stuff we’re getting in the country). Also, you’d be supporting your local beekeeper who is helping the most important pollinators we have. And, if you have allergies, it has been shown to help your body recognize local triggers as something not to attack.
When it crystalizes, just put the container in a pot or bowl of hot water. I don’t recommend boiling it on the stove or nuking it.
- A beekeeper… in case that wasn’t obvious.
Actually, there is NO SUCH place as invernes in Scotland. It’s I-N-V-E-R-N-E-S-S! Damn, I sincerely hope that you don’t represent the best and the brightest of your community, friends, or family.
and a dollar is worth more than a pound
what was the letter written back to the teacher? i know my mom would have written one.
I can contribute as well. A teacher basically led the entire calss to laugh at me because I insisted that the capital of Pakistan is Islamabad, not Karachi.
“In the future, Alex would be better off accepting my teachings without resistance. Please see that your son accepts this.”
Oh yeah. If my kid got a letter like this I’d be sure to make sure he knows what to do about it.
Hell I’d be proud to get a letter like that about my kid. It would show that I’d raised him right.
One mile is longer than one kilometre (roughly 1.6km just like Ash said). the part that should have been highlighted should have been the first sentence of the 3rd paragraph where the teacher (wrongly) admits that the student was right. So in all the teacher, the student, and the failblog staff got it wrong. Now that’s a fail!
… what? You’re trolling right? If not… then I have no words.
You do realize it was the kid who said a mile was longer than a kilometer and the teacher who said it wasn’t, right?
My wife once had an argument with a college professor who insisted that “die” was the plural of “dice”.
Pleas note the last defination:
die 2 (d)
n. pl. dies or dice (ds)
1. pl. dies A device used for cutting out, forming, or stamping material, especially:
a. An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.
b. One of several component pieces that are fitted into a diestock to cut threads on screws or bolts.
c. A part on a machine that punches shaped holes in, cuts, or forms sheet metal, cardboard, or other stock.
d. A metal block containing small conical holes through which plastic, metal, or other ductile material is extruded or drawn.
2. pl. dies Architecture The dado of a pedestal, especially when cube-shaped.
3. pl. dice
a. A small cube marked on each side with from one to six dots, usually used in pairs in gambling and in various other games.
b. dice (used with a sing. verb) A game of chance using dice.
The expression ”to cast the die” came to my mind.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Are you trying to contradict 1958fury or just reaffirm his comment?
Was wondering the same thing. Either way, I’ll concede that there might be informal variations/slang, but the tone of the argument indicated that the professor wasn’t talking about colloquialisms. The prof apparently had never even HEARD of dice being plural, or die being singular.
Ha, that reminds me the school teacher insisting that Antarctica was the hottest place on Earth (it’s down south!), and ridiculing me because I was saying it was the coldest…
That was before 1994 #SНITIMOLDWHEREDIDITGO
Tomorrow I’ll be 42.
Perhaps you feel young now?
The answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything!!!
You’re 42 and posting comments on memebase? That’s basically paedophilia.
I’m 48 and reading them… I guess now I’m posting them too. How old did you say you were again?
For $500, I’ll be however old you want me to be …
Over 18? Please?
And I’m 44, ditto. Don’t worry, I actually prefer people who know what they are doing in many areas of life, therefore not a pedophile.
Kind of. But if I don’t find a way to stop it I’ll be 42 one day too… Happy birthday, by the way.
I’m 48. Feel young now?
I’m sure there are plenty of others on here who have a few years behind them.
Antarctica is the driest continent (it’s pretty much all desert, despite being covered in frozen water). Maybe that’s where the teacher’s confusion is.
ACCEPT THE TEACHINGS!!!
Teachers Unions, gotta love ‘em!!!
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/hilliker.asp
This has been doing the rounds since 2006. *yawn*
Old then, but yet of undetermined veracity.
That teacher should remove him- or herself from the gene pool, thanks.
THIS is why I homeschool
not necessarily any better. many creationists are homeschooled.
Many Atheists are home schooled, and many Creationists are public schooled. K might even be a Creationist.
Your point is?
That homeschooling isolates children from the community, and is an invaluable tool to cults and other types of fanatics. It’s much harder to raise Phelps-Kids when they actually get to leave the house and interact with normal kids for 8 hours a day.
Personally never met an atheist who was home-schooled, though I’m sure there are a few. In some cases it’s a viable alternative to public education … but it seems to mostly be abused by lunatics.
I’m an atheist with a degree in Elementary Education and if I had children I would homeschool them. Children learn better in small groups where one on one attention is available. There are plenty of other ways to make sure they get social interaction (like scouts, dance class, etc).
That said, I agree that it is often people who are concerned with their children’s “moral” and “religious” well-being that homeschool, rather than people who are concerned with making sure that their children get enough one on one teaching time.
We’re on the same page Rebecca; if I had kids, and was wealthy enough not to have to work, I’d probably home school them too. I’d also make sure they had a healthy social environment through organizations like the ones you mentioned. But that doesn’t change the fact that the majority of parents who home-school do so for the purpose of better indoctrinating their children with their own religious beliefs, and keeping them away from Eeeeeevil knowledge like “Evolution”.
Just on the “evolution” thing, I studied Year 12 Human Biology and evolution was a big part of the final exam [about 25% of the total mark, I think]. My teacher refused to teach anything related to evolution [we just got told to read the chapter in the book] because she believed in creation not evolution.That was is a public high school [in Australia]
LOL
Homeschooling isolates children, and is mostly abused by lunatics? How cute. Something tells me you’ve never actually met a homeschooling family, nor a student who has been homeschooled.
Allow me to present myself as an example. I was homeschooled from sixth grade on, initially as a result of a limiting medical procedure but ultimately because my parents and I found such an education to be far more fulfilling than one I would have received in public school. Far from being isolated, I was a pillar of every community I was a part of: in my neighborhood as the sole youth adults felt they could trust; at my workplace, an independent bookstore across town, where I was the only steady employee from the time the shop opened its doors to the day I left for college, and those in the surrounding shops knew they could count on me; and at every place through which I volunteered at least one thousand hours as conventional public schools might tally it. That doesn’t even include my contributions to my home church, which, I might add, was as far from fanatical as a church can be.
Frankly, I was probably in the minority in my city as a homeschooler who was also Christian. Most of the friends I made while doing all of the above and more were, in fact, atheists. Hint: they weren’t fanatics either (nor are they to this day). In our pooled knowledge, we could have named one family that remotely fit the conservative Christian homeschooler stereotype, and they, oddly enough, also failed to resemble the FLDS. Even when I went on to attend a private Christian university, where the homeschoolers generally were conservative Christians, the same held true: no lunatics.
Are there those among us who use homeschooling as an excuse to brainwash their children? Absolutely, just as there are those who use politics or any number of other tools to accomplish the same – and they are proven to be a tiny minority. Please, please, educate yourself before making such broad judgments. It’s quite clear to those of us who are part of the homeschooling community that you have little to no idea what you’re talking about.
There’s also an alternative home schooling available where the curriculum is simply mailed or emailed to you. My daughter was born 1 month past the cut off date. Normally she wouldn’t be allowed to start normal kindergarten until she’s almost 6. That’s created a problem for me, causing me to do such defiant things as recite the alphabet backwards when asked to recite it and wasting my IQ because I had a family and a school system that didn’t care that I didn’t care. I plan on getting my daughter started with school early, homeschooling her as fast as she’d like to learn and getting her as excited as possible. Do I think she’ll graduate high school before she’s 16? I don’t know, but I want to give her the chance. When I was offered the chance to skip grades, my mother was afraid I wouldn’t make any friends and had me held back, not bothering to notice that the few friends I had were 3 to 5 years older than I was and that I considered the kids in my class stupid. I was in the first grade at the time. I don’t want to put my daughter through that. I want her to love learning and not be held back by social boundaries. If she’s on par with the 8 year olds, then she should have the right to learn with the 8 year olds. No matter whether she’s 5 or 8.
I agree with you about “If she’s on par with the 8 year olds, then she should have the right to learn with the 8 year olds. No matter whether she’s 5 or 8″
In Western Australia, when I went to primary school it was extremely rare for a child to be held back a year and skipping grades never happened as far as I was aware. More than fifteen years later [gosh I feel old] and even being held back is non-existent, as a result we have people graduating high school at 17 years old who can’t read or write. It seems that holding kids back a year or two so that they can grasp the basics [which would allow them to grasp concepts taught later on] is seen as detrimental to the child’s “mental health/confidence/bla bla bla” and shouldn’t happen – obviously it’s better to become an illiterate adult [and I'm sure their mental health is just fine] than a literate adult who had to make a few new friends at school [I don't think I'm even in contact with anyone I went to primary school with]…work that one out. Just my 2 cents worth.
I went to school with several people who should have been held back. The 16 year old guy, for instance, that we had to sit down and explain why getting an 8th grader pregnant wasn’t some monumental achievement he should be bragging about to the whole school. The football players who the teacher “allowed” (I seriously got in trouble for complaining about it…) to copy off my tests because they wouldn’t be allowed to play if they had bad grades…. The schools here are more afraid that they’ll get sued by a parent than anything else. I punched a guy in the face for grabbing my ass and yanking me into his lap. The vice principal got upset with him for possibly bringing in a sexual harassment lawsuit. What happened to the days of what’s right being more important than what will cost us money?
83% of home-schooling parents specifically cite religion as the reason. Amazing that you managed to only have atheist friends. Must have been god playing a trick on you, right? It couldn’t be that you’re lying or anything …
Um, you have heard of the internet, right? I’m talking, of course, about the single greatest tool for the interconnection of human beings since speech itself. No person with any kind of internet connection can connect with people from literally all walks of life, accruing an unprecedented cultural and intellectual grounding from the comfort of their own home. The only excuse or reason for cultural ignorance in the 21st century is the desire to be ignorant or isolated. Homeschooling in no way limits interaction, only danger and beuraucracy.
* Any person (dammit, I need to work on my proofreading
I wouldn’t worry about proofreading so much as logic. If you think that extremist religious/cultist parents let their kids have unsupervised internet access, there’s some kind of logic gate that’s being completely bypassed in your thought process.
*I’m
You’re not a good example of what homeschooling can achieve.
Oops, skip my comment, I read it wrong.
lolz nobody cares about the metric system anyway it’s not like anyone uses it. the metric system looses credibility anywhere outside of london.
Um, okay. I’m not exactly certain how anything can “loose credibility”, but as far as metric only being used in London, I recommend you travel more than 50 kilometers from home someday and see how the real world works.
oh, yes, because a system that uses a base 10 system to make changing distances simple and straight forward and is used all over the world looses credibility outside England, I think not.
*London. We all switch to Imperial past the M25.
dont worry kid, people from england get what you mean.
you have to remember this site is full of americans who have no idea what the m25 is either.
and yes, you’re entirely correct. i have never heard the term kilometers used in conversation anywhere in the uk, but if i did i bet it would be in london…
especially ignore the retatard James below this comment.
also for any foreigners reading this:
UK roadsigns are still in imperial miles.
and the m25 is a motorway that circles london, a phenomenon common to uk cities – ofter referred to as a “ring-road”.
…How are you allowed to function?
Seriously – almost everyone uses the metric system, with the US being among the last people to actually give a damn about it.
And you’re outside of “London” comment kind of clinches the fact that you shouldn’t be posting… London isn’t a country – it’s a city. Are you really so foolish to think that one city’s system of measurement would be taught all around the world? And it’s more than just one country – it’s pretty much the entire United Nations.
Oooohh this hurts my brain more than I can describe.
Australia gets along just fine using the metric system, not only do I use the metric system but I can also roughly convert imperial to metric and metric to imperial in my head….can you?
Terrible Teacher IRL, doesn’t matter what school year.
That is all.
this happened on 4/20?? lol. prob fake.
That really sucks, I’m currently finishing up school to become a teacher & it makes me sad that some teachers are like this.
Не переживай, это фейк, наверное w w w . snopes . c o m /humor/letters/hilliker.asp
I fart in your general direction!
LOL!
I kind of doubt this is real, but man I miss 1994! Music was awesome.
Lets see: Someone written with a date that is exactly 100 years after Hitler’s birthday….and it’s telling people to “accept teachings [orders] without resistance.”
Yeah, this is fake.
A few of the teachers I’ve had (at least in high school and college – definitely not before!) would encourage students to speak up if they accidentally gave false information – even if the information came straight from the textbook. They were rational enough to know that even the textbook has mistakes.
Nice to see Victorian school practice is alive and well. I’m glad I only ran in to a couple of teachers who had that mentality. Most of them would just acknowledge they were wrong.
Apparently some people can’t learn the lesson that being wrong isn’t a problem. Refusing to learn when you’re shown to be wrong is.
Like the others said – fake and old.
When our college profs made a mistake we corrected them, they said they were just testing if we were paying attention, we knew they lied, they knew we knew and we all moved on.
Same mentality that gives us the self entilted occupy protestor scum and those retards from anon
You’re right. How dare those pigs question the status quo! They should just shut up and accept the injustices they perceive.
“As a lesson in respecting authority, I will be denying Alex permission to attend your detention. As you clearly understand the virtue in blind acceptance of authority, I expect your trust, confidence and certitude in this matter.”
I think this deserves a round of applause.
*Tearful applause*
Old
Where’s the nearest time machine? I want to throttle the idiot teacher that wrote this letter.
While, most likely fake, I’m sure stuff like this has happened. I proved a teacher wrong a time or two myself.
You must be soooooooooo proud, You even gun done and currrrected a teeching lady!
Watch out, we’ve got a badass over here.
THIS IS A FAKE.
That is all.
1 miles is 1.61 km, but seem like it does not matter… Resistance is futile.
Only if less then one ohm.
Wow.
Just wow.
139 comments so far and I’m the first one to notice how this letter is about something that happens two days after the letter was being written?
Wow.
Um, no. He is supposedly assigned to detention on the 22nd; it was not when the incident happened.
A friend of mine who0 grew up in Canada (BC), but moved to England argued with the teacher when the teacher told the class the capital of BC was Vancouver. It isn’t, it’s Victoria, as Kim well knew. No amount of “I lived there and know you’re wrong” would budge the teacher. This would have been the late 70′s.
Of course, I don’t believe the teacher sent a note home to say how she had been shown up in class (and in fact that teacher may still think Vancouver is the capital of BC for all I know.)
i think this might be fake but i dunno what do you guys think?
Resistance is futile!
The stupid have always been interested in assimilation.
This so reminds me of one time when I used to give to this charity that was local to where my parents grew up…one year I decided not to give to them anymore. They literally sent a hand-written 2 page letter to my mom to have a talk with me and tell me that my donation was way overdue and to hurry up and send it!
r u all dumb or what? google “1km to mile” and the result is:
1 kilometer = 0.621371192 mile
1 > 0.6 hence the teacher was correct. you dumbasses!
Can’t tell if trolling…
…or Chuck Testa?
Nope.
Apparently, “smarter than other blondes” still counts as “dumbass”.
Try again.
1kilometer =0.6213171192 mile
This would mean that:
1 kilometer is just a little over half a mile.
1 kilometer is about 62% of a mile.
Dumb ass.
Good morning students. Yesterday we learnt about length. Today we are learning about the weight. First, the weight of one pound is greater than that of one kilogram. Alex, please shut up and accept this.
This was 2 days before I was born.
The teacher is probably a union worker, or a socialist. Although both are more or less the same stuff.
Judging by the teacher’s letter emphasising his authority, he’s a fascist, not a socialist. I know the terms are confusing to some citizens in the USA due to the general lack of history lessons regarding the European mainland and the different socio-political systems other than “Communism bad, Capitalism good” and “we won the war in ’45″.
I’m concluding you are a republican-voting citizen of the USA by your insistance on calling union workers, socialists, and a fascist letter ‘the same stuff’.
McCarthy would be proud.
You are about as dumb as you think you are smart. Most teachers in the US are union workers and the socialists currently in control of the US use fascist tactics on a daily basis to entrench themselves to the point of no return for the country. You aren’t even worthy of typing McCarthy’s name who has long been vindicated by the Soetoro-regime.
Your last sentence is confusing. You call me dumb and not worthy of typing McCarthy’s name, so clearly you see McCarthy as your hero. Vindicated means ‘cleared of accusation’. Why would you be proud that your hero’s name be cleared by what you see as the socialist/facist regime of Obama?
You make as much sense as a Tea Party press release (none, in case that’s not clear).
Wow. You really need to turn off Fox news and Glenn Beck once in a while. At least during your sleep. And traveling would be good for you too. Anyway, you’re probably entrenched into paranoia to the point of no return already. I pity you.
We had a Woodwork teacher like that. An arrogant piece of ***** that thought he knew everything but in reality he was pig ignorant . A lad in our class was making a wall ornament, a replica 12 gauge shotgun in fact! he was making the barrels etc. in Metalwork and the stock and fore- end in Woodwork. The first time he brought the barrels in from the Metalwork room to fit them to the stock , Mr. Cleverbugger said “Is that supposed to be a 12 bore? ha! no way lad, those barrels are too big! they look more like 16 bores than twelve bore barrels!” So I chipped in “Sir, well, er, as a matter of fact a 16 bore is actually a smaller size than a 12 bore, slightly any way” Well he looked at me and said “WHAT, don’t be ridiculous!” Then I said “Oh yes and a 20 gauge is smaller than either!” Then I went on to explain why and how shotgun barrels are actually measured while most of the other lads in workshop were quietly laughing to themselves because I had got one over on Mr. Cleverbugger.
I think the real fail is that MOST of these comments are wrong and that a kilometer is longer than a mile. just sayin’
please be trolling.
Anyone else notice this was written on 4/20? Im guessing the teacher smoked a kilo of something before class. Best math evar.
Oh thank GOD someone else realized that..I was afraid I was the only one taught the conversion system. I mean you wouldn’t need a conversion system if it was all equal now would you
*Headdesks*
One kilometre [or kilometer, depending on your geographical location] is not longer than one mile….
1 km = 0.62 mile [approx]
1 mile = 1.61km [approx]
Who is the “real” fail here when you can’t work out that one kilometre is actually LESS than one mile?
I got in trouble in the 70′s for insisting to the teacher, in front of class, that the earth turns the other way. So, whether it is a hoax or not, still believable.
Kilometre is spelled with an -re at the end, even in America. The metric system is international. Meters measure units, the metre is a unit.
Nah. Good old “*ter” here in murrica.
so maybe I’m crazy but, when I do the conversion from metric to the U.S. system 1 mile = 1.60934 km….so whether this is fake or not..yeah
By ‘yeah’, you do mean ‘Yes, the student was correct in that a mile is greater than a kilometer’, right?
Man, this crop of comments is worse than the “Who looks like: Justin Beiber” set.
No, yes, in the middle upside down right..what is a Justin Beiber? Or I could say it like this 1 km = .06213 miles. I really hate math, stop making me do it
1 km != .06213 miles; you added a zero.
Quick conversion: 1 kilometre = 1000 yards, 1 mile = 1760 yards, 1 mile is longer than 1 kilometre. Remember, QUICK conversion. (The inaccuracy of this method is .05 miles or 281 feet.)
Heinlein: Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” Albert Einstein
BURN THIS TEACHER! BURN THEM NOW!
It certainly appears to be a fake. Besides the other good, forensic observations about the smart quotes, dates, and etcetera, the language itself is not natural in a disciplinary notice. Rather, the text of the letter appears intended to inflame anger at pig-headed teaching — justifiable, but still fake.
For example, though the teacher acknowledges his lesson was mistaken, why does he share that he “insisted” on making the erroneous claim repeatedly? In a disciplinary letter, I might expect the teacher to write simply that the student was argumentative and disruptive in class, without confessing that he repeated and insisted in his own stupidity. Also, acknowledging that every other student accepted the erroneous lesson “without argument” is tangential, and sounds more like the author of the hoax making a point that most students are silent cows (which is not tangential to the goal of such a hoax).
Also, the teacher throws in that the student’s disrespect indicated his lack of respect for “his school”. Why not “our school”, or simply “school”, or even more naturally, “our classroom”?
Grammatically, the penultimate paragraph inappropriately mixes tenses. At the very least, the sentence beginning “In the future…” should start a new paragraph. Also, the first sentence would read better had the predicate been in the past tense (“showed”), consistent with the introductory clause’s “was correct”.
I got in trouble for challenging my history teacher when he said the Reformation and Renaissance were “basically the same thing.”
I also got in trouble for telling me science teacher she was an idiot when she claimed it was physically possible for a human to breath liquid oxygen.
Whaaaaaat!? They’re not even REMOTELY similar!
I know. I was so mad that he wouldn’t back down I left the class and told the principal I’d boycott the class until my teacher got his facts straight. I ended up leaving that school to go to college at 15 because I was sick of being taught by morons.
There were word processors (PC and Apple) in1994, so is could be computer generated at the time. But beyond that, the Selectric typewriter had MANY different types of fonts (Google Selectric Typewriter or go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter). Now to the subject of what was written…. People are people: good/bad, short/tall, beautiful/ugly, perverse/agreeable, etc., and they are not contained by type in geographic region. If the document is real, the teacher had issues, if not, the hoax writer had issues.
If a teacher did that to MY kid I’d do my best to get her retarded ass fired. I don’t care how defiant the kid was to the teacher. In my honest opinion if she is ADMITTEDLY teaching our kids wrong information I think SHE should be reprimanded, not the student. She is wrong, both morally and ethically and I would do my best to get her fired.
If she had said something like “I’ll verify that with the class tomorrow, lets move on to the next topic” or something similar, and my kid still defied her then he/she would be in trouble with me…..but the teacher is wrong.
USA! USA! USA!
Actually, 18 years ago, a kilometer WAS longer than a mile….its just that the mile had a growth spurt and that is no longer the case.
That awkward moment when you realize that everyone on failbook thinks that they used to write on old timey typewriters in 1994, when you clearly remember using computers
Damn I feel old!
Point in is that a kilometer is shorter than a mile. So the kids was right and should be teaching the class. Read the real deal ah whoisthemadness.com
I think many of you don’t even realize that the teacher is an idiot for stating that the kid was correct. In fact, the teacher WAS correct with the lesson since 1 kilometer = 0.621371192 miles. For any of you stupid people, that means that in fact, 1 kilometer is GREATER THAN a MILE. Instead of just saying YOUR KID NEEDS TO SHUT UP AND LEARN, the teacher actually stated the student was correct? This has more fail in it than many of you even realize. Please stay in school.
You are 6 feet tall. 6 feet = 0.00114 miles. For any of you stupid people that means that in fact, 6 feet is GREATER THAN a MILE.
Or: 6 feet = 0.00114 (5280 feet), so 6 feet is greater than 5280 feet.
I think I love you.
Totally agree with zoe ^^ I think I love Confused
YOU COULD´T SAID IT BETTER.
For people like mattsepter and this teacher 1 ton of iron must weight much less than 1000 ounce. You know, 1000 is a lot larger than 1, right?
My god, please don´t let them breed.
Which weighs more: a ton of iron or a ton of feathers?
Both weight the same. Since your measure unit is TON in both case.
Can´t tell if you are stupid or idiot…
Good thing is that you are smarter than the rest of us who ACTUALLY KNOW 1Km is less than 1Mille.
I am not usually this violent, but for fvck1ng idiots like yourself, I feel the need to put a bullet between your eyes.
You are right Bianconi. I am a fool indeed. Math was not my strong suite. After finding the value of Miles to feet and Kilometers to feet, I find the error of my ways as well as the teacher in this fail.
Never fear, I will not one day teach your child about distance and what is or is not greater or less than a mile. Serves me right commenting before I got the actual values.
Sure, take my kid to detention. Afterwards, I’m going to take him to the grocery store and buy some eggs and toilet paper. Then, together, we’ll look up your address.
I’ll make sure to give my son an alibi for the time during which your house was mercilessly egged and TP’d. And I’ll buy him ice cream when he gets home.
Fake or not, Unfortunately there are similar situations that occur although they may not be put on paper. Some people just can’t take being proven wrong.
I had a situation like this in junior high. We were covering “54 40 or Fight”. The teacher insisted that this represented 54 degrees, 40 FEET. I informed her that it’s 54 degrees, 40 minutes, or 54 and two-thirds degrees. She told me to stop being goofy and that minutes are a measure of time. I told her that a degree is divided into 60 minutes. She threw me out of class. I got detention. She put a question on the quiz asking what the “40″ represented. “Feet” was the “correct” answer. I failed her class and aced the state final.
I had a public school English teacher who used to say that she was “literally beside herself” when she was upset.
You have GOT to be kidding me….ugh, my poor brain….If you had a geography teacher, maybe you could have enlisted them to school this ass.
This is not a fail, it’s the school of life!!
Valuable lesson: it never matters if you’re right, only your social status.
Well its there in writing… Doesn’t matter if you’re right if the man on top says you have two heads then you’ve got two heads.
The date on this note says 1994, but I’m pretty sure its from 10 years earlier.
Did anyone notice the date is 4:20?
In my school is fairly democratic, meaning that if I had that teacher, I’d shove a ruler up his ass and I’d tell him that I’d shoot him if he didn’t run 4 miles away from the classroom in less than 6 minutes.
I’m probably more worried about the other students who went along with the teacher.
Don’t worry – they are mindless sheep and will fit in better with modern society than the fellow who fights for what’s right and correct..
He will be the outsider and the loner as an adult, the sheep will be welcomed into the flock of modern society.
Isn’t it possible that someone just typed up the original letter? It could have been handwritten in cursive, crumpled up, or the ink was fading and they wanted it to be legible.
Or perhaps they were remembering a note they actually received years ago and typed it up so they could show everyone.
Just sayin’.
And nobody notices that it all happened on 4 20? You must be kidding!
The teacher is essentially saying ‘tell your kid to lie down and take it whenever he is being deceived’,
I actually did this too in grade 2… I corrected the teacher, was right but got reprimanded. Though this letter does seem a little fake
Whether it is fake or not, a teacher that claims this should be fired on the spot. Schools should be teaching facts, and if the teacher gets it wrong, then they should gracefully admit their mistake and correct it and move on. This is why schools are declining and my generation is so uneducated.
Welcome to Lowell, Mi, where Steven Hawkings is just “some character from the Simpsons”.
so, that’s where you’re from? it’s Stephen Hawking….
The idiocy of the comments on this particular Fail kills me. Calling out people’s spelling and grammar mistakes? Some of the smartest people I know can’t spell to save their lives! It’s not like these people are English teachers, and if they are, I hope they put more effort into their writings for their classes. I completely support telling teachers when they are wrong, and I think teachers need to be able to admit their mistakes, end of story. Stop being so nitpicky on an ONLINE forum!
The reason I think it is fake is because if you had a teacher this hotheaded that they refused to be corrected why would that same teacher then admit that they were in a lengthy letter about their mistake. A more logical step for someone like that would be to omit the entire subject of the argument and say the student disrupted the class and refused to be quite. No one with that level of smugness would openly admit they were wrong ever. Just saying
the teacher is scare that this child is going to “Find her out” that she is not qualified to teach..so she wants to make trouble for him……amazing.
It doesn’t stop in K-12…there’s college professor that have the same attitude….
When people have this attitude…they are afraid someone is going to “Find them out that they do not know what they are teaching or do not know their job, so they get defensive toward the person…and make trouble….to put the blame on that person to hide their “short-comings”
The reason why NASA keeps crashing mars probes.
The really pathetic thing is – if this is true (and it seems unlikely, but then again so much real stupidity does), is none of the other students knew how long a kilometre is.