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Our physics teacher and our chemistry teacher had an ongoing civil riff on whether or not electrons exist.
We'd hear one side of the argument in Chemistry and then parrot it to him in Physics, and he'd give us a rebuttal and we'd parrot it back to her in Chemistry. This went on for about two weeks.
Looking back on it, I'm pretty sure they discussed it in the staff room beforehand, but at the time it felt like a real smackdown.
Wait, what were the arguments for electrons not existing? And by whom? It's generally accepted that electrons exists and neither of their fields would work if they didn't. You'd have to go really deep down into "well actually, everything is a wave" terretory to even get that idea and even then it doesn't make sense.
Yeah that rings a bell, I think it was something to do with its position being a probability density function rather than anything deterministic that orbital mechanics could offer
That all women should be in the kitchen and all black people should be slaves again.
Was a very interesting English class from a black woman...
Had a history teacher insiste that people can't live without clothes on. As in, you actually fucking due quickly after getting naked.
To be "fair" I think that it was more a case of her being mad that I corrected her "pyramid of needs" than her defending her actual opinion.
6th grade health teacher told the class that studies show evidence of increased breast cancer risk for those that have had an abortion. This was in a suburban Illinois school.
conspiracy theories involving aliens creating mankind, basically Ancient Aliens lore unironically like one in three lectures was talk about the process and how we must vibrate into some higher realm
Now, that's cool stuff. Much better than teachers parroting religious stuff.
Had a substitute teacher once who thought that the word Hell was a bad word even when referring to the location.
Sixth grade English teacher telling me that simultaneous doesn't mean "at the same time."
Biomedical engineering professor teaching an entire course on how DNA in its natural state is not actually a double helix and that Watson and Crick were wrong. The guy spent decades of his career after getting tenure pushing this crusade of his. It was a great class and I loved it.
interesting, do you have any research papers about this?
"No girl should get to the sixth form without having learned Latin "
Fuck you, Mrs Entwhistle.
I told my students to go flux themselves today