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[โ€“] M137@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Had a similar experience around age 10. Learned that cucumbers generally have a higher water percentage than seawater, 97% to 96.5%. Tell that to a friend of the same age, he says that can't be true because all the oceans have more water than all the cucumbers in the world, we begin debating and then start fighting about it and a teacher comes by to stop us and asks what's going on. I explain and the teacher immediately looks at me like I've lost my mind, pulls my friend to the side and asks him to leave, takes me to a room and sits down to try to explain how I'm wrong and that I can't start fights over things that anyone can prove is untrue. A week after I'm sent to a kind of mental health meeting, she immediately understands and looks it up, sees that I'm right, tells me to keep away from talking about "stuff like that" with friends and others my age and also teachers and parents of other kids because it doesn't matter if I'm right or not, just that I have to think about how others perceive me...

I'm not still mad about it, but can't deny that it feels wrong and weird.

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[โ€“] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I had a kindergarten teacher try teaching syllables by clapping them out while saying the word: ๐Ÿ‘ ALL ๐Ÿ‘ I ๐Ÿ‘ GATOR! Alligator! ๐Ÿ‘ ALL ๐Ÿ‘ I ๐Ÿ‘ GATOR! Three syllables.

Tried correcting her, she just clapped and said gator again.

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They don't pay teachers enough and sometimes it shows.

[โ€“] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This thread should be called "how kids get traumatized by school teachers causing them to hate school"

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[โ€“] Bysmuth@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reading these comments is bad for my health (โ•ฅ๏นโ•ฅ) What are the reasons for them to act this way? Seems sometimes they're just ignorant, other times definitely power tripping.

I def had some weird experiences like this in school too, though not as extreme. I had a teacher once give me a zero on an exam because I used greater than and less than symbols to describe two lines intersecting. She thought I did them all backwards. Normally I'd be too shy to push back but zero on an exam was pretty extreme so I went to discuss one on one and she basically called me dumb saying I don't know how the symbols worked (this was like 9th grade, I def did and was pretty alarmed she didn't). Finally she said fine, she'll go ask a math teacher to come explain to me in front of the class if I'm so smart. She left, was gone for like ten minutes, and came back super upset. Slams the paper on my desk in front of everyone and says something like 'fine I guess you want an A now?'. Was traumatizing. But was actually a huge teaching moment for me in that I stopped seeing teachers as things/concepts, and started seeing them as people. Same as me/my classmates/some random on the street. No one has this shit figured out. I also realized I never wanted the experience she just had, and learned to always hedge my opinions. It looks like, I think, it seems to me, etc. Has saved me from looking stupid but also encouraged those that I teach to question my dumb shit. But yeah. Teachers are just people, have you met people?

Side note my math teacher was extra nice to me that afternoon - I also learned that the teachers don't necessarily like each other either. Apparently I had helped score points for the 'not batshit insane' crew

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[โ€“] Blubber28@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fucking hell I feel validated rn, I had a similar experience at that age but it was in language/reading class. It's so frustrating to know that you are correct but you lack the terminology/ability to properly convey why you are right.

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[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 15 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure a currently 4yo nephew of mine will suffer some sort of bullshit like that in the coming years. Little bud is already able to read big numbers like 368 (also in english no less!) and full words despite the preschool not teaching either.

[โ€“] LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

This happened to me in 6 grade and the teacher was like annoyed bruh when I confidently raised hand to give a more accurate answer. Maybe she thought I was showing off the way she reacted

[โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Dude, School was the worst f'ing psyop.

Give me a straight question and answer on the material, and I'll 100% it. No, we can't do that... Here's four answers that are all technically correct, choose the MOST correct one.

Ohh so it's pros and cons of a situation and you need to pick the one with the most upsides or least downsides? No, they're all just mostly ok, but we were REALLY thinking about answer B when we wrote the question.

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[โ€“] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In fourth grade we would read short stories and answer multiple-choice questions about them. One such story was about romantically involved terrapins, and the question was "What would be a good title for this story?" The answers included

a) A turtle love story

b) Two turtles in love

I don't remember which one I picked but the correct answer was the other one.

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

The autistic experience summarized

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