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Listen to this recording from a high school social studies class. If that is the quality of teachers in American schools no wonder we are going down the tubes as a nation. [html][/html]http://www.youtube.com/embed/vjpWaESn_9g?rel=0
A clear case where the students are brighter than the teacher – and she doesn't know how to handle it.
I don't think it's that, I think it's a clear case of indoctrination. Glad it failed on this particular student.
For the most part our public schools anymore are less about imparting knowledge than ensuring that our young people adopt the “correct” modes of thought. I think it was Goebbels that recommended caching them young.
I don't think it's that, I think it's a clear case of indoctrination. Glad it failed on this particular student.
Yes, it is attempted indoctrination. But, if you listen objectively, put the politics aside, you'll see it's the kids that are in control of the classroom. That woman is WAY out of her element and in way over her head. The brighter students in the class are manipulating her into a bazoomny rage. Those students are running circles around her. Makes me wonder what kind of class it is; government, civics, social studies, math?
The article says it is a Social Studies class. In a way that makes the teachers ignorance even worse if you think about it.
Sorry about the “bazoomny” comment – I've been readiong Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and was caught up in the dialect.The saddest part is that I had a teacher who could have been this woman's mother back in the 19 (cough, cough) 70s — and we abused the crap out of her by taking control of the classroom by asking her questions that weren't in her class notes for that day (they were, more often than not, in the next week's notes – but since she spent each class by reading to us from the text, she didn't realize it).
My history teacher in High School was awesome. I don't remember ever being able to stump her or seeing her use notes in class. Mrs. Tucker is the reason I got so much into history that I ended up studying it. She had this ability to make the past come alive that I have never gotten from another history instructor and only a few books.
My history teacher in High School was awesome. I don't remember ever being able to stump her or seeing her use notes in class. Mrs. Tucker is the reason I got so much into history that I ended up studying it. She had this ability to make the past come alive that I have never gotten from another history instructor and only a few books.
Why do I get the feeling Mrs. Tucker was a hottie?
That would have been cool but she was in her 50's then and has to be in her 70's now. I know she retired about ten years ago.
More high school Grads need to hear this and not just on the day they graduate. Wellesley High grads told: “You’re not special”
