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- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -11/+427Wow, that teacher is an ignorant dick, you have a right to be pissed.
- silga, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2521994??!!
the intarweb suxxored back then - ub3rgeek, on 10/12/2007, -14/+161This same thing happened to me two times in high school.
The first: I corrected a teacher on the legality of having a camera on campus according to the studnt handbook.
The second: I changed the name of a file and coincidently NetOP (a program that controls computers and application restrictions) crashed. For some reason I have been labeled a "hacker" at my school (although I have never hacked in my life) I got a detention for that.
Because that was the second time. I argued with the teacher that it was not my doing, so she gave me a saturday school.
ahh people in authority hate having it challenged - Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -7/+116@jpwhitmore
It doesn't matter if the kid was an ass, the teacher should accept the students lesson without resistance! - Holosoth, on 10/12/2007, -13/+107Dugg because ***** like this happens all the time. It has to stop.
- hehe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+97Good teachers accept when they're wrong. We're all human, but some teachers are egotistical. That being said, I've had plenty of good teachers--many of whom have made an occasional error, been corrected by a student, and thanked the student. But 1km>1mi...what kind of diphead says that?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+98Useless side note: If you stare at the note for a while, then click back and look at the description in digg it appears slanted left for a few seconds, optical illusion ftw!
Yeah sometimes teachers can be dics like this. What is the world coming to, giving detentions even though you are wrong and someone has corrected you? If this happened I would have said, "oh sorry, my mistake, thank you for correcting me" and continue teaching the lesson, being grateful such a stupid mistake was caught.
Idiots with power, idiots with power... - directedition, on 10/12/2007, -3/+75Should bribe her with a $2 bill.
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -3/+71As a previous poster pointed out:
Adam Hilliker
April 20
Sounds suspiciously like "Adolf Hitler", and April 20 just happens to be Hitler's birthday. In addition, the quote:
"In the future, Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance."
This has to be a joke. - evildeadxsp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67"i never let schooling interfere with my education"
- mark twain - jpwhitmore, on 10/12/2007, -30/+95This isn't as messed up as it seems. While the teacher was... obviously wrong the kid could have been a complete ass about it in front of the class. There is a difference between correcting a person and mocking a person.
- herculez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58In 10th grade my world history teacher asked this question on a test: True/False: The Hundred Years War lasted a hundred years. I answered false, cause the war lasted 116 years. I think I actually noted this in the margin just to be safe. Apparently I was the only one to answer this way, and it was marked wrong. When we went over the test in class, he told me it was a giveaway question, meant to be totally obvious. Nevermind that I had actually read the textbook and used it as the basis for my answer. He asked me should penalize the rest of the class a point just for me. I told him he should throw the question out, cause it was obviously ambiguous.
He didn't budge. I lost the point for knowing the right answer. I'm bitter to this day. - rac1234, on 10/12/2007, -10/+58And you're still annoyed about it 12 years later? Yes, your teacher was an idiot (if this is real) but isn't it time to move on?
- AGiantCow, on 10/12/2007, -9/+56A story on the story
http://www.italknews.com/view_story.php?sid=8582 - Broelke4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+47YOU'RE LYING TO THE INTERNET!
- Tordenflesk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41Reminds me of my 8-grade math-teacher telling me that i spelled my name wrong on a test. Now THAT'S retarded.
- lax767, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39The sad thing is, this happened to me a few weeks ago in college. I was taking a protocol analysis class and were discussing TCP packets. My professor said something incorrect and i piped up and told her she was wrong. I started to explain it to her, and she told me to shut up. I talked to her after class and she told me that if I corrected her again, that she would fail me for the semester, what a bitch
- jotux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Only for large values of 2.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Yes, choose your fights well. Don't argue in class; beat up the teacher in a dark alley.
- hehe, on 10/12/2007, -11/+44@jpwhitmore
While you're right...he could have been a smartass, I think many of us might be if our teacher were doing that. For me, it'd be extremely frustrating knowing without a doubt that the teacher was lying to the class with a bogus fact, felt he/she was absolutely right, and other people in the class were believing the false information. I'd want to do all I could to make sure my classmates knew 1mi>1km. - queefer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31A teacher that thinks 1 km > 1 mile deserves to be forcefully sent to special ed.
- Broelke4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Unfortunately very good teachers are hard to come by.
- Broelke4, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31Dude, it took longer to comment about the wasted ten seconds than to close the article, go die now, and while you're at it format your HDD.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33Here's a tip:
Don't show up authority figures in their own realms. Saying your teacher is "lying" is even worse than saying he/she is wrong.
This doesn't change when you leave school either. A cop will give you a hard time for being a dick, even if you are right.
Just know you're right and then fight the correct battles later, when you have a chance gaining a meaningful victory. - pkkid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26April 20, 1994.. People digg anything rebellious, I call hoax.
- diotro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Note that the date the letter was written falls on April 20th, also known as 420, a day where even teachers can forget what they've learned in 1st grade.
- greves, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22FAKE STORY. Didnt anyone Google the name at the bottom?
http://www.italknews.com/view_story.php?sid=8582 - jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Happened to me as well but i was trying to explain how the internet worked and then the difference between pdf and html files lol Some teachers are cool but alot of them are just plain annoying... and power hungry
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Funny how you people miss the point of this letter completely. The creator is illustrating the folly of believing everything we're presented with.
The teacher?
AD-am HI-llik-ER.
The date? April 20. Who was born on April 20th?
AD-olf HI-tl-ER.
The letter effectively demonstrates how foolish it is to accept authority without question. The letter itself represents the teacher, who represents Hitler. Those who do not question the letter are like the silent students in the boy's class who were either too stupid or too cowardly to correct the teacher. The boy represents the supressed voice of reason.
Judging by how many people are taking the letter at face value, I'd say the creator succeeded in proving his point. - kenz0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17A hoax is often a huge public thing that was lied about, most people could careless as to whether or no it's true, it's just sad that theres people actually like this and even if it were false it's the message that matters.
- apeweek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Bizarre as it may be, this sort of thing is a good lesson for kids about the way life works.
It happened to me, too. I was a very shy kid with a speech impediment, and I was sometimes taken for 'retarded' though I was very bright. The shop teacher wouldn't give me any of the hard projects to do, but unknown to him, I was helping everybody else in the class with theirs.
One day my drama teacher showed the shop teacher the 'time machine' I built for the school play. It was wicked, with all sorts of flashing lights and spinning things. After that the shop teacher hated me. He thought I was acting retarded to embarrass him. - Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1515 years later, and I still get emotionally distraut about what teachers did to me in school.
Probably time for therapy, but I'm stubborn.
I know, I know, this is the masculine digg. But seriously, some people get scarred by things like this and can't move on, at least not without help. If you don't understand that, then I'd imagine you have some problems of your own. I don't mean that in an offensive manner, we all have problems, but y'know what I'm sayin'. - Friend, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I saw that and thought, "He can't even spell prejudice!"
And then exactly one second later, I thought, "Wait! Looks like I myself am the dummy in this case."
Of people that I've met I've found that religious people have about the same amount of can't-stand-to-be-wrong folk than the nonreligious.
If you want an overwhelming majority of people who can't stand to be wrong, look to the crowd of people marked "idiots". - Friend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13carapi's comment dugg for best placed typo ever.
- adamcsays, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15The letter itself seemed fake, but when I saw it was dated 420 I thought it even more likely to be fake.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12DID you spell it wrong?
- jftitan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16You Lie!!!! ...OK I will go sit in the corner now...
This same experience happened to me twice. I was the know it all computer nerd in my junior high class. To the point that the teacher would allow me to teach the computer class because her skills in computers were to say the least "teachers manual only".
She ended up getting sick one day, and we had a sub come in to cover the class. While it was already written on the chalk board that I was supposed to help the class with the next 'challenge' (Basic... yeah, learn to make a coolness screensaver). The sub, decided he was in charge. So I let him have the class (w/o saying one word). But when the entire class began to ignore him, and look to me for the lesson, he got upset.
I didn't do *****. I just sat there while the class kept looking to me to show them the next step at what to do. The sub decided to send me to the principle's office for causing disruption in the class. I even explained the situation to the sub, and he wouldn't even listen.
The next experience was, when I was trying to solve a tough equation in Algebra, I came up (actually, I knew about the shortcut) with a shortcut to solving the problem, My shortcut was a high school level algebra trick. But the teacher wouldn't accept my answer nor the written notes that proved my answer correct. Gave me a failing grade on the assignment. - imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I corrected my Linear Algebra teacher a few times, including one question on a test that he insisted over and over again I had wrong (later shown to be the correct answer). He got his revenge by telling me I was doing fine in his class, then failing me at the end. Is that even legal?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Hate to break to ya, Wikipedia in my book ranks up high with Encarta. It gives the opinion of a collection of individuals with varying degrees of objectivity. I've never met a teacher in my 4 years of High School that didn't love Wikipedia. Granted, don't count on it for your only resource but as a reference tool its EXCELLENT.
And carapi, it's okay, maybe once you graduate "junior hihg", your spelling can improve :) I love when people try to insult others and just end up looking like a dumb ass. - Lionhart, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14reminds me of the time when my Social Studies teacher in like 8th grade was trying to tell the class that Mexico was in Central America. So I argued that it was in fact in North America, and she and the whole class wouldn't listen, so I looked it up on one of the computers to prove them wrong :D
- DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@jpwhitmore: That may be so, but the letter goes on to say: "In the future, Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance."
This is clearly *****. Maybe Alex should have been polite about it, but a teacher should not be so stubborn as to really think that they know everything correctly and that students should accept everything they say. That's just spreading ignorance and lies. - paperhat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I think the Dude eloquently expressed this sentiment when he said, "No, Walter, you're not wrong, you're just an *****!"
- slapshot24, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18Stereotype and prejudge much? Wow, there goes the argument that religious people are the closed-minded ones.
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Yes, but once they learn netsend, they figure out netsend * youre all ****
- Friend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Calling 'photoshop' on something like this is pretty useless... I mean, just typing it up in notepad, printing it out, and scanning it in would take less effort anyway.
- vitaminbmeister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10In junior high, we would go to the computer lab for some lame reading assignments and I always seemed to get the world's worst mouse. One day I took the ball out, started cleaning off the rollers, got ripped out of my chair, sent to the office with the ball in hand to explain to the principal why I had destroyed school property. It must have taken 15 minutes to explain to him that I was cleaning the mouse and it was no different than a student wiping a computer monitor clean. The teacher wanted me to get sent to in-school-suspension (ISS).
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18even if it was true, there is right way and wrong way to argue a fact...
calling someone a "liar" based on mistaken info is not right way to correct someone....
nobody likes a jerk even if he/she is right... - J6stik, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Dude... it happened 12 years ago.
First: It's not news. It merits no importance and it isn't recent.
Second: Let it go. - rcomegys, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Do you think that by digging this we are bringing it to anyone's attention but our own? Don't delude yourself.
I once called my GENETICS teacher in high school when she said identical twins were identical down to their fingerprints. This is obviously wrong, and boy was she pissed when I challenged her, but like several others have pointed out, I wasn't a dick about it and I won the argument (eventually). School's not just about learning your textbook, it's about learning how to interact with society, and 10 to 1 the guy who got expelled is just an *****, who sometimes gets ***** right. -
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