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Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DawnK - Apr 18, 2005 2:10:30 pm PDT #6679 of 10001
giraffe mode
Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 2:16:01 pm PDT #6680 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
but when a history textbook gets a historical fact wrong, I (as a hypothetical student) would think, "well, why should I even do the assigned reading from this book if I can't count on it?"
That's your job as a teacher -- to teach kids that every book is going to have wrong/biased/missing stuff, and that's why they need to read more than one book.
§ ita § - Apr 18, 2005 2:27:57 pm PDT #6681 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How else are they going to learn the moon landing was faked?
Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 2:30:14 pm PDT #6682 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is what I'm saying.
Emily - Apr 18, 2005 2:31:59 pm PDT #6683 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
That's your job as a teacher -- to teach kids that every book is going to have wrong/biased/missing stuff, and that's why they need to read more than one book.
Is that really going to work, though? I mean, in college, or even if it's something they're doing a report on, sure, but every week for homework in their social studies class?
Eh, it's not like they meant to get it wrong, and I assume they probably corrected it in later editions. It's particularly bothersome because it not just gets it wrong, it makes a point with it. Anyway, I suppose such a teacher would be familiar enough with the material to know when there's a problem with the text.
Fortunately, I'm not gonna teach history. Thank God.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 2:33:59 pm PDT #6684 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is that really going to work, though? I mean, in college, or even if it's something they're doing a report on, sure, but every week for homework in their social studies class?
I just meant in principle, not that they should fact-check every line of every textbook. It would be more like a head's up.
lori - Apr 18, 2005 2:35:14 pm PDT #6685 of 10001
How else are they going to learn the moon landing was faked?
ixnay on the akefay....
Allyson - Apr 18, 2005 2:37:53 pm PDT #6686 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
They're on to us.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 2:40:27 pm PDT #6687 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just realized why I even care about this: I'm still mad from first grade or whenever it was we learned subtraction, and they told me that if I had written (say) 2-5, I must have written it wrong. Just tell me I'll learn how to do that later! Not that it's impossible!!!1!-1!!
Glamcookie - Apr 18, 2005 2:54:22 pm PDT #6688 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
At least you didn't have a nun telling you that if you erased, angels would tell her you did and you'd fail.
t still not over Sister Patricia - shudder