My concept of pedagogy is biased by my not being a parent or a teacher. I know this. But I also agree with the non-violent part of SH's post. Is humiliating a kid to make a point to the entire class about something as bullshit as text-speak really worth it?

I might consider the failing unfair but if it were my kid, I'd also consider it a lesson learned the hard way.

I was getting some good insight from the intense discussion. Enough to be pretty upset with an insult and a flounce-off.

the Kristen Nun Method

HA! That sounds so wrong.

Also, I remembered another one. We were not allowed to use contractions. EVER. God forbid anyone used ain't. That was probably a Double F Error, it upset her so much.

Re: house porn. Ooooh, pretty! I love the idea of hardwood floors, a claw-foot soaking tub, and crown moldings. But,

newer furnace, hot water heater, roof. Some plumbing has been updated, newer electrical panel.

It occurs to me that "newer" in this context could mean 1911.

I'm having flashbacks to my mom's childhood home, where they added electrical wiring by routing it through the old pipes for the gas lighting. It was newer than the rest of the house, too.

And here I thought the Brit's would be more open about that kind of thing. Crazy Brits.

Well, you know, it's the accent. Fry/Laurie porn would probably be okay.

It occurs to me that "newer" in this context could mean 1911.

At that price, in that neighborhood, this is almost certainly true.

Fry/Laurie porn

I'll be in my clawfoot tub. In Tarrytown.

Jessica's post has me looking at houses in the neighborhood. Only the associated mortgage calculators are depressing me.

if it's something that distracts the kid from learning what they are supposed to be learning, then I say, sometimes. It should be used sparingly and only in situations where the teacher really knows her kids and knows how the kid in particular would handle it.

I emphatically disagree. Humiliating a student is uncalled for, and I can't see how it would do anything other than put the kid off that subject/school for good. I've never heard anyone say their path in life was steered right by that really good dose of public humiliation they got from their teacher in front of the whole sixth grade back in P.S. 131.

It's really a gross misuse of the power imbalance in the classroom.

Is humiliating a kid to make a point to the entire class about something as bullshit as text-speak really worth it?

I think how you posed the question is not how I would pose the question. In my mind, I'm reading the discussion as something more like: whether or not a teacher has a right to give a zero grade if a student hasn't answered a question satisfactorily.

Didn't she say the student wasn't named? I was called out in classes in school and not always humiliated by it, even to have my paper or answer held up as a bad example.